# Post x_377751074628988929

- Post ID: `x_377751074628988929`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-09-11T11:10:49.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_377751074628988929/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_377751074628988929.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Weiner is gone, Spitzer is gone - next will be lightweight A.G. Eric Schneiderman. Is he a crook? Wait and see, worse than Spitzer or Weiner

## Engagement

- Likes: 18
- Reposts: 33
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.281Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-26T09:21:03.153Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Posted on 9/11's 12th anniversary at 7:10 AM EDT, this post targets NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman — who was actively investigating Trump University — using a preemptive discrediting strategy. By situating Schneiderman beside recently disgraced politicians (Weiner, Spitzer), Trump frames himself as a prophet of corruption while neutralizing the legal threat Schneiderman represents. The rhetorical core — "Is he a crook? Wait and see" — is textbook insinuation-via-rhetorical-question: an accusation packaged as inquiry, providing plausible deniability while planting the charge. Psychologically, projection dominates: Trump, whose enterprise faces civil fraud investigation, characterizes the investigator as criminal. Devaluation ("lightweight") establishes hierarchical dominance before the insinuation lands. The post exemplifies the preemptive attack trigger in narcissistic dynamics: rather than awaiting damage from a legal process, Trump attempts to reframe the investigator as morally disqualified before any findings emerge. Malignant narcissism indicators are elevated across three dimensions: narcissistic (grandiose prophet role), antisocial (baseless criminal accusation against a public official), and paranoid (enemy-pattern recognition). Schneiderman did resign in 2018 amid abuse allegations unrelated to Trump's anticipated investigative outcome — a reminder that scattershot targeting sometimes lands, reinforcing the prophet narrative retrospectively. Danger level is elevated due to targeted named accusation against a sitting AG who posed active legal risk.

## Full Analysis

### Authorship & Timing

Posted at 11:10 AM UTC on September 11, 2013. Trump's primary residence was Trump Tower, New York City; September falls in EDT (UTC−4), placing this post at **7:10 AM local time** — consistent with Trump's known early-morning Twitter window. Stylistic indicators throughout (rhetorical question with self-answer, punchy staccato rhythm, casual syntax, characteristic 'lightweight' dismissal, declarative prediction without hedging) strongly indicate authentic authorship. No aide-written signatures are present (no business-hours polish, no event-announcement format, no complete formal sentences).

### Contextual Trigger

Eliot Spitzer had lost the Democratic primary for NYC Comptroller the previous day (September 10, 2013). Anthony Weiner had suspended his NYC mayoral campaign earlier in September following a second sexting scandal. Both exits were fresh in New York political culture. Crucially, **Eric Schneiderman as NY Attorney General was actively investigating Trump University** at this time — a civil fraud case that would eventually result in a $25 million settlement in 2016. This post thus serves a dual function: it celebrates the fall of two Democratic New York political figures while simultaneously framing the active investigator of Trump's enterprise as "the next" corrupt figure to fall — a preemptive discrediting strategy of forensic significance.

### Multi-Level Personality Analysis

**Level 1 — Dispositional Traits:**
Extraversion is high (bold, declarative, publicly confrontational). Agreeableness is very low (no charitable framing, outright accusation). Neuroticism manifests as hostile triumphalism. Conscientiousness is low — no deliberation about the legal and reputational risks of accusing a sitting AG of criminality. Openness is low: rigid, binary categorization (corrupt politicians fall; Trump predicts it).

**Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations:**
Power motivation dominates completely. The post serves a control-oriented agency goal: preemptively shaping the narrative around Schneiderman before his investigation can damage Trump. Communion motivation is essentially absent — no solidarity, no concern for any other party's wellbeing.

**Level 3 — Narrative Identity:**
Trump casts himself as a **prophet and political truth-teller** — the man who sees corruption before it is publicly revealed. This is a grandiose narrative role. Contrasting other: Schneiderman as the corrupt insider. Narrative sequence is redemptive: corrupt politicians fall, the truth-teller's predictions vindicate him, the audience bears witness. Identity claims include: 'I predict. I see through political facades. History confirms me.'

### Clinical Analysis

**Narcissistic Dynamics:**
This post exemplifies the *preemptive attack* trigger — Trump is not responding to a narcissistic injury but anticipating one (the investigation's potential findings) and neutralizing the source. The triadic structure ("Weiner is gone, Spitzer is gone — next will be...") casts Trump as orchestrator of a historical pattern he is merely observing, a classic grandiose reframe. He elevates himself to the position of prophet without taking on the vulnerability of explicit accusation.

**Rhetorical Core — Insinuation via Rhetorical Question:**
"Is he a crook? Wait and see" is forensically significant. It plants an accusation while maintaining plausible deniability ("I only asked a question"). The answer is presupposed in the phrasing — "worse than Spitzer or Weiner" follows immediately, confirming guilt as already established in Trump's framing. This is a loaded question combined with innuendo, exploiting Twitter's brevity to foreclose rebuttal.

**Defense Mechanisms:**
Projection is primary — Trump, whose enterprise is under civil fraud investigation by Schneiderman, characterizes the investigator as "a crook." Devaluation ("lightweight") establishes hierarchical dominance before the insinuation lands. Rationalization uses the Weiner/Spitzer pattern to frame targeted aggression as neutral pattern-recognition.

**Malignant Narcissism:**
Narcissistic and antisocial features are both significantly elevated. Accusing a sitting AG of criminality without evidence reflects contempt for institutional norms and disregard for Schneiderman's rights and reputation. The glee in cataloguing political rivals' falls ("gone... gone... next") suggests ego-syntonic satisfaction in others' suffering — a sadistic dimension consistent with the malignant narcissism construct.

### Historical Note

Schneiderman resigned in May 2018 following accusations of physical abuse by four women — a scandal entirely unrelated to the Trump University investigation Trump was anticipating. Trump's "prediction" was technically fulfilled but through circumstances orthogonal to his motivation for making it. This illustrates the *scattershot targeting dynamic*: accuse enough adversaries of enough things and some predictions land, reinforcing the prophet narrative for the audience.

### Cognitive Status

Language is coherent, punchy, and consistent with 2013 Twitter baseline. No word-finding difficulties, perseveration, tangentiality, or neologisms. Syntactic complexity is characteristically low — short declarative fragments and a rhetorical question. No deviation from baseline warrants notation.

### Danger Assessment

Rated **elevated** — not due to violent language (absent) but because: (1) a high-platform figure publicly insinuates criminality against a sitting AG who is actively investigating him, creating potential for follower harassment; (2) this represents a documented pattern of discrediting investigators who pose legal risk to Trump; (3) the targeted, named attack with large audience amplification creates asymmetric reputational harm without evidentiary basis.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Weiner is gone" | **True** | Anthony Weiner suspended his NYC mayoral campaign in early September 2013 following a second sexting scandal involving the alias 'Carlos Danger' |
| "Spitzer is gone" | **True** | Eliot Spitzer lost the Democratic primary for NYC Comptroller on September 10, 2013 — the day immediately before this tweet was posted |
| "lightweight A.G. Eric Schneiderman" | **Unverifiable** | Characterization and opinion; Schneiderman was a sitting NY Attorney General with multiple high-profile cases including the Trump University investigation and actions against major financial institutions |
| "Is he a crook?" | **Unverifiable** | Rhetorical insinuation, not a factual claim; no evidence was presented. Schneiderman later resigned in May 2018 due to physical abuse allegations brought by four women — unrelated to financial or political corruption |
| "worse than Spitzer or Weiner" | **Unverifiable** | Comparative predictive claim with no evidentiary basis at time of posting. Schneiderman's 2018 resignation was for different categories of misconduct than either Weiner (sexting) or Spitzer (prostitution) |

Overall Veracity: 70%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 85%)

### Indicators

- 7:10 AM EDT local time — squarely within Trump's known early-morning Twitter activity window
- Stream-of-consciousness staccato rhythm ('Weiner is gone, Spitzer is gone — next will be...')
- Rhetorical question with immediate presupposed self-answer — characteristic Trump device
- Characteristic 'lightweight' ad hominem deployed before the main attack
- No polish, formal structure, or event-announcement format present

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Preemptive Attack (Eric Schneiderman's active civil fraud investigation of Trump University)

Sentiment: -0.45

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Multiple tweets on the same day with gleeful, energized tone across disparate topics
- Triumphalist cataloguing of adversaries' falls with evident satisfaction
- Confident predictive declarations without epistemic hedging across several posts

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 75%
- Antisocial: 60%
- Paranoid: 60%
- Sadism: 50%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)
- devaluation (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 100%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Prophet positioning — 'I see what others cannot yet see, and I am telling you first'
- In-group solidarity through shared enemy identification (corrupt Democratic establishment figures)
- Audience as witness to Trump's predictive accuracy, invited to wait and confirm his foresight

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Targeted named insinuation of criminality against a sitting AG who is actively investigating Trump — creates conditions for large-audience follower harassment
- Follows and reinforces a pattern of discrediting law enforcement and legal investigators who pose threat to Trump's interests
- Asymmetric power dynamic: high-platform attack on named individual without evidentiary basis and no rebuttal space

### Gaslighting

- Accusation framed as rhetorical question to maintain plausible deniability while successfully planting the charge
- Framing the investigator — not the investigated — as the criminal
- Presupposed guilt delivered via comparative hyperbole ('worse than Spitzer or Weiner') before any evidence exists

## Fact Checks (5)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-02-26._

> Weiner is gone

**TRUE**

Anthony Weiner suspended his NYC mayoral campaign in early September 2013 following a second sexting scandal involving the alias 'Carlos Danger'

> Spitzer is gone

**TRUE**

Eliot Spitzer lost the Democratic primary for NYC Comptroller on September 10, 2013 — the day immediately before this tweet was posted

> lightweight A.G. Eric Schneiderman

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Characterization and opinion; Schneiderman was a sitting NY Attorney General with multiple high-profile cases including the Trump University investigation and actions against major financial institutions

> Is he a crook?

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Rhetorical insinuation, not a factual claim; no evidence was presented. Schneiderman later resigned in May 2018 due to physical abuse allegations brought by four women — unrelated to financial or political corruption

> worse than Spitzer or Weiner

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Comparative predictive claim with no evidentiary basis at time of posting. Schneiderman's 2018 resignation was for different categories of misconduct than either Weiner (sexting) or Spitzer (prostitution)

Overall Veracity: 70%

## Tags

- preemptive_attack (95%)
- projection (90%)
- legal_adversary_targeting (90%)
- trump_university_investigation (88%)
- insinuation_via_rhetorical_question (85%)
- devaluation (80%)
- grandiose_prophet_role (82%)
- narcissistic_grandiosity (75%)
- antisocial_features (65%)
- ad_hominem (70%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**On 9/11 Anniversary, Trump Celebrates Political Enemies' Defeats, Praises Putin, and Targets His Own Investigator**

Trump spent the 12th anniversary of September 11 live-tweeting Obama's Syria speech, celebrating the primary defeats of Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer, and launching repeated attacks on New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman — who had just sued him over Trump University. Genuine 9/11 commemoration was minimal and arrived late in the day, sandwiched between political score-settling and relentless fan engagement. The mood was overwhelmingly self-congratulatory, with Trump casting himself as a lone prophetic voice who predicted his enemies' downfalls. A sustained thread of anger surfaced in attacks on Schneiderman, whom he called a crook, a lightweight, and predicted would be next to fall — transparently retaliating against the man investigating his business.

Full digest for 2013-09-11: https://trump.fm/date/2013-09-11/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, September 11). Weiner is gone, Spitzer is gone - next will be... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_377751074628988929
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Weiner is gone, Spitzer is gone - next will be lightweight..." X (Twitter), 11 Sep. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_377751074628988929. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Weiner is gone, Spitzer is gone - next will be lightweight...," X (Twitter), September 11, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_377751074628988929.

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