# Post x_377776171263348736

- Post ID: `x_377776171263348736`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-09-11T12:50:32.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @redellis1
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_377776171263348736
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_377776171263348736/analysis
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## Post text

_Quotes @redellis1, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @redellis1's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._

> "@redellis1: @realDonaldTrump He must go... People like him r destroying our country and our principals!"  Re lightweight A.G. Schneiderman

## Engagement

- Likes: 5
- Reposts: 4
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.281Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-26T09:27:59.738Z (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 the 12th anniversary of 9/11 — just 18 days after Schneiderman filed a $40 million fraud suit against Trump University — this retweet is a textbook narcissistic injury response. Trump amplifies a supporter's eliminationist call ("He must go... destroying our country") directed at the AG investigating him, appending the signature devaluation epithet "lightweight" to undermine Schneiderman's credibility. Projection dominates: the accusation that Schneiderman "destroys the country" precisely mirrors the allegation against Trump — that Trump University exploited thousands of vulnerable citizens through a fraudulent educational enterprise. The proxy-attack structure achieves maximum reach with plausible deniability, reflecting simultaneous cunning and impulsivity. DARVO inverts accountability: the investigator becomes the criminal, the investigated becomes the victim. The post is authenticated by its 8:50 AM EDT timing, signature "lightweight" epithet, and active morning tweet session. Danger is elevated: this is an early exemplar of Trump's playbook against investigators and prosecutors — public identification, exaggerated grievance, and amplified eliminationist language — a pattern that intensifies dramatically when he faces federal legal exposure in subsequent years. The $25 million settlement Trump paid in 2016 suggests Schneiderman's lawsuit was well-founded, making the "destroying the country" framing a documented reality inversion.

## Post Analysis: Trump Quote-Tweet Attacking AG Schneiderman (2013-09-11)

### Authorship & Timing

Posted at 12:50:32 UTC, converting to EDT (UTC−4): **8:50 AM local time**. Trump was almost certainly in New York City — his primary residence — on this date. While 8:50 AM falls within early business hours rather than the late-night window most associated with impulsive authentic posting, several stylistic fingerprints strongly indicate authentic authorship: the terse commentary appended to a supporter's attack ("Re lightweight A.G. Schneiderman"), use of the signature derogatory epithet "lightweight," and the well-documented pattern of amplifying third-party attacks while appending minimal personal commentary (affording deniability while maximizing reach). The surrounding context shows an active morning retweeting session — a follower explicitly notes Trump is "on a roll" at 7:10 AM their time — consistent with authentic Trump behavior. **Authorship assessment: authentic Trump, high confidence.**

### Critical Contextual Background

Eric Schneiderman, New York Attorney General since 2011, filed a $40 million fraud lawsuit against Trump University on **August 24, 2013** — just 18 days before this post. The suit alleged Trump defrauded over 5,000 students through a sham educational program, using Trump's name and likeness without his meaningful involvement. This makes the post's psychological meaning unambiguous: it is a counterattack against an active legal adversary posing a direct financial and reputational threat, not generic political commentary. The post occurs on the **12th anniversary of the September 11 attacks**, a date Trump also used (notoriously) to post a "haters and losers" tweet — underscoring a pattern of subordinating collective mourning to personal brand and personal grievance.

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### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

The post reveals highly salient trait facets consistent with Trump's established baseline:

- **Agreeableness (very low):** Openly contemptuous, hostile, zero tender-mindedness toward target
- **Extraversion (high):** Assertive public positioning; broadcasting grievance to maximum audience
- **Neuroticism (moderate-high):** Hostile affect barely contained in terse label; reactive rather than deliberate
- **Conscientiousness (low):** Impulsive retweet with minimal elaboration; no deliberation evident
- **Openness (very low):** Rigid schema applied — attacker is categorically "lightweight," no nuance entertained

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### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations — Motives & Schemas

**Dominant motive: Power/Agency.** The post is entirely organized around neutralizing a threat to Trump's power, financial standing, and reputation. No communion motive is detectable. The operative cognitive schema: officials who pursue Trump are by definition incompetent ("lightweight"), politically motivated, or corrupt — a framework that pre-empts legitimate accountability by categorizing the accuser as unworthy of serious engagement. This schema functions as a **preemptive legitimacy-stripping device**.

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### Level 3: Narrative Identity

Trump casts himself implicitly as **defender of the people against corrupt officialdom** — a proto-populist framing that presages his dominant political identity. Schneiderman is constructed as **contrasting other**: not a legitimate law enforcement officer faithfully executing a fraud investigation, but a country-destroyer who "must go." The retweeted follower's eliminationist language is **borrowed wholesale**, allowing Trump to voice the sentiment at one remove. The narrative sequence is **contamination**: legitimate governance has been corrupted by bad actors who must be removed — and Trump is the one who sees this clearly.

**Identity claims embedded in the post:**
- "I can identify corrupt/incompetent officials others cannot"
- "I speak truth that the establishment suppresses"
- "Those who pursue me are themselves the criminals"

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### Level 4: Clinical Indicators

#### Narcissistic Injury Response

The trigger is unambiguous: Schneiderman's August 24 lawsuit directly attacks Trump's brand, financial interests, and self-image as a successful businessman/educator. The 18-day gap before this post suggests the injury has been festering. The response pattern — not a direct rebuttal, but a devaluation-via-proxy attack — is a classic narcissistic maneuver designed to undermine the adversary's credibility rather than engage with the substance of the legal threat.

#### Projection (Primary Defense — Pathological Gradient)

The most clinically significant element: the accusation that Schneiderman "destroys the country" and its "principals [sic]" maps precisely onto the allegation against Trump himself — that Trump University exploited and defrauded thousands of vulnerable people seeking to improve their financial circumstances. The harm Trump stands accused of committing (exploitation of citizens for personal gain) is projected wholesale onto the official exposing it. This is textbook **projective identification**: the unacceptable accusation is expelled and relocated in the accuser.

#### DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender)

The framing of Schneiderman's legitimate AG function as "destroying the country" is a DARVO maneuver: Trump reverses the accountability dynamic, positioning himself as victim of official corruption and Schneiderman as the true criminal actor. This is not mere rhetoric — it reflects a consistent psychological mechanism for managing threats to self-concept.

#### Defense Mechanisms Employed

1. **Projection** (pathological gradient): Accusation against Schneiderman mirrors accusation against Trump
2. **Splitting** (immature): Schneiderman = categorically "lightweight," all-bad; Trump supporters = insightful, enthusiastic, great
3. **Displacement** (neurotic): Channeling legal threat response through a follower's post
4. **Rationalization** (neurotic): Recasting personal legal threat as national concern

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### Rhetorical Analysis

**Proxy-attack technique:** The most sophisticated element. By retweeting "@redellis1" rather than authoring the attack directly, Trump:
- Amplifies eliminationist language ("He must go") while maintaining plausible deniability
- Creates impression of organic populist sentiment rather than personal vendetta
- Demonstrates that followers share his grievance (supply-seeking + injury response simultaneously)

**Ad hominem — "lightweight":** Attacks Schneiderman's competence and gravitas rather than the substance of the legal action. The specific word is Trump's most-used derogation for opponents he perceives as threatening but pretends to find dismissible. The frequency of "lightweight" for legal/political adversaries in this period is a documented stylometric marker.

**False framing / Reality inversion:** Recasting fraud accountability as national sabotage removes Schneiderman from the role of investigator and inserts him as perpetrator.

**Note on "principals":** The misspelling (should be "principles") is in the retweeted follower's post, not Trump's addition — though Trump's choice to amplify rather than correct it reflects his comfort with the imprecision.

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### Danger Assessment

**Elevated.** The post establishes an early instance of a pattern that will recur throughout Trump's political career: publicly identifying a specific law enforcement target, articulating an exaggerated grievance against them ("destroying our country"), and amplifying eliminationist language directed at that official ("He must go"). The target here is the AG actively prosecuting Trump — making this a threat to an investigator's legitimacy and, implicitly, to their professional standing. The Schneiderman harassment pattern will escalate in subsequent years. While not meeting the threshold for stochastic terrorism (no implied call to physical action), the targeting-plus-grievance-plus-eliminationist-language triad warrants elevated monitoring.

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### Cognitive Status

Insufficient text for substantive cognitive assessment. The brief format (retweeted content + three-word appended label) precludes meaningful analysis of syntactic complexity, vocabulary sophistication, or coherence. No markers of deterioration are visible; the post is stylistically consistent with Trump's established early Twitter patterns. Baseline deviation: none.

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### Summary

Posted on the 12th anniversary of 9/11 — just 18 days after Schneiderman filed a $40 million fraud suit against Trump University — this retweet is a textbook narcissistic injury response. Trump amplifies a supporter's eliminationist call ("He must go... destroying our country") directed at the AG investigating him, appending the signature devaluation epithet "lightweight" to undermine Schneiderman's credibility. Projection dominates: the accusation that Schneiderman "destroys the country" precisely mirrors the allegation against Trump (exploiting thousands of vulnerable citizens through a fraudulent educational enterprise). The proxy-attack structure — retweeting rather than authoring — achieves maximum reach with plausible deniability, reflecting simultaneous cunning and impulsivity. DARVO is employed to invert accountability: the investigator becomes the criminal, the investigated becomes the victim. The post is authenticated by its 8:50 AM EDT timing, signature "lightweight" epithet, and active morning tweet session. Danger is elevated: this is an early exemplar of Trump's playbook against investigators and prosecutors — public identification, exaggerated grievance, and amplified eliminationist language — a pattern that will intensify dramatically when he faces federal legal exposure. (225 words)

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Schneiderman is 'lightweight'" | **Unverifiable** | Characterization is evaluative/derogatory opinion. Schneiderman served as NY AG 2011-2018 and ultimately secured a $25 million Trump University settlement in 2016, suggesting the lawsuit had substantial legal merit. |
| "People like Schneiderman are destroying the country and its 'principals'" | **False** | Schneiderman was performing a core AG function — consumer fraud enforcement. His August 24, 2013 lawsuit alleged Trump University defrauded over 5,000 students of $40 million through false promises. The case ultimately settled for $25 million, indicating substantial legal validity. The 'destroying the country' framing inverts accountability. |
| "Implicit: Schneiderman's pursuit of Trump is politically motivated rather than legally grounded" | **Mostly False** | The Trump University lawsuit was substantiated by thousands of student complaints and extensive investigation. The 2016 $25 million settlement — agreed to by Trump after his election — strongly suggests the allegations were meritorious rather than politically motivated. |

Overall Veracity: 23%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 82%)

### Indicators

- Signature 'lightweight' epithet — documented high-frequency Trump derogation for adversaries
- Proxy-attack via retweet with minimal appended commentary — established Trump Twitter pattern
- Active early-morning tweet session (8:50 AM EDT) consistent with authentic Trump posting rhythm
- Clear personal legal motivation (Schneiderman filed Trump University lawsuit 18 days prior)
- Terse, reactive commentary style without polished framing

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Eric Schneiderman / NY AG Trump University fraud lawsuit ($40M, filed August 24, 2013))

**Rage:** Intensity 62% targeting Eric Schneiderman, NY Attorney General
- Proportionality: 15%

Sentiment: -0.72

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Active morning retweet session documented by follower ('on a roll... it's only 7:10a my time')
- Multiple rapid-fire retweets of different supporters in same morning session
- Elevated output and responsiveness consistent with mild hypomanic baseline characteristic of this period

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 72%
- Antisocial: 38%
- Paranoid: 52%
- Sadism: 28%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (pathological)
- splitting (immature)
- displacement (neurotic)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 22%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Retweeting supporter attacks to simulate organic populist sentiment
- Amplifying follower validation loops in surrounding tweets
- Supply-seeking through morning retweet session while simultaneously processing injury

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Amplification of 'He must go' directed at a sitting law enforcement official actively investigating Trump
- Targeting + grievance articulation + eliminationist language triad directed at an investigator
- DARVO framing inverts accountability, positioning the prosecutor as criminal — undermining investigator's legitimacy
- Early instance of a documented pattern of attacking investigators/prosecutors that escalates significantly over subsequent years

### Gaslighting

- Framing legitimate consumer fraud enforcement as 'destroying the country' — inverts the objective accountability dynamic
- DARVO: positions Trump (accused of $40M fraud) as victim and the investigating AG as the true national threat
- Recasting legal exposure as political persecution — attacks the reality that the investigation is substantively grounded

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> Schneiderman is 'lightweight'

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Characterization is evaluative/derogatory opinion. Schneiderman served as NY AG 2011-2018 and ultimately secured a $25 million Trump University settlement in 2016, suggesting the lawsuit had substantial legal merit.

Sources: https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2016/statement-ag-schneiderman-25-million-settlement-agreement-reached-trump-university

> People like Schneiderman are destroying the country and its 'principals'

**FALSE**

Schneiderman was performing a core AG function — consumer fraud enforcement. His August 24, 2013 lawsuit alleged Trump University defrauded over 5,000 students of $40 million through false promises. The case ultimately settled for $25 million, indicating substantial legal validity. The 'destroying the country' framing inverts accountability.

Sources: https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2013/ag-schneiderman-sues-donald-trump-trump-university-michael-sexton-defrauding; https://abcnews.go.com/US/calling-lawsuits-trump-schneidermans-turbulent-history/story?id=55012785

> Implicit: Schneiderman's pursuit of Trump is politically motivated rather than legally grounded

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The Trump University lawsuit was substantiated by thousands of student complaints and extensive investigation. The 2016 $25 million settlement — agreed to by Trump after his election — strongly suggests the allegations were meritorious rather than politically motivated.

Sources: https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/02/politics/eric-schneiderman-attorney-general-trump-university-fraud; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_University

Overall Veracity: 23%

## Tags

- proxy-attack (92%)
- narcissistic-injury-response (90%)
- projection (88%)
- DARVO (85%)
- investigator-targeting (82%)
- legal-threat-response (90%)
- devaluation-lightweight (85%)
- splitting (75%)
- reality-inversion (80%)
- 9-11-anniversary-grievance (60%)

## 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). "@redellis1: @realDonaldTrump He must go...... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_377776171263348736
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@redellis1: @realDonaldTrump He must go... People like him..." X (Twitter), 11 Sep. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_377776171263348736. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, ""@redellis1: @realDonaldTrump He must go... People like him...," X (Twitter), September 11, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_377776171263348736.

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