# Post x_377852502797856768 - Post ID: `x_377852502797856768` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-09-11T17:53:51.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_377852502797856768 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_377852502797856768/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_377852502797856768.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > God bless all the brave souls who perished 12 years ago today. You will never be forgotten! ## Engagement - Likes: 268 - Reposts: 509 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.281Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-26T09:36:39.154Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Analysis: 9/11 Memorial Tweet — September 11, 2013 ### Overview This brief two-sentence memorial statement, posted on the 12th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, is among the most formulaic and psychologically unremarkable posts in Trump's Twitter corpus. It warrants analysis primarily for what it *lacks* compared to his authentic stylistic fingerprints, and for its striking contrast with a second tweet posted the same day — the now-infamous "haters and losers" post. --- ### Authorship Attribution **Local time:** Posted at 17:53 UTC. Trump was New York-based (Trump Tower). New York observed Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4) on September 11, 2013, placing this post at **1:53 PM EDT** — squarely within business hours. **Style indicators:** No typos, no misspellings, no ALL CAPS passages, no stream-of-consciousness fragmentation. Sentences are grammatically complete. The formal register — *"God bless all the brave souls who perished"* — is atypical of Trump's authentic colloquial voice. A single exclamation point (*"You will never be forgotten!"*) is weakly consistent with his punctuation habits but insufficient to override other signals. Most tellingly, the post contains **zero self-referential content** — a near-impossibility for authentic Trump in any emotionally charged context. **Assessment:** Likely aide-composed (Dan Scavino or communications staff), or at minimum a carefully self-edited formal statement consistent with the solemnity of the occasion. Confidence: medium. --- ### Contextual Contrast: The "Haters and Losers" Tweet The most clinically significant finding from this date is not the content of this post but its juxtaposition with a second Trump tweet: *"I would like to extend my best wishes to all, even the haters and losers, on this special date, September 11th."* That post — widely regarded as one of the most tone-deaf social media messages in American political history — bears every hallmark of authentic Trump authorship: self-referential framing, the signature "haters and losers" formulation, an inability to sustain focus on collective tragedy without inserting personal grievances, and characteristic impulsive register. The two tweets together illuminate a **recurring dual-channel structure** in Trump's 2013-era Twitter presence: - **Channel 1 (aide-managed):** Ceremonial, conventional, politically safe - **Channel 2 (authentic):** Impulsive, self-referential, unable to subordinate personal grievance to communal occasion This split is psychologically revealing. Even on the most solemn national commemoration, the authentic voice cannot maintain collective focus without reasserting the self. The aide-managed channel performs the civic ritual; the authentic channel cannot sustain it. --- ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) This post offers insufficient authentic material for reliable trait inference — the formulaic quality suppresses individual expression. Superficially, high conscientiousness (performing the socially expected ritual), moderate agreeableness (warm, inclusive language), and near-absent neuroticism are observable. These likely reflect the aide's editorial judgment rather than Trump's dispositional state. --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations Functions as **maintenance** — routine civic/patriotic signaling. No significant agency or communion motives are operationalized beyond the surface. The religious framing ("God bless") performs affiliation with mainstream American religious sentiment without psychological depth. No schemas about self, others, or world are revealed. --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity Trump has a documented personal connection to 9/11 as a New York City figure (he made controversial claims about watching buildings fall from his office). However, this post does not invoke that personal narrative. There is no protagonist role, no self-insertion, no redemption or contamination arc. Narrative identity is entirely suppressed — strongly consistent with aide authorship. --- ### Clinical Indicators None present in this specific post. No narcissistic grandiosity, rage, splitting, or paranoid features. The **absence itself is data**: authentic Trump posts from this era rarely achieve this degree of complete self-effacement. The suppression of self is the marker, not any clinical feature within the text. --- ### Rhetorical Analysis - **Appeal to collective grief:** Standard memorial register, no targeting or division - **Religious appeal:** "God bless" invokes broadly shared spiritual sentiment - **Promise of remembrance:** "You will never be forgotten" — conventional formula, with the subtle implication that the poster serves as custodian of collective memory (the only faintly self-serving element) - **Inclusive framing:** "all the brave souls" — no in-group/out-group construction No propaganda techniques, dehumanizing language, or danger indicators are present. --- ### Cognitive Status Two complete sentences, conventional vocabulary, accurate temporal reference ("12 years ago"). No markers of word-finding difficulty, paraphasia, tangentiality, or confabulation. Low syntactic complexity is appropriate to the genre and consistent with aide composition rather than reflecting cognitive limitation. --- ### Danger Assessment None. No threatening, eliminationist, or mobilizing content. ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "12 years ago today (referring to 9/11 attacks)" | **True** | The September 11 attacks occurred on September 11, 2001. This tweet was posted on September 11, 2013, exactly 12 years later. The arithmetic is correct. | | "brave souls who perished" | **True** | 2,977 people were killed in the September 11 attacks, excluding the 19 hijackers. The characterization of victims as 'brave souls' is a value judgment rather than a falsifiable factual claim. The deaths themselves are documented fact. | Overall Veracity: 100% ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 20%) ### Indicators - Posted at 1:53 PM EDT — business hours, inconsistent with authentic late-night posting pattern - Grammatically complete sentences with no typos or misspellings - Formal register ('God bless all the brave souls who perished') atypical of authentic Trump colloquial style - No ALL CAPS passages, no stream-of-consciousness fragmentation - Complete absence of self-referential content — Trump virtually never sustains full self-effacement in authentic posts ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (12th anniversary of September 11 attacks — routine civic signaling event) Sentiment: +0.10 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 0% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 20% ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-02-26._ > 12 years ago today (referring to 9/11 attacks) **TRUE** The September 11 attacks occurred on September 11, 2001. This tweet was posted on September 11, 2013, exactly 12 years later. The arithmetic is correct. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks > brave souls who perished **TRUE** 2,977 people were killed in the September 11 attacks, excluding the 19 hijackers. The characterization of victims as 'brave souls' is a value judgment rather than a falsifiable factual claim. The deaths themselves are documented fact. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks; https://www.911memorial.org/911-faqs Overall Veracity: 100% ## Tags - 9/11-anniversary (100%) - likely-aide-written (85%) - dual-channel-twitter (90%) - memorial-formulaic (100%) - patriotic-signaling (70%) - self-suppression (80%) - comparative-baseline (75%) ## 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). God bless all the brave souls who perished 12... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_377852502797856768 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "God bless all the brave souls who perished 12 years ago..." X (Twitter), 11 Sep. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_377852502797856768. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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