# Post x_378123039567015936 - Post ID: `x_378123039567015936` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-09-12T11:48:52.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @fenwickrx - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_378123039567015936 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_378123039567015936/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_378123039567015936.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text _Quotes @fenwickrx, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @fenwickrx's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._ > "@fenwickrx: @realDonaldTrump “@NewsOn6: Study: Wind Farms Killed 67 Eagles In Five Years http://t.co/ybv0hGRfEL”" ## Engagement - Likes: 24 - Reposts: 49 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.281Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-26T09:55:59.189Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Post Analysis: x_378123039567015936 | September 12, 2013 --- ### Authorship Attribution **Timezone Determination:** On September 12, 2013, Trump was in New York City — confirmed by his own same-day post announcing a live 8:30 AM appearance on Good Day New York. The UTC timestamp of 11:48:52 converts to **7:48 AM EDT** (UTC−4). This places the post 42 minutes before a scheduled television appearance, consistent with his known early-morning Twitter habit. The 7:48 AM local time falls slightly outside the strict 10 PM–6 AM "authentic" criterion but lands in a well-documented secondary window (6–9 AM) when Trump was reliably active. The topical alignment with his sustained, multi-year campaign against wind energy (including a protracted legal battle over the Balmedie/Menie Estate wind farm adjacent to his Scottish golf course, 2006–2012) further supports authenticity. However, the post contains **zero original content** from Trump — it is a verbatim chain-retweet of @fenwickrx quoting @NewsOn6. In September 2013, the native RT button was available; choosing to manually quote-tweet this three-layer chain without appending any personal commentary, nickname, or emotional punctuation is atypical for Trump, who habitually adds "Sad!", "Disgraceful!", or an admiring aside. This absence meaningfully reduces attribution confidence. **Assessment:** Low confidence, slight lean toward authentic based on timing and topical fit. --- ### Personality Framework (McAdams & Pals, 2006) **Level 1 — Dispositional Traits** The post's absence of original language eliminates direct trait expression; the *act of selection* carries the signal: - **Low Agreeableness (antagonism):** Choosing to surface damaging evidence about a technology he actively opposes, framed as ecological concern, reflects oppositional instrumentalism rather than genuine tender-mindedness. - **Low Openness (values rigidity):** The anti-wind stance is a fixed, multi-year schema predating Twitter, rooted in the Menie Estate litigation and broader aesthetic/commercial opposition. No new information is being processed; confirmation is being amplified. - **Neuroticism absent:** No emotional activation detectable in this format. **Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations** Dominant motive: **Agency/Power**, expressed through two simultaneous goals: (1) business-interest protection via sustained opposition to wind energy infrastructure, and (2) implicit status assertion through the anti-Obama narrative embedded in the original story (the study highlighted federal non-prosecution of wind companies for eagle kills). This dual function — attacking a commercial rival and a political opponent with a single retweet — is efficient instrumentalism. **Instrumental Environmentalism Schema:** Trump's ecological concern is selective and strategic. He shows no consistent record of wildlife advocacy; eagle mortality is deployed here as a *tactical resource* against a politically useful adversary. The schema "I invoke environmental harm when it serves my opposition to X" recurs across his wind energy commentary. **Level 3 — Narrative Identity** By amplifying this story, the subject positions himself implicitly as a truth-teller exposing the hypocrisy of "clean energy" — an instantiation of the Warrior archetype operating against a corrupt institutional order (the Obama administration's unenforced environmental law). The protagonistrole is understated here, executed by proxy rather than direct voice. The implicit contamination sequence: wind energy presented as "clean" and virtuous → revealed as an eagle-killing, federally-enabled environmental violator. --- ### Psychological State Assessment **Trigger type:** Routine maintenance / opportunistic amplification. The study broke September 11, 2013 (the previous day); Trump is riding a 24-hour news cycle, not reacting to a fresh narcissistic injury. No acute wound is detectable. **Narcissistic state:** Baseline grandiose maintenance. The surrounding same-day posts are diagnostically richer: the Putin-Obama post ("Never has our Country looked so weak") shows markedly higher emotional activation, direct grandiosity, and original voice. This retweet is comparatively inert — a content-amplification event, not a psychological discharge. **Defense mechanisms:** **Rationalization** is the most visible mechanism. Trump's primary objection to wind energy is commercial and aesthetic (turbine proximity to golf properties; his own sworn testimony in Scottish parliamentary hearings cited visual impact as a personal grievance). That genuine motive is displaced onto morally safer ecological concern, providing a non-self-interested justification for an objectively self-interested position. --- ### Rhetorical Analysis The post's rhetorical work is performed entirely by selection and amplification, not by original composition: - **Amplification by proxy:** No personal credibility risk; the content belongs to a news organization and a federal study. Trump gains the narrative benefit without authorial accountability. - **Specificity appeal:** The numeral "67" lends apparent empirical precision, borrowing the authority of the underlying scientific study. - **Implicit whataboutism:** Eagle deaths reframe wind energy's "clean/green" identity without Trump needing to make that argument explicitly. - **Implicit anti-Obama framing:** The federal non-prosecution angle embedded in the original story allows simultaneous attack on the administration's environmental credibility — again, without original authorship. No violent imagery, dehumanizing language, or eliminationist rhetoric is present. --- ### Cognitive Assessment No original language production is available for analysis. Chain-retweet format renders vocabulary, syntax, and coherence analysis inapplicable. Baseline comparison requires linguistic output. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Wind farms killed 67 eagles in five years" | **True** | Pagel et al. (2013), Journal of Raptor Research, peer-reviewed study based on USFWS data 1997-2012. Figure excludes Altamont Pass (an additional ~60 eagle deaths/year) and is acknowledged as an undercount. AP investigation separately confirmed federal non-prosecution of wind companies despite statutory eagle-kill violations. | Overall Veracity: 100% ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 55%) ### Indicators - 7:48 AM EDT timing falls in documented early-morning window, 42 minutes before scheduled live television appearance - Topical alignment with multi-year, legally documented anti-wind energy fixation predating Twitter - Zero original content — verbatim chain-retweet with no appended commentary, nickname, or emotional punctuation - Manual quote-tweet format chosen when native RT was available, without explanation - Style inconsistent with Trump's typical commentary-appending behavior ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (Wind energy news cycle (study published September 11, 2013)) Sentiment: -0.20 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 15% - Antisocial: 5% - Paranoid: 5% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-02-26._ > Wind farms killed 67 eagles in five years **TRUE** Pagel et al. (2013), Journal of Raptor Research, peer-reviewed study based on USFWS data 1997-2012. Figure excludes Altamont Pass (an additional ~60 eagle deaths/year) and is acknowledged as an undercount. AP investigation separately confirmed federal non-prosecution of wind companies despite statutory eagle-kill violations. Sources: https://www.nbcnews.com/science/wind-farms-killed-least-67-eagles-last-five-years-8C11133124; https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/11/eagle-slaughter-wind-farms-kill-67-eagles-5-years/ Overall Veracity: 100% ## Tags - wind energy opposition (85%) - instrumental environmentalism (75%) - amplification by proxy (80%) - implicit anti-Obama framing (45%) - rationalization defense (60%) - maintenance mode (50%) - low clinical significance (90%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Context Collapse: 9/11 Treated as Father's Day, Three Tina Brown Takedowns, and a Day of Grandiose Baseline Operations** September 12, 2013 (UTC), spanning the evening of September 11 through the afternoon of September 12 in Trump's local EDT timezone, presents 22 posts organized around a stable grandiose psychological baseline interrupted by two predatory episodes: the widely-criticized misapplication of Trump's "haters and losers" formula to the 9/11 anniversary (8:12 PM EDT on September 11), and a three-post obsessive devaluation cluster targeting Tina Brown upon news of her Daily Beast departure. The day's activity is concentrated in three distinct clusters — evening, morning, and afternoon — with an approximately 10-hour overnight gap consistent with normal sleep. No hypomanic indicators, no sleep deprivation, no danger-level posts, and no sustained rage spiral are present. The grandiose state holds unbroken from first post to last. The day's most clinically notable features are structural rather than acute. The 9/11 formula misfire reveals context-insensitivity at the level of automatic processing: the solemnity of the anniversary generated no schema override, and the social register of 9/11 commemoration was apparently inaccessible, making September 11 categorically indistinguishable from Father's Day in Trump's processing architecture. The Tina Brown cluster — three posts, three factually inaccurate claims, uninhibited celebratory affect at a rival's professional setback, and compulsive adjudication of her own account of her own departure — provides a textbook specimen of ego-syntonic sadism and obsessive adversary-tracking within a single session. Geopolitically, the 6:26 AM EDT response to Putin's NYT op-ed, describing it as a "masterpiece," establishes early baseline documentation of Russia-favorable dominance-hierarchy framing that predates political calculation by years. The day's historical significance substantially exceeds its clinical acuity. Nothing in the 22 posts represents deviation from the established 2013 Trump baseline; rather, the posts are the baseline rendered in unusually clear form. The 9/11 post, the Putin framing, the Tina Brown sadism cluster, and the commanding Obamacare directive to House Republicans are not aberrations — they are structural features of the grandiose narcissistic adaptation operating in characteristic mode on an ordinary day that happened to contain several unusually diagnostic occasions. Full digest for 2013-09-12: https://trump.fm/date/2013-09-12/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, September 12). "@fenwickrx: @realDonaldTrump “@NewsOn6: Study:... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_378123039567015936 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@fenwickrx: @realDonaldTrump “@NewsOn6: Study: Wind Farms..." X (Twitter), 12 Sep. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_378123039567015936. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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