# Post x_378255582903279616 - Post ID: `x_378255582903279616` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-09-12T20:35:33.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_378255582903279616 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_378255582903279616/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_378255582903279616.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > “Trust your instincts, especially if they are well honed.” – Midas Touch ## Engagement - Likes: 110 - Reposts: 221 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.281Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-26T10:09:14.278Z (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: September 12, 2013 — "Trust your instincts" (Midas Touch Quote) ### Overview This is a one-sentence promotional quote drawn from *Midas Touch: Why Some Entrepreneurs Get Rich—And Why Most Don't* (2011), co-authored by Trump and Robert Kiyosaki. The post functions primarily as book marketing but simultaneously operates as a vehicle for low-key self-aggrandizement via mythological branding. It is the most subdued post in the day's output — sharply contrasting with the ALL-CAPS Obamacare demand, the geopolitical alarm-sounding, and the television interview link also posted the same day. --- ### Authorship Attribution **UTC 20:35:33 → New York EDT (UTC−4) = 4:35 PM local time.** Mid-afternoon business hours. The format is polished: a clean quotation with an em dash attribution, correct spelling, no typos, no emotional volatility. This is characteristic of scheduled or aide-coordinated promotional content — likely part of an ongoing social media cadence tied to the *Midas Touch* book. The same-day contrast with the authentically Trump-styled "NO GAMES! HOUSE @GOP MUST DEFUND OBAMACARE!" (all-caps, emotionally reactive) reinforces that the quote post comes from a different compositional mode. **High confidence: aide-written or pre-scheduled promotional copy.** --- ### Psychological Analysis **Trigger:** Supply-seeking via brand reinforcement. No narcissistic injury is evident. This is routine audience cultivation — positioning Trump as a sage business mentor. **Grandiosity vector:** The "Midas Touch" brand is itself a grandiose self-identification. King Midas, in Greek mythology, possessed the power to turn everything he touched to gold. By naming his book this and continuing to circulate the brand through social media, Trump is persistently encoding an identity claim of suprahuman business prowess. The qualifier in the quote — *"especially if they are well honed"* — implies, without stating, that Trump's own instincts are the exemplar of this ideal. This is classic indirect grandiosity: the wisdom appears universal, but the subtext is autobiographical. **Narcissistic dynamic:** The post is in a mildly grandiose mode — not vulnerable, not rageful. Supply-seeking through wisdom performance, a recurring pattern in Trump's social media across this era. The archetypal role activated is the **Sage/King**: the figure who has mastered the domain and now dispenses earned wisdom. **Defense mechanisms:** Minimal in this post. Mild rationalization — what is functionally self-promotion is framed as altruistic advice-sharing. **Cognitive status:** No markers of concern. The sentence is syntactically complete, semantically coherent, and professionally formatted. No deviation from baseline warrants flagging. --- ### Rhetorical Analysis The mechanism is **appeal to self-authority via attributed aphorism**. By quoting his own book, Trump performs intellectual self-citation — a rhetorical move that lends the advice an air of published legitimacy. The aphorism format ("Trust your instincts") is emotionally resonant and culturally legible. The specificity of the qualifier ("especially if they are well honed") avoids universalism and subtly restricts applicability to those — implicitly Trump and his audience — who have cultivated elite-level instincts. No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no propaganda techniques of concern. --- ### Longitudinal Note Against the backdrop of same-day posts — geopolitical alarm, intense political commands, media appearances — this post is the quietest signal in a high-volume day. It reflects the hybrid nature of Trump's 2013 Twitter presence: a mix of authentic reactive commentary and managed brand promotion. No deterioration concerns; no baseline deviation. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Quote attributed to 'Midas Touch'" | **True** | Midas Touch: Why Some Entrepreneurs Get Rich—And Why Most Don't is a real published book co-authored by Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki, published in 2011 by Currency/Crown. The attribution is accurate. | Overall Veracity: 100% ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 15%) ### Indicators - Posted at 4:35 PM local EDT — mid-afternoon business hours - Polished em-dash attribution format - Correct spelling and grammar throughout - No emotional volatility or capitalization - Promotional/book-marketing content suggesting scheduled cadence ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Midas Touch book brand) Sentiment: +0.35 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 20% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 35% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Wisdom-dispensing mentor persona creates aspirational parasocial bond with audience ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-02-26._ > Quote attributed to 'Midas Touch' **TRUE** Midas Touch: Why Some Entrepreneurs Get Rich—And Why Most Don't is a real published book co-authored by Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki, published in 2011 by Currency/Crown. The attribution is accurate. Sources: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/209539/midas-touch-by-donald-j-trump-and-robert-t-kiyosaki/ Overall Veracity: 100% ## Tags - aide-written (85%) - scheduled-promotional (80%) - supply-seeking (70%) - grandiose-stable (50%) - midas-touch-book (95%) - self-citation (75%) - sage-mentor (70%) - king-midas (65%) - low-intensity (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). “Trust your instincts, especially if they are... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_378255582903279616 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“Trust your instincts, especially if they are well honed.”..." X (Twitter), 12 Sep. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_378255582903279616. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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