# Post x_379120121421500416

- Post ID: `x_379120121421500416`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-09-15T05:50:55.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @A_Roy0317
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_379120121421500416
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_379120121421500416/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_379120121421500416.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

_Quotes @A_Roy0317, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @A_Roy0317's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._

> "@A_Roy0317: I am proud to say as a first time voter I already know that I will vote for @realDonaldTrump in 2016. #youthvote #change #proud

## Engagement

- Likes: 22
- Reposts: 17
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.281Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-26T10:54:18.680Z (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_379120121421500416
**Platform:** Twitter/X | **Date:** September 15, 2013 | **Local Time:** ~1:50 AM EDT

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## Authorship Attribution

**Assessment: Authentic Trump (High Confidence, Score: 0.82)**

The UTC timestamp (05:50:55) converts to approximately **1:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time** in New York City, where Trump was almost certainly resident in September 2013 (Trump Tower). This falls squarely within his documented late-night posting window. The post is a bare retweet with zero original commentary — the minimal, impulsive format is incompatible with aide-authored content, which in this era typically consisted of event announcements, policy statements, or formally constructed sentences.

The same-day posting cluster is confirming evidence: at least four separate flattery-amplification retweets within a single evening window strongly suggests Trump himself was browsing his mentions and selectively amplifying praise — a supply-collection session, not a staffed communications rollout.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

- **Extraversion (High, ~0.82):** Active audience cultivation; public amplification of praise; seeking positive social resonance. The retweet is an extraverted act — broadcasting validation outward.
- **Agreeableness (Low, ~0.22):** The engagement is transactional rather than warm. No reciprocal care expressed for the individual supporter; the person functions primarily as a vehicle for self-relevant content.
- **Conscientiousness / Achievement-Striving (Moderate-High):** The 2016 reference in September 2013 reveals deliberate long-horizon political goal-pursuit — planting seeds for a campaign 21+ months before announcement.
- **Neuroticism (Low in this instance, ~0.28):** Calm, no defensive posture, no anger. Grandiose state, not vulnerable.
- **Openness (Low, ~0.28):** Conventional political hashtags (#change, #youthvote); no original or creative framing.

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Dominant Motive: Agency/Power.** This post is not primarily about the first-time voter — it is about Trump amplifying evidence that he inspires political activation, particularly among youth. The 2016 framing is deliberate: Trump is collecting social proof of his viability as a political force.

**Supply-Seeking Schema:** The day's posting pattern reveals a consistent behavioral template: *locate praise → amplify it → absorb the validation.* This is the foundational architecture of narcissistic supply collection via social media. The selection of a *first-time voter* from among presumably many available flattering tweets is psychologically non-random: youth converts carry premium symbolic value as evidence of *inspiration* rather than partisan habit.

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist Role:** The Savior-in-Waiting. The implicit self-construction is of a figure so compelling that political novices — not yet cynical, not yet partisan — have already decided. The innocence of the first-time voter lends Trump's appeal an air of pure inspiration rather than political calculation.

**Identity Claims Encoded:**
- Future president
- Youth-inspiring transformational figure
- Agent of national correction ("change")
- Businessman-as-statesman (reinforced by adjacent posts)

**Redemption Sequence (Implicit):** The contamination narrative is present in the surrounding posts (Obamacare as failure, America needing to be "turned around") — this retweet functions as the redemption half: a new generation choosing the corrective.

**Contrasting Other:** Not named in this post, but the day's context makes it clear: Obama and the Democratic governance project are the implicit foil.

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Narcissistic Dynamics
**Trigger:** Supply-seeking / maintenance. No narcissistic injury present. This is Trump in a secure, grandiose state — collecting tribute rather than defending against attack.

**Narcissistic State:** Grandiose — expansive, dominant, absorbing admiration.

**Rage:** Absent.

**Malignant Narcissism Assessment:**
| Component | Level |
|-----------|-------|
| Narcissistic features | Low-mild (0.3) — routine supply-seeking |
| Antisocial features | Absent (0.0) |
| Paranoid features | Absent (0.0) |
| Sadism | Absent (0.0) |

This post represents the benign-to-mild end of narcissistic expression. No hostile, exploitative, or dangerous dynamics are operative.

### Defense Mechanisms
**Idealization (Immature, subclinical):** The selection of this particular tweet for amplification implicitly elevates the supporter as emblematic of organic American youth enthusiasm — a form of idealization that serves the self-aggrandizing narrative.

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## Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques

- **Social proof via proxy:** Rather than asserting "young people support me," Trump allows a self-described first-time voter to make the claim — laundering self-promotion through apparent third-party authenticity.
- **Youth halo effect:** First-time voters carry cultural coding of genuine, uninstructed enthusiasm. Amplifying this signal suggests organic rather than political appeal.
- **Bandwagon appeal:** Implicit — even new voters are already decided.
- **Long-horizon political positioning:** The 2016 reference in September 2013 reveals systematic brand-building; Twitter as proto-campaign infrastructure.

No dehumanizing language, violent imagery, eliminationist rhetoric, or stochastic terrorism indicators are present.

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## Cognitive Status

Insufficient original Trump-authored text to meaningfully assess. The post is a bare retweet. The adjacent same-day policy post ("When I say I would end Obamacare...") displays simple declarative syntax at the lower-complexity end of Trump's documented baseline — consistent with established patterns, no deviation detectable.

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## Longitudinal Context

September 2013 represents an early phase of deliberate political brand-building on Twitter. Trump had been flirting with political ambitions since at least 2011 (the birther period), and this post is part of a recognizable pattern: using Twitter to cultivate a proto-political constituency roughly 21 months before his formal campaign announcement (June 2015). The same-day cluster of supply-collection retweets, interspersed with a policy positioning statement on healthcare, suggests Trump was already running an informal shadow campaign from his phone at 2 AM.

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Posted at approximately 1:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4, September 2013)
- Bare retweet with no added commentary — unpolished, impulsive sharing pattern
- Consistent with same-day cluster of late-night social media activity
- No polished formatting or event-announcement structure typical of aide-drafted content

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (first-time voter endorsement pledging 2016 vote)

Sentiment: +0.78

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- idealization (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 10%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- amplification of fan praise to manufacture social proof
- youth voter selection as authenticity signal
- indirect self-aggrandizement via proxy enthusiast

## Tags

- narcissistic_supply_seeking (75%)
- political_positioning (88%)
- youth_appeal (65%)
- social_proof_construction (70%)
- proto_campaign_activity (85%)
- authentic_authorship (82%)

## That day

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

**The Kingmaker's Watch: Fight Night Fuels Nocturnal Supply Harvest as the Savior Narrative Crystallizes at 1:43 AM EDT**

On the evening and early morning of September 14–15, 2013, Trump's digital record traces a psychologically coherent arc organized around the Floyd Mayweather vs. Canelo Álvarez fight. All 25 posts were produced between 8:45 PM and 7:38 AM EDT (New York, Trump Tower), with the primary activity cluster — 16 posts in roughly 4.5 hours — running from pre-fight prediction through post-fight celebration across the small hours of the morning. The dominant state was grandiose throughout, punctuated by a single isolated rage spike at 7:09 AM EDT (post x_379200216978976768) targeting female boxing judge C.J. Ross with language well in excess of the provocation. Mean intensity (0.16) and the near-total absence of defensive triggers confirm this was a supply-affluent day: Trump had an advance bet to validate, celebrity proximity to harvest, and a high-volume fan queue to service. No escalation spiral emerged.

The most clinically significant event arrived at 1:43 AM EDT (x_379118224446881792), when Trump absorbed a fan's uniqueness-plus-savior-plus-urgency package — "you're the only one who can turn us around" — and reflected it back with a single ALL CAPS affirmation: "TRUE." Delivered at the psychologically least-guarded hour of the record, within a rapid supply-harvesting burst, the post instantiates the savior/messianic schema ("I alone can fix it") three years before that phrase anchored his Republican National Convention address. The proxy-ventriloquism technique — broadcasting ambition through the fan's voice — allows grandiose commitment while preserving deniability. Its casual nocturnal delivery, embedded between Mayweather congratulations and a charity tweet, speaks to how thoroughly the savior identity construct was already internalized by late 2013.

Sleep deprivation is plausible but not definitive. The last original post appeared at 1:56 AM EDT, followed by a suspicious near-duplicate repost at 3:44 AM before resumption at 7:09 AM — implying a maximum of five hours of sleep, likely three to four, consistent with Trump's self-reported patterns. A near-identical repost of the pablofication quote four hours after the original (x_379088264797618200 vs. x_379088264797618176) warrants notation as either a fatigue artifact or automated scheduling behavior. Day-level hypomanic indicators remain sub-threshold: frequency, intensity, and thematic coherence sit within the upper range of baseline for this period. The "(or worse)" construction deployed against C.J. Ross in the morning — a deniability-preserving insinuation device that would scale in subsequent years to geopolitical accusations — is the session's most durable longitudinal marker outside the "TRUE" affirmation itself.

Full digest for 2013-09-15: https://trump.fm/date/2013-09-15/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, September 15). "@A_Roy0317: I am proud to say as a first time... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_379120121421500416
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@A_Roy0317: I am proud to say as a first time voter I..." X (Twitter), 15 Sep. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_379120121421500416. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, ""@A_Roy0317: I am proud to say as a first time voter I...," X (Twitter), September 15, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_379120121421500416.

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