# Post x_379987332000010243 - Post ID: `x_379987332000010243` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-09-17T15:16:54.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_379987332000010243 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_379987332000010243/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_379987332000010243.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” - Dale Carnegie ## Engagement - Likes: 302 - Reposts: 752 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.281Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-23T02:09:32.930Z (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: Carnegie Quote — September 17, 2013 ## Authorship Attribution **Local time:** UTC 15:16 converts to **11:16 AM EDT** (Trump was New York-based in September 2013, Tower headquarters). This falls squarely within business hours — a strong aide/scheduled-content indicator. The post is atypical in every stylometric dimension: zero typos, clean quotation marks with proper attribution formatting, philosophically measured tone, and no self-reference. This stands in sharp contrast to the three adjacent posts on the same calendar day, all of which carry strong authentic-Trump markers: financial self-aggrandizement (demanding 25% of Arsenio Hall's earnings), dehumanizing mass-shooting commentary ("garbage," "death spiral"), and hyperbolic binary judgment (Costa Concordia). The Carnegie quote reads as templated inspirational content — a common early-Twitter practice of scheduled quote-of-the-day posts, likely managed by a social media aide. --- ## Psychological Analysis As a standalone text, the post generates minimal clinical signal. Its interest lies entirely in **contextual contrast**. The surrounding posts reveal a psychologically activated subject engaged in supply-seeking (retweeted compliment + "Thank you!"), narcissistic injury reprocessing (Arsenio Hall credit-claiming), and grievance venting about national decline. The Carnegie quote interrupts this stream entirely. **Quote selection as projective data (low confidence):** Carnegie's formulation sets up two distinct psychological pathways — achievement ("getting what you want") versus acceptance ("wanting what you get"). Trump's behavioral record, including the same day's posts, is comprehensively organized around the *first* pathway. The second pathway — contentment with what one receives — is antithetical to his demonstrated motivational structure of perpetual escalation, zero-sum competition, and dissatisfaction as status signal. If Trump personally selected this quote (unlikely given authorship markers), projection of an unintegrated psychological opposite cannot be ruled out. More parsimoniously: aide selected an inoffensive shareable for audience maintenance. **Trigger type:** Maintenance / routine audience engagement. **Narcissistic state:** Indeterminate from this post; surrounding posts suggest grandiose (Arsenio Hall, Costa Concordia) oscillating with mild grievance vulnerability (Navy Yard, foreign mockery of U.S.). --- ## Rhetorical Analysis The post's only rhetorical move is **appeal to authority** — borrowing credibility and aphoristic gravitas from a widely respected self-help figure. Dale Carnegie (*How to Win Friends and Influence People*, 1936) carries strong brand association with practical success wisdom, a domain Trump publicly inhabits. The implicit parasocial message: *I read and share wisdom; I am a thoughtful, successful person.* This is a form of **identity-by-association** — relatively unsophisticated but effective for low-effort audience maintenance. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Quote attributed to Dale Carnegie" | **Unverifiable** | The formulation 'Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.' is widely circulated as a Carnegie quote online but does not appear in authenticated Carnegie texts. Attributed variously to W.P. Kinsella, Ingrid Bergman, and others in different sources. Probable popular misattribution or apocrypha. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Cognitive Status No markers of language production difficulty observable in a two-sentence attributed quote. Not a useful data point for cognitive tracking. --- ## Danger Assessment None. Post contains no threat indicators, dehumanizing language, or mobilization rhetoric. --- ## Summary Not clinically significant as a standalone post. Primary research value is **contrastive**: the post's polished, detached, aide-typical character against the same day's authentic-Trump posts (dehumanizing mass-shooting commentary, narcissistic credit-claiming from Arsenio Hall, doom-laden nationalism) illustrates the bifurcated nature of the account's output — scheduled image-management content interspersed with reactive, unfiltered posts. The Carnegie quote contributes zero psychological signal from the subject; it is best read as social media brand maintenance. The fact-check caveat on attribution is minor but consistent with the account's pattern of presenting unverified claims with confidence. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 15%) ### Indicators - 11:16 AM local EDT — business hours, strong aide indicator - Zero typos or spelling errors - Clean quotation formatting with proper attribution dash - No self-reference anywhere in post - Philosophically measured tone entirely absent from adjacent authentic posts ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance Sentiment: +0.35 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 10% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 30% **Parasocial Techniques:** - identity-by-association with respected authority figure - audience maintenance through shareable aphorism ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-23._ > Quote attributed to Dale Carnegie **UNVERIFIABLE** The formulation 'Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.' is widely circulated as a Carnegie quote online but does not appear in authenticated Carnegie texts. Attributed variously to W.P. Kinsella, Ingrid Bergman, and others in different sources. Probable popular misattribution or apocrypha. Sources: general knowledge — Carnegie bibliography Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - aide-written (90%) - scheduled-content (85%) - audience-maintenance (90%) - appeal-to-authority (80%) - identity-by-association (75%) - misattribution (60%) - low-clinical-signal (95%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Pre-Dawn Validation Binge Meets Navy Yard Tragedy — Empathy Absent, Eliminationist Framing Present** Trump was up well before 4 AM retweeting fan praise, then shifted to reacting to the Washington Navy Yard mass shooting — not with sympathy for the 12 dead, but with warnings about "garbage" in the country and concerns that Russia was mocking America. In between, he demanded Arsenio Hall pay him 25% of his earnings for supposedly making Hall's career. The day wound down with a string of staff-posted motivational quotes, capping a steady stream of grandiosity with no visible emotional low point. Full digest for 2013-09-17: https://trump.fm/date/2013-09-17/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, September 17). “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_379987332000010243 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting..." X (Twitter), 17 Sep. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_379987332000010243. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "“Success is getting what you want. 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