# Post x_380511174657605632

- Post ID: `x_380511174657605632`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-09-19T01:58:28.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @margaritapotter
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_380511174657605632
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_380511174657605632/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_380511174657605632.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

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

> "@margaritapotter: @realDonaldTrump you got it Donald, that resort will be the best!!!!"

## Engagement

- Likes: 9
- Reposts: 1
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.281Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-26T12:24:56.348Z (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 18–19, 2013 — Manual Retweet of Fan Praise

## Overview

This post consists entirely of a manually retweeted fan comment from @margaritapotter, who declares that an unnamed Trump resort "will be the best!!!!". In 2013, before native retweet mechanics were universally adopted on Twitter, manually copying and quoting another user's tweet within quotation marks was a standard amplification method. **The post contains no original Trump-authored language**, which significantly constrains psychological inference but does not eliminate it — the *act of selection and broadcast* is itself psychologically revealing.

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## Authorship Attribution

**UTC 01:58:28 → ~9:58 PM EDT (September 18, 2013)**

Trump's primary residence in September 2013 was New York City (Trump Tower, Midtown Manhattan). Eastern Daylight Time is UTC−4, placing this post at approximately **9:58 PM local time on September 18**. This falls squarely within the late-evening window strongly associated with authentic Trump posting behavior. The informal manual-retweet format — a copy-paste with no original language, unpolished and direct — is consistent with personal, rather than staff-mediated, activity. Aide-authored posts from this era tend toward polished event announcements, schedules, or business-hours content. **Confidence: High (authentic).**

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## Contextual Frame: Same-Day Posting Cluster

This post cannot be evaluated in isolation. On the same date, Trump posted three consecutive attacks on New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman:

- *"Lightweight A.G. Eric Schneiderman... a total crook?"*
- Accusing Schneiderman of soliciting campaign contributions during settlement negotiations
- *"Least respected A.G. in the U.S. He is a total joke!"*

These attacks almost certainly relate to the Trump University civil lawsuit and ongoing AG negotiations. They display classic **narcissistic rage** triggered by perceived persecution — a narcissistic injury response to legal threat and reputational exposure. Interspersed within this attack sequence, Trump retweeted two separate pieces of fan praise (including this one from @margaritapotter and one from @apb51283). This alternation is a well-documented pattern: **oscillation between narcissistic rage and supply-seeking**, the latter functioning to restore grandiose equilibrium following an injurious event.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

**Extraversion** is mildly elevated: the act of publicly amplifying praise about oneself and one's property is an assertive, audience-directed behavior even when no original language is produced. **Agreeableness** appears nominally but is instrumentally motivated — the gracious reception of compliment is in service of self-promotion, not mutual regard. **Neuroticism** is low in this specific post; the affect is positive and stable, in marked contrast to the hostile posts flanking it, suggesting rapid state modulation rather than stable mood. **Conscientiousness** and **Openness** cannot be assessed from this post.

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency motive (status/validation):** The post amplifies a superlative claim about Trump's property — "the best!!!!". Selecting *this particular* fan message, with four exclamation marks and an unqualified superlative, from among presumably many replies reflects a deliberate preference for maximally validating content. The filter itself is psychologically informative.

**Communion motive (parasocial intimacy signal):** The fan's casual use of his first name ("you got it Donald") projects an image of a powerful man who is nonetheless personally accessible. Broadcasting this exchange positions Trump as connected to ordinary supporters — a communion signal that is characteristically deployed in service of agency goals.

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

Trump casts himself in his characteristic role as **the builder of superlative things, validated by ordinary people**. The narrative implicit in selecting this tweet: *real people recognize Trump's greatness even as powerful elites (Schneiderman) attack him unjustly.* This is a foundational identity narrative — the persecuted champion whose worth is affirmed by the common man. The fan's enthusiasm ("you got it Donald, that resort will be the best!!!!") functions as a micro-confirmation of the hero-builder mythology.

**Contrasting other**: Implicitly, the establishment attackers (Schneiderman, the AG's office) who fail to recognize what ordinary people immediately understand.

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

**Narcissistic supply amplification**: Retweeting fan praise is textbook supply-seeking behavior. Unlike privately receiving a compliment, broadcasting it to thousands multiplies its validating function across the entire audience. The *selection* of a tweet matching Trump's own characteristic superlative register ("the best") suggests motivated curation rather than random engagement.

**State assessment**: **Grandiose** — mildly elevated self-affirming activity, no vulnerability markers visible in this post. However, the surrounding attack-posts suggest a reactive grandiosity compensating for the underlying vulnerability triggered by the Schneiderman legal action.

**Oscillation pattern**: The same-day sequence — attack (rage) → fan amplification (supply-seeking) → attack → fan amplification — represents the classic grandiose-vulnerable cycling of narcissistic dynamics. The supply-seeking posts likely function as self-soothing mechanisms between rage episodes.

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## Rhetorical Analysis

The rhetorical function is **social proof** — embedding enthusiastic fan endorsement into the public record as evidence of popular legitimacy. Four exclamation marks in the source tweet amplify emotional intensity. The act of selection and rebroadcast is itself a rhetorical act: Trump implicitly endorses the fan's superlative judgment while appearing merely to share organic enthusiasm. No dehumanizing language, violent imagery, or eliminationist content is present.

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## Cognitive Status

The post contains no original Trump-authored language. **Cognitive assessment is not possible from this post alone.** The surrounding attack posts ("Lightweight A.G.," "a total joke") show characteristic grammatical simplicity and repetitive labeling ("lightweight" appears twice in close succession), but this is consistent with established baseline and reflects rhetorical strategy rather than cognitive impairment at this stage (age 67, 2013).

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## Danger Assessment

**None.** This post presents no threat indicators, eliminationist language, dehumanization, or mobilization signals.

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## Summary

*Not clinically significant as a standalone post; summary omitted per protocol.*

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Late evening local time (~9:58 PM EDT, September 18)
- Manual retweet format typical of authentic 2013 personal use
- Supply-seeking content consistent with personal motivation during active narcissistic injury episode
- No polished copy, no scheduling language, no event announcements
- Selected tweet matches Trump's own superlative register ('the best')

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (fan validation during narcissistic injury episode (Schneiderman legal action))

Sentiment: +0.82

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 35%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 0%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Amplification of fan praise to create appearance of widespread organic support
- Broadcasting fan's first-name familiarity ('you got it Donald') to project accessible powerful-man persona
- Selection of maximally enthusiastic content to normalize superlative self-assessment

## Tags

- supply-seeking (85%)
- fan-amplification (80%)
- manual-retweet (90%)
- grandiose-vulnerable-oscillation (65%)
- social-proof (70%)
- parasocial-intimacy (60%)

## That day

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

**Fresh Off Miami Trip, Trump Unleashes Multi-Session Assault on AG Schneiderman While Playing Armchair CEO to Apple**

Trump returned from a business trip to his Doral resort in Miami and launched into a combative evening on Twitter. The dominant thread was a sustained attack on New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who had recently sued Trump University for fraud -- Trump called him "lightweight," "incompetent," and "a total crook" across multiple posts spanning two separate sessions. In between the legal counterattacks, he played armchair CEO, lecturing Apple across several tweets about needing a larger iPhone screen. The afternoon cooled considerably, with Trump offering unsolicited breakup advice to Miley Cyrus and fielding routine fan questions. Overall a high-volume but typically combative day, with no signs of unusual distress beyond the simmering legal grievance.

Full digest for 2013-09-19: https://trump.fm/date/2013-09-19/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, September 19). "@margaritapotter: @realDonaldTrump you got it... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_380511174657605632
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@margaritapotter: @realDonaldTrump you got it Donald, that..." X (Twitter), 19 Sep. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_380511174657605632. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, ""@margaritapotter: @realDonaldTrump you got it Donald, that...," X (Twitter), September 19, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_380511174657605632.

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