# Post x_381235982328414208 - Post ID: `x_381235982328414208` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-09-21T01:58:35.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @HoppMar - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_381235982328414208 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_381235982328414208/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_381235982328414208.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text _Quotes @HoppMar, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @HoppMar's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._ > "@HoppMar: @realDonaldTrump And you also made a great call on BA, a few months ago, and you were SO RIGHT !" And made lots of money-thanks! ## Engagement - Likes: 10 - Reposts: 11 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.280Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-26T13:18:16.756Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Psychological Analysis: x_381235982328414208 **Platform:** Twitter/X | **Date:** 2013-09-20, 9:58 PM EDT | **Subject Age:** 67 --- ### Authorship Attribution **Confidence: High | Score: 0.90 (Authentic Trump)** The UTC timestamp (01:58:35) converts to **9:58 PM EDT** in New York City — Trump's near-certain location in September 2013, well before his post-2015 gravitational shift toward Mar-a-Lago. Late-evening timing falls squarely within his documented authentic window. The stylistic fingerprint is equally diagnostic: "And made lots of money-thanks!" is grammatically incomplete, hyphen-bridged rather than sentence-complete, casual and impulsive. An aide managing his account for reputational purposes would have shaped this into something more polished — a full sentence referencing the specific trade, perhaps a timestamp or chart link. Instead it reads as a reactive gratification burst: praise arrives, subject confirms and escalates, post is dispatched. No markup, no event promotion, no organizational coherence. Authentic. --- ### Psychological State and Trigger **State: Grandiose | Trigger: Supply-Seeking (Supply Receipt)** This post is a textbook example of narcissistic supply consumption at its most frictionless. The follower (@HoppMar) provides unsolicited validation for a prior Boeing stock call; Trump immediately acts as mirror: he confirms the flattering premise ("SO RIGHT!") and adds the financially triumphant coda ("And made lots of money"). No injury, no threat, no paranoia — this is the reward side of the narcissistic economy. Kohut's mirroring transference is operative: the self-object reflects the grandiose self-image back at the subject, who confirms and slightly escalates it. The word "lots" performs the escalation unobtrusively. The post discloses zero vulnerability; Trump is in expansive, reward-seeking homeostasis. --- ### Multi-Level Personality Framework **Level 1 — Dispositional Traits** High assertiveness (extraversion facet) is the dominant feature: the subject publicly claims a financial win with no hedging, no qualification, no attribution to market conditions. Agreeableness is characteristically suppressed — there is no modesty, no downplaying, no "I got lucky." Neuroticism is absent in this frame; the post registers positive affect without the anxious hostility or impulsiveness visible in injury-triggered posts. Achievement-striving (conscientiousness facet) surfaces not through planning or diligence but through outcome display. **Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations** Agency motives dominate at near-ceiling levels: achievement (profitable prediction), status (public vindication of superior judgment), and autonomous competence (my call, my profit). The nominal "thanks!" gestures toward communion without meaningfully instantiating it — it is instrumental acknowledgment of the supply source, the minimum required to sustain the relationship. There is no reciprocal interest in the follower's own financial situation. **Level 3 — Narrative Identity** The post condenses a micro-redemption arc: Boeing dips → Trump identifies mispricing → makes public call → stock rises → follower profits → Trump profits → public confirmation of genius. The protagonist is cast as the knowledgeable insider whose financial judgment generates value for those who listen. Identity claim, economically stated but unmistakable: *I am someone whose calls are worth following, and I prove it with money.* No contrasting other is explicitly invoked; the implicit contrast is diffuse — the ordinary investor who lacks this gift. --- ### Clinical Indicators No pathological markers are activated. This falls entirely within the established behavioral baseline for 2013 Trump on Twitter: - No narcissistic injury response - No rage (Kohut) - No paranoid ideation (Kernberg) - No dehumanizing language - No cognitive anomalies The four malignant narcissism components (narcissistic, antisocial, paranoid, sadistic) are not illuminated by this post in any clinically notable way. Grandiosity is present but expressed through a mundane investment boast, not fantasy or entitlement aggression. --- ### Cognitive Status Language production is simple, direct, and platform-appropriate. No word-finding difficulty, no tangentiality, no perseveration. Syntactic complexity is elementary but intentional for the medium. Fully consistent with the established 2013 Twitter baseline. No deviation warranting notation. --- ### Rhetorical Techniques The post employs self-aggrandizement (confirming "SO RIGHT!"), implicit appeal to financial authority, and supply amplification (confirming the flattering premise and adding the monetary dimension). No propaganda techniques, no dehumanizing language, no false dichotomy, no stochastic violence. Rhetorical profile: routine personal branding. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Trump made a great call on Boeing (BA) stock a few months ago" | **Mostly True** | Trump publicly announced purchasing Boeing shares during a 2013 dip. Boeing stock appreciated materially through 2013 and eventually ~70%+ by 2016 before Trump exited the position. The claim of a profitable public call is substantiated; specific magnitude from this tweet window is unverifiable. | | "Trump made lots of money on the Boeing call" | **Unverifiable** | Consistent with Boeing's strong 2013 performance, but no public disclosure of specific profit figures exists for this trade. | Overall Veracity: 65% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 90%) ### Indicators - 9:58 PM EDT posting time (late evening in local timezone, within authentic Trump window) - Grammatically incomplete sentence ('And made lots of money-thanks!') - Reactive, impulsive response to incoming praise - Hyphen-bridged casual phrasing characteristic of unpolished personal posts - No event promotion, scheduling language, or organizational content typical of aide-managed posts ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (@HoppMar praise for Boeing stock call) Sentiment: +0.80 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 35% - Antisocial: 5% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 15% **Parasocial Techniques:** - supply amplification — confirming flattering premise and adding financial win - implicit authority positioning — financial expertise display ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-02-26._ > Trump made a great call on Boeing (BA) stock a few months ago **MOSTLY TRUE** Trump publicly announced purchasing Boeing shares during a 2013 dip. Boeing stock appreciated materially through 2013 and eventually ~70%+ by 2016 before Trump exited the position. The claim of a profitable public call is substantiated; specific magnitude from this tweet window is unverifiable. Sources: https://www.thestreet.com/investing/stocks/boeing-shares-slip-after-trump-slams-air-force-one-replacement-costs-13915868 > Trump made lots of money on the Boeing call **UNVERIFIABLE** Consistent with Boeing's strong 2013 performance, but no public disclosure of specific profit figures exists for this trade. Overall Veracity: 65% ## Tags - supply_receipt (92%) - investment_win_display (88%) - authentic_trump_late_evening (90%) - achievement_motive_dominant (85%) - financial_genius_protagonist (80%) - self_aggrandizement_low_intensity (75%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Supply In, Supply Out: A Textbook Grandiose Saturday Establishes Trump's Pre-Campaign Psychological Baseline** September 21, 2013 presents one of the cleanest baseline samples in the longitudinal dataset: nineteen posts spanning from 9:55 PM EDT Saturday through 7:48 PM EDT Sunday, organized almost entirely around narcissistic supply collection, brand affirmation, and low-stakes celebrity endorsement. The dominant psychological state is grandiose throughout — expansive, supply-satiated, and free from the injury-reactive or paranoid coloring that characterizes post-2015 output. Zero posts contain rage; average intensity is 0.16, the lowest plausible figure for a nineteen-post day. The only elevated-danger marker is the routine amplification of a follower's "deadbeats" characterization of welfare recipients (x_381550687479693313), which, while clinically mild, documents the early-stage routinization of dehumanizing out-group labeling that intensifies markedly in later years. The day's posting structure divides into three discrete clusters: a Saturday late-evening pair at 9:55–9:58 PM EDT responding to a golf club victory (borrowed-glory supply intake), a lone 1:16 AM EDT Shark Tank fan engagement suggesting impulsive late-night browsing, early-morning posts at 6:32–6:58 AM EDT touching political and celebrity themes, and a dense 74-minute evening cluster between 6:34–7:48 PM EDT in which Trump fired off fifteen posts — retweets, brief replies, and one substantive Obamacare defunding call (x_381548395154124800). Within that evening cluster, a single moment of narcissistic injury briefly disrupted the supply-satiated baseline when follower @KobayashiNick named the compliment-retweet pattern as self-serving; Trump's response (x_381563330349240320) deployed the already-mature "haters-losers" compound dismissal, documenting this schema at least two years before the 2016 campaign normalized it. Clinically, the day's most significant finding is its diagnostic value as a stable baseline. The Westgate Mall attack — an Al-Shabaab massacre killing at least 67 people in Nairobi, Kenya, ongoing on this date — received zero engagement, while foreign-policy questions from followers prompted only breezy three-word responses ("Can be done!"; "Get rid of the NUKES, and fast!"). This selective attention profile — intense focus on personal brand and supply, zero engagement with a major international atrocity — is consistent with a narcissistic attentional economy that filters content by self-referential relevance. No hypomanic threshold is met despite high post count; the pattern is better characterized as opportunistic, impulsive personal Twitter management during a leisure weekend day. Full digest for 2013-09-21: https://trump.fm/date/2013-09-21/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, September 21). "@HoppMar: @realDonaldTrump And you also made a... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_381235982328414208 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@HoppMar: @realDonaldTrump And you also made a great call..." X (Twitter), 21 Sep. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_381235982328414208. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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