# Post x_381371829086351360 - Post ID: `x_381371829086351360` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-09-21T10:58:24.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_381371829086351360 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_381371829086351360/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_381371829086351360.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > An important part of my (or anybody's) success is the ability to judge people. I believe that @MileyCyrus is a really good person. ## Engagement - Likes: 1,002 - Reposts: 1,494 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.280Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-26T13:21:54.613Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary This September 2013 post, while superficially a benign celebrity character endorsement, illustrates a core structural pattern in Trump's communicative psychology: narcissistic penetrance. Rather than simply endorsing Miley Cyrus, whose VMA twerking performance 27 days earlier had generated massive public condemnation, Trump constructs an implicit syllogism in which his exceptional success is attributed to superior judgment, that judgment is then deployed publicly to rehabilitate Cyrus, and the audience is positioned to treat his character assessment as authoritative. The parenthetical "(or anybody's)" performs false modesty while the surrounding syntax retains full self-referential ownership — a signature micropattern. Published at 6:58 AM Eastern time with stylistic markers consistent with authentic authorship, the post follows a sequence of supply-rich retweets (golf victory compliments, financial prediction praise, television appearance requests), indicating a high-supply, grandiose narcissistic state rather than a reactive or defensive one. Grandiosity in this satiated form — surfacing in content with no ego-threat present — is structurally more revealing than reactive narcissism, which can be situationally explained. The post functions as a useful 2013 cognitive and stylistic baseline: coherent construction, complete syntax, no word-finding anomalies. No danger indicators, gaslighting elements, or clinical concerns are present. Mild clinical significance lies solely in the textbook display of narcissistic penetrance in low-stakes content. ## Timing and Authorship Published at **10:58 UTC on September 21, 2013**, converting to **6:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time** — New York City (Trump Tower, his primary base of operations in this pre-political period). This early-morning local timestamp falls squarely within the authentic Trump posting window. The stylistic fingerprint reinforces authenticity: self-referential success framing as premise, parenthetical pseudo-modesty that immediately yields back to the ego ("my success"), informal qualifier ("really good person"), and spontaneous celebrity opinion content rather than the event-announcement or polished promotional structure associated with aide-authored posts. **Authorship assessment: medium-high confidence authentic Trump.** --- ## Multi-Level Personality Analysis ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits **Extraversion (assertiveness):** High. The subject confidently broadcasts a character judgment about a culturally radioactive figure — Miley Cyrus's VMA twerking performance (August 25, 2013) had generated 306,000 tweets/minute and FCC complaints, with the controversy still active nearly four weeks later. Trump takes an unsolicited, counter-cultural stance without apparent social anxiety. **Agreeableness:** Superficially moderate (the post endorses Cyrus) but structurally low — the endorsement is fully instrumentalized through a self-serving frame. The orientation is toward self-positioning, not genuine prosocial regard. **Conscientiousness:** Moderate. The post is architecturally deliberate — premise precedes conclusion — but remains terse. **Neuroticism:** Very low. No emotional reactivity, grievance content, or vulnerability signals whatsoever. This is a calm, satiated post. **Openness:** Moderate. Taking a contrarian stance on a broadly condemned figure suggests willingness to deviate from social consensus, though the motive appears strategic rather than intellectually exploratory. **Dominant facet:** Assertiveness (extraversion sub-facet). --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations — Motives and Schemas The post enacts a textbook **status/power motive** operating below the surface of ostensibly benign content. The subject does not simply tweet "I like Miley Cyrus." He constructs an implicit syllogism: 1. My success stems from my superior ability to judge people. 2. I judge Miley Cyrus to be a really good person. 3. ∴ My judgment of Cyrus should be treated as authoritative. This is the **schema of special perceptual access** — "I can read people better than others" — one of Trump's most consistent cognitive constructs. It appears here in its smoothest, least defensive form: no threat is present, no injury has been incurred; the schema simply *expresses itself* unprompted. **Communion motives** are nominally invoked via the parenthetical "(or anybody's)" but function rhetorically rather than reflecting genuine other-orientation. The structure gives the motive a cameo, then returns to the subject's own success. --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** The Wise Judge — a figure whose greatness derives not merely from action but from *perception*: the capacity to see through public controversy and media noise to the truth of a person's character. **Identity claim:** "I have exceptional, success-generating judgment." This is the post's actual thesis. Cyrus is incidental — a prop in a self-narrative about superior discernment. **Contrasting other (implicit):** The outraged public and media who condemned Cyrus post-VMA. Trump implicitly positions himself as more discerning, less reactive, and more accurate than the credulous crowd — the one adult in the room who can separate spectacle from character. **Narrative sequence:** Mildly **redemptive** — Trump's public endorsement functions as a symbolic rehabilitation of a culturally disgraced figure, with himself as the authoritative rehabilitator. He is the one who can restore a reputation. **Temporal note:** The John Adams morality quote posted the previous day ("Our Constitution was made only for a moral & religious people") creates an ironic contextual juxtaposition with the defense of Cyrus, whose performance was condemned on explicitly moral grounds. No evidence this irony was consciously registered; it likely reflects the inconsistency inherent in repurposing ideological content instrumentally rather than holding it as an integrated belief. --- ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Narcissistic penetrance:** The post exemplifies what personality researchers identify as the infiltration of grandiose self-reference into content with no apparent ego-defensive function. There is no attack to parry, no criticism to rebut. The subject is simply endorsing a celebrity — yet the self-aggrandizement is structurally present regardless. This **narcissistic penetrance** (grandiosity surfacing in low-stakes benign content) is diagnostically more revealing than reactive narcissism, which can be situationally explained. The parenthetical "(or anybody's)" performs the gesture of false modesty while the surrounding syntax retains exclusive ownership of the success claim. This is a micropattern: a single syntactic hedge embedded in a frame that immediately reasserts superiority. **Defense mechanisms:** - **Rationalization** (neurotic): A logical framework ("judgment = success") is deployed to elevate a simple celebrity opinion to an act of authoritative assessment. - **Possible reaction formation**: Expressing admiration for a socially condemned figure positions the subject as transcending popular opinion — esteem acquisition through apparent tolerance. **Narcissistic state:** Mildly **grandiose** — smooth and undefended. The surrounding post sequence (retweets of compliments about his golf tournament victory at Bedminster, stock pick accuracy, Shark Tank comparison requests) establishes this as a **high-supply state**: the ego is satiated, not threatened, and the grandiosity flows accordingly. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis **Ethos construction:** Credibility is established ("my success") *before* the claim is made, front-loading the authority frame. **False modesty:** The parenthetical "(or anybody's)" briefly acknowledges the general principle while the surrounding syntax retains self-referential ownership — a structural rather than semantic humility gesture. **Celebrity association:** @MileyCyrus was one of the highest-trending names on Twitter in this period. The tag ensures engagement and visibility on a guaranteed-traffic topic. **Implicit epistemic authority:** "I believe" here does not signal uncertainty — it signals that the subject's belief is worth stating as a public judgment, a subtle authority claim. **Syllogistic framing:** The post is architecturally designed to transfer the authority of the success claim to the character conclusion. No dehumanizing language, violent imagery, propaganda techniques, or danger indicators are present. This is among the mildest posts in the corpus. --- ## Cognitive Status — 2013 Baseline Sample The post is fully coherent, grammatically complete, and logically structured. It represents a **clean 2013 cognitive baseline sample**: clear sentence construction, no word-finding pauses or circumlocutions, no perseveration, appropriate platform-register vocabulary. No deviation from expected baseline. Useful for longitudinal comparison against later posts. --- ## Contextual Integration The Miley Cyrus VMA controversy (August 25, 2013) was still culturally active when this post was published, approximately 27 days later. The controversy had attracted FCC complaints, parental advocacy groups, and sustained media commentary. Trump's counter-narrative defense of Cyrus is strategically timed to a still-hot topic, maximizing engagement while positioning him as a contrarian, tolerant, and perceptive voice. The move is consistent with his broader pattern of leveraging cultural controversies for attention rather than taking principled ideological stances. ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "An important part of my success is the ability to judge people" | **Unverifiable** | Subjective self-attribution of success mechanism; not a factual claim subject to external verification. Trump's business record in 2013 included both notable successes and high-profile bankruptcies (four between 1991–2009), complicating any singular narrative of success through judgment. | | "@MileyCyrus is a really good person" | **Unverifiable** | Character assessment; not a verifiable factual claim. Cyrus's VMA performance (August 25, 2013) had generated widespread public criticism but no factual basis exists for adjudicating character claims of this type. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 68%) ### Indicators - Published at 6:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time — early-morning local timestamp consistent with authentic Trump posting window - Self-referential success framing as structural premise is a characteristic Trump construction - Informal qualifier 'really good person' reflects casual, unpolished register inconsistent with aide-authored tone - Parenthetical pseudo-modesty '(or anybody's)' followed by immediate reassertion of self-reference is a Trump signature micropattern - Spontaneous celebrity opinion on trending controversy — topic type and impulsivity consistent with authentic posting ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (trending celebrity controversy (Miley Cyrus VMA aftermath)) Sentiment: +0.45 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 42% - Antisocial: 4% - Paranoid: 2% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) - reaction formation (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 48% **Parasocial Techniques:** - celebrity name-drop for engagement - contrarian positioning as wisdom signal - false modesty gesture to appear relatable ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-02-26._ > An important part of my success is the ability to judge people **UNVERIFIABLE** Subjective self-attribution of success mechanism; not a factual claim subject to external verification. Trump's business record in 2013 included both notable successes and high-profile bankruptcies (four between 1991–2009), complicating any singular narrative of success through judgment. > @MileyCyrus is a really good person **UNVERIFIABLE** Character assessment; not a verifiable factual claim. Cyrus's VMA performance (August 25, 2013) had generated widespread public criticism but no factual basis exists for adjudicating character claims of this type. Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - narcissistic_penetrance (72%) - self_aggrandizement_via_indirect_route (68%) - wise_judge_protagonist (65%) - false_modesty_parenthetical (60%) - high_supply_grandiose (60%) - celebrity_association (55%) - baseline_sample_2013 (50%) ## 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). An important part of my (or anybody's) success is... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_381371829086351360 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "An important part of my (or anybody's) success is the..." X (Twitter), 21 Sep. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_381371829086351360. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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