# Post x_381546985121406976

- Post ID: `x_381546985121406976`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-09-21T22:34:24.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @joshjame
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## Post text

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

> "@joshjame: Best Twitter follow I ever made: The Donald. Random 24/7 MT @realDonaldTrump: I believe that @MileyCyrus is a really good person

## Engagement

- Likes: 13
- Reposts: 18
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.280Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-26T13:37:54.449Z (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 21 retweet is structurally unremarkable — Trump amplifying fan praise for his Miley Cyrus endorsement. What makes it clinically interesting is its position within a brief but complete idealization-devaluation cycle: Trump began publicly defending Cyrus on August 29, personally called her at his hotel to praise her twerking performance, posted roughly eight endorsement tweets culminating in this one, then within three days flipped to "last night's outfit must go" and predicting "oblivion" if she followed the wrong moves. The narcissistic supply loop is textbook: establish personal connection with celebrity, broadcast endorsement, generate fan praise, amplify that praise. Simultaneously, the original tweet's claim — "an important part of my success is the ability to judge people" — reveals a core grandiose schema: his value lies not in wealth alone but in superior human discernment. Critically, Dan Scavino had left Trump's employ by September 2013 for the Joe Torre Foundation, making this cluster of scattered fan-engagement posts almost certainly authentic direct Trump Twitter management. The day's full cluster — golf victories, stock tips, TV nostalgia, celebrity character judgments — is consistent with impulsive personal posting. Cognitive status is baseline-appropriate for age 67; no markers of concern. Danger level: none. Primary clinical note: the rapid idealization-to-devaluation arc across the adjacent Miley Cyrus posting sequence (Aug 29 → Sept 21 → Sept 24) illustrates splitting as a characteristic defensive operation, with the parenthetical denial "(and not because she stays at my hotels)" providing a textbook reaction formation marker.

# Post Analysis: September 21, 2013 — Narcissistic Supply Loop Completion

## Post Structure

This is a manual retweet (MT) of fan praise: Trump amplifies @joshjame's endorsement — "Best Twitter follow I ever made: The Donald. Random 24/7" — which itself references Trump's earlier same-day original tweet: *"An important part of my (or anybody's) success is the ability to judge people. I believe that @MileyCyrus is a really good person."* The retweet contains no original Trump text; its psychology lies entirely in the act of amplification and the content being amplified.

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## Authorship Attribution

**UTC 22:34 → 6:34 PM EDT** (Trump's almost certain location: New York City or Bedminster, NJ — a same-day post references a "member guest" event at Trump National Bedminster, suggesting recent local travel).

Evening hours are ambiguous on face, but three independent lines of evidence converge strongly on authentic Trump:

1. **Scavino was not with Trump in September 2013.** Dan Scavino left Trump's golf division in 2013 to become Director of Development at the Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation. His role as Trump's social media director did not begin until the 2015 campaign. The principal aide-hypothesis therefore lacks its primary candidate.

2. **Same-day behavioral cluster.** The day's posts show a coherent pattern of Trump personally responding to individual fan tweets about golf victories, stock tips, and Apprentice nostalgia — scattered, impulsive, and emotionally reactive across unrelated topics. This is not the behavior of a managed account.

3. **Personal relationship with Cyrus is documented.** Cyrus was staying at Trump Tower/a Trump hotel at this time. Trump had personally telephoned her to praise her VMA twerking performance ("I know everyone's talking about it, but I loved it"). The tweet is therefore not cold celebrity name-dropping but a broadcast signal of an existing personal relationship — consistent with authentic Trump self-promotion.

**Assessment: Highly likely authentic Trump. High confidence.**

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## The Miley Cyrus Arc: Brief Idealization-Devaluation Cycle

The September 21 tweet does not stand alone. It falls in the middle of a clinically notable short-arc:

| Date | Action | Valence |
|------|--------|---------|
| Aug 25, 2013 | VMA twerking performance | (event) |
| Aug 29, 2013 | Trump tweets Vine: "Don't let 'em get you down. They're all *jealous*." | Pure idealization |
| ~Aug–Sept | Trump calls Cyrus personally: "I loved it." | Intimate idealization |
| Sept 21, 2013 | "I believe @MileyCyrus is a really good person." | Sustained idealization |
| Sept 21, 2013 | **[This post]** Retweets fan praising his Miley Cyrus endorsement | Supply amplification |
| Sept 24, 1:48 AM | "I am a defender of @MileyCyrus... but last night's outfit must go!" | Devaluation begins |
| Sept 24, 1:58 AM | "@MileyCyrus is on a very triky and slippery path... the wrong moves to oblivion! GUIDANCE." | Full devaluation, paternalism |

This three-week arc from cheerleader to mentor-issuing-warnings-about-oblivion is consistent with narcissistic **splitting**: idealization represents the other as all-good (reflecting well on the judge); devaluation collapses that image when the figure fails to align with expectations. The parenthetical on Sept 24 — *"and not because she stays at my hotels"* — is a preemptive denial of transactional motive that performs the opposite function by surfacing exactly the transactional structure being denied (reaction formation).

The typo "triky" on the Sept 24 1:48 AM tweet is textbook authentic Trump: late-night, emotionally aroused, no editorial filter.

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## Narcissistic Supply Loop Structure

The mechanics here are worth mapping precisely:

1. Trump deploys a *judgment claim* about a controversial celebrity: "I believe Miley Cyrus is a really good person." This positions him as an arbiter of character with insider access.
2. A follower validates both the specific judgment AND the account itself: "Best Twitter follow I ever made: The Donald."
3. Trump broadcasts this meta-validation to his full audience — not just "I have good judgment about Miley Cyrus" but "people praise me for having good judgment about Miley Cyrus."
4. Audience exposure to the amplified praise generates further supply.

This is a *supply amplification loop*: each cycle generates both first-order supply (endorsement of judgment) and second-order supply (endorsement of one's social influence). The "Random 24/7" descriptor Trump endorses by retweeting it is particularly revealing — he is actively embracing the characterization of himself as unpredictable, omnipresent, and continuously engaging. This is the **Trickster archetype** consciously curated: entertaining precisely through chaos and randomness.

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## Grandiosity Claim in Original Tweet

The source tweet's opening — *"An important part of my (or anybody's) success is the ability to judge people"* — rewards close reading. The parenthetical "(or anybody's)" functions as performative modesty while the sentence architecture ensures the primary reference is Trump's own success. This is rationalization as rhetorical device: what could otherwise read as impulsive celebrity commentary is pre-framed as an expression of a cognitively sophisticated success principle. The logic sequence: (1) I am successful; (2) success requires good judgment of character; (3) therefore my judgment of character is demonstrably good; (4) ergo, trust my assessment of Miley Cyrus. This is circular reasoning serving grandiose self-presentation.

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## Archetypal Analysis

This post embodies two archetypes simultaneously:

- **King/Arbiter**: Dispensing authoritative character judgments from a position of superior discernment. By September 24, this shifts toward the **Mentor/Father King** issuing guidance warnings ("GUIDANCE" in all caps), which rapidly shades into the **Tyrant** predicting oblivion for failure to comply.

- **Trickster**: The "Random 24/7" descriptor he amplifies captures his Twitter persona's appeal — entertaining, unpredictable, rule-breaking, always present. The appeal is not despite chaos but *because* of it.

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## Cognitive Status

The original Miley Cyrus tweet shows: coherent syntax, functioning parenthetical asides, appropriate vocabulary range, a complete inferential chain (premise about success → application to specific person). The Sept 24 "triky" typo is attributable to authentic late-night posting rather than cognitive impairment. No markers of concern at age 67. Complexity score reflects the original associated tweet. **Baseline-consistent for this period (2013 represents near-baseline).**

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## Danger Assessment

**None.** This is engagement/validation-seeking with no aggressive, dehumanizing, or eliminationist content. The closest edge is the Sept 24 "oblivion" framing, but this is directed at career trajectory, not persons.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "An important part of my (or anybody's) success is the ability to judge people" | **Half True** | Leadership and management research does support interpersonal judgment (social intelligence, empathy accuracy) as a correlate of managerial effectiveness. However, Trump's specific self-attribution — that his success is particularly dependent on this skill — is unverifiable and the broader claim ignores structural advantages (inherited wealth, market conditions). The parenthetical universalization '(or anybody's)' is also unsupported as a general law of success. |
| "I believe @MileyCyrus is a really good person" | **Unverifiable** | Character assessment is inherently subjective. Trump had personal contact with Cyrus (hotel stay, direct phone call) providing some first-hand basis for the claim. The same claim was partially contradicted by his own Sept 24 tweets criticizing her outfit choices and warning her about career 'oblivion.' The assessment cannot be objectively verified. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- 6:34 PM EDT — evening, ambiguous timing but Scavino absence eliminates primary aide hypothesis
- Dan Scavino left Trump's employ in 2013 for Joe Torre Foundation; not yet serving as social media director
- Same-day cluster of personal fan-engagement posts (golf, stocks, TV nostalgia) shows direct account management
- Retweeting unsolicited flattery about oneself is among the most consistently documented authentic Trump Twitter behaviors
- Personal relationship with Cyrus documented: phone call, hotel stay — tweet is insider signaling not cold name-drop

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Fan admiration loop: Miley Cyrus endorsement generates praise for account; retweeting completes supply circuit)

Sentiment: +0.65

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 58%
- Antisocial: 5%
- Paranoid: 4%
- Sadism: 3%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 100%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Retweeting fan praise to achieve social proof without direct self-promotion
- Claiming insider knowledge of celebrity character to manufacture parasocial authority
- Embracing 'Random 24/7' descriptor to signal constant availability and entertaining unpredictability to followers
- Associating self with controversial celebrity at peak cultural salience to generate engagement

## Fact Checks (2)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-02-26._

> An important part of my (or anybody's) success is the ability to judge people

**HALF TRUE**

Leadership and management research does support interpersonal judgment (social intelligence, empathy accuracy) as a correlate of managerial effectiveness. However, Trump's specific self-attribution — that his success is particularly dependent on this skill — is unverifiable and the broader claim ignores structural advantages (inherited wealth, market conditions). The parenthetical universalization '(or anybody's)' is also unsupported as a general law of success.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_intelligence

> I believe @MileyCyrus is a really good person

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Character assessment is inherently subjective. Trump had personal contact with Cyrus (hotel stay, direct phone call) providing some first-hand basis for the claim. The same claim was partially contradicted by his own Sept 24 tweets criticizing her outfit choices and warning her about career 'oblivion.' The assessment cannot be objectively verified.

Sources: https://www.spin.com/2019/02/miley-cyrus-donald-trump-called-2013-vmas-twerking/; https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-creepy-obsession-with-miley-cyrus-twerking-mtv-vmas-performance/

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- narcissistic-supply-amplification (88%)
- idealization (72%)
- splitting-defense (65%)
- grandiosity-via-judgment-claim (60%)
- trickster-archetype (68%)
- celebrity-endorsement-as-supply-mechanism (75%)
- authentic-posting-2013-baseline (82%)
- parasocial-authority-construction (60%)

## 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). "@joshjame: Best Twitter follow I ever made: The... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_381546985121406976
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@joshjame: Best Twitter follow I ever made: The Donald...." X (Twitter), 21 Sep. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_381546985121406976. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, ""@joshjame: Best Twitter follow I ever made: The Donald....," X (Twitter), September 21, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_381546985121406976.

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