# Post x_383266347074863104 - Post ID: `x_383266347074863104` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-09-26T16:26:32.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_383266347074863104 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_383266347074863104/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_383266347074863104.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > “Partner with people who share your values, attitude and drive.” – Midas Touch with @theRealKiyosaki ## Engagement - Likes: 126 - Reposts: 258 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.280Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-26T15:10:12.098Z (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: 2013-09-26 — Promotional Book Quote (*Midas Touch*) ### Overview This is a brief, formulaic promotional post sharing an attributed aphorism from *Midas Touch* (2011), co-authored by Trump and Robert Kiyosaki. It constitutes routine commercial brand maintenance and is devoid of political charge, emotional arousal, or clinically significant psychological markers. It is among the least psychologically informative post types in Trump's 2013 Twitter corpus. --- ### Authorship Attribution — **Aide-written (high confidence)** The UTC timestamp (16:26:32Z) converts to **12:26 PM EDT** in New York. During the week of the 68th UN General Assembly, Trump Tower was almost certainly his primary base. Midday is squarely within conventional business hours. The post exhibits every characteristic aide-written marker: grammatically correct, professionally formatted, promotional in function, no typos, no emotional reactivity, no ALL CAPS, no stream-of-consciousness syntax. The surrounding posts on this date include a birthday reply and a retweeted Murdoch quote — consistent with a lightly managed, brand-upkeep day. No authentic Trump fingerprints are present. --- ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits The aphorism is too sparse for robust Big Five inference. The "partner with people who share your values" framing reflects: - Moderate **conscientiousness** (achievement-oriented selectivity, drive as criterion) - Low-to-moderate **agreeableness** (exclusionary framing — relationships as screened for utility) - Low **neuroticism** (zero affect dysregulation) - Low **openness** (conventional motivational-speaker register) --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motives** dominate: partnership is framed instrumentally — as a tool for maximizing performance outcomes. "Values, attitude and drive" are screened inputs to an achievement algorithm. **Communion motives** are nominally present but fully instrumentalized; no intimacy or care is implied. --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity Trump positions himself as **wisdom-dispenser and dealmaker-sage**, extending the protagonist role established in *The Art of the Deal* (1987) and reinforced throughout his commercial persona. Co-branding with Kiyosaki's "Rich Dad" franchise amplifies aspirational authority. The narrative sequence is neutral — no redemption or contamination arc is traceable in a one-sentence aphorism. --- ### Clinical Assessment No clinically significant markers. The narcissistic supply mechanism is **routine maintenance** — low-arousal brand reinforcement with no identifiable injury trigger, no rage, no splitting, no devaluation. The post falls entirely within the expected range for a commercial author promoting a business book. --- ### Rhetorical Analysis - **Appeal to authority**: Quote attributed to a co-authored book, lending gravitas through citation form - **Brand co-association**: Pairing with Kiyosaki's established *Rich Dad* franchise audience - **Aspirational register**: "Values, attitude and drive" — motivational-speaker boilerplate - **Implicit exclusionary sorting**: "people who share your values" implicitly flatters the in-group while excluding others — mild audience parasocial bonding mechanism --- ### Danger Assessment **None.** The post contains no threatening, dehumanizing, mobilizing, or stochastically terroristic language. --- *Summary omitted: post lacks clinical significance.* ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Quote attributed to 'Midas Touch' co-authored with @theRealKiyosaki (Robert Kiyosaki)" | **True** | Midas Touch: Why Some Entrepreneurs Get Rich — And Why Most Don't was published November 2011 by Plata Publishing, co-authored by Donald Trump and Robert T. Kiyosaki. The book exists and the attribution is accurate. | Overall Veracity: 100% ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 10%) ### Indicators - 12:26 PM EDT — midday business hours - Grammatically correct, zero typos - Commercially promotional function (book quote) - Professional formatting with attribution dash - No ALL CAPS, no emotional reactivity ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance Sentiment: +0.25 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 15% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 20% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Aspirational identification — audience invited to align with 'values, attitude and drive' framing, positioning themselves as the right kind of partner ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-02-26._ > Quote attributed to 'Midas Touch' co-authored with @theRealKiyosaki (Robert Kiyosaki) **TRUE** Midas Touch: Why Some Entrepreneurs Get Rich — And Why Most Don't was published November 2011 by Plata Publishing, co-authored by Donald Trump and Robert T. Kiyosaki. The book exists and the attribution is accurate. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midas_Touch_(book) Overall Veracity: 100% ## Tags - book-promotion (90%) - brand-maintenance (70%) - aide-written (85%) - kiyosaki-co-brand (80%) - motivational-register (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Scripted Brand Day Punctuated by a Six-Minute ACA Spike: Pre-Campaign Playbook in Full Effect** September 26, 2013 presents a near-textbook example of managed, staff-assisted social media strategy from Trump's pre-campaign brand-builder era. All 12 posts fall between 10:51 AM and 5:01 PM EDT (New York City, UTC-4), well within normal business hours, and follow a recognizable content-calendar rhythm: social niceties at open, midday brand and property promotion, afternoon quote-sharing, a brief topical political cluster, and a closing aphorism. There is no evidence of spontaneous psychological urgency; the dominant affect is a low-intensity, curated grandiosity calibrated for public persona maintenance rather than genuine emotional disclosure. Aggregate rage is effectively zero across all twelve posts. The one departure from the maintenance baseline arrived in a compressed six-minute window at 4:10–4:16 PM EDT, when three posts leveraged the #MakeDCListen and #DefundObamaCare hashtags in direct response to the looming government shutdown deadline (five days out). The peak post (x_383322810258427904, intensity 0.62 — the day's sole notable outlier) amplified contested Republican talking points claiming 7 million job losses and 300% premium increases attributable to the ACA. These figures are inconsistent with contemporaneous CBO projections and appear to be externally sourced messaging rather than original analysis, a reading reinforced by the post's low authorship score (0.25). The spike resolved as quickly as it appeared, with a self-help quote closing the day in placid grandiosity. Pervasively low authorship scores (range 0.08–0.35) throughout the day complicate direct psychological profiling; much of what appears here is either quote-amplification or staff-managed promotional content. The cognitive complexity trend is stable and unremarkable. No contradictions between posts, no hypomanic indicators, no danger signals, and no stochastic terrorism patterns emerge. This is a psychologically inert day by most clinical measures — its primary analytical interest lies in what it reveals about the deliberate, brand-managed persona Trump was projecting eighteen months before his campaign announcement. Full digest for 2013-09-26: https://trump.fm/date/2013-09-26/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, September 26). “Partner with people who share your values,... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_383266347074863104 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“Partner with people who share your values, attitude and..." X (Twitter), 26 Sep. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_383266347074863104. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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