# Post x_383426971398836224

- Post ID: `x_383426971398836224`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-09-27T03:04:48.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_383426971398836224
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_383426971398836224/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_383426971398836224.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Once the Bloomberg administration selected Trump to take over the very expensive and years late project, I kicked "ass" and got it done fast

## Engagement

- Likes: 98
- Reposts: 59
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.280Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-26T15:21:24.981Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

A compact achievement broadcast regarding the Ferry Point golf course in the Bronx, this post represents textbook narcissistic supply-seeking behavior with no injury trigger. The subject claims sole credit for completing a long-delayed municipal project, employing a compressed redemption arc (predecessor failure → Trump rescue) that would become the central template of his political messaging. The post's most analytically notable features are structural: the third-to-first-person self-reference shift mid-sentence is highly characteristic of authentic Trump voice, as are the scare-quoted mild vulgarity and implicit contrast with institutional incompetence. Authorship confidence is high given the 11 PM local posting time and unpolished grammatical construction. Narcissistic state is purely grandiose with no vulnerability or injury present; malignant narcissism sub-components (antisocial, paranoid, sadistic features) are effectively absent. Cognitive indicators show no deviation from 2013 period baseline. The post's primary longitudinal significance is as a local-scale prototype of the nationalized "broken country, only I can fix it" narrative that would define the 2016 campaign. Fact-checking reveals the "complete" claim was premature—the course did not open until May 2015. Danger level: none.

## Analysis: Trump Twitter Post, September 27, 2013

### Overview

This post—*"Once the Bloomberg administration selected Trump to take over the very expensive and years late project, I kicked 'ass' and got it done fast"*—is a compact self-congratulatory claim referencing Trump Organization's management of the Ferry Point golf course in the Bronx (Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point), a municipally-owned project that was chronically delayed and over-budget before Bloomberg awarded Trump a management contract circa 2012. The companion tweet posted the same day ("The big golf course project on the water by the Whitestone Bridge in NYC that has been under construction for many years now complete-GREAT!") confirms the subject matter.

---

### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

**Extraversion (Very High):** The post is assertive, energized, and socially projecting. The subject volunteers unsolicited self-praise in a public forum, consistent with very high assertiveness and positive affect broadcasting.

**Agreeableness (Low):** The post is entirely self-referential. There is zero acknowledgment of project partners, city workers, contractors, or collaborators who contributed to any construction milestone.

**Conscientiousness (Moderate, in self-representation):** Achievement is foregrounded and framed as diligent, but the impulsive, informal phrasing undercuts the impression of deliberateness.

**Neuroticism (Low in this post):** Affect is positive and untroubled. No anxiety, hostility, or vulnerability is present. This is the high-functioning grandiose mode.

**Openness (Low):** Concrete operational achievement is celebrated with no acknowledgment of complexity, nuance, or collaborative dimension.

---

### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations — Motives and Goals

**Dominant motive: Agency/Achievement.** The post is a status broadcast—establishing a public record of executive competence and efficiency against an implicit baseline of institutional failure.

**Secondary motive: Status/Power.** The Bloomberg administration is implicitly elevated just enough to authorize Trump's involvement, then structurally subordinated as the entity that needed Trump's help.

**Schema revealed:** The world is divided into those who can execute (Trump) and those who cannot (government bureaucracies). Problems persist until Trump arrives; problems resolve when Trump acts. This schema, operating here on a local municipal scale, is the prototype for the nationalized political messaging that would emerge three years later.

---

### Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** Order Restorer / Problem-Solver. Trump did not originate this project; he was *selected* to salvage it. This casting as the indispensable executive summoned to fix institutional failure is psychologically significant—it is both grandiose (only I could do it) and simultaneously deniable of hubris (I was asked).

**Narrative sequence:** Classic compressed **redemption arc**: *"very expensive and years late"* (contamination preceding Trump's involvement) → *"I kicked 'ass' and got it done fast"* (redemption through Trump's intervention). The entire arc occupies a single sentence.

**Identity claims:** I am competent where institutions are not; I am fast where bureaucracies are slow; I am the effective actor the system calls upon when it cannot function.

**Contrasting other:** The Bloomberg administration (and implicitly, municipal government generally)—capable of *selecting* Trump but incapable of completing the work themselves. The contrast is structural rather than aggressive; there is no explicit attack on Bloomberg.

---

### Level 4: Clinical Indicators

#### Narcissistic Features
The post exhibits **grandiosity** (sole credit for project completion), **self-importance** (decisive actor framing), and **entitlement** (success is presented as the inevitable outcome of Trump's involvement). However, this falls within the established Trump baseline for 2013—pre-campaign, real-estate-focused Twitter activity was heavily weighted toward this type of achievement broadcasting. This is not a marked elevation.

**No narcissistic injury is present.** The trigger is positive—a milestone completion. The narcissistic state is purely grandiose, not vulnerable.

#### Malignant Narcissism Sub-components
- **Narcissistic features:** Present and prominent (0.65/1.0)
- **Antisocial features:** Effectively absent in this post (0.05/1.0)
- **Paranoid features:** Absent (0.05/1.0)
- **Ego-syntonic sadism:** Absent (0.00/1.0)

#### Defense Mechanisms
- **Rationalization (neurotic):** Achievement attributed entirely to personal capability, eliding structural, logistical, labor, and financial contributions of others.
- **Idealization of self (immature):** Self-representation as uniquely competent against an implied backdrop of institutional incompetence.

---

### Rhetorical Analysis

**Third-to-first-person self-reference shift:** The sentence opens in third person ("selected *Trump*") then pivots to first person ("*I* kicked"). This grammatical inconsistency—selecting oneself as a quasi-historical figure before collapsing into first person for the climactic boast—is characteristic of unedited Trump voice. An aide would almost certainly correct the pronoun inconsistency.

**Strategic vulgarity with scare quotes:** The quotation marks around *"ass"* perform dual duty: claiming a populist, tough-talking register while the typographic distancing provides plausible refinement. This is a documented recurring Trump rhetorical device—the vernacular is embraced, the scare quotes manage impression simultaneously.

**Implicit contrast:** The Bloomberg administration is the structural foil. "Very expensive and years late" does the critical work—implying institutional failure without a direct attack on Bloomberg, whom Trump maintained a working relationship with.

**Compressed redemption rhetoric:** The before/after structure (failure → Trump fixes it) is the foundational Trump political narrative operating on a local scale in 2013. By 2016, this same template would be nationalized: "our country is broken, I alone can fix it." This post is the local prototype.

---

### Authorship Attribution

**Local time conversion:** UTC 03:04:48 → Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4) = **11:04 PM EDT on September 26, 2013.** Trump was almost certainly in New York during this period (pre-campaign, based primarily at Trump Tower).

Late evening posting is strongly consistent with authentic Trump authorship. Additional markers:
- Third-person/first-person grammatical inconsistency mid-sentence (unedited voice indicator)
- Scare quotes around mild vulgarity (recurring authentic Trumpism)
- Informal dependent clause structure
- Self-promotional rather than event-announcement content (aides favor operational posts)
- Emotionally reactive quality—the post reads as written immediately after learning of the completion milestone

**Assessment:** High probability authentic Trump post (0.78).

---

### Cognitive Assessment

The post contains one moderately complex subordinate clause ("Once the Bloomberg administration selected Trump to take over..."). The third/first-person shift is better categorized as stylistic inconsistency—characteristic of this author—than as cognitive confusion or name substitution error. No word-finding difficulty, perseveration, neologism, temporal confusion, or tangentiality is detectable. Language production is within baseline parameters for the 2013 era.

**Baseline deviation:** None. Fully consistent with pre-campaign Trump Twitter patterns.

---

### Archetypal Analysis

**Primary archetype: Order Restorer.** Government bureaucracy created disorder (prolonged, expensive, incomplete project); Trump imposes efficient order. This is not the Trickster (disrupting existing order) but its opposite: the competent authority imposing resolution on chaos others created.

**Secondary archetype: Hero/Savior.** Called upon by legitimate authority (Bloomberg), delivers results others could not.

**Shadow projection:** Incompetence and bureaucratic dysfunction are projected onto the predecessor administration. Trump's self-image as the anti-bureaucrat—the private-sector actor who transcends institutional inertia—is reinforced by this contrast.

**Mythological narrative:** The return of the competent king to restore what feckless stewards ruined. Pre-political rehearsal of 2016 messaging.

---

### Danger Assessment

**None.** This is a benign self-promotional post. No individuals are targeted, no dehumanizing language is present, no grievances against persons or groups are articulated.

---

### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Bloomberg administration selected Trump to take over the project" | **True** | Bloomberg administration did award Trump Organization a management contract for the city-owned Ferry Point golf course in the Bronx, a project that had stalled under city management for decades |
| "Project was 'very expensive and years late'" | **True** | The Ferry Point site had been in various stages of stalled development since the mid-1980s, with repeated cost overruns and political obstacles documented across multiple mayoral administrations |
| "Project is 'now complete' and Trump 'got it done fast'" | **Mostly False** | Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point did not officially open until May 2015, approximately 18 months after this September 2013 tweet. The 'complete' claim appears to reference a construction milestone rather than operational readiness. The 'fast' characterization is undermined by the multi-year timeline to opening. |

Overall Veracity: 73%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 78%)

### Indicators

- Late-night posting: 11:04 PM EDT (UTC 03:04)
- Third-person to first-person self-reference shift mid-sentence ('selected Trump' → 'I kicked')
- Scare quotes around mild vulgarity ('ass') — recurring authentic Trump rhetorical habit
- Informal, unpolished dependent clause structure inconsistent with aide drafting
- Self-promotional rather than operational/event-announcement content

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Golf course project completion milestone)

Sentiment: +0.65

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Late-night posting (11 PM local time) suggesting elevated energy state
- Exuberant, unsolicited self-congratulatory broadcast
- Energized, compressed syntactic structure with exclamatory quality

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 65%
- Antisocial: 5%
- Paranoid: 5%
- Sadism: 0%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 40%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Achievement broadcasting to solicit follower validation and admiration
- Inviting vicarious civic pride in a completed local project as social bonding mechanism

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> Bloomberg administration selected Trump to take over the project

**TRUE**

Bloomberg administration did award Trump Organization a management contract for the city-owned Ferry Point golf course in the Bronx, a project that had stalled under city management for decades

> Project was 'very expensive and years late'

**TRUE**

The Ferry Point site had been in various stages of stalled development since the mid-1980s, with repeated cost overruns and political obstacles documented across multiple mayoral administrations

> Project is 'now complete' and Trump 'got it done fast'

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point did not officially open until May 2015, approximately 18 months after this September 2013 tweet. The 'complete' claim appears to reference a construction milestone rather than operational readiness. The 'fast' characterization is undermined by the multi-year timeline to opening.

Overall Veracity: 73%

## Tags

- narcissistic-supply-seeking (88%)
- self-promotion (92%)
- achievement-display (82%)
- redemption-arc-narrative (78%)
- third-person-self-reference (72%)
- private-sector-vs-government-framing (70%)
- golf-course-real-estate (85%)
- bloomberg-administration (65%)
- authentic-voice (78%)
- proto-political-messaging (60%)

## That day

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

**The Builder-King Tests His Crown: Late-Night Ferry Point Triumph Seeds Presidential Identity While Iran Diplomatic Breakthrough Triggers Momentary Rage**

The day opens in the small hours of Eastern time with a sustained, authentic late-night burst celebrating the purported completion of Trump Links at Ferry Point — a 16-post sequence from 11:00 PM to 1:23 AM EDT representing a textbook narcissistic supply-saturation event anchored to a single ego-narrative: the competent external rescuer who succeeds where institutions fail. The subject cycles through achievement broadcasting, strategic credit distribution (x_383437327642939392), fan validation amplification, and early presidential identity cultivation (x_383444320868925440, x_383461821606539264), explicitly invoking the Wollman Rink renovation legend (x_383441805595140096) to telescope disparate achievements into a coherent hero-builder mythology. The claim that the course is "now complete" was factually premature by approximately 20 months, suggesting habitual conflation of milestone with completion or deliberate premature declaration for supply-seeking purposes.

Daytime posts (10:28 AM–3:31 PM EDT) are largely staff-managed, with authorship confidence scores of 0.10–0.45 indicating brand maintenance content generated by staff or scheduling tools rather than authentic direct posting. Two scheduled duplicate-post pairs are detectable (x_383599018518929408/x_383599018518929400; x_383614912481599489/x_383614912481599500), confirming automated daytime operations. The ACA rollout context generates politically inflated attacks including a factually overstated premium claim (x_383636044848959488) and a nativist-coded mockery of the delayed Spanish-language website (x_383650269172486144). The most analytically significant daytime post is x_383655276542308353, which deploys a non-sequitur Walmart inventory story to preemptively delegitimize BLS employment data — an early specimen of the institutional epistemic-closure strategy that would mature into the systematic "fake news" campaign.

The day closes with authentic evening posts (6:22–7:52 PM EDT) completing a characteristic psychological arc. The sole rage event (x_383739370261725184, intensity 0.50) is triggered by the historic Obama-Rouhani phone call — the first US-Iran presidential contact since 1979 — which Trump reframes as evidence of American weakness and leadership stupidity, deploying splitting defenses and implicit grandiose counter-positioning. The rage spike is brief, resolving within two minutes via a fan-validation retweet from @BordenRhodes asserting Trump's singular capacity to unify America (x_383739943723741184) — a characteristic injury-repair maneuver. Cumulatively, the day is a significant longitudinal data point: savior-builder mythology rehearsed, White House suggestions amplified without denial, unifier-healer framing affirmed, and the incompetent-current-leadership backdrop established — approximately 21 months before formal candidacy announcement.

Full digest for 2013-09-27: https://trump.fm/date/2013-09-27/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, September 27). Once the Bloomberg administration selected Trump... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_383426971398836224
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Once the Bloomberg administration selected Trump to take..." X (Twitter), 27 Sep. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_383426971398836224. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Once the Bloomberg administration selected Trump to take...," X (Twitter), September 27, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_383426971398836224.

## For agents

- Site overview: https://trump.fm/llms.txt
- API specification: https://trump.fm/openapi.json
- MCP server: https://trump.fm/mcp (search and fetch tools, no auth)
- This post as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/posts/x_383426971398836224
- Analysis as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/analysis/x_383426971398836224
- All citation formats: https://trump.fm/api/cite/x_383426971398836224
- Same day: https://trump.fm/date/2013-09-27
- The record alone, without the analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_383426971398836224.md?analysis=false

_Markdown view of a trump.fm page. Post, analysis, date, feed, contradictions, search and about pages answer in markdown at their URL with `.md` appended (`/index.md` for the home page), or when sent `Accept: text/markdown`._