# Post x_383669975510040576

- Post ID: `x_383669975510040576`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-09-27T19:10:25.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_383669975510040576/analysis
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## Post text

> Re negotiation: Know exactly what you want and keep it to yourself. Think about what the other side wants and where they're coming from.

## Engagement

- Likes: 151
- Reposts: 204
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.280Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-26T15:45:54.526Z (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: Trump Twitter, 2013-09-27T19:10 UTC

### Authorship Attribution

Posted at **15:10 EDT** (3:10 PM, New York), this falls within standard business hours — a moderate indicator of aide-assisted or scheduled content. The two-sentence construction is grammatically flawless, aphoristically polished, and entirely free of the typos, ALL CAPS passages, and emotional reactivity characteristic of authentic late-night Trump posts. There is no reactive quality: no specific news hook, no named antagonist, no exclamation points. The content is consistent with Trump's self-cultivated "Art of the Deal" brand identity circa 2013, when he was still primarily a TV personality and business-advice figure rather than a political combatant. The same-day posts — attacking Obamacare with emotional charge, sarcasm ("Hitting google translate apparently too complicated"), and conspiracy framing ("Don't believe the manipulated job numbers") — show markedly higher emotional intensity and authentic stylistic fingerprints. This negotiation aphorism is stylistically discontinuous from those. **Assessment: likely aide-assisted or pre-scheduled brand content. Confidence: medium.**

### Personality Level Analysis

**Level 1 — Dispositional Traits:**
The post projects high assertiveness (an extraversion facet), low agreeableness (strategic concealment elevated to virtue), and moderate conscientiousness (deliberate, goal-focused reasoning). The register is calm and controlled — expressed neuroticism is absent. Openness is low in the relevant sense: the worldview is schematically fixed (all negotiation is competitive; others are adversaries).

**Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations:**
The post encodes a fundamentally zero-sum competitive schema. "Think about what the other side wants" superficially resembles perspective-taking (a communion behavior) but is instrumentalized entirely in service of agency motives. The other party's desires are not respected; they are reverse-engineered for tactical exploitation. Dominant motive: power/control. The schema of self: a strategically superior actor. The schema of others: opponents whose motivations are intelligence to be gathered and leveraged.

**Level 3 — Narrative Identity:**
Trump assumes the *sage-dealmaker* protagonist role — dispensing earned wisdom from a position of elevated authority to followers positioned as students. The implicit identity claim is: *I am a master of negotiation and my insights are worth internalizing.* The contrasting other is the naive or underprepared negotiator who reveals their hand prematurely. This is textbook supply-seeking through authority performance: admiration is solicited not through vulnerability or disclosure, but through demonstrated superiority of strategic knowledge.

### Narcissistic Dynamics

**Trigger:** Supply-seeking / maintenance — no apparent narcissistic injury precipitates this post. It is routine brand reinforcement consistent with the 2013 Trump-as-business-guru public persona.

**Narcissistic state:** Mildly grandiose — the implicit stance is one of superior strategic knowledge being dispensed downward to followers who need it.

**Defenses:** Rationalization — the Machiavellian injunction to withhold one's true goals while extracting the other side's is packaged as neutral, pedagogically valuable wisdom. The adversarial, competitive, information-asymmetry-as-weapon quality of the advice is not named or acknowledged; it is laundered through the register of expertise.

### Rhetorical Analysis

The two-sentence parallel imperative structure ("Know exactly what you want... Think about what the other side wants...") creates a clean pedagogical rhythm that reinforces the authority position. Imperative mood throughout: Trump does not suggest, he instructs. The advice itself is Machiavellian in character: asymmetric information as a competitive weapon — achieve total internal clarity while presenting total opacity to the adversary; simultaneously, reverse-engineer their desires without reciprocating transparency. No propaganda techniques, no dehumanizing language, no violent imagery.

### Contextual Note

The UN General Assembly was convening in New York at this precise moment — including the historic Obama-Rouhani phone call and active negotiations over Syria chemical weapons. Government shutdown negotiations were at a critical juncture domestically. Trump's negotiation advice lands in a news environment densely saturated with high-stakes diplomatic and political negotiation discourse. Whether this alignment is intentional topical piggy-backing or coincidental cannot be determined from the post alone.

### Clinical Significance

This post does not meet the threshold for clinical significance. No cognitive markers of concern, no rage dynamics, no reality distortion, no clinical indicators. It is routine brand maintenance operating at low psychological intensity, consistent with the established 2013 baseline for Trump's business-persona content stream.

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 30%)

### Indicators

- Posted at 15:10 EDT — standard business hours
- Grammatically correct, zero typos
- Aphoristic, polished two-sentence construction
- No emotional reactivity, ALL CAPS, or exclamation points
- Stylistically discontinuous from emotionally charged same-day posts on Obamacare

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (general follower audience)

Sentiment: +0.15

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 15%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 42%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Authority performance via imperative mood
- Sage-dealmaker identity claim
- Implied exclusive access to superior strategic knowledge

## Tags

- negotiation (95%)
- brand-building (85%)
- supply-seeking (70%)
- art-of-the-deal-persona (80%)
- strategic-advice (90%)
- aide-likely (60%)
- zero-sum-schema (70%)
- authority-performance (75%)

## 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). Re negotiation: Know exactly what you want and... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_383669975510040576
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Re negotiation: Know exactly what you want and keep it to..." X (Twitter), 27 Sep. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_383669975510040576. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Re negotiation: Know exactly what you want and keep it to...," X (Twitter), September 27, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_383669975510040576.

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