# Post x_383718516102549504 - Post ID: `x_383718516102549504` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-09-27T22:23:18.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @Follow_DTrick - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_383718516102549504 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_383718516102549504/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_383718516102549504.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text _Quotes @Follow_DTrick, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @Follow_DTrick's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._ > "@Follow_DTrick: @BanginBella i didnt vote for him but i cant wait till he's out of office...@realDonaldTrump for President! 2016" ## Engagement - Likes: 13 - Reposts: 15 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.280Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-26T15:48:55.801Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Retweet: 2016 Presidential Endorsement **September 27, 2013 | 18:23 EDT | Trump Tower, New York** --- ### Nature of Post Pure retweet with no added commentary. The post amplifies a follower's message combining anti-Obama sentiment ("i cant wait till he's out of office") with a direct 2016 presidential endorsement. Because Trump contributes no original language, psychological analysis is necessarily inferential—the *act of selection* is the primary data point. --- ### Authorship Attribution **Local time**: 22:23 UTC → 18:23 EDT. Trump was almost certainly in New York City; the 68th UN General Assembly was convening that week and Trump Tower is his primary residence. Early evening falls in an ambiguous zone—not the late-night window (10pm–6am) associated with impulsive authentic Trump posts, but not core business hours either. However, the behavioral fingerprint of retweeting fan-generated presidential endorsements *without any added commentary* is well-documented as personal Trump behavior during this period. Compare to the same-day aide content: polished promotional posts for the Macys tie collection and Trump Condos Las Vegas use complete sentences, ampersands, and URLs—markers of staffed production. The bare retweet, by contrast, is consistent with impulsive personal curation of flattering mentions. The "Most Powerful Voice in Media" retweet earlier the same day uses the identical structure and represents the same supply-collection behavior. **Confidence: Medium-high for authentic Trump.** --- ### Psychological State and Triggers **Primary trigger: Supply-seeking (maintenance mode).** No narcissistic injury is evident; this is routine collection of positive supply—external validation of presidential viability from the follower base. The selected tweet offers a dual payload: (1) validation of anti-Obama sentiment Trump consistently endorsed during this period, and (2) a direct 2016 presidential endorsement. By retweeting rather than composing, Trump acquires supply with rhetorical distance—amplifying a follower's words while the psychological benefit flows entirely to him. **Narcissistic state: Grandiose.** The ease of amplifying a 2016 endorsement nearly two years before any official announcement reflects an expansive, unhesitating self-concept. No vulnerability, no defensiveness. --- ### Defense Mechanisms **Proxy voice** (not a classical Vaillant-tier mechanism, but a recurrent Trump-specific rhetorical-psychological strategy): the retweet format permits Trump to broadcast positions and self-aggrandizing claims while retaining plausible deniability—it is the follower saying these things, not Trump. The psychological and political effect is identical to a direct statement. Across Trump's Twitter corpus, this pattern appears systematically when the desired message would sound nakedly grandiose if self-authored. No pathological or immature defenses are activated in this low-stakes, low-arousal post. --- ### Multi-Level Personality Framework (McAdams & Pals, 2006) **Level 1 — Dispositional Traits**: Extraversion dominates; the post is audience-directed self-promotion. Low agreeableness is implicit in the alignment with anti-Obama animus. Neuroticism signal is absent—this is calm, confident amplification, not defensive or agitated behavior. **Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations**: Agency motives (status, power, autonomy) dominate clearly. The presidential positioning is a pure status assertion. Communion motives are entirely absent. **Level 3 — Narrative Identity**: Trump implicitly casts himself as a corrective presidential figure. The contrasting other is Obama, named only as "him." The embedded narrative is redemptive: current executive failure will be rectified by Trump's future leadership. Identity claims in the RT: popular demand exists organically; presidential viability is affirmed by the grassroots. --- ### Rhetorical Analysis The post is minimally rhetorical by design—the follower's language does the work. **Amplification by proxy** is the operative technique: a grassroots voice articulates what would register as unseemly grandiosity if Trump stated it directly. The anti-establishment framing ("can't wait till he's out") aligns Trump with populist anti-Obama energy without Trump personally attacking the sitting president in this instance. No hyperbole, no dehumanization, no violent imagery. --- ### Contextual Resonance This post arrives at a moment of peak anti-Obama conservative energy: the government shutdown countdown was imminent (October 1 deadline), Ted Cruz had just completed his 21-hour anti-Obamacare floor speech, and conservative political temperature was maximally receptive to anti-establishment, anti-Obama messaging. Trump's retweet fits this ambient climate with precision. --- ### Cognitive Assessment No original language is available for analysis. Selection behavior is purposeful and contextually coherent, entirely consistent with documented Trump Twitter patterns of the 2012–2015 era. This post represents part of the early behavioral baseline rather than a deviation from it. --- ### Danger Assessment **None.** Routine supply-seeking and political positioning with no eliminationist language, target identification, or threat vectors. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 70%) ### Indicators - Early evening local time (18:23 EDT) — ambiguous but not aide business hours - Bare retweet with zero added commentary — characteristic of impulsive personal curation - Same-day aide posts (Macys, Trump Condos) are structurally distinct: polished sentences, URLs, promotional tone - Retweeting flattering presidential-run mentions is a documented personal Trump behavior pattern 2012–2015 - Second bare retweet of fan flattery same day ('Most Powerful Voice in Media') — consistent pattern ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (@Follow_DTrick endorsement tweet) Sentiment: +0.20 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 35% - Antisocial: 5% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - acting out (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - endorsement amplification — using follower's voice to validate presidential narrative - supply collection — selecting tweets that affirm status and popularity - proxy attribution — broadcasting grandiose content through follower as shield ## Tags - supply_seeking (85%) - retweet_amplification (90%) - presidential_positioning_2016 (90%) - anti_obama_alignment (60%) - narcissistic_grandiosity (50%) - proxy_voice (80%) - early_baseline_2013 (70%) ## 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). "@Follow_DTrick: @BanginBella i didnt vote for... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_383718516102549504 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@Follow_DTrick: @BanginBella i didnt vote for him but i..." X (Twitter), 27 Sep. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_383718516102549504. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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