# Post x_387195627983347712 - Post ID: `x_387195627983347712` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-10-07T12:40:06.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @WRNSR - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_387195627983347712 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_387195627983347712/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_387195627983347712.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text _Quotes @WRNSR, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @WRNSR's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._ > "@WRNSR: @realDonaldTrump Negotiations are non-existant, Obama needs to be sent a copy of "The Art of the Deal" (Maybe autographed)" ## Engagement - Likes: 29 - Reposts: 39 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.279Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-26T22:53:32.474Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Analysis: Trump Quote-Retweet — October 7, 2013 ### Authorship Attribution Posted at 12:40 UTC. Trump's location on October 7, 2013 was almost certainly **New York City (Trump Tower)**, where he maintained his primary residence and business operations. Converting UTC to Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4) yields a **local posting time of 8:40 AM EDT** on a Monday. This is early-morning business hours, falling within the window where authentic Trump activity is plausible. In 2013, Trump was managing his own Twitter account directly and was documented as an early-morning tweeter. The post format — manually quoting a tweet verbatim in quotation marks — is consistent with the pre-native-retweet era convention common in Trump's authenticated posts from this period. Critically, the content promotes *The Art of the Deal* (Trump's own book) and flatters Trump directly: both features Trump was well-known to amplify personally, with high personal motivation and low likelihood of aide curation. No aide would typically surface this specific variety of fan validation. **Assessment: likely authentic**, with medium confidence due to early-business-hours timing introducing minor ambiguity. --- ### Contextual Frame This post occurs on Day 7 of the 2013 government shutdown, ten days before the Treasury's debt-ceiling deadline. Trump had appeared on Fox News in this same period explicitly casting himself as the superior dealmaker and criticizing Obama for failing to negotiate. This retweet functions as a direct extension of that media positioning — a low-effort mechanism to amplify the same narrative with social-proof legitimacy from a third-party source. --- ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) **Extraversion (high):** Active solicitation and amplification of external validation is present. The retweeting of fan praise is an extraversion-linked behavior involving positive affect and social engagement. **Agreeableness (low):** Implicit contempt for Obama's competence is embedded in the logic of the retweet. No prosocial or conciliatory framing. **Neuroticism (low in this post):** No emotional volatility. This is stable, comfortable self-positioning — no anxiety, hostility, or impulsiveness visible. **Openness (low):** Self-referential, brand-consolidating content with no intellectual exploration. The world is filtered through the lens of personal expertise. --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motives dominate overwhelmingly.** The post serves power and status goals — positioning Trump as the authoritative dealmaker whose published wisdom is urgently needed at the highest levels of government. **Schema activation visible:** - *Self schema:* Possessor of superior dealmaking knowledge; implicitly consulted by history - *Other schema:* Obama as deficient, lacking basic competence Trump has already codified - *World schema:* Crisis = evidence of others' inadequacy, not shared challenge --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** The wise, published dealmaker standing above political dysfunction — a figure whose expertise should be *sent* to the sitting president - **Contrasting other:** Obama, cast as an incompetent non-negotiator whose failures implicitly validate Trump's superior framework - **Identity claims:** *I* am the one who understands deals; my knowledge is so essential it should be dispatched to the Oval Office; my signature on the book would itself be corrective - **Narrative sequence:** Contamination implied — a functional government corrupted by a leader who lacks Trump's dealmaking wisdom - **Grandiose subtext of the "autographed" flourish:** Not merely the book's content, but Trump's *personal benediction* as the corrective force. The autograph elevates the self-promotional claim from credential-citing to near-messianic positioning. --- ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Narcissistic dynamic: Supply-seeking with preemptive positioning.** Trump amplifies a follower's tweet that simultaneously flatters him (his book as the solution to national crisis) and diminishes Obama (requires Trump's guidance to govern). This is textbook supply-seeking behavior — harvesting admiration while using a third-party vehicle for plausible deniability. **Narcissistic state: Stable grandiose.** No vulnerability or persecution markers. Trump is in an expansive, dominant register — comfortable in his superior position rather than defending against a perceived attack. **Trigger:** The government shutdown media cycle provides an opportunity to convert political chaos into personal brand reinforcement. This is supply-seeking hitched to a convenient news peg. **Defense mechanisms:** - *Rationalization (neurotic level):* A national governance crisis is reframed as a showcase for Trump's comparative superiority. The emergency becomes evidence of his value rather than a collective policy failure. **Malignant narcissism sub-components:** Narcissistic features present at low-moderate levels (grandiosity, entitlement implied). Antisocial, paranoid, and sadistic features absent in this post. --- ### Rhetorical Analysis **Self-promotion via proxy:** Retweeting achieves brand amplification with the legitimacy of third-party social proof, while maintaining the appearance of merely sharing a fan's independent observation. **Implicit comparison chain:** Failed negotiations → need for dealmaking expertise → Trump wrote the definitive book → Trump is implicitly superior to the sitting president. **Credential-by-title:** *The* Art of the Deal — not *a* negotiating guide, but definitively *the* work, with the definite article performing authority. **Humor/irony deployment:** The "maybe autographed" qualifier introduces light humor that makes the grandiosity more socially palatable while reinforcing the underlying claim (my signature has corrective power). No dehumanizing language, eliminationist rhetoric, violent imagery, or stochastic terrorism indicators present. --- ### Cognitive Status No original text produced by the subject; substantive cognitive assessment is not applicable to this post. The misspelling *"non-existant"* originates with the quoted user (@WRNSR), not Trump. Complexity score effectively N/A for a pure quote-retweet. No deviation from baseline detectable. --- ### Gaslighting / Reality Distortion Absent. The characterization of negotiations as stalled is politically contestable but not a documented-fact reversal or DARVO maneuver. --- ### Danger Assessment **None.** Routine political criticism embedded in self-promotional framing. No mobilization cues, no target-plus-grievance-plus-implied-action pattern, no eliminationist language. --- ### Overall Assessment Low clinical significance. This is a psychologically unremarkable supply-seeking retweet consistent with Trump's well-established 2013 baseline: amplifying fan validation, promoting his book, and positioning himself favorably against Obama during a news cycle that invited dealmaking commentary. The post is notable primarily as a clean illustration of how Trump converts political crises into personal brand moments — a characteristic adaptation rather than an exceptional psychological event. ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Negotiations are non-existent during the government shutdown" | **Half True** | As of October 7, 2013 (Day 7 of shutdown), formal public negotiations were largely gridlocked and publicly stalled. However, back-channel talks were ongoing and a resolution was reached within 10 days (October 16). 'Non-existent' is hyperbolic but captures the visible public impasse at the time of posting. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 65%) ### Indicators - 8:40 AM EDT — early morning consistent with Trump's documented self-managed early-riser Twitter habits in 2013 - Manual quote-retweet format (pre-native-RT era) typical of authentic Trump posts from this period - Content directly promotes Trump's own book — strong personal motivation to amplify without aide curation - Follower flattery retweet matches well-documented authentic Trump pattern of amplifying fan validation - The autograph detail is a personal vanity flourish unlikely to be selected by a communications aide ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Government shutdown media cycle providing opportunity for dealmaker brand reinforcement) Sentiment: +0.10 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 38% - Antisocial: 5% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 10% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Quote-retweeting fan validation to simulate organic third-party social proof - Book credential drop to establish implicit authority over the sitting president - Autograph flourish to personalize and amplify grandiose positioning ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-02-26._ > Negotiations are non-existent during the government shutdown **HALF TRUE** As of October 7, 2013 (Day 7 of shutdown), formal public negotiations were largely gridlocked and publicly stalled. However, back-channel talks were ongoing and a resolution was reached within 10 days (October 16). 'Non-existent' is hyperbolic but captures the visible public impasse at the time of posting. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_United_States_federal_government_shutdown Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - supply-seeking (78%) - self-promotion-via-proxy (82%) - book-brand-promotion (75%) - obama-implicit-diminishment (65%) - crisis-as-brand-opportunity (72%) - government-shutdown-context (70%) - stable-grandiose (40%) - authentic-trump-likely (65%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Shutdown Strategist: Trump Auditions as GOP Dealmaker-in-Chief While Obama Takes Fire** Trump spent the day hammering Obama over the government shutdown, casting the president as an incompetent non-negotiator while positioning himself as the dealmaker America needs. A morning Fox News appearance set the tone, followed by a rapid-fire burst of retweets from fans urging him to run in 2016 — which he pointedly didn't rule out. The rest of the day was steady political commentary mixed with brand promotion, all delivered in a calm, expansive mood with no flashes of real anger. The most notable thread was the early-stage construction of a presidential persona: every Obama attack doubled as an implicit argument for Trump himself. Full digest for 2013-10-07: https://trump.fm/date/2013-10-07/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, October 7). "@WRNSR: @realDonaldTrump Negotiations are... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_387195627983347712 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@WRNSR: @realDonaldTrump Negotiations are non-existant,..." X (Twitter), 7 Oct. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_387195627983347712. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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