# Post x_388007898434920448

- Post ID: `x_388007898434920448`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-10-09T18:27:46.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_388007898434920448
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_388007898434920448/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_388007898434920448.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Entrepreneurs who develop their Midas Touch do not work for money. They work to create or acquire assets. Focus on assets.

## Engagement

- Likes: 265
- Reposts: 427
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.279Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-26T23:57:26.166Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Authorship Attribution

**Local time conversion:** UTC 18:27:46 → EDT 14:27 (2:27 PM, New York, October 2013). This falls squarely within business hours — the prime aide/communications staff posting window.

This post is almost certainly **aide-authored**. Multiple indicators converge: (1) 2:27 PM EDT timing is antithetical to Trump's authentic late-night/early-morning posting pattern; (2) grammatically correct, polished complete sentences with no typos or erratic capitalization; (3) overt brand promotion for Trump's 2011 co-authored book *Midas Touch: Why Some Entrepreneurs Get Rich—And Why Most Don't* (co-authored with Robert Kiyosaki); (4) absence of any emotional reactivity or stream-of-consciousness quality.

Contrast with the same-day post that reads authentically Trump: *"If the U.S. Government doesn't give the money necessary for the burials of our military personnel, I will."* That post has the characteristic impulsive, declarative, personally charged register of authentic Trump. The Midas Touch promotional content is managed calendar material.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits

The post surface-projects high **conscientiousness** (achievement orientation, disciplined focus, prescriptive instruction) and moderate-to-high **extraversion** (assertive, self-positioning as authority). **Agreeableness** is implicitly low — the framing constructs a status hierarchy between those who "develop their Midas Touch" (elevated) and those who "work for money" (ordinary, trapped). **Neuroticism** is entirely absent. **Openness** is moderate-low; the philosophy is conventional business conservatism.

Dominant facet: Achievement Striving within Conscientiousness.

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

Agency motives dominate with near-total absence of communion content. The post operates on a **status schema**: true entrepreneurs occupy a categorically superior position to wage earners. The imperative close — "Focus on assets" — positions the audience as students requiring instruction from a higher-status exemplar. This is a characteristic adaptation that simultaneously flatters followers (you *could* achieve this) while preserving the speaker's superior hierarchical position. Classic asymmetric guru-audience dynamic.

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** The entrepreneurial sage dispensing hard-won wisdom from above.  
**Narrative sequence:** Implied redemption arc — the path from ordinary labor to Midas-level wealth creation is available to those who undergo the correct mindset transformation.  
**Identity claims:** *I have achieved the Midas Touch; I create and acquire assets rather than chasing wages; I possess the knowledge to teach others.*  
**Contrasting other:** The wage earner who "works for money" — reactive, lesser, embedded in transactional labor.

### The Midas Myth Inversion

The mythological choice is psychologically notable. In the original Greek myth (Ovid's *Metamorphoses*), Midas's golden touch is explicitly a **curse**: he cannot eat food, and he transforms his beloved daughter into gold. The myth's entire function is cautionary — unchecked greed destroys what one loves most. Trump and Kiyosaki's rebranding strips the curse entirely, retaining only the power fantasy while discarding the warning. This inversion — grandiose appropriation of a cautionary archetype — is consistent with a broader cognitive-motivational pattern in which warnings about the consequences of excess are systematically filtered out. The myth is literalized as aspiration rather than processed as parable.

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

**Malignant Narcissism (Kernberg):**
- Narcissistic features (mild): Implicit grandiosity through self-identification with the Midas archetype; sage-instructor positioning implies special knowledge unavailable to ordinary workers.
- Antisocial features: Absent.
- Paranoid features: Absent.
- Sadism: Absent.

**Narcissistic dynamics:** This is routine maintenance/supply-seeking posting — brand engagement with no acute narcissistic injury evident. Narcissistic state is mildly grandiose; no vulnerability oscillation.

**Defense mechanisms:**  
*Rationalization* (neurotic level): Acquisitive wealth accumulation is reframed as principled "asset creation" — providing philosophical elevation above mere money-chasing while the fundamental goal remains financial accumulation. The defense allows the behavior to be presented as virtuous rather than venal.

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## Rhetorical Analysis

- **Implicit authority positioning:** Imperative mood ("Focus on assets") assumes the speaker's right to instruct — a rhetorical move that presupposes superior status.
- **False dichotomy:** Working for money vs. working for assets presents a binary that erases the reality that most entrepreneurial activity involves both motives simultaneously.
- **Aspirational appeal:** Flatters the audience by implying they could achieve Midas-level wealth through correct mindset adoption.
- **Organic brand integration:** "Midas Touch" references Trump's published book without explicit product disclosure — a more effective promotional technique than overt advertising.
- **Simple imperative close:** "Focus on assets" — reduces philosophical complexity to a memorable command, a hallmark of self-help genre rhetoric.

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## Danger Assessment

No danger indicators of any kind. This is promotional lifestyle content with zero threat dimensions, no dehumanizing language, and no violent imagery.

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## Clinical Significance

Low. Routine aide-authored promotional content exhibiting mild implicit grandiosity through brand persona maintenance. No markers warrant clinical summary generation.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Entrepreneurs who develop their Midas Touch do not work for money — they work to create or acquire assets" | **Unverifiable** | This is a philosophical/motivational assertion, not an empirically testable fact claim. Research on entrepreneurial motivation (e.g., Deci and Ryan's Self-Determination Theory, Frese et al. on personal initiative) does suggest intrinsic and achievement motivations matter in entrepreneurship, but the binary framing oversimplifies a well-documented phenomenon involving multiple simultaneous motivations including financial reward. |
| "Implicit reference to the 'Midas Touch' entrepreneurial framework" | **True** | Trump co-authored 'Midas Touch: Why Some Entrepreneurs Get Rich—And Why Most Don't' with Robert Kiyosaki, published November 2011 by Plata Publishing. The tweet promotes that brand and its associated philosophy. |

Overall Veracity: 75%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 15%)

### Indicators

- 2:27 PM EDT — business hours, prime aide posting window
- Grammatically correct, no typos or capitalization anomalies
- Polished aspirational framing consistent with managed content calendar
- Direct brand promotion for Midas Touch book (Trump/Kiyosaki, 2011)
- No emotional reactivity, stream-of-consciousness, or impulsive quality

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance

Sentiment: +0.55

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 22%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Asymmetric wisdom dispensing: positions speaker as sage, audience as students, creating hierarchical dependency relationship
- Aspirational flattery: implies audience could ascend to Midas-level status through correct mindset adoption — flatters while maintaining speaker's superior position

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> Entrepreneurs who develop their Midas Touch do not work for money — they work to create or acquire assets

**UNVERIFIABLE**

This is a philosophical/motivational assertion, not an empirically testable fact claim. Research on entrepreneurial motivation (e.g., Deci and Ryan's Self-Determination Theory, Frese et al. on personal initiative) does suggest intrinsic and achievement motivations matter in entrepreneurship, but the binary framing oversimplifies a well-documented phenomenon involving multiple simultaneous motivations including financial reward.

> Implicit reference to the 'Midas Touch' entrepreneurial framework

**TRUE**

Trump co-authored 'Midas Touch: Why Some Entrepreneurs Get Rich—And Why Most Don't' with Robert Kiyosaki, published November 2011 by Plata Publishing. The tweet promotes that brand and its associated philosophy.

Sources: https://www.amazon.com/Midas-Touch-Entrepreneurs-Rich-Most/dp/1612680054

Overall Veracity: 75%

## Tags

- aide-authored (90%)
- brand-promotion (90%)
- midas-touch-book (88%)
- aspirational-content (82%)
- entrepreneurship (85%)
- implicit-grandiosity (32%)
- status-differentiation (65%)
- low-clinical-significance (92%)
- myth-inversion (55%)

## That day

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

**The Shutdown Opportunist: Military Burial Grand Gesture, GOP Leverage Counsel, and Utility Pole Grievance Converge in a Day of Stable Pre-Campaign Grandiosity**

On October 9, 2013, Trump's 19 posts trace a psychologically stable grandiose arc against the backdrop of the U.S. government's third day of shutdown. Located at Trump National Doral Miami, Florida (EDT, UTC−4), his posting day spans from 20:29 EDT on October 8 through 16:10 EDT on October 9, with a pre-dawn burst beginning at 04:54 EDT following an apparent sleep window of approximately 7 hours 43 minutes — adequate and consistent with his documented early-riser baseline. The day's most clinically notable sequence occurs at 07:39–07:45 EDT: Trump pivots from moral outrage over the government's failure to pay military death benefits to a grand personal pledge to cover those costs himself — a textbook narcissistic supply extraction maneuver that converts institutional failure into personal heroism at zero material cost. The Fisher House Foundation ultimately stepped in, rendering Trump's pledge moot before it could be tested.

The day's dominant psychological mechanism is strategic opportunism operating within a stable grandiose register. The government shutdown serves dual rhetorical utility: it is simultaneously a GOP leverage asset (x_387676100936994800, the evening prior) and a vehicle for attacking Obama's leadership failures (x_387864807288082432, x_387905105011691520). This is not clinical contradiction but adaptive rhetoric — the same event carries different framing depending on desired supply type. Approximately one-third of the day's posts carry authorship scores of 0.10–0.20, indicating scheduled or staff-produced promotional and inspirational content from Trump's publishing operation, bifurcating the day into authentic reactive posting and managed brand maintenance. A minor narcissistic injury arc closes the day, with an FPL utility pole grievance from the prior evening resurfacing as a muscular class action lawsuit threat 18 hours later.

Within the 2013 longitudinal context, this day registers as a stable baseline data point in the early pre-campaign positioning period. The dual amplification of "Trump 2016" speculation (x_387863587265716224 and near-duplicate x_387863587265716200, reposted four hours apart) alongside performative patriotic heroism captures the emerging presidential trial-balloon strategy in microcosm: aspiration floated with full deniability, moral heroism performed at zero cost, the Obama binary fully formed. No acute clinical deviation from baseline is present. The core mechanisms — splitting, grandiose gesture, supply-seeking, motivated attribution — are operating at steady-state and will intensify markedly across the 2014–2016 ramp-up period.

Full digest for 2013-10-09: https://trump.fm/date/2013-10-09/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, October 9). Entrepreneurs who develop their Midas Touch do... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_388007898434920448
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Entrepreneurs who develop their Midas Touch do not work for..." X (Twitter), 9 Oct. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_388007898434920448. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Entrepreneurs who develop their Midas Touch do not work for...," X (Twitter), October 9, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_388007898434920448.

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