# Post x_388021883372703744

- Post ID: `x_388021883372703744`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-10-09T19:23:20.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_388021883372703744
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_388021883372703744/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_388021883372703744.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> “You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.” - Wayne Gretzky

## Engagement

- Likes: 328
- Reposts: 817
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.279Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-26T23:58:19.309Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Post Analysis: October 9, 2013 — Wayne Gretzky Motivational Quote

### Authorship Attribution

**Local Time:** 3:23 PM EDT (New York). Trump was almost certainly at Trump Tower, New York in October 2013 — months before any serious campaign activity requiring travel. The UTC timestamp converts to mid-afternoon Eastern Daylight Time, squarely within the 9am–6pm business-hours window that strongly indicates aide-generated or pre-scheduled content.

The post carries none of Trump's documented authentic stylistic markers: no typographic errors, no capitalized outbursts, no stream-of-consciousness construction, no self-referential anecdote, no attacks. The clean `"[Quote]" - [Attribution]` format is consistent with professionally managed social media output.

Contextual triangulation strengthens this conclusion: the October 9 Twitter cluster follows a coherent **content calendar pattern** — Trump Doral renovation announcement, Trump Chicago property boast, a quote from *Think Like a Champion*, and this Gretzky citation — suggesting pre-scheduled posts executed by a social media aide (most plausibly Dan Scavino, who was managing Trump's digital presence during this period).

**Authorship confidence: High (aide/scheduled). Score: 0.2**

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### Multi-Level Personality Framework

**Level 1 — Dispositional Traits:** Signal is extremely limited given the total absence of original language production. The *selection* of this particular quote weakly indexes high achievement striving (Conscientiousness facet) and low harm-avoidance. The sports-action framing is congruent with Trump's documented extraversion and dominance orientation, but these inferences rest on content curation rather than direct linguistic evidence and should be weighted accordingly.

**Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations:** The Gretzky quote maps onto Trump's dominant agency motive cluster: achievement, action, boldness, autonomy. Sharing it performs an **authority-dispensing** function — the successful entrepreneur offering actionable wisdom to followers. This is communion-adjacent in parasocial form but fundamentally serves status and authority maintenance. Comparison to the same-day *Think Like a Champion* quote ("Entrepreneurs who develop their Midas Touch do not work for money. They work to create or acquire assets") reveals a consistent thematic framework: bold action, asset accumulation, elite achievement.

**Level 3 — Narrative Identity:** The quote reinforces Trump's **protagonist-as-bold-risk-taker** narrative. In late 2013, Trump was actively cultivating a pre-campaign identity as America's premier entrepreneur-dealmaker. The choice of a *hockey* legend — culturally coded as aggressive, decisive, physically dominant — aligns with his masculine achievement mythology. The implicit contrasting other is the hesitant non-actor who never takes the shot: a veiled devaluation of indecision congruent with Trump's simultaneous Fox News framing of Obama as a failed dealmaker during the shutdown.

**Level 4 — Clinical Features:** No clinically significant features present or inferable. No narcissistic injury trigger, no rage, no paranoid ideation, no splitting. Routine persona maintenance posting.

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### Psychological State & Trigger

**Trigger type: Maintenance.** The government shutdown context — Trump was simultaneously criticizing Obama on Fox News for failing to deal — does not bleed into this Twitter content cluster, suggesting deliberate **platform compartmentalization**: television for political commentary, Twitter for brand-building. This compartmentalization is itself mildly notable as a disciplined persona management strategy atypical of Trump's more impulsive, unfiltered authentic posts.

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### Rhetorical Analysis

- **Appeal to authority:** Gretzky as cultural avatar of peak competitive achievement lends borrowed credibility to the motivational message.
- **Implicit self-identification:** Sharing approvingly positions Trump as someone who *embodies* the boldness the quote valorizes.
- **Borrowed prestige:** Gretzky alignment associates the Trump brand with elite sporting excellence.
- **Parasocial mentoring:** Trump presents as wisdom-dispensing authority figure in the follower's life.

No dehumanizing language, violent imagery, propaganda techniques, or stochastic terrorism indicators whatsoever.

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### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The quote 'You miss 100% of the shots you don't take' is authentically attributed to Wayne Gretzky" | **Mostly True** | The quote is documented as early as 1983 via The Hockey News (Bob McKenzie's account of a Gretzky interview). Gretzky has used the phrase in multiple contexts. Some debate exists about ultimate origin — occasional attribution to basketball coach Jimmy Valvano — but Gretzky's use is well-established and the attribution is widely accepted. Importantly, this is the direct Gretzky quote, not the satirical Michael Scott / The Office meme variant. |

Overall Veracity: 80%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 20%)

### Indicators

- Posted at 3:23 PM EDT — mid-afternoon business hours, primary aide-authorship indicator
- Clean, correctly formatted quotation with standard attribution dash — no Trump typos or ALL CAPS
- No self-referential content, personal anecdote, emotional reactivity, or attacks
- Part of coherent same-day content calendar: property promotions, book quotes, motivational content — consistent with scheduled posting strategy
- Zero authentic Trump stylistic fingerprints present

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance

Sentiment: +0.35

### Clinical

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 10%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Mentor positioning — dispensing elite wisdom to followers
- Borrowed prestige via Gretzky association — implicit self-identification with the bold achiever archetype

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> The quote 'You miss 100% of the shots you don't take' is authentically attributed to Wayne Gretzky

**MOSTLY TRUE**

The quote is documented as early as 1983 via The Hockey News (Bob McKenzie's account of a Gretzky interview). Gretzky has used the phrase in multiple contexts. Some debate exists about ultimate origin — occasional attribution to basketball coach Jimmy Valvano — but Gretzky's use is well-established and the attribution is widely accepted. Importantly, this is the direct Gretzky quote, not the satirical Michael Scott / The Office meme variant.

Sources: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/you_miss_100%25_of_the_shots_you_don't_take; https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/wayne_gretzky_378694

Overall Veracity: 80%

## Tags

- aide_written (85%)
- motivational_quote (100%)
- brand_maintenance (90%)
- entrepreneur_identity (65%)
- no_significant_features (100%)
- business_hours (90%)

## 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). “You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.” -... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_388021883372703744
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.” - Wayne Gretzky" X (Twitter), 9 Oct. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_388021883372703744. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.” - Wayne Gretzky," X (Twitter), October 9, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_388021883372703744.

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