# Post x_388280574701735936

- Post ID: `x_388280574701735936`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-10-10T12:31:17.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @lil_borto
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_388280574701735936
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_388280574701735936/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_388280574701735936.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

_Quotes @lil_borto, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @lil_borto's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._

> "@lil_borto: I said this last year, but Ill say it again.. @realDonaldTrump should be president. This man knows his shit!"

## Engagement

- Likes: 76
- Reposts: 55
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.279Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-27T00:02:35.453Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

A low-amplitude but longitudinally significant supply-seeking retweet. Trump amplifies an obscure follower's presidential endorsement — 'This man knows his shit!' — without qualification, signaling an ego-syntonic presidential self-concept operating at least 20 months before his June 2015 formal announcement. The behavioral choice reveals a dominant power/status motive integrated with a grandiose self-schema: the presidency is accepted as a natural destination, not deflected or disclaimed. Psychologically, the post is textbook narcissistic supply acquisition: the third-party proxy form achieves full validation while avoiding the social cost of direct self-proclamation. The crude vernacular of the retweeted text ('knows his shit'), amplified without distancing, simultaneously signals populist authenticity and comfort with unfiltered admiration. Contextually, the post lands amid active political positioning — Trump appeared on Fox News that week criticizing Obama's shutdown non-dealmaking — making the retweet a narrative confirmation of the competent-alternative identity he is constructing. Adjacent FPL complaint posts reveal the consistent background schema: entitlement, grievance, and threat when preferences are unmet. The presidential retweet and the utility company threats operate from the same psychological foundation. No rage, paranoia, or danger indicators present. Primary research value: establishes documented presidential ambition and supply-seeking pattern in 2013 baseline period.

# Analysis: Post x_388280574701735936 — October 10, 2013

## Authorship Attribution

**Local time conversion:** UTC 12:31:17 → **8:31 AM EDT** (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC−4; DST still in effect October 10, 2013; ends November 3, 2013).

**Location inference:** The cluster of Florida Power & Light tweets on October 9–10 strongly suggests Trump was at or recently departing Mar-a-Lago (Palm Beach, FL), which is also EDT. Either way, the post lands at **8:31 AM local time** — morning business hours.

**Authorship analysis:** There is no Trump-authored text here; the post is a verbatim old-style Twitter retweet (quoting the user's full text). The timing (morning business hours) is somewhat consistent with aide management. However, the documented behavior of retweeting crude, enthusiastic fan praise — particularly praise that implies presidential worthiness — is one of the most reliably *authentic* Trump Twitter patterns across the 2012–2016 period. Research confirms Trump was actively retweeting supporter compliments in this era (e.g., retweeting praise of Trump University, comparisons to Reagan). The comfort with amplifying "This man knows his shit!" — unfiltered, vulgar, utterly validating — is a fingerprint of authentic Trump. **Lean: authentic, confidence medium** (morning timing introduces ambiguity; absence of Trump text limits certainty).

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## Multi-Level Personality Analysis (McAdams & Pals, 2006)

### Level 1: Dispositional Traits
No Trump-authored text limits direct trait inference; we analyze behavioral choice — *what he chose to amplify*:

- **Extraversion (elevated):** Selection of a public presidential endorsement for amplification signals assertiveness and persistent status-seeking. The enthusiasm is unreserved.
- **Agreeableness (low, inferred):** Comfort amplifying "knows his shit" — crude, unfiltered vernacular — signals minimal propriety filtering and indifference to social modesty norms.
- **Conscientiousness (low in this instance):** No qualification, contextualization, or deliberation. The endorsement is taken raw and broadcast immediately.
- **Neuroticism (not salient):** Post is in a positive/expansive register; no anxiety or threat evident.
- **Openness (neutral):** The retweet doesn't engage original content; openness not assessable here.

### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations
**Dominant motive: Power/Status.** This retweet occurs in October 2013 — approximately 20 months before Trump's June 2015 formal announcement — but importantly, *after* a 2012 flirtation that didn't materialize. The act of amplifying a presidential call, without discounting it or adding humility, indicates the presidential self-concept is live and ego-syntonic. The "I said this last year" framing from @lil_borto retrospectively validates the 2012 flirtation as prescient rather than failed.

**Schemas evident:**
- *Self as president-worthy*: Retweeting without distancing or deflection ("thanks but I'm not running") signals the identity is accepted, not rejected.
- *Others as admirers*: The follower functions as a mirror, reflecting the grandiose self-image back. Trump's role is to receive and amplify the reflection.
- *Competence as personal essence*: "Knows his shit" — not policy expertise, not moral fitness, but raw competence and unvarnished directness — encodes Trump's preferred self-schema.

### Level 3: Narrative Identity
**Protagonist role:** Future president / competent leader in waiting. The retweet functions as narrative staking — not asserting the presidential claim directly (which would appear presumptuous), but letting a third party make the claim while receiving full psychological credit.

**Identity claims (implicit):**
- "Presidential-worthy"
- "Competent where current leadership is not"
- "Speaks plainly, knows things" (anti-elite register of "knows his shit")

**Contrasting other (implicit, contextual):** President Obama. The surrounding news context is critical: Trump appeared on Fox News that very week criticizing Obama as a non-dealmaker during the government shutdown. The presidential retweet lands in precisely this narrative gap — Obama cannot make a deal; Trump is the man who could. The contrasting other is not named in the post but is structurally present.

**Narrative sequence:** Redemptive/aspirational. The sequence implied: current failed leadership → Trump as restoration of competent, deal-making authority.

### Level 4: Clinical Indicators

**Primary dynamic: Narcissistic supply-seeking (maintenance/amplification type).** The behavioral selection — specifically choosing to amplify *this* retweet from an obscure account (@lil_borto, not a public figure) — is diagnostic. The post has no instrumental value (no political announcement, no policy argument). Its sole function is the acquisition of narcissistic supply: validation of grandiosity, confirmation of the presidential self-concept, and public amplification of admiration. This is textbook Level 2 narcissistic supply-seeking behavior.

**Narcissistic state:** Grandiose. No vulnerability, threat, or persecution present. The register is expansive and self-assured.

**Trigger:** Supply-seeking / maintenance. No injury precedes this — it is proactive supply acquisition in a context of political positioning (Fox News appearances that week).

**Malignant narcissism components (this post):**
- Narcissistic features *moderate*: grandiosity by proxy, entitlement to presidency
- Antisocial features *minimal*: not present in this post
- Paranoid features *absent*
- Sadism *absent*

**Defense mechanisms:** Minimal. The behavior is ego-syntonic and direct. The most notable dynamic is **third-party proxy use** — displacing the grandiose presidential claim onto @lil_borto's voice to achieve the same effect without the social cost of direct self-assertion. This is a low-cost, low-defense-effort supply acquisition strategy. Not a prominent pathological defense; more a characteristic interpersonal tactic.

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## Contextual Integration

The surrounding posts are significant for the psychological composite they form:

The **FPL tweets** (Oct 9–10) reveal the entitlement/grievance/threat triad: *I pay millions → they don't give me what I want → I will initiate legal action*. This schema — *I am important enough to deserve compliance; non-compliance is grievance; grievance warrants weaponized response* — is a consistent background pattern.

The **presidential retweet** punctuates this cluster with a supply-seeking interlude. Psychologically, the pairing is revealing: a man simultaneously threatening class action against a utility company and retweeting calls for his presidency is operating at a consistent level of entitlement and agency-motivation. Both posts reflect the same underlying schema: *I am significant; the world should bend to my preferences; those who recognize this are correct.*

The **government shutdown context** is directly operative: Trump had positioned himself on Fox News as the competent dealmaker Obama lacked the skill to be. The retweet arrives as a narrative confirmation — external validation of the exact identity he is publicly constructing that week.

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## Rhetorical Analysis

**Devices employed:**
- **Third-party testimony/endorsement**: The most rhetorically efficient form of self-promotion — the claim is made by another, appearing as external validation rather than self-assertion, while producing identical psychological and social effects.
- **Social proof + persistence framing**: "I said this last year" frames Trump's presidential worthiness as a *durable, established truth* that precedes the moment of amplification — not a new or reactive opinion but an enduring assessment.
- **Vernacular authenticity signal**: Retweeting "knows his shit" (without editing or distancing from the profanity) communicates alignment with unfiltered, populist, anti-elite register. This is a values signal to a specific audience.
- **Implicit comparison (contextual)**: Against the backdrop of Fox News appearances criticizing Obama, the retweet operates as a contrast argument without stating one.

**Propaganda techniques:** None prominent at this scale. The post is too small for RAND firehose dynamics. It is supply-seeking, not propaganda.

**Dehumanizing language:** Absent. **Violent imagery:** Absent. **Stochastic terrorism:** Absent.

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## Cognitive Assessment

No Trump-authored text is present; direct cognitive assessment is not applicable to this post. Adjacent FPL tweets show coherent, if impulsive and self-focused, argumentation — no word-finding difficulties, no temporal confusion, no perseveration beyond the strategic repetition of the FPL complaint. **2013 baseline: no cognitive flags.**

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## Danger Assessment

**None.** Benign supply-seeking retweet. No targets, no grievance escalation, no threat language, no mobilization language. Psychologically routine for this subject and period.

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## Longitudinal Significance

The primary research value of this post is as a **temporal marker of presidential ambition** pre-announcement. It establishes that the presidential self-concept was ego-syntonic and publicly expressed (via proxy) as early as October 2013, integrated with active political positioning (Fox News appearances, shutdown commentary). The pattern of *retweeting crude fan praise without qualification* will persist and intensify through 2015–2016. This post is a low-amplitude early instance of a behavior that becomes a defining characteristic of the account.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Trump should be president" | **Unverifiable** | Normative/opinion claim; not a factual assertion subject to verification. |
| "@lil_borto said this last year (2012)" | **Unverifiable** | Claim about a private individual's prior tweet; no archival record available for verification. Contextually plausible given Trump's 2011-2012 presidential flirtation. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 62%)

### Indicators

- Morning business hours (8:31 AM EDT) introduces ambiguity
- Retweeting unfiltered crude fan praise is a documented authentic Trump behavior pattern
- No Trump-authored text for direct stylometric analysis
- Adjacent FPL complaint posts same day suggest personal account activity
- Old-style Twitter quote retweet format consistent with direct user behavior in 2013

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Fan validation of presidential ambition)

Sentiment: +0.65

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 45%
- Antisocial: 5%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- displacement (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 0%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Third-party endorsement amplification — uses follower as mirror to reflect grandiose self-image back to audience
- Vernacular mirroring — retweeting crude 'knows his shit' signals populist alignment and anti-elite authenticity to audience
- Presidential identity seeding — normalizes Trump-as-president framing in audience's mind 20 months pre-announcement

## Fact Checks (2)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-02-27._

> Trump should be president

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Normative/opinion claim; not a factual assertion subject to verification.

> @lil_borto said this last year (2012)

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Claim about a private individual's prior tweet; no archival record available for verification. Contextually plausible given Trump's 2011-2012 presidential flirtation.

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- presidential-ambition-pre-announcement (85%)
- narcissistic-supply-seeking (80%)
- third-party-endorsement-amplification (75%)
- grandiose-state (65%)
- populist-vernacular-signal (55%)
- 2013-baseline (70%)

## That day

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

**Shutdown Pundit Mode: A Day of Anti-Obama Broadsides, Duplicate Posts, and Brand Maintenance**

Trump spent the day as a self-appointed government shutdown commentator, firing off a sustained string of anti-Obama posts -- attacking his fiscal record, the WWII Memorial closure, and his handling of the crisis -- while weaving in self-promotion for an evening CNN appearance with Piers Morgan. The sharpest moment came in a post using dehumanizing language toward immigrants at an immigration reform rally, reframed as a patriotic betrayal. Between the political volleys, he thanked supporters, plugged a hotel, quoted his own book, and re-posted several tweets from the night before with encoding errors. The mood was consistently self-assured and grandiose, with no signs of distress beyond mild entitled frustration over a Florida utility company.

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

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, October 10). "@lil_borto: I said this last year, but Ill say... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_388280574701735936
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@lil_borto: I said this last year, but Ill say it again....." X (Twitter), 10 Oct. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_388280574701735936. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, ""@lil_borto: I said this last year, but Ill say it again.....," X (Twitter), October 10, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_388280574701735936.

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