# Post x_388652082544513024

- Post ID: `x_388652082544513024`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-10-11T13:07:31.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @K3LCI
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_388652082544513024
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_388652082544513024/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_388652082544513024.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

_Quotes @K3LCI, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @K3LCI's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._

> "@K3LCI: @realDonaldTrump I'd vote Trump for president ten times over. #trueleadership"  Thank you.

## Engagement

- Likes: 13
- Reposts: 15
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.279Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-27T01:09:44.998Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Psychological Analysis: Trump Tweet — October 11, 2013

### Overview

This is a minimal post — a quoted retweet of fan praise with a two-word acknowledgment ("Thank you."). Taken in isolation, it offers limited surface material. Its significance lies primarily in its pattern context: five of six Trump posts on this date involve amplifying unsolicited calls for a 2016 presidential run, suggesting deliberate or habitual curation of presidential identity signals approximately two years before his June 2015 campaign announcement.

### Authorship Attribution

**Local time:** 9:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4, October 2013).
**Location:** Trump was almost certainly in New York on a weekday in October 2013.
**Assessment:** Business-hours timing slightly favors aide involvement, but the behavior — retweeting fan presidential praise — is deeply consistent with Trump's known personal Twitter habits. The brevity ("Thank you.") matches his authentic brief-acknowledgment style. Likely authentic Trump with moderate confidence.

### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

The post is too brief for reliable comprehensive trait assessment. What is observable:
- **Extraversion (high facet: assertiveness/positive affect):** Comfort receiving and broadcasting public admiration; no hedging or deflection of the presidential framing
- **Agreeableness (low):** The "Thank you" is functionally self-promotional rather than genuinely other-directed — it rewards the fan while amplifying the gratifying content to a larger audience
- **Neuroticism (low/absent):** No visible hostility, anxiety, or vulnerability markers in this specific post — a relaxed, grandiose-state post

### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Dominant motive: Power/Status (Agency).**
The serial amplification of "Trump for President" content across five posts on this date reveals strong power-motive activation. Trump is not merely acknowledging fans — he is curating an identity as a prospective national leader. The hashtag "#trueleadership" is allowed to stand unremarked, functioning as an implicit self-description adopted via endorsement rather than assertion.

**Schema revealed:** The world contains people who recognize true leadership when they see it; Trump is that leader; the current political figures (Obama, during the shutdown) are its absence.

### Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** Reluctant savior / demanded leader — the narrative frame positions Trump as someone the public is calling upon, not someone actively seeking power. This is a structurally important distinction: it allows grandiosity while maintaining the posture of humility.

**Identity claims:** By retweeting "#trueleadership," Trump accepts the label without having to claim it directly — a rhetorical technique that enables grandiosity with plausible deniability.

**Contamination/Redemption arc:** Implicit in surrounding context. The government shutdown and Fox News criticism of Obama as a failed dealmaker construct a contamination sequence (capable America → incompetent leadership), with Trump as the implicit redemption figure.

**Contrasting other:** Obama — referenced in the Fox News appearance noted in the known events — is the implied foil: the non-dealmaker versus Trump's self-presentation as master dealmaker and "true leader."

### Level 4: Clinical Indicators

**Narcissistic supply collection (moderate evidence):**
Serial retweeting of presidential encouragement is a textbook narcissistic supply-seeking behavior. Rather than generating original grandiose content, Trump here deploys a more sophisticated variant: allowing followers to perform grandiosity on his behalf, then amplifying and endorsing it. This is less pathologically exposed than direct self-aggrandizement and more effective at cultivating audience loyalty.

**Trigger:** Supply-seeking (maintenance level). No acute narcissistic injury is evident. This is not reactive posting — it is proactive identity cultivation.

**Narcissistic state:** Grandiose. Relaxed receipt of admiration; no vulnerability markers.

**Defense mechanisms:** None prominent. The "Thank you." might be read as mild reaction formation (performing modesty while broadcasting grandiosity), but the post is too brief to support this with confidence.

**Malignant narcissism components:** Only narcissistic features are activated in this post. No antisocial, paranoid, or sadistic elements are present.

### Rhetorical Techniques

**Social proof amplification:** By retweeting rather than asserting, Trump signals popular presidential demand while maintaining the frame of reluctant availability.

**Identity laundering via hashtag adoption:** "#trueleadership" arrives via fan, is accepted and amplified by Trump. The label attaches to Trump's profile without Trump having authored it.

**Parasocial bonding:** "Thank you." creates a direct personal acknowledgment that rewards supply-generating fan behavior and encourages future submissions. This is a reinforcement loop: fan submits praise → Trump amplifies to thousands → fan receives acknowledgment → fan is incentivized to submit again.

**Astroturfed demand:** The pattern of amplifying multiple "Trump for president" tweets on a single day creates the impression of organic popular demand; the curation itself is a form of manufactured consensus.

### Cognitive Status

Post is too brief (two words of original content) for meaningful cognitive assessment. No anomalies detectable. Coherence is unremarkable.

### Danger Assessment

None. This is a routine, low-valence presidential-aspiration signal with no threatening or mobilizing content.

### Longitudinal Note

The clustering of presidential-encouragement retweets on a single date in October 2013 is consistent with Trump's documented pattern of systematically testing presidential messaging before his formal announcement. The government shutdown context — with Trump publicly positioning himself as the dealmaker Obama failed to be — provides the implicit contrast narrative that makes these retweets coherent within a single day's posting session: country in crisis, real leader visible on the sidelines.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 68%)

### Indicators

- 9:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time — business hours slightly favors aide involvement
- Behavior pattern (retweeting fan presidential praise) is extensively documented as a personal Trump Twitter habit, boosting authenticity score
- Two-word 'Thank you.' reply matches Trump's known minimal-acknowledgment style
- Post is too brief to assess spelling/grammar deviations meaningfully
- Five similar presidential-encouragement retweets same day suggest a personal curation session rather than scheduled aide posts

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Fan praise and unsolicited presidential endorsement)

Sentiment: +0.72

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 35%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 100%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct acknowledgment ('Thank you.') rewards supply-submitting fans and reinforces the behavior
- Amplification of fan content creates reciprocal loyalty loop at scale
- Identity construction via serial curation of presidential-demand retweets
- Adopting fan-applied identity labels (#trueleadership) without directly claiming them

## Tags

- narcissistic-supply-collection (72%)
- presidential-identity-construction (68%)
- parasocial-reinforcement-loop (55%)
- identity-laundering-via-hashtag (50%)
- maintenance-posting (45%)
- grandiose-state (38%)

## That day

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

**Supply Machine at Full Throttle: A 53-Post Day of CNN-Fueled Narcissistic Saturation, Pre-Political Identity Construction, and the Weaponization of a Violent Man's Grievance**

On October 11, 2013, Donald Trump generated 53 posts across approximately 20 hours of documented activity — a volume far exceeding any plausible single-day baseline — anchored behaviorally by a CNN appearance with Piers Morgan at approximately 9 PM EDT the prior evening. The day partitions into four functional phases: a late-evening and pre-dawn supply-harvesting cycle (20:50–22:14 EDT Oct 10, then 03:38–04:18 EDT Oct 11) amplifying fan praise for the CNN interview; a mid-morning presidential identity construction cluster (08:12–09:10 EDT) comprising at least five consecutive retweets of fan-initiated #TRUMP2016 content; a concentrated midday devaluation attack episode (10:36–12:08 EDT) targeting NY AG Eric Schneiderman, Pritzker Prize–winning architect Richard Meier, and real estate competitor Douglas Durst in rapid succession; and an afternoon phase of political commentary and ambient maintenance through 16:54 EDT. The dominant psychological state is grandiose and supply-rich throughout, with no detectable vulnerability, dysphoria, or sustained rage spiral.

The day's single most clinically significant post is x_388697528767488000, which weaponizes the troubled personal history of Robert Durst — publicly known by October 2013 to have admitted dismembering a neighbor, with family members holding active restraining orders against him — as competitive ammunition against his brother Douglas, a Trump real estate rival who secured the prestige 1 World Trade Center anchor tenant deal. Trump's public expression that Robert's anger at Douglas is 'no wonder' constitutes implicit legitimization of documented violent rage in a person with an established violent profile, earning the day's only elevated danger designation. Separately, x_388674566391742464 is confirmed as part of a documented 44-tweet harassment campaign against a sitting state AG who filed a $40 million civil fraud suit against Trump University approximately six weeks prior, deploying textbook DARVO with demonstrably false factual claims.

Longitudinally, October 11, 2013 is clinically significant not for acute crisis markers but as a documented rehearsal of the 2016 presidential campaign's complete psychological and rhetorical architecture, assembled 20 months before Trump's formal announcement. Every core MAGA narrative element appears in operational form: the incompetent political class (Obama as failed dealmaker during the shutdown), the uniquely qualified transactional outsider (modeled via the CNN appearance and supply amplification), the grassroots movement calling him to serve (fan-curated #TRUMP2016 content selectively ratified), the economic rescue promise ('our Country would become very rich, very fast' — x_388641708705316864), and the national humiliation framework ('greatest military, yet no respect' — x_388759344772182016). The pre-dawn posting cluster (03:38–04:18 EDT) combined with the 53-post volume and confirmed media-activation trigger collectively satisfy multiple threshold indicators for a hypomanic-range episode, assessed with moderate confidence.

Full digest for 2013-10-11: https://trump.fm/date/2013-10-11/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, October 11). "@K3LCI: @realDonaldTrump I'd vote Trump for... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_388652082544513024
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@K3LCI: @realDonaldTrump I'd vote Trump for president ten..." X (Twitter), 11 Oct. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_388652082544513024. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, ""@K3LCI: @realDonaldTrump I'd vote Trump for president ten...," X (Twitter), October 11, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_388652082544513024.

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