# Post x_388652539136450560 - Post ID: `x_388652539136450560` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-10-11T13:09:20.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @kdawnpatterson - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_388652539136450560 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_388652539136450560/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_388652539136450560.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text _Quotes @kdawnpatterson, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @kdawnpatterson's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._ > "@kdawnpatterson: Praying that you will consider running for president. You understand business & know how to negotiate. #tump4prez" ## Engagement - Likes: 25 - Reposts: 24 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.279Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-27T01:13:40.705Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary On October 11, 2013, Trump executed a morning cluster of five consecutive retweets of fans urging a presidential run — a psychologically significant pattern of active narcissistic supply curation. This post is the fourth in that cluster. The act of publicly broadcasting others' admiration rather than privately receiving it is paradigmatic supply-seeking behavior: it feeds the grandiose self-concept, tests audience appetite for a candidacy, and constructs a proto-campaign narrative of the reluctant but uniquely qualified savior. The specific language amplified — "understand business," "know how to negotiate" — rehearses identity anchors that would define Trump's 2016 campaign verbatim. Defenses present include rationalization (framing ambition as responding to public demand) and idealization of self via proxy (outsourcing grandiosity to followers while maintaining deniability). The concurrent context — government shutdown, Trump criticizing Obama's dealmaking on Fox News the same day — supplies the negative comparison pole: Obama as incompetent insider, Trump as uniquely competent outsider. No narcissistic injury, rage, or anxiety is detectable; this is a grandiose-state, supply-rich moment. No danger indicators. The hashtag typo "#tump4prez" in the original was retweeted uncorrected — consistent with rapid personal engagement, though morning timing (9:09 AM EDT) introduces mild ambiguity about authorship. Cognitive assessment is precluded by absence of original language production. Collectively, the day's cluster documents an early, systematic instance of the identity construction that would become "Make America Great Again." ## Post Analysis: October 11, 2013 — Supply-Seeking Cluster ### Authorship Attribution Posted at 13:09:20 UTC. Trump's primary base in October 2013 was New York City (Trump Tower, 5th Avenue). Eastern Daylight Time (EDT = UTC−4) remained in effect through November 3, 2013, placing this post at **9:09 AM EDT** — squarely within business hours, which modestly favors aide-authored attribution. However, contextual evidence complicates a clean aide attribution. The five posts on October 11 collectively show a sustained retweeting session of pro-Trump-for-president content, with personally inflected responses appended to adjacent posts ("Wow!", "Thank you."). Research on Trump's 2013 Twitter activity notes a marked increase in personally driven, politically charged tweeting that year. The absence of appended commentary on *this specific* retweet may reflect variation in engagement style within a personal session rather than a handoff to an aide. The hashtag typo "#tump4prez" (original poster's error, missing 'r' in "trump") was retweeted uncorrected — consistent with rapid, uncritical personal retweeting but not conclusively so. **Authorship assessment:** Mixed/uncertain. Morning timing (9:09 AM EDT) and absent personal commentary favor aide involvement; the cluster pattern, adjacent personal responses ("Wow!", "Thank you."), and the documented 2013 personal Twitter escalation favor authentic Trump. Score: 0.40 (slight aide lean; low confidence). --- ### Contextual Cluster This post is the fourth of at least five consecutive retweets on October 11, 2013, all carrying the same theme: fans pleading with Trump to run for president. The full same-day cluster: 1. "@MaridythN" — "take-no-BS attitude is what we need in this country" 2. "@DEMEGL10" — "Everyone should start their twitter day with TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT" → Trump appended: *"Wow!"* 3. "@PapiGonzalez3" — "smart, experienced, successful man. TRUMP 2016" 4. **This post** — "@kdawnpatterson" prayer for presidential consideration [no added commentary] 5. "@K3LCI" — "#trueleadership" → Trump appended: *"Thank you."* The cluster is the primary unit of psychological significance here. Five thematically identical retweets in one morning session constitutes **systematic, active curation of narcissistic supply** — publicly broadcasting external validation rather than privately receiving it. The act converts private flattery into public spectacle while simultaneously: **(a)** feeding the grandiose self-concept through repeated exposure to idealized self-descriptions; **(b)** testing audience appetite for a presidential run (an implicit crowd-sourcing of political viability); **(c)** constructing a proto-campaign narrative of the reluctant but uniquely needed outsider. This pattern is consistent with documented research showing Trump retweeted exclusively supporters and complimentary content, systematically excluding critical voices. --- ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits **Extraversion (high):** Amplifying personal praise to a public audience rather than privately receiving it is a paradigmatic high-extraversion behavior. The public broadcast of fan adulation converts the narcissistic transaction into a performance. **Agreeableness (low; muted in this context):** Characteristically low agreeableness is held in abeyance during supply-reception. The gracious "Thank you." on adjacent posts signals comfort with flattery; no hostility displayed. **Conscientiousness (low):** Five retweets on the same theme in one morning session suggests impulsive, unreflective amplification rather than deliberate communication strategy. **Neuroticism (not displayed):** This is a supply-rich moment. The grandiose state is regulated and stable; no anxiety, hostile affect, or impulsivity is visible. **Openness (low):** The identity being constructed is closed and fixed — the same two claims ("business," "negotiation") repeated across the cluster without variation or conceptual elaboration. --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Power motive dominant.** The cluster is organized around a single telos: accumulation of evidence for a presidential run. The specific language chosen for amplification — "you understand business," "know how to negotiate" — rehearses core identity claims that would anchor the entire 2016 campaign. **Self-schema:** Trump = uniquely competent outsider / Obama = incompetent insider who cannot negotiate. The October 2013 government shutdown provides ambient justification — Trump appeared on Fox News the same day criticizing Obama's failure to be a dealmaker, constructing the negative pole of the self-other comparison. **Supply-seeking trigger:** No narcissistic injury is evident as a precipitating trigger. This is proactive, ego-syntonic supply gathering — a grandiose-state behavior consistent with elevated mood and stable self-regard. --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** *The reluctant but uniquely qualified savior.* The prayer framing of the original tweet ("Praying that you will consider running") positions Trump as one being beseeched, not one who is seeking — a narrative that launders personal ambition as civic duty. By retweeting it, Trump implicitly endorses this self-framing. **Contamination → Redemption arc (proto-campaign):** The implied backstory is contamination: a great nation declining under incompetent leadership. The prospective narrative is redemption: the arrival of the uniquely qualified outsider who can fix what politicians have broken. This two-part structure would be explicitly branded as "Make America Great Again" two years later. **Identity claims (via proxied praise):** - "You understand business" → business genius - "Know how to negotiate" → master dealmaker - "Take-no-BS attitude" → authentic anti-establishment voice - "Smart, experienced, successful" → superior to professional politicians **Contrasting Other (implicit):** Obama — framed through the concurrent shutdown/dealmaking context as lacking precisely what Trump possesses: business acumen and negotiating competence. --- ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Malignant Narcissism (Kernberg):** Narcissistic features present at moderate level (supply-seeking cluster, grandiose self-framing, proxied self-idealization). No antisocial, paranoid, or sadistic features present in this specific post. **Grandiose state:** Confident, expansive, supply-rich register. No vulnerable oscillation detected. **Defenses:** - *Rationalization (neurotic):* Presidential ambition framed as a response to popular demand rather than personal desire. The "people are asking me" structure provides motivational cover for pre-existing goals. - *Idealization of self via proxy (immature):* Outsourcing grandiosity to followers — retweeting their praise rather than asserting it directly — maintains the appearance of modesty while achieving the same self-aggrandizing function. --- ### Rhetorical Analysis **Amplification as primary rhetorical act:** The retweet mechanism itself carries the persuasive force. No original argument is constructed; followers' voices do the credentializing work. **Proxy self-promotion:** Retweeting others' praise achieves self-aggrandizement while maintaining plausible deniability — a structurally sophisticated maneuver whether deliberate or intuitive. **Petition framing:** "Praying that you will consider" constructs a supplicant-to-sovereign dynamic that Trump amplifies by making it visible to his entire audience. **Identity reinforcement loop:** Each retweet in the cluster reinforces the same two-axis identity ("business / negotiation"), creating through repetition a brand incantation that primes the audience for the future candidacy. No violent imagery. No dehumanizing language. No stochastic terrorism indicators. No gaslighting. Danger level: none. --- ### Cognitive Assessment No independent language production to analyze — the post is a verbatim retweet with no appended commentary. Adjacent posts in the cluster ("Wow!", "Thank you.") show simple but normal vocabulary and syntax consistent with the 2013 Trump Twitter baseline. No temporal confusion, name confusion, perseveration (beyond thematic repetition across cluster), or other markers of concern. Baseline deviation: none. --- ### Archetypal Dimensions **Primary archetype:** *The King* (benevolent order-bringer) positioned against *The Tyrant* (implicit — Obama as incompetent/corrupt order-holder). Trump does not claim the King role directly but allows others to name him for it, a characteristic pre-political positioning maneuver that preserves deniability while constructing the archetype. **Shadow projection:** The implicit negative pole (Obama = weak, can't negotiate) externalizes onto the incumbent whatever insecurity about political inexperience might otherwise attach to Trump himself. ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Trump understands business" | **Unverifiable** | This is an evaluative opinion expressed by a fan, not a verifiable factual claim. Trump's business record includes both notable successes (real estate branding) and significant failures (six corporate bankruptcies including Trump Taj Mahal, Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts). The claim as stated cannot be falsified. | | "Trump knows how to negotiate" | **Unverifiable** | An evaluative opinion by the original poster. Trump's negotiating outcomes are contested: proponents cite real estate deal-making; critics note failed legislative negotiations and treaty withdrawals. No objective benchmark for 'knowing how to negotiate' exists that would render this verifiable. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 40%) ### Indicators - 9:09 AM EDT timing falls within business hours (mild aide indicator) - No personal commentary appended (unlike adjacent cluster posts with 'Wow!' and 'Thank you.') - Part of 5-retweet cluster showing sustained personal engagement pattern (authentic indicator) - Original poster's hashtag typo '#tump4prez' retweeted uncorrected (consistent with rapid personal retweeting) - 2013 marked documented escalation in Trump's personal Twitter activity ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Twitter fan base proactively offering presidential endorsements) Sentiment: +0.65 **Mildly Hypomanic** - five thematically identical retweets in a single morning session suggests elevated engagement with flattery beyond typical baseline - exclamatory appended responses to adjacent cluster posts ('Wow!') indicate heightened positive affect - consistent with supply-rich grandiose state; not diagnostically significant in isolation but notable as cluster pattern ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 65% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 5% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) - idealization (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 10% **Parasocial Techniques:** - public broadcast of private fan validation to convert dyadic admiration into mass audience spectacle - follower identification through shared aspiration — retweeted supporters model the desired audience response - implicit invitation to join the movement through amplification of peer voices ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-02-27._ > Trump understands business **UNVERIFIABLE** This is an evaluative opinion expressed by a fan, not a verifiable factual claim. Trump's business record includes both notable successes (real estate branding) and significant failures (six corporate bankruptcies including Trump Taj Mahal, Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts). The claim as stated cannot be falsified. > Trump knows how to negotiate **UNVERIFIABLE** An evaluative opinion by the original poster. Trump's negotiating outcomes are contested: proponents cite real estate deal-making; critics note failed legislative negotiations and treaty withdrawals. No objective benchmark for 'knowing how to negotiate' exists that would render this verifiable. Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - supply-seeking (92%) - grandiose-state (75%) - presidential-aspiration (85%) - identity-construction (80%) - proxy-self-promotion (78%) - rationalization (65%) - proto-maga-narrative (70%) - 2013-baseline (50%) - retweet-cluster (80%) ## 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). "@kdawnpatterson: Praying that you will consider... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_388652539136450560 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@kdawnpatterson: Praying that you will consider running..." X (Twitter), 11 Oct. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_388652539136450560. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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