# Post x_389721073002225664

- Post ID: `x_389721073002225664`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-10-14T11:55:19.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @jlow6603
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_389721073002225664
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_389721073002225664/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_389721073002225664.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

_Quotes @jlow6603, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @jlow6603's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._

> "@jlow6603: Best part about Monday mornings is listening to @realDonaldTrump on Fox and Friends! You should run for POTUS!!" Thank you!

## Engagement

- Likes: 17
- Reposts: 14
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.279Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-27T01:53:47.843Z (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: x_389721073002225664 — October 14, 2013

## Authorship Attribution

**Local timestamp:** UTC 11:55 AM → **7:55 AM EDT** (New York City, Trump Tower). October 14 falls within Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4; DST did not end until November 3, 2013).

**Verdict: High confidence authentic Trump (0.88).**

"Mondays with Trump" — a confirmed recurring Fox & Friends segment — launched in April 2011 and was active through this period. Fox & Friends broadcasts 6–9 AM ET, placing 7:55 AM squarely within or immediately following that morning's appearance. The fan tweet is explicitly a response to *that very broadcast* ("Best part about Monday mornings is listening to @realDonaldTrump on Fox and Friends!"), making the reactive post essentially contemporaneous with the appearance. The format — verbatim fan quote in quotation marks followed by a two-word affirmation — is a documented Trump Twitter signature of this era. No grammatical polish, no professional structure, minimal punctuation deliberation. The slight affect elevation (exclamation mark vs. the flat-period "Thank you." on adjacent posts) is consistent with organic emotional variation, not aide composition.

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## Longitudinal Context

The surrounding 24-hour cluster reveals a systematic behavioral pattern, not casual fan engagement. Within this window, Trump amplified:
- Three distinct fan appeals for a POTUS run (10/13–10/14)
- One prestige credential reinforcement ("Wharton — the School of Champions")
- One favorable comparison to Obama

This is *selective amplification*: Trump is not responding to all fans but specifically broadcasting those who position him as a potential president. At 67, in October 2013 — one year before announcing his exploratory flirtations for 2016 — this constitutes early-stage, iterative testing of a presidential persona with a captive audience. Each retweet functions as a social proof data point, normalizing the POTUS-run narrative as a popular, organic demand rather than personal ambition.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

**Extraversion (elevated):** Consistent voluntary public exposure through weekly national television combined with real-time Twitter engagement reflects high assertiveness and excitement-seeking. The Fox & Friends segment itself — maintained for two-plus years at this point — is a high-extraversion behavioral commitment.

**Neuroticism (low in this instance):** The post reflects a grandiose, stable positive-affect state. No hostility, no defensiveness, no anxiety markers. This is the extravert in an optimal supply state.

**Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Openness:** Not assessable from a three-word original contribution.

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Dominant motive — Agency (Power/Status):** The selective amplification of POTUS-candidacy praise, repeated across adjacent posts, reveals goal-directed agency striving. This is not communion (warmth, belonging) — fans are instrumentalized as validators of a political aspiration rather than engaged as individuals.

**Schema (Self):** "I am a nationally recognized figure of such quality that the public spontaneously demands I lead them."

**Schema (World):** "Popular acclaim is a legitimate political mandate."

**Schema (Others):** Fans are sources of admiration and, crucially, of social proof for political viability. The "Thank you!" is less interpersonal reciprocity than it is audience acknowledgment.

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** The *Chosen One* (reluctantly accepting popular draft). The fan's language — "You should run for POTUS!!" — and the prior day's "you're our only hope!" cast Trump as the Hero summoned by a desperate populace. His "Thank you!" accepts this casting without deflection, modification, or false humility. This is narrative identity absorption: the subject adopts the identity the audience offers him.

**Narrative sequence (ambient, cross-post):** Implied *contamination → redemption*. America under Obama is the contamination (declining, failing); Trump's potential presidency is the redemption arc. This is not explicit in the post but is the mythological atmosphere the cluster of posts constructs collectively.

**Identity claims:**
- "I am a valued, regular voice on national television"
- "The people want me as president"
- "I am associated with elite institutions (Wharton)"

**Contrasting other:** President Obama — unstated but implied by the fans' framing ("done more for this country than Barrack has ever thought about" appears in an adjacent post he also amplified).

**Archetypal resonance:** The *Hero/Savior* archetype is being actively rehearsed here, with the crowd's calls functioning as the mythological "call to adventure." Trump's "Thank you!" is the reluctant hero's polite acknowledgment of destiny — a rhetorical positioning that makes ambition appear as duty.

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## Clinical Indicators

**Narcissistic state: Grandiose.** No vulnerable features. This is a subject in a secure, expansive supply state — positive feedback loop between weekly television audience and real-time Twitter admiration.

**Trigger: Supply-seeking / maintenance.** No narcissistic injury is present. This is proactive supply amplification — the broadcasting of received admiration to expand both the supply pool and the political legitimacy narrative simultaneously.

**Narcissistic features salient:**
- *Grandiosity*: Acceptance of "our only hope" framing without pushback
- *Need for admiration*: Active, repeated selection and rebroadcast of flattery
- *Entitlement*: The effortlessness with which the POTUS-candidate identity is inhabited suggests it feels like recognition rather than aspiration

**Malignant elements:** None active. No antisocial, paranoid, or sadistic features present in this post.

**Defense mechanisms (minimal):**
- *Idealization (immature)*: Fan's hyperbolic framing ("only hope") is absorbed rather than moderated. The subject tacitly endorses the idealized self-image being projected onto him.

**Parasocial techniques:** Individual fan naming/tagging creates the experience of personal relationship for each named fan while the rebroadcast reaches the mass audience — efficient supply-harvesting architecture.

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## Cognitive Assessment

**Sample size: Insufficient.** Original language production consists of "Thank you!" — three words, zero syntactic complexity, no assessable vocabulary. Quote-amplification posts are structurally uninformative for cognitive evaluation.

**Baseline deviation: None detectable.** The post is fully consistent with the 2013 Twitter baseline for this subject.

*Longitudinal note: Meaningful cognitive trajectory analysis requires posts with substantive original language production. This post contributes nothing to that analysis.*

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## Rhetorical Techniques

**Supply amplification:** The dominant rhetorical function. Rebroadcasting fan flattery multiplies its reach and normalizes the content of the praise (POTUS eligibility) across a much larger audience.

**Social proof construction:** Each retweet of a "run for president!" appeal adds an ostensible data point of popular demand, manufacturing the impression of widespread, organic sentiment. With three such amplifications in 24 hours, a proto-political narrative is being constructed.

**Performed reluctance / false modesty:** "Thank you!" positions Trump as the gracious recipient of unsolicited popular demand rather than an ambitious aspirant. The desire appears to emanate from the people; he merely accepts it humbly.

**Parasocial naming:** @jlow6603 receives a personal, public acknowledgment from a national TV figure — an intensely effective loyalty mechanism for the named individual and a model of available relationship for the observing audience.

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## Gaslighting / Reality Distortion

None present. The post makes no factual claims about external reality.

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## Danger Assessment

**Level: None.** No threatening language, no dehumanization, no target identification, no mobilization signals.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Trump appears on Fox and Friends on Monday mornings (implied by fan tweet he amplifies)" | **True** | Fox News announced 'Mondays with Trump' as a recurring segment in April 2011. The segment was active and ongoing through October 2013, confirmed by the fan's tweet referencing that specific Monday morning broadcast and the post timestamp of 7:55 AM EDT falling within the Fox & Friends 6–9 AM broadcast window. |

Overall Veracity: 100%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 88%)

### Indicators

- 7:55 AM EDT on a Monday — within Fox & Friends broadcast window (6–9 AM ET), consistent with reactive post-appearance Twitter browsing
- Verbatim fan-quote-in-quotation-marks format is a documented Trump Twitter signature of this era
- Two-word original contribution with no grammatical polish or professional structure
- Slight affect marker (exclamation point) consistent with natural emotional variation
- Posting cluster shows rapid, informal reactive engagement pattern across same timeframe

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (fan admiration combined with presidential-run encouragement)

Sentiment: +0.72

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 42%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Individual fan tagging with public response creates simulated personal relationship
- Selective amplification of praise to mass audience while appearing to address individual

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> Trump appears on Fox and Friends on Monday mornings (implied by fan tweet he amplifies)

**TRUE**

Fox News announced 'Mondays with Trump' as a recurring segment in April 2011. The segment was active and ongoing through October 2013, confirmed by the fan's tweet referencing that specific Monday morning broadcast and the post timestamp of 7:55 AM EDT falling within the Fox & Friends 6–9 AM broadcast window.

Sources: https://www.mediaite.com/tv/you-saw-this-coming-fox-news-announces-mondays-with-trump-on-fox-friends/

Overall Veracity: 100%

## Tags

- supply-seeking (90%)
- presidential-candidacy-testing (85%)
- fan-amplification (90%)
- grandiose-state (70%)
- hero-archetype (75%)
- social-proof-construction (80%)
- Fox-and-Friends (85%)
- authentic-trump (88%)

## That day

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

**A Quiet Day of Fan Service, Property Boasting, and One Sharp Snap at a Troll**

Trump spent a routine Monday retweeting fan praise, promoting his golf courses and Las Vegas hotel, and fielding suggestions that he run for governor or president. The day's only flash of anger came early in the morning when he fired back at an anonymous critic who called him an idiot for losing money in real estate, countering with an inflated wealth claim of "over ten billion dollars." Otherwise the mood was placid and self-congratulatory, with most posts amounting to one- or two-word thank-yous to supporters.

Full digest for 2013-10-14: https://trump.fm/date/2013-10-14/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, October 14). "@jlow6603: Best part about Monday mornings is... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_389721073002225664
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@jlow6603: Best part about Monday mornings is listening to..." X (Twitter), 14 Oct. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_389721073002225664. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, ""@jlow6603: Best part about Monday mornings is listening to...," X (Twitter), October 14, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_389721073002225664.

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