# Post x_403956190847070209

- Post ID: `x_403956190847070209`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-11-22T18:40:35.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_403956190847070209
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_403956190847070209/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_403956190847070209.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Since the Democrats decided to kill the filibuster, they now own it.Republicans should keep the new rule when they're in the majority.

## Engagement

- Likes: 83
- Reposts: 107
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.277Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-27T14:28:11.927Z (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: November 22, 2013 — Nuclear Option / Filibuster Commentary

### Authorship and Timing

Posted at 18:40:35 UTC. Trump's primary base in November 2013 was New York City (Trump Tower, EST = UTC-5). Local time: 1:40 PM EST — solidly business hours.

Business-hours timing combined with clean grammar, no typos, and complete sentences provides mild support for aide-assisted composition. However, the same day also produced a directly linked post calling Obama a "Hypocrite" for his 2005 pro-filibuster position — a reactive personal attack characteristic of authentic Trump. The punchy imperative of the second sentence ("Republicans should keep the new rule") and the absence of promotional or event-announcement structure creates genuine ambiguity. Neither indicator set is decisive. Confidence: low. Score: 0.45 — marginally aide-leaning on timing and polish but inconclusive.

### Contextual Background

The nuclear option was invoked the prior day (November 21, 2013): Senate Democrats voted 52-48 to eliminate the 60-vote cloture threshold for executive nominees and federal judges below the Supreme Court. The legislative filibuster and Supreme Court nomination filibuster were explicitly preserved. Trump's advice proved historically accurate: Republicans under McConnell invoked the nuclear option in April 2017, explicitly citing Reid's 2013 precedent, to confirm Neil Gorsuch with a simple majority. McConnell described it as taking "the Reid precedent to its logical conclusion."

### Multi-Level Personality Analysis

**Level 1 — Big Five:** Low Agreeableness dominates — the post frames political reality entirely in adversarial zero-sum terms with no acknowledgment of democratic norms or shared civic interest. Moderate-High Conscientiousness appears in the forward-looking strategic recommendation. Low Neuroticism is notable by contrast with same-day posts: none of the emotional dysregulation, hostile labeling, or vigilante glorification visible elsewhere in the day's output — suggesting either a different author or a deliberate register shift when addressing strategic political topics versus personal grievances. Low Openness throughout.

**Level 2 — Adaptations:** Agency motives dominate entirely. The "ownership" metaphor frames institutional norms as zero-sum property. Schema: political rules carry no intrinsic normative weight, only instrumental value. Whoever wields them effectively "owns" the outcome. Communion motives are fully absent.

**Level 3 — Narrative Identity:** Protagonist role is strategic political sage — the clear-eyed realist who grasps what elected officials miss. Identity claim: "I understand the long game of political power." Contrasting other: Democrats as naive rule-changers who failed to anticipate second-order consequences. Narrative sequence: neutral — no redemption or contamination arc.

### Defense Mechanisms

**Rationalization (neurotic):** The partisan tactical recommendation is presented as logical inference rather than political advocacy. "They now own it" converts a normative argument into an apparently objective observation about procedural ownership. The moral dimension of further eroding Senate norms is entirely elided.

### Rhetorical Analysis

The post deploys a conceptual ownership metaphor to convert procedural norm-change into property, framing any future Republican use as mere reclamation rather than escalation. A two-audience structure operates simultaneously: counsel to Republicans and implicit warning to Democrats. The compression of a partial filibuster change into "kill the filibuster" does ideological work by flattening scope distinctions, enabling later Republican expansions to appear merely reciprocal. Unusually disciplined logical structure (premise to consequence to recommendation) for the medium.

### Cognitive Status

Two grammatically complete, logically structured sentences with clear causal reasoning. No language production anomalies detected. Fully consistent with Trump's 2013 political commentary baseline.

### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Democrats decided to kill the filibuster" | **Half True** | The November 21 2013 nuclear option eliminated the 60-vote cloture threshold only for executive branch nominees and federal judges below the Supreme Court level. The legislative filibuster was fully preserved. Kill the filibuster overstates the scope while correctly capturing the directional principle. |
| "Republicans should keep the new rule when in the majority - implicit prediction of future Republican use" | **True** | Republicans gained Senate majority in November 2014. In April 2017 Senate Republicans under McConnell explicitly invoked the Reid 2013 precedent to extend the nuclear option to Supreme Court nominations confirming Neil Gorsuch with a simple majority. |

Overall Veracity: 75%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 45%)

### Indicators

- 1:40 PM EST - business hours, mild support for aide-assisted composition
- Grammatically correct throughout, no typos, complete sentences
- Same-day thematic cluster (two filibuster-related posts) suggests personal engagement with the topic
- Second sentence imperative tone is consistent with authentic Trump advisory register
- No promotional or event-announcement content typical of aide-generated posts

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Senate Democrats nuclear option vote November 21 2013)

Sentiment: -0.20

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 15%
- Antisocial: 8%
- Paranoid: 4%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 40%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- strategic insider framing
- advisory positioning as superior observer

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> Democrats decided to kill the filibuster

**HALF TRUE**

The November 21 2013 nuclear option eliminated the 60-vote cloture threshold only for executive branch nominees and federal judges below the Supreme Court level. The legislative filibuster was fully preserved. Kill the filibuster overstates the scope while correctly capturing the directional principle.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option; https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/harry-reid-2013-nuclear-option-change-senate-filibuster-rules-766d41

> Republicans should keep the new rule when in the majority - implicit prediction of future Republican use

**TRUE**

Republicans gained Senate majority in November 2014. In April 2017 Senate Republicans under McConnell explicitly invoked the Reid 2013 precedent to extend the nuclear option to Supreme Court nominations confirming Neil Gorsuch with a simple majority.

Sources: https://www.npr.org/2017/04/06/522847700/senate-pulls-nuclear-trigger-to-ease-gorsuch-confirmation; https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/mcconnell-went-nuclear-confirm-gorsuch-democrats-changed-senate-filibuster-rules-n887271

Overall Veracity: 75%

## Tags

- nuclear option (95%)
- filibuster (90%)
- strategic advisory mode (80%)
- zero-sum power schema (75%)
- partisan framing (70%)
- prescient political prediction (65%)
- measured affect (60%)
- authorship ambiguous (55%)

## That day

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

**Evening Vigilante Fantasy Escalates to Explicit Shooting Instruction Before Calm Daytime Pivot**

Trump's evening was consumed by the "knockout game" media panic, producing a rapid four-post cluster that escalated from moral outrage to an explicit instruction for armed citizens to shoot suspects preemptively. He invoked the Death Wish films as a vigilante model, affirmed a racial component to the attacks, and dehumanized perpetrators as "sick degenerates." By the next morning, the tone shifted entirely — he moved through routine political attacks on Democrats over the filibuster change, took a shot at the New York AG suing him over Trump University, and closed the afternoon as a motivational figure encouraging young entrepreneurs. The stark contrast between the evening's violent incitement and the afternoon's cheerful networking was the day's most notable feature.

Full digest for 2013-11-22: https://trump.fm/date/2013-11-22/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, November 22). Since the Democrats decided to kill the... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_403956190847070209
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Since the Democrats decided to kill the filibuster, they..." X (Twitter), 22 Nov. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_403956190847070209. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Since the Democrats decided to kill the filibuster, they...," X (Twitter), November 22, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_403956190847070209.

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