# Post x_406550671174152192

- Post ID: `x_406550671174152192`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-11-29T22:30:08.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @dhowejr7
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_406550671174152192
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## Post text

_Quotes @dhowejr7, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @dhowejr7's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._

> "@dhowejr7: @realDonaldTrump @graeme123s jUST WANTED TO SAY THANKYOU. YOUR A GREAT MAN"  Thank you!

## Engagement

- Likes: 19
- Reposts: 9
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.276Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-27T16:25:34.908Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: Fan Tribute Amplification — Thanksgiving 2013

### Context and Format
This post follows the 2013 Twitter "manual retweet" convention: copying the fan's text verbatim inside quotation marks, then appending a personal response. The fan (@dhowejr7) calls Trump "a great man," and Trump amplifies this to his entire follower base with "Thank you!" The orthographic irregularities in the fan's message — random caps ("jUST"), merged words ("THANKYOU"), homophone error ("YOUR" for "you're") — signal an unsophisticated correspondent, yet Trump selected this message for amplification. This selection is itself psychologically meaningful.

### Authorship Attribution
UTC 22:30:08 on November 29, 2013. Trump was almost certainly in New York on Thanksgiving Day; EST is UTC−5, placing this at **5:30 PM local time** — afternoon, well within business hours, neither strongly authentic nor strongly aide-written on timing alone. However, aide-authored content on this account typically consists of promotional announcements and polished statements; casual fan-praise retweets with minimalist "Thank you!" responses are consistently associated with authentic Trump posting behavior. The informal supply-seeking pattern, combined with a second identical interaction that same day (@graeme123s), suggests authentic authorship. Score weighted authentic but with moderate confidence.

### Psychological Framework

**Level 1 — Dispositional Traits:**
The post evinces high extraversion (broadcasting admiration to all followers rather than replying privately), low agreeableness-modesty (uncritical acceptance and amplification of praise), and minimal neuroticism. No conscientiousness signal is extractable from two words of response.

**Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations:**
The dominant motive is **status/agency**: retweeting "YOUR A GREAT MAN" is not communal reciprocity but self-promotional supply amplification. The fan's admiration is instrumentalized — transformed from a private compliment into a public identity broadcast. The mechanism is well-documented in narcissistic object relations: others' positive attributions are incorporated into and broadcast as self-defining testimony.

**Level 3 — Narrative Identity:**
The identity claim being endorsed is direct and unambiguous: *I am a great man*. The protagonist role today is the **revered figure** — the man whose tweets change lives (@graeme123s, earlier that day) and who inspires unsolicited tributes. On a day culturally coded for gratitude toward others, Trump's Twitter stream is oriented toward *receiving* tribute. The same-day cluster — two fan-praise retweets bookending posts about Trump-branded hotels, Trump-branded merchandise, and Trump-congratulated international ventures — constructs a coherent self-narrative: the Great Man whose influence radiates globally.

**Level 4 — Clinical Indicators:**
The behavior is consistent with **narcissistic supply maintenance**: routine collection and broadcasting of admiration to sustain the grandiose self-image. This is not clinically anomalous for this period in Trump's public record; it represents baseline supply-seeking behavior that predates and will long persist throughout his political career. No rage, no paranoia, no splitting is present. No cognitive markers of concern are detectable in two words.

### Narcissistic Dynamics
- **Trigger type:** Supply-seeking/maintenance — no injury stimulus present
- **Narcissistic state:** Mildly grandiose, stable, contentedly self-referential
- **Rage:** Absent
- **Defense mechanisms:** Minimal — idealization of self via proxy (accepting and retransmitting the "great man" label without irony or qualification)

### Rhetorical Techniques
Negligible independent rhetoric. The post's persuasive work is structural, not linguistic: *social proof via fan testimony*. By publishing a stranger's unsolicited tribute, Trump implies: independent observers spontaneously recognize his greatness. The fan's grammatical errors may inadvertently amplify authenticity — this reads as uncoached organic admiration rather than manufactured praise.

### Danger Assessment
None. The post contains no targets, grievances, or threat-adjacent language.

### Longitudinal Note
This post is part of a recurring same-day cluster (at least two fan-tribute retweets on 2013-11-29) that reflects a documented baseline pattern: Trump treats Twitter partly as an admiration collection and amplification platform. This behavior is stable across the observed 2013 record and provides a useful baseline against which future supply-seeking escalation, rage responses to criticism, or paranoid themes can be measured.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 75%)

### Indicators

- 5:30 PM EST timing is business hours — not strongly indicative either way
- Minimalist 'Thank you!' response is characteristic authentic-Trump brevity for positive fan interactions
- Aide-authored content on this account is typically promotional/polished; casual fan-praise amplification is not aide behavior
- Second identical fan-praise retweet same day (@graeme123s) suggests personal supply-seeking session, not managed posting
- Manual retweet format (copy-paste with quotes) was standard 2013 authentic-user behavior

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (fan tribute (@dhowejr7))

Sentiment: +0.85

### Clinical

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

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 5%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Fan tribute amplification creates illusion of reciprocal relationship between Trump and follower base
- Broadcasting unsolicited praise implies organic, independent recognition of greatness (social proof)

## Tags

- supply-maintenance (90%)
- fan-tribute-amplification (85%)
- identity-claim-by-proxy (70%)
- thanksgiving-2013 (30%)
- authentic-posting (65%)

## That day

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

**Thanksgiving Grudge Feast: A Concealed Scottish Business Grievance Contaminates the Holiday, Sandwiched by Brand Promotion and a Terrorism Smear**

On the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, Trump — confirmed to be in Miami at Trump National Doral — posted thirteen times between 9:41 PM EST (Thanksgiving night) and 5:39 PM EST (Black Friday afternoon), a span of roughly twenty hours that included an apparent ~9-hour overnight gap consistent with normal sleep. The day's psychological core was not the holiday itself but a festering commercial grievance: Trump's Aberdeenshire golf course was in active Court of Session litigation against a proposed offshore wind farm, a conflict he publicly masked as environmental advocacy. Six of thirteen posts (46%) touched this Scotland/wind-turbine obsession, bracketing the entire day from its opening salvo to its closing shot, and constituting a clear thematic fixation meriting clinical notation.

The day unfolded in three psychologically distinct phases. The Thanksgiving night cluster (nine to ten PM EST) saw Trump seize on an RSPB golden eagle petition as an opportunistic ignition key for a pre-formed grievance, escalating from low-intensity retweet mimicry to a calculated character assassination of First Minister Alex Salmond that invoked the Lockerbie bombing via a transitive-contamination rhetorical chain — one of the more unusual associative leaps in the day's record. A nine-hour gap then preceded a Black Friday morning discharge: the RSPB, initially treated as an implicit ally, was now destroyed as a "TOTAL JOKE," the reversal revealing that Trump's apparent conservation solidarity had been purely instrumental. This narcissistic injury discharge cleared the field for three rapid supply-seeking posts about Doral, the Old Post Office, and Macy's menswear — the classic depletion-then-replenishment pattern. An aide-assisted Dubai congratulatory sequence in the mid-afternoon supplied low-effort positive affect, and the day closed with a mild but pointed return to Salmond, maintaining the obsession's frame.

No danger indicators were flagged across the day, and no stochastic terrorism pattern was identified. The highest danger classification remained "none." The defining clinical feature is the systematic concealment of financial self-interest beneath the rhetoric of bird conservation and national patrimony — a rationalization-displacement structure whose commercial origins (Aberdeenshire litigation) were entirely absent from public framing. The day also yields an important longitudinal marker: "bird chopping wind turbines" (post x_406396860296085505) represents among the earliest documented instances of a rhetorical formulation Trump would deploy with increasing frequency and political weight across the following decade, by which time its Scottish golf-course origins would be thoroughly obscured.

Full digest for 2013-11-29: https://trump.fm/date/2013-11-29/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, November 29). "@dhowejr7: @realDonaldTrump @graeme123s jUST... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_406550671174152192
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@dhowejr7: @realDonaldTrump @graeme123s jUST WANTED TO SAY..." X (Twitter), 29 Nov. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_406550671174152192. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, ""@dhowejr7: @realDonaldTrump @graeme123s jUST WANTED TO SAY...," X (Twitter), November 29, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_406550671174152192.

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