# Post x_406729452329373696 - Post ID: `x_406729452329373696` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-11-30T10:20:32.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @SOS2day - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_406729452329373696 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_406729452329373696/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_406729452329373696.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text _Quotes @SOS2day, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @SOS2day's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._ > "@SOS2day: Guilty plea in bird deaths at wind farms a first - New York News http://t.co/6kQcclnWxU" @AlexSalmond @aberdeenshire ## Engagement - Likes: 14 - Reposts: 17 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.276Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-27T16:30:09.051Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary This post is the third in a concentrated 24-hour anti-wind campaign (Nov 29–30, 2013) targeting Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond and Aberdeenshire Council. Trump instrumentalizes Duke Energy Renewables' guilty plea — the first-ever criminal conviction under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act for wind-farm bird deaths — as a rhetorical weapon in his multi-year personal litigation to block an offshore wind farm visible from his Menie Estate golf course. The displacement is analytically notable: Trump, absent from bird-conservation discourse in any other context, selectively mobilizes this environmental story exclusively when it serves commercial interests in Scotland. The adversarial tagging of @AlexSalmond and @aberdeenshire delivers adverse legal news directly to named opponents, carrying a mild punitive quality consistent with ego-syntonic dominance behavior. Authorship attribution favors authentic Trump: 5:20 AM EST posting time, obsessive personal engagement with the Salmond feud across three posts, and direct financial-interest alignment. Defense mechanisms include rationalization (commercial grievance reframed as ecological concern) and displacement (litigation frustration channeled into information-delivery attacks). The narcissistic state is grandiose — sustaining a public campaign against a sovereign government despite progressive legal defeats. Fact check: the underlying criminal case is accurately described. No danger indicators are present. Cognitive functioning is unremarkable for this period; format precludes detailed language analysis. ## Post Analysis: November 30, 2013 — Duke Energy Bird Deaths Retweet Targeting Salmond ### Structural Context This post is a retweet-with-comment of @SOS2day's reporting on Duke Energy Renewables' November 22, 2013 guilty plea — the first-ever criminal conviction under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act for a wind energy company — with Trump appending the handles of @AlexSalmond (then First Minister of Scotland) and @aberdeenshire (Aberdeenshire Council). Duke Energy Renewables pled guilty to the deaths of 14 golden eagles and 149 other protected birds at its Wyoming wind farms (2009–2013), agreeing to pay $1 million in fines, restitution, and community service. The linked article's headline matches verbatim the retweeted text: *"Guilty plea in bird deaths at wind farms a first."* --- ### Longitudinal Context: The Active Salmond Campaign This post does not exist in isolation. It is the **third anti-wind post targeting Salmond and Aberdeenshire within a 24-hour window**: 1. **(Nov 29):** "First Minister Salmond should stop his fruitless drive for obsolete wind turbines in Scotland — he would become popular again! @alexsalmond" 2. **(Nov 30, earlier same day):** Retweet of @noturbine about West Palm Beach wind farm scrapped, "Thousands of birds/bats saved from death @AlexSalmond @aberdeenshire" 3. **This post:** Duke Energy guilty plea, tagged @AlexSalmond @aberdeenshire This triptych represents an *active mobilization phase* in Trump's multi-year legal and public-relations war against the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC), an 11-turbine offshore installation approximately 2 miles from his Menie Estate/Trump International Golf Links, Scotland. Trump had been fighting this project in Scottish courts since 2012 — litigation he was progressively losing. The sustained campaign reflects both the depth of the financial grievance (golf course ocean views and property values) and a refusal to accept defeat against a governmental adversary. --- ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) The post's most salient signal is **low agreeableness** — specifically the dominant facet, manifest as persistent adversarial engagement with named individuals. No conciliatory or communal framing appears anywhere. Trump is pressing a sustained attack, not seeking resolution. **Low openness** is evident in values rigidity: wind energy is categorically an enemy, regardless of countervailing data on environmental benefits or energy security. The instrumental borrowing of environmental logic (bird deaths) does not reflect genuine openness — it reflects opportunistic deployment of any available argument. **High extraversion** (assertiveness facet): Public confrontation via direct tagging of adversaries, repeated mobilization of followers. **Controlled neuroticism**: The underlying anger at losing in Scottish courts is present but channeled — displaced into information delivery rather than expressed as impulsive invective (contrast with earlier "Mad Alex" language). This is organized hostility. --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant motive: Power/Agency.** The operative belief is that Trump can and should influence sovereign Scottish government energy policy via Twitter pressure, simultaneous litigation, and lobbying — despite being a private foreign national with no formal standing. This belief in cross-jurisdictional personal efficacy is itself a grandiosity marker. **Schema revealed:** - *Self*: Righteous actor whose private aesthetic and financial preferences align with the public good - *Others*: Salmond and the Council are corrupt or deluded enablers of environmental harm - *World*: A competitive arena where persistence and leverage eventually overcome institutional opposition --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** Aggrieved crusader who sees through the hypocrisy of wind-energy advocates; the one willing to say what others suppress - **Narrative sequence: Contamination.** Trump had a pristine, world-class golf resort with unobstructed ocean views; the Scottish establishment then approved an industrial wind farm to ruin it. A good thing has been, and continues to be, corrupted by adversarial institutional actors. - **Identity claim:** "I warned everyone about wind turbines. The courts are proving me right." - **Contrasting other:** Alex Salmond — a politician who claims environmental credentials while enabling the criminal killing of eagles. Trump implicitly positions himself as the genuine environmentalist. - **Archetypal frame:** *Warrior* (constant struggle against establishment opposition) + *Trickster* (inverting the expected political alignment: the anti-regulation developer as bird defender) --- ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Narcissistic features (moderate, 0.45):** Entitlement — the belief that his aesthetic preferences over offshore views should override governmental energy policy. Interpersonal instrumentalization of public officials (Salmond, Aberdeenshire Council) as props in his personal drama. Persistent envy of Salmond's institutional authority. **Paranoid features (mild-moderate, 0.3):** Three targeted posts at the same individuals within 24 hours suggests preoccupying rumination. The enemy (Salmond + wind energy) is everywhere and must be continuously confronted. Bearing of grievances: Trump had been fighting this since 2006, writing Salmond 16 letters. **Ego-syntonic sadism (mild, 0.2):** The punitive delivery of adverse legal news directly into adversaries' Twitter notifications has a "see what's coming for you" quality — a dominance display. The pattern across all three posts suggests recreational combat rather than instrumental communication. **Grandiose narcissistic state:** Sustained campaign *despite losing in court*, with no apparent recalibration. The belief in eventual victory, or at least in the value of continued pressure, reflects the expansive, dominant end of the narcissistic spectrum. --- ### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Rationalization (neurotic):** Trump frames a commercial and aesthetic grievance (protecting golf course ocean views and property values) as principled environmental advocacy. The Duke Energy story is instrumentalized — genuine bird conservation is not Trump's operating motive, as evidenced by his total silence on wind-farm bird deaths outside the Scotland context. 2. **Displacement (neurotic):** The anger generated by sustained legal defeats in Scottish courts is discharged onto Salmond via the vehicle of a conveniently timed American criminal case. The affect finds a safer, more publicly legitimate outlet. --- ### Authorship Attribution **Local time: 5:20 AM EST** (UTC−5; late November, New York). Trump was almost certainly at Trump Tower during this period. This early-morning posting time falls squarely within his documented pre-dawn Twitter activity window. The post is functionally minimal (quoted tweet + two handles) — no polished event-announcement structure, no grammatical tidiness beyond the retweeted source text. The personal obsession alignment (three Salmond posts in 24 hours) strongly suggests reactive, authentic engagement rather than scheduled aide communication. **Confidence: medium-high** for authentic Trump authorship. --- ### Rhetorical and Propaganda Techniques - **Strategic information deployment:** Using a factually accurate criminal conviction as a cudgel against wind energy advocates - **Argument by negative consequence:** Wind turbines → criminal liability → your policy supports criminality - **Public adversarial tagging:** Forcing the named targets to receive this content in their notifications — a form of harassment via platform mechanics - **Sustained repetition (RAND volume principle):** Third post on identical theme in 24 hours; the message is hammered rather than stated once - **Ironic/opportunistic environmental advocacy:** Anti-regulatory Trump temporarily adopts conservation framing when it serves his interests — a selective, instrumentalized environmentalism that inverts his typical political alignment --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Guilty plea in bird deaths at wind farms a first" | **True** | Duke Energy Renewables pled guilty on November 22, 2013 to two misdemeanor counts under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act for the deaths of 14 golden eagles and 149 other protected migratory birds at its Campbell Hill and Top of the World wind farms in Wyoming (2009–2013). Legal experts and prosecutors confirmed this was the first criminal conviction of a wind energy company under the MBTA for avian deaths. | Overall Veracity: 100% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 75%) ### Indicators - 5:20 AM EST local posting time (Trump Tower, New York) — within documented pre-dawn activity window - Third consecutive post on same obsessive topic (Salmond/wind) within 24 hours — reactive pattern not consistent with scheduled aide communication - No polished event-announcement structure; functionally minimal format (quoted tweet + two handles) - Direct alignment with documented personal financial interest (Menie Estate golf course views and property values) - Mirrors known Trump behavior of finding adverse news about adversaries and delivering it directly to them via tag ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Scottish government's continued approval and legal defense of European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre near Menie Estate) Sentiment: -0.45 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 45% - Antisocial: 15% - Paranoid: 30% - Sadism: 20% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) - displacement (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 15% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Directing followers' attention to adversaries via tagged posts, constructing public confrontation - Use of third-party legal authority (criminal courts) to validate personal position and delegitimize Salmond ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-02-27._ > Guilty plea in bird deaths at wind farms a first **TRUE** Duke Energy Renewables pled guilty on November 22, 2013 to two misdemeanor counts under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act for the deaths of 14 golden eagles and 149 other protected migratory birds at its Campbell Hill and Top of the World wind farms in Wyoming (2009–2013). Legal experts and prosecutors confirmed this was the first criminal conviction of a wind energy company under the MBTA for avian deaths. Sources: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/11/23/246878172/duke-energy-pleads-guilty-over-eagle-deaths-at-wind-farms; https://environblog.jenner.com/2013/11/26/first-criminal-conviction-for-wind-farms/; https://www.audubon.org/news/duke-energy-pay-1-million-bird-deaths-wind-facilities Overall Veracity: 100% ## Tags - anti_wind_energy (92%) - Alex_Salmond_feud (90%) - Aberdeenshire_Scotland (85%) - instrumental_environmentalism (82%) - sustained_adversarial_campaign (78%) - business_interest_protection_Menie_Estate (75%) - displacement_defense_mechanism (65%) - grandiose_narcissistic_state (60%) - adversarial_social_media_tagging (70%) - argument_by_negative_consequence (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Pre-Dawn Grievance Blitz: 12 Posts in 52 Minutes Deploy Scottish Wind Farm Campaign as Litigation Fails, Then Macy's Ties** On November 30, 2013 — Black Friday — Donald Trump deployed an extraordinary pre-dawn social media offensive from Miami, Florida, posting 12 anti-wind energy posts in 52 minutes between 5:17 and 6:09 AM EST, eleven of them targeting offshore wind energy while tagging Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond and Aberdeenshire Council. The campaign's organizing psychology was a documented narcissistic injury: the Scottish Government's approval of the Aberdeen Bay Offshore Wind Farm threatening his Menie Estate golf resort combined with the progressive failure of his May 2013 legal challenge. Rather than express rage directly, Trump curated a network of activist retweet accounts to manufacture artificial consensus, framing a purely commercial grievance through bird mortality statistics, pensioner death tolls, and climate skepticism — with the financial motive absent from all 11 anti-wind posts. The morning session produced at least 8 factually false or misleading claims and the day's sole elevated-danger post, which attributed thousands of British pensioner deaths to "the Green movement" using fabricated per-turbine arithmetic. The afternoon and evening shifted to grandiose supply-seeking: a Macy's clothing line promotion generating five fan validation replies, a triumphant personal inspection of the $259M Trump National Doral renovation, two politically opportunistic attacks on Healthcare.gov timed precisely to Obama's self-imposed repair deadline, and a late football commentary. Both ACA posts inverted documented reality — declaring an operational website "closed down" and a "total mess with many functions not even thought about" on the same day the administration confirmed 95% uptime and 800,000 daily visitors. The overall narrative arc is mixed: contamination in the morning (legal defeat sublimated into a compensatory pre-dawn information campaign), consolidation in the evening (property triumph, fan approval, political vindication). The day is most clinically significant as a case study in the anatomy of rationalization at scale. A subject broadly hostile to environmental regulation deployed bird mortality, winter deaths, and ecological aesthetics exclusively in service of a multi-million-dollar real estate dispute, without disclosing the conflict of interest across any of 11 topically identical posts. Topic obsession threshold was met at 44% of daily posts with a single underlying motive; post frequency was elevated at an estimated 85th percentile; and at least 7 of 10 verifiable factual claims were false or materially misleading. No rage spiral, no hypomanic episode, and no stochastic terrorism pattern were detected — this was calculated, sustained, and methodical grievance prosecution conducted in darkness before most of his audience had awakened. Full digest for 2013-11-30: https://trump.fm/date/2013-11-30/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, November 30). "@SOS2day: Guilty plea in bird deaths at wind... [Social media post]. 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