# Post x_406908079083892736 - Post ID: `x_406908079083892736` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-11-30T22:10:20.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @AgnesphAgnes - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_406908079083892736 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_406908079083892736/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_406908079083892736.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text _Quotes @AgnesphAgnes, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @AgnesphAgnes's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._ > "@AgnesphAgnes: @realDonaldTrump Mr.Trump has the Midas Touch!" Thank you, very nice! ## Engagement - Likes: 23 - Reposts: 10 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.276Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-27T16:52:08.455Z (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: "Midas Touch" Retweet — 2013-11-30 ## Authorship Attribution **Local time determination:** On November 30, 2013, a same-day post confirms Trump had visited the Doral resort in Miami ("Just left $259 million rebuilding of Doral in Miami"). His primary residence is Trump Tower, New York. Absent evidence of overnight Florida stay, New York is the assumed base. UTC 22:10:20 = **17:10 EST (5:10 PM Eastern Standard Time)** — late-afternoon business hours, a timing window that introduces some aide-authorship ambiguity. **Assessment favoring authentic Trump:** (1) The colloquial brevity — "Thank you, very nice!" — is idiomatic Trump, not polished communications-staff phrasing; (2) the same-day pattern shows repeated personal engagement with minor compliments from low-follower accounts (Macy's ties thread), a behavior inconsistent with aide curation, which targets reach and visibility; (3) no professional communications team would selectively amplify a grammatically irregular tweet from "@AgnesphAgnes"; (4) the response appended is in first-person informal register matching his documented early Twitter voice. The business-hours timing is the primary counterindicator but is insufficient to override the stylistic evidence. **Likely authentic.** --- ## Psychological State and Trigger This post is a textbook instance of **narcissistic supply collection in its most quiescent form** — the grandiose pole of narcissistic functioning, undisturbed, content. Trump is not responding to threat or injury; he is harvesting ambient admiration. **Trigger:** Pure **supply-seeking/maintenance**. The day's Twitter activity shows a consistent pattern: scan mentions for flattering references to self or products, retweet, append brief acknowledgment, repeat. No narcissistic injury is present; no defensive posturing is required. **The "Midas Touch" schema:** The specific compliment accepted here is psychologically notable. The Midas Touch myth positions Trump as an agent who transmutes ordinary material into gold — a grandiose schema that maps precisely onto his self-constructed identity as the consummate dealmaker. The mythology's tragic dimension (Midas ultimately cannot eat; his daughter turns to gold; the gift becomes a curse) is entirely absent from Trump's frame. The compliment is absorbed as pure, unironic validation, which speaks to the impermeability of the grandiose self-concept to reflexive or self-critical processing. When one's grandiosity is this stable, mythological identification with a doomed king reads only as triumph. **Narcissistic state:** Clearly **grandiose** — expansive, contented, self-congratulatory. No vulnerability markers are present. The oscillation between grandiose and vulnerable states visible in other periods is entirely absent here; this is a settled, comfortable day. --- ## Defense Mechanisms Minimal defensive activity required in an ego-syntactic environment. The primary mechanism visible is **idealization by proxy** (a variant of idealization): by retweeting a third party's flattering characterization rather than self-proclaiming the Midas Touch directly, Trump achieves supply amplification while maintaining plausible deniability against charges of mere boastfulness — "I'm only sharing what others say." This is structurally elegant and likely not consciously calculated; it is habituated behavior. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis The rhetorical content is minimal but the **structural maneuver** is worth noting as a baseline technique. Early-Trump Twitter operated on a consistent template: 1. **Retweet compliment** → lends third-party authority to self-flattery 2. **Append brief personal acknowledgment** → maintains parasocial intimacy ("he reads my tweets and responds personally") 3. **Broadcast to full follower base** → multiplies supply This achieves self-promotion with built-in deniability. No propaganda techniques, no dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no stochastic terrorism indicators. This is the commercial-personality media mode Trump operated in throughout 2013 — reality TV celebrity, product promoter, Twitter presence. --- ## Cognitive Status (2013 Baseline) This post is a valuable **baseline data point** for longitudinal cognitive tracking. The response "Thank you, very nice!" is brief but contextually appropriate and grammatically intact. No word-finding difficulties, no tangentiality, no perseveration beyond what context (a day of similar tie-compliment responses) explains. Syntactic complexity is minimal by design (brief acknowledgment), not by impairment. This 2013 record establishes a baseline of consistently brief, colloquial, grammatically simple but coherent Twitter responses — important for future deviation detection. --- ## Danger Assessment None. This is entirely benign social media engagement — commercial self-promotion and supply collection from a pre-political media figure. --- ## Longitudinal Context The full same-day record shows Trump in commercially-oriented, pre-political mode: promoting Macy's ties, noting the Doral renovation with mild self-congratulation ("if I do say so myself"), and collecting flattering mentions. No political content, no conflict, no grievance expression. This represents his 2013 Twitter baseline — a useful anchor point against which later behavioral intensification can be measured. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 78%) ### Indicators - Colloquial brevity ('Thank you, very nice!') matches documented early Trump Twitter voice - Retweet target is a low-follower account with irregular grammar — aide curation would target higher-reach content - Same-day pattern shows repeated personal engagement with minor compliments, inconsistent with staff management - First-person informal register throughout day's posts is stylistically consistent - Business hours timing (5:10 PM EST) is the primary counterindicator but insufficient to override stylistic evidence ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (@AgnesphAgnes compliment ('Midas Touch')) Sentiment: +0.68 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 40% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - idealization (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 100% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Personal acknowledgment of individual follower maintains intimacy illusion at scale - Brief warm response signals accessibility and personal attention ## Tags - narcissistic-supply-collection (90%) - grandiose-state (80%) - midas-touch-mythology (70%) - baseline-2013 (95%) - commercial-personality-mode (70%) - idealization-by-proxy (60%) - parasocial-maintenance (60%) - pre-political-period (80%) ## 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). "@AgnesphAgnes: @realDonaldTrump Mr.Trump has the... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_406908079083892736 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@AgnesphAgnes: @realDonaldTrump Mr.Trump has the Midas..." X (Twitter), 30 Nov. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_406908079083892736. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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