# Post x_406943740511940608

- Post ID: `x_406943740511940608`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-12-01T00:32:03.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_406943740511940608
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_406943740511940608/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_406943740511940608.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> That was a great football game.

## Engagement

- Likes: 508
- Reposts: 432
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.276Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-27T16:55:19.309Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Analysis: "That was a great football game." — November 30, 2013, 7:32 PM EST

## Temporal & Authorship Analysis

**UTC 00:32:03 on December 1, 2013 = 7:32 PM EST, November 30, 2013.** Trump was almost certainly in New York. Sunday evening at 7:32 PM is consistent with someone reacting in real-time to a televised football game that concluded 30–60 minutes prior. This falls outside the classic late-night impulsive Trump window (10 PM–6 AM) but is entirely plausible for authentic leisure-mode tweeting. No aide would produce something this content-free — there is no announcement, no call-to-action, no political message. The casual, minimalist quality is a strong authorship marker for authentic Trump.

## Game Context

The tweet is best understood alongside the immediately preceding post praising AJ McCarron — Alabama's starting quarterback — as a "GREAT quarterback" and "total winner." The 2013 Iron Bowl (Alabama at Auburn, November 30, CBS) ended in one of the most dramatic plays in college football history: the **[Kick Six](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kick_Six)**. With one second remaining and Alabama trailing 28–27, kicker Adam Griffith attempted a 57-yard field goal to win the game. The kick fell short; Auburn cornerback Chris Davis returned it 109 yards for a touchdown as time expired, clinching a 34–28 Auburn victory over the #1-ranked Crimson Tide. Over 13 million viewers watched the final half-hour; it remains one of the most-watched regular-season college games in modern history.

Trump had just witnessed the collapse of the team whose quarterback he had moments earlier called a "total winner," and his response — "That was a great football game" — is factually accurate, generous to all parties, and conspicuously non-defensive about his prior McCarron praise. Whether this reflects genuine sporting appreciation or simply rapid emotional decoupling is indeterminate from the text.

## Multi-Level Personality Assessment

### Level 1: Dispositional Traits
The post is too brief for confident Big Five scoring. What can be extracted:
- **Extraversion**: Mild positive evidence — public broadcast of an affective reaction to a shared cultural event.
- **Agreeableness**: Slightly positive — inoffensive, inclusive reaction with no derogation.
- **Conscientiousness**: Low marker — minimal informational content, no elaboration.
- **Neuroticism**: Very low — calm, positive, no emotional dysregulation.
- **Openness**: Indeterminate.

### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations
The motive signature leans toward **communion** (sharing a collective experience with followers) over agency. There is no power, achievement, or status assertion. This represents an unusually low-agency post relative to Trump's baseline.

### Level 3: Narrative Identity
**Absent.** The post contains no protagonist construction, no identity claims, no contrasting other, and no narrative sequencing. There is no self-referential framing whatsoever — notable given how rare this is across the broader corpus.

## Clinical Assessment

No clinically significant features are present:
- **Narcissistic themes**: None
- **Paranoid features**: None
- **Antisocial features**: None
- **Sadism**: None
- **Defense mechanisms**: None operative
- **Rage**: Absent
- **Cognitive anomalies**: None detectable

## Rhetorical Analysis

A single superlative adjective ("great") in an otherwise unremarkable declarative sentence. No propaganda techniques, no identity politics, no audience manipulation. This is among the most rhetorically inert posts in the corpus.

## Cognitive Status

The sentence is contextually appropriate and simple by design rather than impairment. Short reactive sports commentary was entirely normal for the Twitter medium and consistent with Trump's posting patterns in this era. **No baseline deviation is detectable.**

## Danger Assessment

None. The post contains no targets, no grievances, no dehumanizing language, and no mobilizing content.

## Conclusion

This post represents Trump in an uncurated leisure mode — watching football, reacting casually, with no apparent strategic intent. Its primary analytic interest lies not in what it contains but in what surrounds it: Trump publicly championed a losing team's quarterback immediately before one of the most stunning upsets in college football history, then responded to that upset with undifferentiated positivity. The brief emotional reset and absence of self-justification or blame-deflection is mildly inconsistent with the high-narcissism pattern dominant elsewhere in the corpus — though a single benign post cannot be treated as contradictory evidence. **Clinical significance: none.**

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "That was a great football game" | **True** | The 2013 Iron Bowl (November 30, 2013, Auburn 34 – Alabama 28) ended on the 'Kick Six' — Auburn cornerback Chris Davis returning a missed 57-yard field goal 109 yards for a touchdown as time expired. It is widely regarded as one of the greatest endings in college football history, drawing 13M+ viewers in its final half-hour on CBS. |

Overall Veracity: 100%

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- 7:32 PM EST Sunday evening — consistent with live sports viewing, not business hours or late-night impulsive window but plausible casual leisure timing
- Single sentence with zero informational, political, or promotional content — no aide would write this
- Casual, unpolished, stream-of-consciousness reaction quality
- No hashtags, no tagging, no formatting — informal register consistent with authentic Trump
- Immediately follows McCarron praise tweet suggesting real-time sports engagement

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance

Sentiment: +0.35

### Clinical

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- ambient social bonding via shared sporting experience

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> That was a great football game

**TRUE**

The 2013 Iron Bowl (November 30, 2013, Auburn 34 – Alabama 28) ended on the 'Kick Six' — Auburn cornerback Chris Davis returning a missed 57-yard field goal 109 yards for a touchdown as time expired. It is widely regarded as one of the greatest endings in college football history, drawing 13M+ viewers in its final half-hour on CBS.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kick_Six; https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/333340002/alabama-auburn

Overall Veracity: 100%

## Tags

- sports_commentary (100%)
- leisure_mode (80%)
- authentic_trump (75%)
- clinically_insignificant (100%)
- iron_bowl_2013 (90%)

## That day

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

**Sunday Evening Supply Run: Brand Promotion, Fan Flattery, and a Litigation-Motivated Propaganda Spike Beneath a Tranquil November Nightcap**

December 1, 2013 (UTC) resolves, on Trump's local clock in New York City, to a Sunday evening session spanning 19:32–23:57 EST on November 30 — well within conventional waking hours and structurally organized around live television. All 13 posts carry a uniformly grandiose classification with no rage, no state transitions, and a mean intensity of 0.14, placing this among the quieter days in the corpus. The session follows a legible four-act structure: a football game reaction opens proceedings, a single litigation-motivated propaganda retweet briefly elevates the danger register, an extended Macy's fan-reply loop dominates the middle hour, and political commentary followed by sports appreciation closes the night before midnight.

The day's sole psychologically significant moment arrives at 19:46 EST in post x_406871951593185300 — a retweet framing the Green movement as responsible for 31,000 annual British deaths and attributing "6 pensioners killed per turbine" — a fabricated statistic scaffolded on real ONS data. Post-level commentary establishes this as litigation-adjacent advocacy deployed at the precise moment Trump's Court of Session challenge against the Aberdeen Bay offshore wind farm was in active hearings, rendering the ostensible humanitarian concern a rhetorical instrument serving personal financial interests. This is the only elevated-danger post in the session and does not generate escalation; intensity immediately drops to 0.04 in the very next post. Eight of thirteen posts are brief fan-response retweets amplifying compliments about Trump-branded Macy's merchandise — a sustained narcissistic supply acquisition loop of minimal cognitive or emotional intensity.

No hypomanic indicators are met: posting ceases before midnight local time, frequency (~2.7 posts/hour) is moderate, and there is no evidence of sleep disruption. The absence of any response to the Metro-North Bronx derailment — a major New York-area disaster claiming four lives the same morning — suggests evening media consumption was entertainment- and cable-news-oriented rather than news-intensive. No contradictions, no rage, no escalation. The narrative arc is stable: a private-citizen celebrity watching football, harvesting brand validation, and dispensing routine political commentary, entirely within the behavioral envelope of a low-key Sunday night."

Full digest for 2013-12-01: https://trump.fm/date/2013-12-01/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, December 1). That was a great football game. [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_406943740511940608
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "That was a great football game." X (Twitter), 1 Dec. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_406943740511940608. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "That was a great football game.," X (Twitter), December 1, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_406943740511940608.

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