# Post x_407619672729595904 - Post ID: `x_407619672729595904` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-12-02T21:17:57.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_407619672729595904 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_407619672729595904/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_407619672729595904.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Here we go again via @timesunion.com http://t.co/8Tc9qBUgbZ ... another bad deal. ## Engagement - Likes: 13 - Reposts: 18 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.276Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-27T17:35:24.634Z (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: x_407619672729595904 (2013-12-02) --- ### Authorship Attribution **Local time determination**: UTC 21:17:57 converts to EST 16:17:57 (4:17 PM), with Trump almost certainly in New York City (Trump Tower) during this period — a standard weekday location for him in December 2013. Business hours (4:17 PM) creates mild ambiguity, but several style markers favor authentic Trump authorship: the colloquial "Here we go again" opening is characteristic of his exasperation register; the ellipsis (...) is a stable Trump textual tic throughout his early Twitter period; the immediate reduction to "another bad deal" is among the most consistent cognitive-stylistic signatures in his oeuvre; and the minor formatting irregularity — "@timesunion.com" includes the domain suffix rather than using a clean handle — is consistent with casual, unedited composition. The post lacks the polished, complete-sentence quality of aide-drafted content. **Confidence: Medium — leaning authentic.** --- ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) The post's dominant trait expression is **low agreeableness** (dismissive judgment without engagement) combined with **low openness** (rigid binary schema: deals are good or bad, no nuance admitted). Mild **neuroticism** surfaces as exasperation ("here we go again") rather than intense hostility. **Extraversion** is present at background level — the post is reactive rather than expansive. **Conscientiousness** is low in presentation (brief, superficial), though this reflects stylistic choice rather than capacity. --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations The dominant characteristic adaptation visible here is Trump's **deal/no-deal cognitive schema** — arguably his most stable, cross-situational psychological signature. Whatever the linked Times Union article covers (the URL is unrecoverable at time of analysis; connection refused), it is immediately processed through this schema and dismissed in four words. This framing serves a clear **agency motive**: positioning Trump as a competent deal-evaluator whose judgment is self-evidently correct. The schema implicitly establishes Trump as the standard against which all deal-making should be measured. No communion motives are detectable. The post does not seek connection; it performs expertise. --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role**: The weary expert who repeatedly identifies failures that others keep making - **Narrative sequence**: Mild **contamination** — "here we go again" implies a pattern where things that should go well keep going wrong (due to others' incompetence) - **Identity claim**: "I am the one who recognizes bad deals" - **Contrasting other**: Unnamed deal-makers referenced in the inaccessible article The phrase "here we go again" is narratively significant: it does not simply criticize one deal; it situates this deal within a running chronicle of others' failures, lending the speaker the accumulated authority of having called it many times before. --- ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Narcissistic dynamics**: The post reflects **maintenance-mode** narcissistic functioning with no evidence of acute narcissistic injury. No specific criticism or defeat has been directed at Trump. The trigger is maintenance/supply-seeking — sharing content to reinforce the deal-expertise identity that is central to his self-concept. Narcissistic state is mildly **grandiose** (the expert who sees what others miss) without elevation into acute grandiosity. No narcissistic rage is detectable; the emotional register is mild exasperation. **Malignant narcissism sub-components**: All components are at background/baseline levels. No antisocial features, no paranoid preoccupation, no sadistic content. This is the Trump who brands rather than attacks. **Defense mechanisms**: Mild **rationalization** (neurotic level) — reducing a presumably complex news story to "another bad deal" without engaging any underlying facts or substance. The confidence of the dismissal substitutes for the work of analysis. **Cognitive status**: No markers of concern. The brevity is a stylistic choice entirely consistent with Trump's 2013 Twitter baseline, where terse reactive link-sharing without elaboration is well-documented. No word-finding difficulty, phonemic/semantic paraphasia, tangentiality, or perseveration beyond the characteristic deal-schema. Complexity is low by choice, not necessity. --- ### Rhetorical Analysis The post's rhetoric is minimalist but structured: 1. **Confident brevity as implicit expertise claim**: By offering no evidence for the "bad deal" judgment, the post treats the conclusion as self-evidently correct — the expert needn't explain 2. **"Here we go again" as pattern-establishment**: Transforms a single instance into an iteration in a larger series, lending it cumulative weight 3. **Definitional reduction**: A complex news story (whatever it was) is entirely collapsed into two words ("bad deal"), a characteristic rhetorical move that pre-empts alternative framings 4. **No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no threatening content** No propaganda techniques of note beyond the routine definitional reduction and appeal to implied expertise. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "The linked article describes 'another bad deal'" | **Unverifiable** | Linked URL (t.co/8Tc9qBUgbZ pointing to timesunion.com) is inaccessible at time of analysis (connection refused). The 'bad deal' characterization is an opinion rather than a verifiable fact claim. Specific deal referenced cannot be identified or assessed. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 58%) ### Indicators - Colloquial opening phrase ('Here we go again') consistent with authentic Trump voice register - Characteristic deal/no-deal reductive framing — among Trump's most stable cognitive-stylistic signatures - Ellipsis (...) consistent with Trump's casual early Twitter compositional style - Terse, reactive format without the polished, complete-sentence quality of aide-drafted content - Minor formatting irregularity ('@timesunion.com' retains domain suffix) consistent with rapid, unedited composition ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (Times Union news article (content unrecoverable)) Sentiment: -0.28 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 20% - Antisocial: 5% - Paranoid: 5% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 20% **Parasocial Techniques:** - expertise signaling through confident brevity - deal-arbiter identity reinforcement via public display of judgment ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-02-27._ > The linked article describes 'another bad deal' **UNVERIFIABLE** Linked URL (t.co/8Tc9qBUgbZ pointing to timesunion.com) is inaccessible at time of analysis (connection refused). The 'bad deal' characterization is an opinion rather than a verifiable fact claim. Specific deal referenced cannot be identified or assessed. Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - deal-framing (92%) - terse-dismissal (85%) - likely-authentic (58%) - maintenance-mode (82%) - deal-schema (92%) - low-intensity (95%) - reactive-link-sharing (80%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Routine Brand Maintenance Day Punctuated by Discrete Legal Anxiety and GQ Counterattack** A fairly typical pre-campaign Monday spent promoting Trump properties, thanking fans, and taking a few political shots at the ACA and climate science. The morning opened with a cluster of retweets from supporters defending him against the New York Attorney General's Trump University lawsuit, revealing some lingering anxiety beneath the confident surface. The sharpest moment came in the afternoon when GQ magazine placed him on a negative list, prompting a punchy "dying magazine" dismissal that was the day's only real flash of anger. Otherwise, it was a calm day of brand-building and light political commentary with no major escalation. Full digest for 2013-12-02: https://trump.fm/date/2013-12-02/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, December 2). Here we go again via @timesunion.com... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_407619672729595904 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Here we go again via @timesunion.com http://t.co/8Tc9qBUgbZ..." X (Twitter), 2 Dec. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_407619672729595904. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Here we go again via @timesunion.com http://t.co/8Tc9qBUgbZ...," X (Twitter), December 2, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_407619672729595904. ## For agents - Site overview: https://trump.fm/llms.txt - API specification: https://trump.fm/openapi.json - MCP server: https://trump.fm/mcp (search and fetch tools, no auth) - This post as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/posts/x_407619672729595904 - Analysis as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/analysis/x_407619672729595904 - All citation formats: https://trump.fm/api/cite/x_407619672729595904 - Same day: https://trump.fm/date/2013-12-02 - The record alone, without the analysis: https://trump.fm/post/x_407619672729595904.md?analysis=false _Markdown view of a trump.fm page. Post, analysis, date, feed, contradictions, search and about pages answer in markdown at their URL with `.md` appended (`/index.md` for the home page), or when sent `Accept: text/markdown`._