# Post x_410073101213241344

- Post ID: `x_410073101213241344`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-12-09T15:47:00.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_410073101213241344
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_410073101213241344/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_410073101213241344.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Just left Florida, amazing how well State is doing-- jobs way up, taxes down. Congrats to @FLGovScott

## Engagement

- Likes: 206
- Reposts: 186
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.276Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-27T19:16:58.170Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Authorship Attribution

**Local time:** UTC 15:47 converts to **10:47 AM EST** — Trump had just departed Florida (almost certainly Mar-a-Lago or Trump International Golf Club Palm Beach, his customary December destination). This falls squarely in business-hours territory, flagging possible aide involvement.

**Assessment: Medium confidence, leaning authentic.** Despite the timing, several markers favor personal composition: the real-time, informal opener ("Just left Florida") reads as genuine travel-moment dispatch rather than scheduled content; the characteristic double-dash punctuation ("--") is a well-documented Trump typographic habit; the superlative "amazing" is among his most-deployed vocabulary items; and "jobs way up, taxes down" exhibits the punchy paratactic compression typical of his unmediated voice. No aide-typical signals are present — no event scheduling, no PR-polished complete sentences, no professional formatting. In December 2013, Trump was a prolific personal tweeter without a formal political communications apparatus. Confidence held at medium due to business-hours ambiguity.

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## Psychological Analysis

**Trigger:** *Maintenance/status-positioning.* No narcissistic injury is evident. The post functions as routine political alliance maintenance, with a secondary motive of self-positioning as an authoritative economic observer — someone whose firsthand assessment of state economies carries weight independent of any official role.

**Narcissistic dynamic:** Mildly grandiose, low-stakes. The "Just left Florida" opener is not merely locational; it implicitly claims privileged firsthand access. The post says: *I travel to these places, I see things, my judgments matter.* This is a pre-campaign Trump constructing his credentials as a political-economic oracle — a role he would amplify aggressively into 2015–16.

**Contrast with same-day posts:** The day's sequence is analytically instructive. Within hours of this post, Trump attacked Vanity Fair's viability, accused Obama of "SO MANY LIES" about his uncle, condemned ObamaCare as "fraud," and praised Fox & Friends. This post is the sole unambiguously positive, outward-directed message of the day. The oscillation — attack, self-promotion, magnanimity toward ally, attack — is consistent with Trump's 2013 multi-audience broadcast pattern: different registers for different relational goals, all within a compressed timeframe.

**Defense mechanisms:** *Rationalization.* The "taxes down → jobs up" formulation presents an ideological supply-side schema as self-evident empirical observation, bypassing causal complexity. This is neurotic-level rationalization — not pathological distortion but a habitual cognitive shortcut that packages economic ideology as common-sense seeing.

**Malignant narcissism indicators:** Negligible in this post. No antisocial features, no paranoid features, no sadistic elements, no exploitation of others. Narcissistic features are present at low amplitude only in the implicit self-positioning as authoritative observer.

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** The expert economic validator — someone who travels, observes, and pronounces on the health of economies. This role recurs across Trump's pre-campaign Twitter output and anticipates the "I alone can fix it" framing of 2016.

**Identity claims:** (1) I have direct, firsthand knowledge of economic realities. (2) I recognize and reward good Republican governance. (3) My assessments of states and leaders carry public significance.

**Contrasting other:** Implicit but present — the Obama administration's national economic management, attacked explicitly in the same-day ObamaCare and uncle posts. Florida's success under a Republican governor is rhetorically positioned against the national backdrop of Democratic governance without stating the comparison directly.

**Narrative sequence:** *Redemption* (contamination avoided) — Republican governance has rescued Florida from economic dysfunction; good things are happening under the right leadership.

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## Rhetorical Analysis

"Jobs way up, taxes down" is the post's rhetorical core — a five-word paratactic chiasm functioning as compressed supply-side argument. It presents the ideological claim that tax reduction causes employment growth as a simple observation, erasing the argumentative burden of proof entirely. The construction is sophisticated in its economy: two independent observations yoked without causal connective, allowing the causal inference to arise in the reader's mind as if self-evident.

"Amazing" is characteristic Trumpian superlative applied at low threshold — the register of enthusiasm without the register of anger present in the day's other posts.

Public tagging of @FLGovScott transforms a private economic observation into a mutual public endorsement, amplifying both figures to each other's audiences. This is a standard political-social media coalition move, not propaganda.

No dehumanizing language. No violent imagery. No stochastic indicators.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Florida is doing amazingly well" | **Mostly True** | Florida's unemployment fell from ~11% (Jan 2011) to ~6.3% (Dec 2013) under Scott; private sector job growth outpaced national rate in 2013 per Moody's. 'Amazing' is hyperbolic. Importantly omitted: Florida ranked among top 2-7 states nationally in long-term unemployment (~46.2% of unemployed out of work 6+ months, per EPI data for 2013). |
| "Jobs [are] way up" | **Mostly True** | Private sector job growth was positive and outpacing national rate in Florida in 2013. 'Way up' is hyperbolic characterization of a genuine directional trend over Scott's tenure to that point. |
| "Taxes [are] down" | **Half True** | Rick Scott signed corporate and business-targeted tax cuts during his first term. However, broad characterization of 'taxes down' for Florida residents is an oversimplification; primarily business/corporate relief was implemented. Property taxes, affecting most residents, were not broadly reduced. |

Overall Veracity: 70%

## Danger Assessment

**None.** No eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no mobilization signals, no stochastic indicators.

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## Clinical Summary

Not clinically significant. This is a brief, positive, politically functional post exhibiting routine maintenance behavior and mild status-positioning. No markers of narcissistic injury, cognitive disruption, rage, or dangerous rhetoric. Most analytically interesting as a data point in Trump's pre-campaign persona construction — the oracle-outsider who sees economic truths politicians miss — and as contrast evidence that his same-day aggression patterns are state-dependent and audience-targeted rather than uniformly expressed.

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*Sources: [WFSU — Florida unemployment 2013](https://news.wfsu.org/state-news/2014-10-24/as-governor-touts-jobs-unemployment-rate-stalls) · [PolitiFact — Florida long-term unemployment](https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2014/may/06/charlie-crist/charlie-crist-says-florida-no-2-long-term-unemploy/) · [Rick Scott biography](https://www.rickscott.senate.gov/biography) · [Florida Fiscal Portal](https://floridafiscalportal.state.fl.us/Document.aspx?ID=9131&DocType=PDF)*

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 62%)

### Indicators

- 10:47 AM EST falls in business hours, consistent with aide-authored content
- Characteristic double-dash punctuation ('--') is well-documented authentic Trump typographic marker
- Superlative 'amazing' is among Trump's highest-frequency vocabulary items across verified authentic posts
- Informal real-time opener 'Just left Florida' suggests genuine travel-moment dispatch rather than scheduled content
- Paratactic 'jobs way up, taxes down' matches Trump's staccato unmediated voice

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Florida departure, political alliance opportunity)

Sentiment: +0.72

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Deployment of superlative 'amazing' at low threshold
- Enthusiastic punchy phrasing without proportionate stimulus

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 18%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 35%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Insider framing ('Just left Florida') creates impression of privileged firsthand access unavailable to followers, positioning Trump as oracle with superior economic knowledge

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> Florida is doing amazingly well

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Florida's unemployment fell from ~11% (Jan 2011) to ~6.3% (Dec 2013) under Scott; private sector job growth outpaced national rate in 2013 per Moody's. 'Amazing' is hyperbolic. Importantly omitted: Florida ranked among top 2-7 states nationally in long-term unemployment (~46.2% of unemployed out of work 6+ months, per EPI data for 2013).

Sources: https://news.wfsu.org/state-news/2014-10-24/as-governor-touts-jobs-unemployment-rate-stalls; https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2014/may/06/charlie-crist/charlie-crist-says-florida-no-2-long-term-unemploy/

> Jobs [are] way up

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Private sector job growth was positive and outpacing national rate in Florida in 2013. 'Way up' is hyperbolic characterization of a genuine directional trend over Scott's tenure to that point.

Sources: https://www.rickscott.senate.gov/biography

> Taxes [are] down

**HALF TRUE**

Rick Scott signed corporate and business-targeted tax cuts during his first term. However, broad characterization of 'taxes down' for Florida residents is an oversimplification; primarily business/corporate relief was implemented. Property taxes, affecting most residents, were not broadly reduced.

Sources: https://floridafiscalportal.state.fl.us/Document.aspx?ID=9131&DocType=PDF

Overall Veracity: 70%

## Tags

- political_praise (82%)
- republican_alliance_building (78%)
- economic_framing (72%)
- supply_side_ideology (68%)
- travel_post (55%)
- status_positioning (58%)
- pre_campaign_persona_construction (65%)
- oracle_outsider_role (60%)

## That day

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

**Forgiveness Preached, Vengeance Practiced: Trump's Grudge-Haunted Post-Broadcast Day**

December 9, 2013 presents a structurally organized but psychologically conflicted day, anchored by a 7:00 AM EST Fox & Friends appearance and bookended by two distinct narcissistic injury activation events. The day opens at 10:27 PM EST on December 8 — hours before a national broadcast — with a 24-minute reactive burst in which Trump attacks Vanity Fair's institutional viability, amplifies a corrected Obama family story with a name error ("Oscar" for "Omar"), and seeks golf-course praise, before going dark for approximately 7.5 hours. A single 6:23 AM EST post deploys the "Unaffordable Care Act" framing as pre-appearance rhetorical preparation, followed by an extended post-broadcast social grace period of fan engagement, humanitarian gestures, and — strikingly — a Nelson Mandela quote on the courage to forgive. The day's dominant psychological finding, however, is what follows that forgiveness quote. At 3:56 PM EST, 108 minutes after posting Mandela's words, Trump publishes a named personal attack on Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter (x_410151073639182337), falsely characterizing his celebrated 25-year tenure as "a disaster" and fabricating poor reception for his minor film roles. The Carter wound had first activated at 10:36 PM the previous night (x_409889182895841280); it resurfaced after 17 hours, four intervening topic domains, and a consciously adopted prosocial value statement — suggesting obsessive rumination rather than any fresh triggering event. This juxtaposition constitutes one of the clearest specimens in the 2013 corpus of the dissociation between Trump's stated values and behavioral reality. Clinically, the day demonstrates stable grandiosity across all 20 posts, no sustained escalation, no danger indicators, and minimal cognitive concern beyond a name-retrieval error warranting longitudinal baseline notation. Post frequency is elevated but falls short of hypomanic threshold. The structuring event is the Fox & Friends appearance; the defining clinical event is the Carter grudge's defeat of time, distraction, and consciously endorsed forgiveness within a single afternoon.

Full digest for 2013-12-09: https://trump.fm/date/2013-12-09/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, December 9). Just left Florida, amazing how well State is... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_410073101213241344
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Just left Florida, amazing how well State is doing-- jobs..." X (Twitter), 9 Dec. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_410073101213241344. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Just left Florida, amazing how well State is doing-- jobs...," X (Twitter), December 9, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_410073101213241344.

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