# Post x_410130108494540800

- Post ID: `x_410130108494540800`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-12-09T19:33:32.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @wakafee1017
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_410130108494540800
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_410130108494540800/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_410130108494540800.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

_Quotes @wakafee1017, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @wakafee1017's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._

> "@wakafee1017
> @realDonaldTrump Everyone should look at what he has done & take notes if you want to be successful." Thx

## Engagement

- Likes: 32
- Reposts: 26
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.276Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-27T19:26:58.602Z (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: December 9, 2013 — Fan Praise Amplification

### Overview

This is a minimalist supply-acquisition post. Trump quotes an unsolicited fan tweet from @wakafee1017 that frames him as a model of success worthy of study, then appends a single-word acknowledgment: "Thx." It is one of several such rebroadcast-with-brief-reply posts visible on this same day, forming a recognizable pattern of narcissistic supply harvesting via Twitter.

### Authorship

UTC 19:33:32 converts to **2:33 PM EST** in New York (Trump Tower was his primary base in December 2013). This falls squarely in business hours, which slightly favors aide involvement, but several contextual factors push toward authentic Trump:

- The surrounding posts this day follow the exact same structural template (quoted tweet + terse acknowledgment: "I will!", "Thanks.", "Thx") — a pattern characteristic of Trump's personal engagement style from this era
- "Thx" is consistent with Trump's informal abbreviation habits
- No polished sentence structure, no event promotion, no scheduling content
- The act of selecting and amplifying a compliment about one's own success is too personally motivated to delegate routinely

Assessment: **probably authentic**, with moderate confidence.

### Psychological Profile

**Narcissistic Supply Dynamics (Primary Feature)**

The post is a textbook supply-acquisition maneuver. Rather than generating compliments himself, Trump selects a fan testimonial that casts him as an exemplar of success—an aspirational figure whose methods should be studied—and rebroadcasts it to his full audience. This multiplies the flattery while maintaining deniability: *he* did not claim it; someone else did. The "Thx" functions as a brief, visible endorsement of the framing.

This pattern—quote the praise, add minimal text, pocket the admiration—recurs throughout Trump's early Twitter history and is one of the most reliable behavioral signatures at Level 2 (characteristic adaptations): a chronic, low-effort strategy for maintaining the grandiose self-narrative at minimal psychological cost.

**Narcissistic State:** Grandiose (expansive, comfortable, self-reinforcing).

**Trigger:** Supply-seeking / maintenance. No injury or threat is present. This is routine baseline behavior.

**Narrative Identity (Level 3)**

The fan's framing—"Everyone should look at what he has done & take notes if you want to be successful"—perfectly encapsulates Trump's preferred narrative identity:
- **Protagonist role:** The successful exemplar; the teacher; the aspirational model
- **Identity claim:** My record of achievement is instructional; I am success made visible
- **Contrasting other:** Not explicit here, but the implied contrast is between the successful (Trump, those who study him) and the unsuccessful (everyone else)
- **Narrative sequence:** Neutral-to-redemptive; no contamination present

**Big Five (from post):**
- Extraversion: moderately high (public amplification of positive affect)
- Agreeableness: low baseline; superficially warm toward admiring fan (transactional)
- Conscientiousness: low deliberation (minimal effort, casual tone)
- Neuroticism: low in this post (calm, no distress signals)
- Openness: not assessable

### Rhetorical Analysis

Devices are sparse but purposeful:
- **Testimonial / social proof:** Third-party endorsement lends credibility the subject cannot supply himself without appearing boastful
- **Implied authority:** The framing "take notes if you want to be successful" positions Trump as a source of learnable wisdom
- **Parasocial warmth:** The "Thx" creates the impression of personal, reciprocal engagement with the fan base

No propaganda techniques, dehumanizing language, violent imagery, or stochastic terrorism indicators are present.

### Cognitive Status

No markers of linguistic concern. The brevity here is stylistic rather than symptomatic. Surrounding posts from the same day show normal range of expression: book recommendation, wind farm article, Mandela quote. No word-finding difficulty, tangentiality, or temporal confusion observable.

### Contextual Note

The day's posting context is mundane. No rage, no grievance, no political combat. Mandela died December 5, 2013, and Trump quotes him ("Courageous people do not fear forgiving"). This is ambient positioning—no evidence of sincere engagement with Mandela's legacy, but also no visible exploitation of the moment.

### Danger Assessment

None. Routine, low-intensity social media behavior.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 70%)

### Indicators

- Terse 'Thx' abbreviation consistent with personal posting style
- Same-day posts follow identical structural template (quote + brief reply)
- Content is personally motivated (amplifying own praise) — unlikely to delegate
- Business hours (2:33 PM EST) introduce mild uncertainty
- No scheduling, event promotion, or polished sentences suggesting aide involvement

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (fan tweet @wakafee1017)

Sentiment: +0.72

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 55%
- Antisocial: 5%
- Paranoid: 2%
- Sadism: 2%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 20%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct acknowledgment of named fan creates illusion of personal relationship
- Public 'Thx' signals responsiveness and accessibility to follower base
- Rebroadcast of fan praise invites further compliments from audience

## Tags

- supply-seeking (85%)
- fan-amplification (90%)
- grandiose-baseline (65%)
- testimonial (75%)
- low-intensity (90%)

## 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). "@wakafee1017 @realDonaldTrump Everyone should... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_410130108494540800
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@wakafee1017 @realDonaldTrump Everyone should look at what..." X (Twitter), 9 Dec. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_410130108494540800. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, ""@wakafee1017 @realDonaldTrump Everyone should look at what...," X (Twitter), December 9, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_410130108494540800.

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