# Post x_410138025478209540 - Post ID: `x_410138025478209540` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2013-12-10T01:04:59.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_410138025478209540 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_410138025478209540/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_410138025478209540.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > As always &, due to popular demand,@TrumpRink will be open Christmas eve &, day as well as New Year's eve &, day http://t.co/lxbXG52zKi ## Engagement - Likes: 0 - Reposts: 50 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:33:24.893Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-27T19:33:08.464Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Wollman Rink Holiday Hours Announcement — December 9, 2013 (8:04 PM EST) ### Overview This post is a routine promotional announcement for @TrumpRink (Wollman Rink, Central Park, which the Trump Organization managed under a city contract), advertising extended holiday operating hours over Christmas and New Year's. It is among the least psychologically salient posts in the observable corpus for this period. --- ### Authorship Attribution UTC timestamp 01:04:59 converts to approximately **8:04 PM EST on December 9, 2013** in New York — Trump's overwhelmingly likely location given the subject matter involves his NYC rink. This is an ambiguous zone: not within strict business-hours aide territory (9 AM–6 PM), nor the distinctively late-night authentic window (10 PM–6 AM). The most notable textual artifact is the **malformed HTML entity `&,`** — a comma appears in place of the requisite semicolon (`&`). This appears twice. Polished aide-composed copy would typically avoid this encoding error; it suggests either authentic posting or a hurried transcription. The short-form, promotional phrasing ("As always," "due to popular demand") carries recognizable Trump voice — self-referential framing that positions even a mundane scheduling decision as a response to mass public desire. The linked t.co URL is unresolvable at time of analysis (dead link, consistent with age of post). **Confidence is low.** Signals are mixed. Slight lean toward authentic given the encoding artifacts and evening timing. --- ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits No strong trait signal is present. The most salient facet is mild **extraversion** expressed through positive affect ("Christmas eve & day," holiday warmth) and **low visible neuroticism** — this is calm, stable, undefensive content. Agreeableness is surface-elevated (warm, serving the public) but unremarkable. No openness, conscientiousness, or neuroticism facets are meaningfully activated. --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations The phrase **"due to popular demand"** is the post's lone psychologically interesting element. Rather than framing the holiday hours as a standard business decision, it repositions the announcement as a *response to public desire* — the rink is so beloved, the crowd demands its opening. This is a mild but characteristic **supply-seeking maneuver**: the speaker casts himself as the benevolent provider of something the masses hunger for. "As always" reinforces the narrative of tradition and reliability. These are low-intensity, unremarkable expressions of the subject's habitual **agency/status motive** operating in a business register. No communion motives are clearly engaged. No significant schema activation is detectable. --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** Benevolent businessman-provider; the public wants what he offers - **Narrative sequence:** Neutral — no redemption or contamination arc - **Identity claims:** Successful operator of a beloved public institution; responsive to public demand - **Contrasting other:** Absent — no antagonist is invoked --- ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators No clinical indicators are present or warranted in this post. The "popular demand" framing is a standard marketing locution deployed consistently by Trump across this period and does not, in isolation, constitute a clinically salient grandiosity expression. --- ### Cognitive Status The `&,` encoding anomaly (comma for semicolon, occurring twice) is noted. This is most plausibly a platform artifact, typing error, or client-side encoding glitch rather than a cognitive marker. The text is too short and structurally simple to yield meaningful lexical or syntactic complexity assessment. **No baseline deviation detected.** --- ### Contextual Note This post appears in the same daily cluster as attacks on Graydon Carter, criticism of Obama's ACA management, and a birther-adjacent implication about Obama's uncle — consistent with Trump's 2013 baseline pattern of alternating between political grievance content and business promotion. The holiday rink tweet is the outlier in affect valence for the day; it is purely promotional and cheerful. The contrast is unremarkable given the dual-mode posting pattern established throughout this period. --- ### Summary **Not clinically significant. No summary warranted.** ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Trump Rink will be open Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve, and New Year's Day" | **Unverifiable** | Historical operating schedules for Wollman Rink (Trump Rink) from December 2013 are not retrievable at this time. The linked t.co URL is unresolvable (dead link consistent with post age). The claim is plausible — extended holiday hours are standard for public recreational facilities. | | "The decision to open is 'due to popular demand'" | **Unverifiable** | A marketing assertion. No evidence exists to verify or refute whether public demand was the operative factor in the operating schedule decision versus standard commercial planning. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 55%) ### Indicators - Malformed HTML entity '&,' (comma instead of semicolon) appearing twice suggests unpolished, possibly authentic posting rather than aide-composed copy - Timestamp converts to 8:04 PM EST — ambiguous zone, not strictly business hours but not late-night authentic window either - Self-promotional framing ('due to popular demand,' 'As always') carries recognizable Trump voice - Business/operational announcement content is consistent with aide involvement - Short-form, promotional phrasing without strong stylistic differentiation limits confidence ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance Sentiment: +0.45 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 8% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 100% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Social proof framing ('due to popular demand') implies mass public desire for subject's commercial offering ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-02-27._ > Trump Rink will be open Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve, and New Year's Day **UNVERIFIABLE** Historical operating schedules for Wollman Rink (Trump Rink) from December 2013 are not retrievable at this time. The linked t.co URL is unresolvable (dead link consistent with post age). The claim is plausible — extended holiday hours are standard for public recreational facilities. > The decision to open is 'due to popular demand' **UNVERIFIABLE** A marketing assertion. No evidence exists to verify or refute whether public demand was the operative factor in the operating schedule decision versus standard commercial planning. Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - business-promotion (90%) - trump-rink (90%) - wollman-rink (80%) - holiday-announcement (85%) - supply-seeking-mild (20%) - social-proof (30%) - routine-maintenance (90%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Parallel Operations: Trump Runs Six-Post Schneiderman DARVO Campaign and Accepts Mandela Comparisons at the Global Memorial** December 10, 2013 presents a psychologically instructive study in narcissistic compartmentalization: Trump ran two nearly independent behavioral tracks across 34 posts spanning his New York business day (8:04 PM EST December 9 through 5:59 PM EST December 10, with a normal 11-hour overnight gap indicating no sleep deprivation). Track one was a three-front counter-attack against chronic narcissistic injury sources — Graydon Carter and Vanity Fair (a 25-year-old grudge reactivated by Trump University coverage), the Aberdeen wind farm (commercial interest in Menie golf course views disguised as principled opposition), and above all NY AG Eric Schneiderman (six posts across the day executing a complete DARVO campaign in response to the August 2013 $40M fraud lawsuit). Track two was a coordinated supply-accumulation and identity-construction operation: harvesting 2016 candidacy encouragement, cultivating evangelical Christian credentials through a coordinated Pastor Saeed Abedini PR operation on UN Human Rights Day, and accepting Mandela-tier "legend" comparisons without qualification on the day of the global memorial. The Schneiderman attack sequence constitutes the day's clinical focal point: six posts deploying racial justice rhetoric (weaponizing Shirley Huntley's accusations), a projection-based illegality charge ("illegal use of official stationery"), a demand for removal invoking two oversight bodies, and a day-end reprisal — reaching elevated danger at its peak (x_410468924505878528, 12:59 PM EST). The JCOPE ethics complaint was filed concurrently, revealing a coordinated multi-vector counter-strategy rather than purely impulsive Twitter behavior. The template documented here — diminishing epithet, racial justice appropriation, illegality counter-accusation, formal complaint, public removal demand, Twitter pressure — would be reproduced with near-identical structure against Comey, Mueller, SDNY prosecutors, AG James, and DA Bragg across the following decade. Its 2013 appearance provides an unusually early baseline specimen. The day's most psychologically resonant element is the Mandela parallax. Michael Cohen's memoir documents Trump's alleged private contempt ("Fuck Mandela. He was no leader") expressed immediately after Mandela's death. Yet on the memorial day, Trump posted a Mandela inspirational quote, accepted a "both legends" comparison with evident pleasure ("Wow, what a compliment"), and used the global leadership-greatness discourse as implicit backdrop for 2016 candidacy cultivation. This disjunction exemplifies narcissistic object relations at their starkest: Mandela as self-serving mirror (flattering → celebrated) versus Mandela as distinct person (threatening the greatness comparison → contemptible). The seed of Trump's 2023 criminal-proceeding self-identification with Mandela is documentably visible in this single day's output. Post frequency (34 posts) is above average but not hypomanic; no cognitive deviation from 2013 baseline is detected. Full digest for 2013-12-10: https://trump.fm/date/2013-12-10/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, December 10). As always &, due to popular demand,@TrumpRink... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_410138025478209540 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "As always &, due to popular demand,@TrumpRink will be..." X (Twitter), 10 Dec. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_410138025478209540. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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