# Post x_414319033685921793

- Post ID: `x_414319033685921793`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-12-21T08:58:49.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @DonDonS1383
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_414319033685921793
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_414319033685921793/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_414319033685921793.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

_Quotes @DonDonS1383, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @DonDonS1383's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._

> "@DonDonS1383: @realDonaldTrump Did you hear they caught those animals who killed that lawyer in the mall parking lot? That is great news!

## Engagement

- Likes: 31
- Reposts: 22
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.275Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-27T21:30:19.578Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Authorship & Timing

Post timestamp 2013-12-21T08:58:49 UTC converts to **3:58 AM EST** — Trump's home timezone in December 2013 (New York City). This sits squarely in the late-night/early-morning window most strongly associated with authentic Trump posting. No staff member would execute a routine retweet of a follower's crime-news comment at 4 AM. The format — zero added text, pure retweet — reflects Trump's early Twitter behavior pattern of minimal-effort audience engagement: receive praise or news, amplify, collect response. Authorship confidence: **high**.

## Referenced Event

The follower references the **December 15, 2013 carjacking murder of Dustin Friedland**, a 30-year-old attorney from Hoboken, NJ, shot in the head in the parking garage of The Mall at Short Hills (Millburn, NJ) while returning to his car with his wife. Four suspects were arrested December 18–20 — days before this post — and charged with felony murder. The tweet on December 21 coincides precisely with the arrests receiving widespread regional and national news coverage. The claim is **true**.

## Rhetorical Analysis

The only clinically notable element is the word **"animals"** applied to the four accused suspects. Critically, this language originates in the retweeted follower's text, not Trump's own composition. The act of retweeting without comment constitutes endorsement-by-amplification — a recurring rhetorical mechanism that preserves deniability ("I was just sharing what someone said") while broadcasting the content to Trump's audience. In this instance, dehumanization is directed at specific individuals charged with a specific violent crime, not applied to a demographic or political group — a distinction with significant analytical weight when situating this post within the longitudinal trajectory of Trump's use of the "animals" formulation, which becomes markedly more politically instrumentalized after 2015.

The surrounding posts for this date are uniformly praise-amplification — a Serta mattress endorsement, "genius businessman" encomiums, "inspirational tweets." This crime-narrative retweet represents a minor thematic departure consistent with a later signature pattern (law-and-order content as audience bonding material), but at this stage entirely absent political targeting.

## Psychological State & Dynamics

No narcissistic injury is discernible. The trigger is **maintenance**: routine follower engagement on a day dominated by supply-collection. Trump is in a grandiose state, absorbing compliments and amplifying positive content. The crime retweet functions as parasocial connection — the follower addresses Trump as someone worth bringing news to, and Trump validates that dynamic by amplifying. No rage, no defensive posture, no threat-response. The malignant narcissism scoring reflects the very low salience of core features in this specific post; only the amplified dehumanizing language registers at all.

## Longitudinal Note

This post's primary research value is as an **early baseline data point** for a pattern that intensifies considerably in subsequent years: (1) dehumanizing language applied to accused criminals/outgroups, (2) retweet-as-endorsement-without-ownership as a rhetorical mechanism, and (3) crime narratives as audience bonding content. At this stage (December 2013), the behavior is low-intensity, crime-specific, and politically unframed. No summary warranted; not clinically significant in isolation.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Those animals who killed that lawyer in the mall parking lot were caught" | **True** | Dustin Friedland, 30, a Hoboken attorney, was killed December 15, 2013 in the parking garage of The Mall at Short Hills (Millburn, NJ) during a carjacking with his wife. Four suspects were arrested December 18-20, 2013 and charged with felony murder. Arrests were widely reported in the days preceding this December 21 tweet. |

Overall Veracity: 100%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 81%)

### Indicators

- 3:58 AM EST local time — peak authentic Trump posting window
- Zero added commentary — minimal-effort retweet format typical of this era
- Content (local NJ crime news, arrests) consistent with Trump's New York-area news consumption
- No polished staff formatting or event-announcement structure

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (follower @DonDonS1383)

Sentiment: +0.18

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 12%
- Antisocial: 8%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- denial (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 5%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- follower-as-news-courier dynamic (being told things reinforces authority positioning)
- crime-narrative engagement as audience bonding

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> Those animals who killed that lawyer in the mall parking lot were caught

**TRUE**

Dustin Friedland, 30, a Hoboken attorney, was killed December 15, 2013 in the parking garage of The Mall at Short Hills (Millburn, NJ) during a carjacking with his wife. Four suspects were arrested December 18-20, 2013 and charged with felony murder. Arrests were widely reported in the days preceding this December 21 tweet.

Sources: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/carjack-suspect-newark-arrest-short-hills-mall-dustin-friedland-police-court-murder/790597/

Overall Veracity: 100%

## Tags

- retweet (95%)
- dehumanizing_language (45%)
- crime_narrative (65%)
- authentic_trump (82%)
- supply_seeking (55%)
- law_and_order (40%)
- endorsement_without_ownership (60%)
- baseline_period (70%)

## That day

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

**Pre-Dawn Supply Sweep: 2013 Baseline Documents Systematic Brand-Admiration Curation Across Commercial Domains**

December 21, 2013 presents a textbook case of baseline narcissistic supply collection, wholly free of the rage, paranoia, and adversarial dynamics that would later characterize Trump's social media presence. Across 14 posts spanning an evening cluster (9:09–10:35 PM EST) and a compressed pre-dawn burst (3:35–4:06 AM EST), psychological posture remained stably grandiose, with a single brief vulnerable deflection when a follower accused Trump of becoming "negative." The dominant behavior was supply amplification: selectively broadcasting fan praise across multiple commercial domains — golf (Blue Monster/Doral), apparel (Trump Collection at Macy's), mattresses (Serta), and books (The Art of the Deal) — while appending minimal validating responses ("Great!", "Thank you!", "WOW"). The commercial breadth across a single morning session is unusually systematic, suggesting a deliberate brand-maintenance sweep rather than purely organic engagement with unsolicited praise.

The most clinically salient feature is the pre-dawn posting cluster: 11 posts in approximately 31 minutes between 3:35 and 4:06 AM EST. A 5-hour gap preceding the burst suggests an abbreviated sleep window, making early waking rather than all-night insomnia the more parsimonious explanation. Content character — passive browsing and quote-reposting rather than original agitated composition — does not meet the threshold for a hypomanic episode, but the sleep-architecture pattern warrants longitudinal notation. One micro-arc of narcissistic injury (follower accusation of negativity, x_414315124149981184) is resolved in a single brisk exchange and leaves no downstream trace.

None of the five major external events for this date — the Utah same-sex marriage ruling, A&E's Duck Dynasty suspension of Phil Robertson, Edgar Bronfman Sr.'s death, the Iraq attack, or Dennis Rodman's North Korea trip — generated any response. The Duck Dynasty non-response is particularly diagnostically significant given the story's conservative culture-war salience and Trump's later reflexive engagement with that category of controversy. The absence confirms Trump was operating in 2013 as a brand entity rather than a political actor, with the self-referential media bubble fully intact. The day closes with a seven-word motivational aphorism (x_414320976093270016) — brand punctuation rather than narrative climax. This session constitutes a useful 2013 behavioral baseline for longitudinal comparison with later, higher-intensity periods.

Full digest for 2013-12-21: https://trump.fm/date/2013-12-21/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, December 21). "@DonDonS1383: @realDonaldTrump Did you hear they... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_414319033685921793
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@DonDonS1383: @realDonaldTrump Did you hear they caught..." X (Twitter), 21 Dec. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_414319033685921793. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, ""@DonDonS1383: @realDonaldTrump Did you hear they caught...," X (Twitter), December 21, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_414319033685921793.

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