# Post x_417064175983403008

- Post ID: `x_417064175983403008`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2013-12-28T22:47:02.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_417064175983403008
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_417064175983403008/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_417064175983403008.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> We're coming up on the NEW YEAR-It is really important that, despite so many stupid decisions being made in Washington, we make it BEST EVER

## Engagement

- Likes: 196
- Reposts: 148
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.275Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-02-27T22:06:50.776Z (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

**Timing:** The post was published at 22:47 UTC on December 28, 2013. Trump was most likely at Trump Tower, New York, or Mar-a-Lago during the holiday stretch — both are EST (UTC-5). Local time: **17:47 EST** (late afternoon, within conventional business hours).

Despite the afternoon timestamp, stylistic fingerprints argue strongly for authentic authorship: strategic ALL CAPS ("NEW YEAR," "BEST EVER"), hyperbolic superlative framing as terminal punctuation, casual hyphenation rather than standard punctuation, and the characteristic blunt contempt ("stupid decisions"). The cluster of same-day posts — mocking global warming scientists, engaging fan retweets, promoting Celebrity Apprentice — all display the same unfiltered reactive cadence. In 2013, Trump was personally prolific on Twitter without a dedicated social media apparatus. Confidence: **medium-high** authentic.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

**Extraversion (high):** "BEST EVER" as aspirational New Year framing is characteristically expansive and dominant — excitement-seeking expressed as collective mandate.

**Agreeableness (low):** Casual dismissal of "stupid decisions" in Washington reflects habitual contempt for perceived outgroups with minimal tender-mindedness.

**Conscientiousness (low-moderate):** Achievement-striving is gestured at ("make it BEST EVER") but entirely without mechanism — aspiration without deliberation.

**Neuroticism (low in this instance):** Relative to the same-day global warming posts (which carry active mockery and ALL CAPS hostility), this post is restrained and forward-looking. Less reactive than baseline.

**Openness (low):** Binary framing — Washington = incompetent, "we" = capable of greatness — reflects cognitively simple, closed worldview consistent with this period's posting pattern.

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency motives dominant:** The post enacts status and power motives — the speaker positions as the clear-eyed observer who transcends institutional failure and inspires collective greatness. No communion motive is present; "we" functions as a rhetorical aggregation, not genuine intimacy.

**World schema:** Political institutions are corrupt/incompetent; the "real America" retains latent greatness requiring proper leadership to unlock. This schema is stable across this period's posting.

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** Inspirational contrarian — not the full warrior mode (no explicit enemy attack), but the sage who perceives Washington's failures and summons the collective to transcend them.

**Contamination sequence (partial):** Washington's "stupid decisions" represent a contaminating force on potential national greatness — good potential → institutional corruption.

**Implicit redemption arc:** Despite institutional failure, "we" can achieve "BEST EVER" — redemption gestured at without elaboration.

**Identity claim:** *I see clearly what Washington cannot; I can orient us toward greatness.*

**Contrasting other:** The Washington political class (unspecified, collective).

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

**Narcissistic features (mild-moderate, at baseline):** Grandiosity is present in the "BEST EVER" aspiration and implicit superior judgment over Washington's decision-makers. This is not elevated relative to Trump's 2013 Twitter baseline — it is the characteristic register.

**Malignant narcissism components:** All sub-threshold in this post. Antisocial features absent; paranoid features limited to generic anti-Washington positioning without specific persecutory content; sadism absent.

**Defense mechanisms:**
- *Splitting (immature):* Washington = stupid/bad; "we" = capable of greatness. Clean bifurcation with no acknowledgment of complexity.
- *Rationalization (neurotic):* Anti-Washington contempt repackaged as New Year motivational content, giving ideological hostility a socially acceptable frame.

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## Rhetorical Analysis

A competent piece of populist New Year's messaging deploying standard Trump rhetorical tools:

- **Hyperbole/superlative:** "BEST EVER" — maximalist framing that collapses all nuance into a single triumphalist aspiration
- **False dichotomy:** Washington dysfunction vs. collective achievability of greatness
- **Inclusive "we":** Parasocial intimacy — draws audience into shared project against an implicit common antagonist, creating in-group solidarity
- **Appeal to optimism:** New Year as renewal frame, adversity (Washington) as foil for collective agency

No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no stochastic terrorism indicators present.

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## Cognitive Assessment

Syntactically simple with basic vocabulary, consistent with Trump's 2013 Twitter baseline. The hyphenated run-on construction ("We're coming up on the NEW YEAR-It is really important that...") reflects the same compressed, punctuation-averse style visible across same-day posts. No word-finding difficulty, no paraphasia, no tangentiality. No deviation from documented baseline for this period.

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## Danger Assessment

**None.** Generic New Year's populism with anti-Washington framing. No targets identified, no specific grievances articulated, no implied mobilization or action.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "So many stupid decisions being made in Washington" | **Unverifiable** | This is an evaluative opinion statement, not a verifiable factual claim. The Obamacare enrollment deadline and associated political controversy were active during this period, providing a plausible referent, but the characterization ('stupid') is purely subjective. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 75%)

### Indicators

- ALL CAPS deployment on 'NEW YEAR' and 'BEST EVER' consistent with authentic Trump capitalization pattern
- Casual hyphenation instead of standard punctuation
- Superlative 'BEST EVER' as terminal emphasis — characteristic rhetorical tic
- Blunt dismissiveness ('stupid decisions') without hedging
- Stylistically consistent with same-day posts showing clear authentic authorship

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (New Year calendar event)

Sentiment: +0.25

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Elevated, expansive framing ('BEST EVER') as achievable New Year aspiration
- High posting volume on this date (5+ tweets) with reactive, high-energy content across multiple topics
- Optimism expressed as superlative rather than measured aspiration

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 45%
- Antisocial: 5%
- Paranoid: 15%
- Sadism: 0%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 25%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Inclusive 'we' draws audience into shared project against Washington antagonist
- Superlative aspiration ('BEST EVER') invites followers into collective grandiosity
- Positions speaker as motivational authority who can override institutional failure

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> So many stupid decisions being made in Washington

**UNVERIFIABLE**

This is an evaluative opinion statement, not a verifiable factual claim. The Obamacare enrollment deadline and associated political controversy were active during this period, providing a plausible referent, but the characterization ('stupid') is purely subjective.

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- New Year messaging (90%)
- Anti-Washington populism (80%)
- Superlative rhetoric (85%)
- Maintenance posting (75%)
- Splitting defense (70%)
- Grandiose-stable state (65%)
- Authentic authorship likely (75%)

## That day

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

**Wounded at 3 AM, Triumphant by Breakfast: Climate Denial Cascade Caps Trump's Narcissistic Recovery Arc**

On December 28, 2013, Trump's social media activity traced a clear psychological arc from early-morning defensive vulnerability to sustained grandiose performance, anchored to the Miami/South Florida area (Trump National Doral confirmed by x_416890862594170880). The day opened with two anomalous posts at 3:27–3:39 AM EST, reactive to South African backlash against his prior description of their country as a "crime ridden mess" — triggering the standard narcissistic injury repair sequence: retroactive reframing of all prior statements as "made with love," implicit denial without substantive content engagement, and appropriation of Nelson Mandela's moral authority as a reputational shield. Twelve minutes later, a conciliatory reply from @ProudlySA converted the wound into mirroring supply, completing the shift from vulnerable to grandiose before 4 AM.

The day's psychologically and rhetorically significant centerpiece was a three-post climate denial cascade at 7:20–7:37 AM EST, exploiting the stranded MV Akademik Shokalskiy research vessel as anti-intellectual entertainment. The sequence escalated from factual hook to ideological declaration ("total hoax!") to psychological projection — attributing fame-seeking motives to scientists who were in fact actively awaiting delayed helicopter rescue — peaking at intensity 0.65 in x_416909004984844288. The 17-minute cascade followed a compressed propaganda architecture: three acts moving from evidence-appearance through ideological conclusion to character assassination, with the closing projection onto stranded scientists constituting the most clinically notable cognitive maneuver of the day.

The day closed with two New Year triumphalism posts at 5:47–5:51 PM EST, blending ambient optimism with embedded political contempt for Washington. Zero rage was detected across all 10 posts, and no elevated danger indicators were present. The 3:27 AM local posting time raises a sleep deprivation flag, though a 9+ hour midday gap consistent with an active working day at Doral argues against sustained hypomanic pressure. Cognitive presentation is stable and consistent with the 2013 baseline — the climate denial rhetorical architecture is mature, deliberate, and purposeful, already exhibiting the full structural form it would maintain through the 2016 campaign.

Full digest for 2013-12-28: https://trump.fm/date/2013-12-28/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2013, December 28). We're coming up on the NEW YEAR-It is really... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_417064175983403008
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "We're coming up on the NEW YEAR-It is really important..." X (Twitter), 28 Dec. 2013. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_417064175983403008. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "We're coming up on the NEW YEAR-It is really important...," X (Twitter), December 28, 2013, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_417064175983403008.

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