# Post x_546425549753966593 - Post ID: `x_546425549753966593` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2014-12-20T22:02:57.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @tearsofthedying - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_546425549753966593 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_546425549753966593/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_546425549753966593.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text _Quotes @tearsofthedying, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @tearsofthedying's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._ > "@tearsofthedying: @realDonaldTrump this will be our year to shine." ## Engagement - Likes: 31 - Reposts: 10 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.312Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-02T09:09:35.797Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Psychological Analysis: Trump Retweet — December 20, 2014 ### Post Overview This is a bare retweet — no added commentary, no original language — of a fan message from @tearsofthedying: *"this will be our year to shine."* It is embedded in a dense cluster of similar fan retweets posted the same day, each featuring supporters urging a 2016 presidential run or expressing generic admiration. The post's psychological significance lies less in its content than in its function within a broader behavioral pattern. --- ### Authorship Attribution **Local time:** UTC 22:02:57 converts to 17:02 EST (Trump almost certainly in New York or Palm Beach in late December 2014, both EST). This is **business hours** — slightly more consistent with aide/staff activity. **Against authentic Trump:** The 5 PM timing, the absence of any original commentary, and the absence of typos or impulsive punctuation all point toward a managed or aide-assisted post. **For authentic Trump:** In 2014, Trump was extensively documented as personally operating his Twitter account. Retweeting fan praise — particularly around the theme of a possible presidential run — is among his most characteristic and well-attested personal behaviors. Brad Parscale and social media staff were not yet formalized in this role. The surrounding cluster of similar posts suggests active, personal curation of positive sentiment rather than a polished communications operation. **Assessment:** Attribution is genuinely uncertain. The simple retweet format and business-hours timing tip marginally toward aide involvement or at minimum Trump acting in a more deliberate (less impulsive) mode. Confidence: low. --- ### Level 1 — Dispositional Traits Limited signal. The act of retweeting praise reflects: - **Low Agreeableness** facet: exploitativeness (using followers' words to validate self without reciprocating) - **High Extraversion** facet: attention-seeking, positive affect curation - **Low Conscientiousness** (in terms of output quality): no original thought contributed No neuroticism markers; no hostility or impulsiveness evident here. --- ### Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations (Motives & Goals) **Agency motive dominant.** The post serves a power/status-maintenance function. By amplifying "our year to shine," Trump implicitly signals to his audience that (a) a 2016 run is being contemplated, (b) he is responsive to popular will, and (c) he belongs to a collective ("our") whose aspirations he embodies. This is strategic supply-seeking — not incidental. The surrounding retweets form a coherent behavioral micro-pattern: Trump was systematically curating a public record of citizen demand for his candidacy, building a "drafted by the people" narrative months before any formal announcement. --- ### Level 3 — Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** Savior/Hero-in-waiting. The fan's language — *"our year to shine"* — casts Trump as the collective vehicle through which an in-group achieves something. By retweeting it, Trump accepts and amplifies this framing. **Narrative sequence:** Implicit contamination-to-redemption arc. The "shine" framing implies a prior period of diminishment or darkness (Obama era, national decline) that is about to be reversed. This prefigures the "American carnage" / Make America Great Again redemption narrative that would define the 2016 campaign. **Identity claim:** The retweet functions as an identity endorsement — Trump affirms he is the person about whom such things are said without needing to assert it himself. This is a sophisticated (or instinctive) parasocial technique: outsourcing grandiose self-description to third parties while maintaining plausible deniability about self-promotion. --- ### Level 4 — Clinical Indicators **Malignant narcissism:** At baseline maintenance level. No acute markers. The supply-seeking behavior is ego-syntonic and routine, not crisis-driven. **Narcissistic state:** Grandiose (mild). No vulnerability markers. **Trigger type:** Maintenance/supply-seeking. There is no narcissistic injury evident; this is routine audience engagement during a period of expanding public profile. **Narcissistic rage:** Absent. **Defense mechanisms:** Minimal. Possibly minor **idealization** — Trump selectively amplifies idealized fan messages while presumably encountering critical ones he ignores (selective curation = implicit denial of negative feedback). --- ### Cognitive Status Cannot assess from a bare retweet. No original language production. The surrounding same-day posts are similarly brief retweets. No cognitive markers extractable. --- ### Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques Minimal direct rhetoric, but the structural function is clear: - **Bandwagon appeal (implicit):** Showing that ordinary people are rallying to the cause - **Social proof:** The volume of similar retweets on a single day functions as accumulated endorsement - **Parasocial third-party validation:** Having fans express grandiosity that Trump cannot express without appearing to lack modesty - **Collective identity ("our"):** Merging Trump's personal ambitions with a shared in-group destiny No dehumanizing language. No violent imagery. No stochastic terrorism indicators. --- ### Danger Assessment **None.** Routine fan amplification with no threatening content or targeting. --- ### Gaslighting / Reality Distortion Absent. No factual claims made. --- # ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 35%) ### Indicators - Post time is 5:02 PM EST (business hours) — slightly more consistent with aide activity - No original commentary added — purely a bare retweet - No typos, impulsive punctuation, or stream-of-consciousness markers - Surrounded by cluster of similar fan retweets suggesting systematic curation rather than impulsive posting - 2014 pre-campaign period — formal social media staff not yet formalized; Trump documented as personally managing account ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Fan base expressing optimism and pre-2016 encouragement) Sentiment: +0.65 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 30% - Antisocial: 5% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - idealization (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Third-party grandiosity: outsourcing self-aggrandizement to fans to avoid appearing boastful - Supply curation: systematic amplification of admiring messages builds a public record of popular demand - Collective identity merger: 'our year to shine' fuses Trump's personal ambitions with fan in-group destiny ## Tags - narcissistic-supply (70%) - pre-campaign-signaling (60%) - parasocial-validation (60%) - retweet-no-original-content (90%) - 2016-run-anticipation (50%) - collective-identity (40%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **The Reluctant Savior Audition: 25 Posts of Pre-Campaign Identity Construction** A quiet Saturday dominated almost entirely by retweeting fans who urged him to run for president. Trump spent the day curating a chorus of supporters calling him a patriot, a savior, and the only honest option -- building a grassroots-demand narrative six months before his actual campaign launch. His only original content was an evening shot at Obama's Israel policy and a quip about the Bush-Clinton dynasty. Notably absent was any mention of the two NYPD officers assassinated in Brooklyn that same day, suggesting his attention was locked firmly on self-promotion. Full digest for 2014-12-20: https://trump.fm/date/2014-12-20/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2014, December 20). "@tearsofthedying: @realDonaldTrump this will be... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_546425549753966593 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@tearsofthedying: @realDonaldTrump this will be our year..." X (Twitter), 20 Dec. 2014. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_546425549753966593. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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