# Post x_597993941594693632 - Post ID: `x_597993941594693632` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2015-05-12T05:17:20.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @delonte3ast - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_597993941594693632 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_597993941594693632/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_597993941594693632.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text _Quotes @delonte3ast, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @delonte3ast's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._ > "@delonte3ast: Tom Brady is about to win the next 5 Super Bowls and visit @realdonaldtrump in the White House." Very cool! ## Engagement - Likes: 212 - Reposts: 138 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.353Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-07T04:24:42.769Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Analysis: Retweet of Fan Predicting Trump Presidency (2015-05-12) This post is a quote-retweet of a fan predicting Tom Brady will win five more Super Bowls and visit Trump "in the White House." Trump endorses this with "Very cool!" This is a low-intensity, supply-seeking post that continues the Brady/Patriots thread from the previous day. ### Authorship Posted at 1:17 AM ET (Trump was based in New York). Classic late-night posting window. The brevity, quote-retweet format, and casual "Very cool!" are consistent with authentic Trump. ### Psychological Notes The post serves dual narcissistic supply functions: (1) associating with a winner (Brady) and (2) amplifying a follower's prediction of his presidency. By retweeting rather than stating directly, he maintains plausible deniability about presidential ambitions (he had not yet formally announced, which came June 2015) while broadcasting the idea to his audience. This is a classic **trial balloon** technique. The Brady defense thread from the previous day maps onto Trump's self-schema: winners are persecuted by jealous losers. By retweeting a prediction linking Brady's future dominance to his own presidency, he fuses their identities as co-champions. ### Archetypal Frame Hero/Savior archetype implied — the White House as destination positions Trump as future leader. The fan's framing treats Trump's presidency as inevitable, which Trump amplifies. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 90%) ### Indicators - 1:17 AM ET posting time - Brief casual endorsement 'Very cool!' - Quote-retweet of fan praise - Consistent with late-night engagement pattern ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (fan praise predicting presidency) Sentiment: +0.60 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 40% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - idealization (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 20% **Parasocial Techniques:** - amplifying supporter content - indirect self-promotion via retweet ## Tags - supply_seeking (70%) - presidential_ambition (80%) - winner_association (60%) - brady_thread (50%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Pre-Campaign Runway: Late-Night Poll Celebration, Lone Media Attack, and a Day of Brand-Building in the Shadow of Unmentioned Tragedies** On May 12, 2015 — five weeks before his formal presidential announcement — Donald Trump produced 25 posts across a 17.5-hour UTC window (1:10 AM to 6:40 PM Eastern). The day was overwhelmingly grandiose (23 of 25 posts) with only one genuine rage episode: a 1:44 AM attack on Washington Post journalist Chris Cillizza that spiked to 0.70 rage intensity but did not escalate into a spiral. The dominant psychological function was narcissistic supply-seeking, with Trump retweeting poll numbers, supporter endorsements, and flattering media coverage at a pace consistent with pre-candidacy momentum-building. The single rage post appears triggered by Cillizza's coverage of Trump's rising poll numbers — paradoxically, the very data Trump was celebrating in adjacent posts — suggesting the injury was not about the polls themselves but about perceived disrespect in the framing. The day's most notable structural feature is a late-night posting cluster from 1:10 AM to 2:15 AM EDT (7 posts in 65 minutes), followed by approximately 6 hours and 45 minutes of silence presumably for sleep, before resuming at 9:00 AM. The afternoon saw a dense burst of 13 posts between 2:09 PM and 4:35 PM EDT, many with very low authorship scores (0.10–0.30), indicating heavy staff involvement in scheduling entrepreneurial platitudes, brand promotions, and campaign-positioning content. Two posts appear to be exact duplicates re-posted later in the evening (the Reagan comparison and the entrepreneur "big picture" post), suggesting either a scheduling tool error or intentional repetition for reach. Strikingly absent from the day's output is any mention of two major events occurring on this date: the catastrophic Amtrak 188 derailment in Philadelphia (killing 8 people in a city 90 miles from Trump Tower) and a devastating 7.3 magnitude aftershock in Nepal (killing over 150). For someone positioning himself as a national leader, the complete omission of both tragedies — while finding time for three posts of generic entrepreneurial advice and multiple Tom Brady defenses — is psychologically consistent with a narcissistic framework in which external suffering holds no utility unless it can be instrumentalized for self-aggrandizement. Full digest for 2015-05-12: https://trump.fm/date/2015-05-12/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2015, May 12). "@delonte3ast: Tom Brady is about to win the next... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_597993941594693632 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@delonte3ast: Tom Brady is about to win the next 5 Super..." X (Twitter), 12 May. 2015. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_597993941594693632. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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