# Post x_598140917787262977 - Post ID: `x_598140917787262977` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2015-05-12T15:01:22.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_598140917787262977 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_598140917787262977/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_598140917787262977.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Sue them Tom! #TrumpVlog https://t.co/27fGVFn9pz ## Engagement - Likes: 692 - Reposts: 854 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.353Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-07T04:26:29.928Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Analysis: "Sue them Tom! #TrumpVlog" A brief promotional post directing viewers to a Trump Vlog segment. The imperative "Sue them Tom!" suggests Trump is offering advice or encouragement to someone named Tom regarding litigation, consistent with his well-documented litigious orientation and advisory persona. **Timing:** 15:01 UTC = 11:01 AM EDT. Trump was likely in New York (Trump Tower) during this pre-campaign period. Business hours posting. **Authorship:** The brevity, exclamatory tone, and casual directive style are consistent with authentic Trump, though the #TrumpVlog hashtag and link suggest partial promotional coordination. The informal, punchy quality ("Sue them Tom!") reads as authentic voice even if timing is business hours. **Context:** This post sits within a cluster of activity on May 12, 2015, including poll-boosting retweets, an ad hominem attack on Chris Cillizza, a business commentary on the Verizon-AOL deal, and accepting supporter praise. The pattern shows Trump in an expansive, assertive mode — projecting authority across political, business, and interpersonal domains. **Psychological significance:** Minimal. This is a low-intensity promotional post. The litigious encouragement ("Sue them!") is a minor but characteristic expression of Trump's combative worldview where legal action is a primary tool of dominance. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 60%) ### Indicators - Business hours posting (11 AM EDT) - Informal exclamatory style consistent with Trump voice - #TrumpVlog hashtag suggests promotional coordination - Brevity and directness typical of authentic posts ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance Sentiment: +0.30 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 30% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 10% **Parasocial Techniques:** - direct address to audience via vlog ## Tags - promotional (70%) - litigation (50%) - low_intensity (80%) ## 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). Sue them Tom! #TrumpVlog https://t.co/27fGVFn9pz [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_598140917787262977 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Sue them Tom! #TrumpVlog https://t.co/27fGVFn9pz" X (Twitter), 12 May. 2015. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_598140917787262977. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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