# Post x_598192156491255808

- Post ID: `x_598192156491255808`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2015-05-12T18:24:58.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @donhewitt3
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_598192156491255808
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_598192156491255808/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_598192156491255808.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

_Quotes @donhewitt3, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @donhewitt3's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._

> "@donhewitt3 @RonFromLasVegas People are very naive if they think only the Patriots do this. Had no effect on the game. Go to court"

## Engagement

- Likes: 157
- Reposts: 84
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.353Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-07T04:27:42.953Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: Deflategate Commentary (2015-05-12)

This post is a reply defending Tom Brady/Patriots in the Deflategate scandal, consistent with his earlier post "Sue them Tom!" The post makes three distinct points: (1) other teams deflate footballs too, (2) it didn't affect the game outcome, (3) Brady should go to court.

### Authorship
Posted at 2:25 PM ET (Trump likely in New York). Business hours, but the informal reply style, direct tone, and connection to his earlier video post suggest authentic Trump engagement with a topic he cares about.

### Psychological Features
This is a relatively low-intensity post expressing solidarity with a fellow celebrity/winner figure (Brady). The "people are very naive" framing positions Trump as worldly and knowing. The normalization argument ("everyone does it") and minimization ("had no effect") are notable defense patterns he applies broadly. The advice to "go to court" reflects his litigious orientation.

### Rhetorical Techniques
- Minimization/normalization of rule-breaking
- Appeal to insider knowledge ("people are naive")
- Directive/commanding tone ("Go to court")

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Other teams besides the Patriots deflate footballs" | **Unverifiable** | While some anecdotal claims exist, no systematic evidence that ball deflation was widespread across the NFL |
| "Ball deflation had no effect on the game" | **Half True** | Patriots won AFC Championship 45-7; the margin suggests deflation was not decisive, but the claim it had 'no effect' is an overstatement |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Business hours but conversational reply style
- Connects to earlier authentic video post about same topic
- Direct, imperative tone typical of Trump

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance

Sentiment: +0.10

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 20%
- Antisocial: 20%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- rationalization (neurotic)
- denial (pathological)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 40%

## Fact Checks (2)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-07._

> Other teams besides the Patriots deflate footballs

**UNVERIFIABLE**

While some anecdotal claims exist, no systematic evidence that ball deflation was widespread across the NFL

> Ball deflation had no effect on the game

**HALF TRUE**

Patriots won AFC Championship 45-7; the margin suggests deflation was not decisive, but the claim it had 'no effect' is an overstatement

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- deflategate (100%)
- sports_commentary (80%)
- ally_defense (60%)

## 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). "@donhewitt3 @RonFromLasVegas People are very... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_598192156491255808
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@donhewitt3 @RonFromLasVegas People are very naive if they..." X (Twitter), 12 May. 2015. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_598192156491255808. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, ""@donhewitt3 @RonFromLasVegas People are very naive if they...," X (Twitter), May 12, 2015, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_598192156491255808.

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