# Post x_598193010048897024

- Post ID: `x_598193010048897024`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2015-05-12T18:28:22.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @therealtommydel
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_598193010048897024
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_598193010048897024/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_598193010048897024.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

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

> "@therealtommydel Trump for President!  Tom Brady as running mate?"

## Engagement

- Likes: 199
- Reposts: 120
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.353Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-07T04:27:50.919Z (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: Post x_598193010048897024

### Overview
A light, playful reply to a supporter suggesting Tom Brady as a running mate. This is a low-intensity engagement post during Trump's pre-announcement exploratory phase (he would formally announce his candidacy on June 16, 2015). The Tom Brady reference connects to the ongoing Deflategate controversy, which Trump had been commenting on in adjacent posts ("Sue them Tom!").

### Authorship
Posted at 2:28 PM ET (Trump likely in New York). Business hours, brief and casual. Could be either Trump or an aide — the playful tone and Brady reference are consistent with Trump's authentic voice, but the timing is ambiguous.

### Psychological State
This is routine supply-seeking and audience engagement. Trump is building pre-candidacy momentum, retweeting supporters and associating himself with popular cultural figures (Brady). The post is strategically associative — linking himself to a winner/champion figure.

### Rhetorical Techniques
- **Celebrity association**: Linking himself to Tom Brady, a widely admired sports figure
- **Humor/playfulness**: The running mate suggestion is lighthearted, making Trump seem approachable
- **Implicit self-elevation**: Framing himself as presidential candidate material in a casual register

### Clinical Significance
Minimal. This is a low-intensity, positive-affect maintenance post with no notable clinical indicators.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 55%)

### Indicators

- Business hours (2:28 PM ET)
- Casual playful tone consistent with Trump
- Brief reply format
- References ongoing Brady/Deflategate topic he was engaged with

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (supporter engagement)

Sentiment: +0.60

### Clinical

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

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- idealization (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 20%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- celebrity association
- humor as rapport

## Tags

- pre-candidacy (70%)
- celebrity-association (60%)
- supply-seeking (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). "@therealtommydel Trump for President! Tom Brady... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_598193010048897024
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@therealtommydel Trump for President! Tom Brady as running..." X (Twitter), 12 May. 2015. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_598193010048897024. Accessed 11 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, ""@therealtommydel Trump for President! Tom Brady as running...," X (Twitter), May 12, 2015, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_598193010048897024.

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