# Post x_598195057397800960 - Post ID: `x_598195057397800960` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2015-05-12T18:36:30.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @WilyKayote - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_598195057397800960 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_598195057397800960/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_598195057397800960.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text _Quotes @WilyKayote, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @WilyKayote's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._ > "@WilyKayote @LenToddWOR I hope the Don throws his hat in the ring for POTUS. He can't be bought! He said this country is going to Hell" ## Engagement - Likes: 36 - Reposts: 14 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.353Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-07T04:27:13.144Z (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 Supporter Praise (2015-05-12) This post is a retweet of a supporter's comment praising Trump as incorruptible and echoing his "country is going to Hell" rhetoric. This is part of a pattern visible across the day's posts — Trump amplifying supporter voices as social proof during his pre-announcement campaign period. ### Authorship Posted at 2:36 PM ET (Trump likely in New York). Business hours, simple retweet of supporter content — consistent with either Trump or aide activity. The act of selecting flattering quotes to retweet is characteristic of Trump's known habits. ### Psychological Observations This is a low-intensity supply-seeking post. By retweeting praise, Trump lets others make his case: he "can't be bought" (incorruptibility claim) and he tells hard truths ("this country is going to Hell"). The selection reveals what narratives Trump wants amplified — the populist outsider who is wealthy enough to be independent. ### Rhetorical Function The retweet serves as testimonial evidence — a third party validates Trump's candidacy. The quoted supporter's language contains appeal to fear ("going to Hell") and the incorruptibility frame ("can't be bought"), both core pre-campaign messages. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 50%) ### Indicators - Business hours (2:36 PM ET) - Simple retweet of supporter praise - Could be either Trump or aide curating supportive tweets ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (supporter praise) Sentiment: +0.30 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 40% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - idealization (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 30% **Parasocial Techniques:** - testimonial amplification - social proof ## Tags - supply-seeking (70%) - pre-campaign (80%) - supporter-retweet (100%) ## 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). "@WilyKayote @LenToddWOR I hope the Don throws... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_598195057397800960 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@WilyKayote @LenToddWOR I hope the Don throws his hat in..." X (Twitter), 12 May. 2015. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_598195057397800960. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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