# Post x_600482053818294272

- Post ID: `x_600482053818294272`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2015-05-19T02:04:12.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @MarkMizzouSteel
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_600482053818294272
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_600482053818294272/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_600482053818294272.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

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

> "@MarkMizzouSteel: I see you @realDonaldTrump http://t.co/cInVSYEtAz"

## Engagement

- Likes: 53
- Reposts: 13
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.353Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-07T04:39:07.155Z (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 Recognition

This post is a quote-retweet of a supporter (@MarkMizzouSteel) who tagged Trump with an image link and the message "I see you." This is part of a sustained pattern visible in the surrounding posts: Trump retweeting/quoting supporter messages expressing admiration and urging him to run for president.

**Timing:** 2:04 AM UTC = 10:04 PM EDT (Trump based in New York). Late evening, consistent with authentic Trump posting patterns.

**Context:** This is one of several consecutive retweets of supporter content on the same evening, a routine narcissistic supply-gathering session. The pattern of retweeting praise and calls to run is consistent with the pre-announcement period (he announced June 16, 2015).

**Psychological significance:** Minimal. This is low-intensity maintenance behavior — curating and amplifying supportive voices. The act of retweeting "I see you" is notable only as mutual recognition: the supporter sees Trump, and Trump validates the supporter by amplifying them.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 70%)

### Indicators

- Late evening posting (10:04 PM EDT)
- Part of rapid-fire retweet session typical of authentic Trump
- Minimal editorial content added

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking

Sentiment: +0.30

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 10%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- amplifying supporters
- mutual recognition

## Tags

- supply_seeking (60%)
- pre_announcement (50%)
- retweet_supporter (90%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**Pre-Campaign Narcissistic Harvest: A Day of Relentless Self-Worship Punctuated by Amplified Eliminationist Rhetoric**

On May 19, 2015 — four weeks before his formal campaign announcement — Donald Trump produced approximately 27 unique posts (31 including apparent data duplicates) across a 21-hour span from 9:54 PM EDT on May 18 through 7:21 PM EDT on May 19. The day was overwhelmingly dominated by narcissistic supply-seeking, with nearly half of all posts consisting of retweeted supporter praise urging him to run for president. The psychological profile is monotonically grandiose with zero rage events, zero state transitions, and an average intensity of just 0.16 — a day of contented self-admiration rather than reactive aggression. The most clinically notable feature is a 2:11 AM EDT posting cluster (4 posts in 9 minutes) that suggests possible sleep disruption, though not definitively.

The single most alarming post of the day was a retweet (x_600485611804467200) amplifying a supporter's use of the dehumanizing neologism "Islambies" alongside the explicit phrase "Kill Islambies!!!" — posted just two days after ISIS captured the Iraqi city of Ramadi. This post, buried within a stream of innocuous flattery retweets, exemplifies the rhetorical laundering technique that would become a hallmark of Trump's social media strategy: amplifying extreme, violent, dehumanizing content through retweets while maintaining plausible deniability of authorship. The remainder of the day's content alternated between pre-campaign political positioning (attacks on Jeb Bush's Iraq War stance, opposition to TPP, tough-on-China trade rhetoric), business self-promotion (Trump Doral, Trump Tower Uruguay), and generic entrepreneurial platitudes — a portfolio approach to brand management in the final weeks before formal candidacy.

No escalation pattern, rage spiral, or contamination narrative was detected. The day reads as a stable, strategically oriented pre-campaign maintenance operation, with the subject in a sustained grandiose state drawing psychological fuel from a curated stream of public adulation. The cognitive profile is stable but unremarkable — post content is formulaic, repetitive, and largely borrowed from supporters or staff-drafted material, with original authorship scores frequently below 0.40 for daytime content.

Full digest for 2015-05-19: https://trump.fm/date/2015-05-19/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2015, May 19). "@MarkMizzouSteel: I see you @realDonaldTrump... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_600482053818294272
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@MarkMizzouSteel: I see you @realDonaldTrump..." X (Twitter), 19 May. 2015. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_600482053818294272. Accessed 13 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, ""@MarkMizzouSteel: I see you @realDonaldTrump...," X (Twitter), May 19, 2015, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_600482053818294272.

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