# Post x_600751739831095297 - Post ID: `x_600751739831095297` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2015-05-19T19:55:50.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_600751739831095297 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_600751739831095297/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_600751739831095297.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Entrepreneurs: Remember the golden rule of negotiating -- he who has the gold makes the rules. ## Engagement - Likes: 347 - Reposts: 271 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.353Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-07T04:39:40.530Z (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: "Golden Rule of Negotiating" A light, aphoristic post dispensing business advice. This is part of a series of "Entrepreneurs:" posts on the same day, functioning as brand maintenance content for Trump's business persona. ### Authorship Posted at 3:55 PM ET (Trump based in New York). Business hours, polished, formulaic "Entrepreneurs:" prefix matching a series. Strongly suggests aide-composed or pre-scheduled content. ### Psychological Content The post reframes the "golden rule" (treat others as you'd wish to be treated) into a transactional power maxim: wealth = authority. This inversion is psychologically revealing — it replaces an ethical principle with a dominance principle, reflecting a worldview where material power is the ultimate arbiter. ### Personality Indicators - High agency/power motivation — rules are made by those with resources - Low agreeableness — no reciprocity or fairness; hierarchical framing - Consistent with Trump's transactional worldview documented across decades ### Context This post sits within a day of mixed content: business promotion (Doral), policy positions (TPP, China debt), and entrepreneur advice. The pre-campaign period (announcement June 16, 2015) shows Trump building dual brand as businessman and political figure. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 20%) ### Indicators - Business hours (3:55 PM ET) - Formulaic 'Entrepreneurs:' prefix matching series pattern - Polished grammar and punctuation - No emotional reactivity or caps ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance Sentiment: +0.30 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 30% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 30% **Parasocial Techniques:** - direct address to followers as mentees ## Tags - brand-building (90%) - power-schema (60%) - pre-campaign (50%) ## 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). Entrepreneurs: Remember the golden rule of... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_600751739831095297 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Entrepreneurs: Remember the golden rule of negotiating --..." X (Twitter), 19 May. 2015. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_600751739831095297. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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