# Post x_600947888475250688

- Post ID: `x_600947888475250688`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2015-05-20T08:55:16.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @traapgawddd
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_600947888475250688
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_600947888475250688/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_600947888475250688.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

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

> "@traapgawddd: @realDonaldTrump kick Obamas ass and run for president already."

## Engagement

- Likes: 29
- Reposts: 12
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.353Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-07T04:42:15.512Z (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 Urging Presidential Run

This post is a quote-retweet of a supporter (@traapgawddd) urging Trump to "kick Obamas ass and run for president already." It is one of several similar retweets in sequence, all amplifying supporters calling for a presidential run. This is a classic narcissistic supply-seeking pattern: curating and broadcasting adulation.

**Authorship:** Posted at 4:55 AM ET (Trump was based in New York). This early-morning timing is consistent with authentic Trump posting. The pattern of retweeting multiple supporters in rapid succession is characteristic of his late-night/early-morning Twitter sessions.

**Psychological Function:** By retweeting rather than stating his own intention, Trump achieves multiple goals: (1) demonstrates popular demand, (2) lets others voice aggression toward Obama he can amplify without owning, and (3) builds narrative momentum toward announcement (which came June 16, 2015). The selection of this particular tweet—with its crude, aggressive language—is notable; he chose to amplify "kick Obamas ass" over more polite entreaties.

**Pattern:** This is part of a coordinated self-curation burst. The longitudinal context shows at least four retweets of supporters urging him to run, constituting a manufactured groundswell.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 85%)

### Indicators

- 4:55 AM ET posting time
- Rapid-fire retweet pattern typical of late-night sessions
- Selection of crude/aggressive supporter tweet

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

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

Sentiment: +0.40

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 50%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 10%
- Sadism: 10%

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- amplifying supporter voices to create illusion of grassroots demand

## Tags

- supply_seeking (80%)
- pre_announcement (90%)
- proxy_aggression (60%)

## That day

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

**The Narcissistic Supply Harvest: 40 Posts of Pre-Announcement Campaign Theater and a 3 AM Retweet Binge**

On May 20, 2015—less than a month before his formal presidential announcement on June 16—Donald Trump conducted what amounts to a full-day narcissistic supply harvesting operation, retweeting over 20 supporter pleas urging him to run for president. The day's 40 posts were uniformly grandiose, contained zero rage indicators, and registered a remarkably low average intensity of 0.17. The only meaningful spike occurred at 10:07 AM EDT when Trump attacked Ohio Governor John Kasich in a two-post salvo (intensity 0.35 and 0.50) triggered by Kasich's alleged use of the "Make America Great Again" slogan—a textbook narcissistic injury response escalating to a preemptive attack on Kasich's Lehman Brothers tenure.

The most clinically notable feature of this day is the posting schedule when converted to Trump's local time (EDT). Activity began at 10:02 PM on May 19, continued through midnight, and then resumed at 3:21 AM—suggesting either a maximum sleep window of approximately 3 hours and 15 minutes or no sleep at all. Trump then posted steadily from 3:21 AM through 6:36 AM before any reasonable waking hour. While many afternoon posts carry low authorship scores (0.10–0.20) suggesting staff involvement, the pre-dawn cluster (authorship 0.75–0.85) appears to be personal activity. This sleep pattern, combined with the elevated post volume and repetitive supply-seeking behavior, meets several—but not all—criteria for hypomanic episode concern.

The day's narrative arc is stable and strategic rather than chaotic: a man systematically building the public case for a presidential run by amplifying grassroots demand, asserting slogan ownership, testing attack lines against a potential rival, promoting business ventures, and capping the evening with a Fox News appearance on Megyn Kelly's show. The ISIS critique (x_601125496022310912) at intensity 0.50 was the day's rhetorical peak but remained well within the bounds of normal political commentary. No danger indicators, stochastic terrorism patterns, or significant contradictions were detected.

Full digest for 2015-05-20: https://trump.fm/date/2015-05-20/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2015, May 20). "@traapgawddd: @realDonaldTrump kick Obamas ass... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_600947888475250688
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@traapgawddd: @realDonaldTrump kick Obamas ass and run for..." X (Twitter), 20 May. 2015. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_600947888475250688. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, ""@traapgawddd: @realDonaldTrump kick Obamas ass and run for...," X (Twitter), May 20, 2015, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_600947888475250688.

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