# Post x_603279849814433792

- Post ID: `x_603279849814433792`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2015-05-26T19:21:39.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_603279849814433792
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_603279849814433792/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_603279849814433792.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Entrepreneurs: Realize that persistence can go a long way. Being stubborn is often an attribute.

## Engagement

- Likes: 266
- Reposts: 187
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.352Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-07T05:39:22.749Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: Entrepreneurial Motivational Post (2015-05-26)

Low-intensity motivational post, part of a series of entrepreneur-directed advice tweets on this date. Generic self-help content with mild self-positioning as business mentor.

### Authorship
Posted at 3:21 PM EDT (Trump likely in NYC). Business hours, polished grammar, part of a scheduled series of similar posts — consistent with aide-drafted content or pre-scheduled motivational tweets from his book material.

### Psychological State
Routine maintenance posting. No emotional reactivity. Content echoes themes from his books (e.g., *Think Big and Kick Ass*). The valorization of stubbornness as virtue is notable as a consistent self-schema.

### Personality Signals
The reframing of "stubborn" as positive ("an attribute") is a mild form of rationalization — rebranding rigidity as persistence. This is consistent with Trump's longstanding self-concept as someone who never gives up.

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 20%)

### Indicators

- Business hours (3:21 PM EDT)
- Correct grammar and punctuation
- Part of scheduled motivational series
- Polished, complete sentence
- Generic content matching book material

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance

Sentiment: +0.40

### Clinical

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

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 30%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- direct address to entrepreneurs as mentor figure

## Tags

- motivational (100%)
- entrepreneur_series (90%)
- self_as_mentor (70%)

## That day

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

**The Coronation Rehearsal: Three Weeks Before Announcement, Trump Harvests Adulation and Rehearses Campaign Themes**

On May 26, 2015—exactly three weeks before his historic June 16 presidential announcement—Donald Trump's social media output reveals a man in methodical pre-campaign mode. Across 30 posts, a strikingly uniform grandiose state prevails with zero rage episodes and an average intensity of just 0.14. The day's dominant activity is narcissistic supply harvesting: roughly 17 of the 30 posts are retweets of supporters pleading with him to run for president, each one amplified with brief, teasing responses like "Stay tuned!" and "Watch." This systematic curation of public demand serves dual purposes—feeding the grandiose self-concept while constructing the narrative that his candidacy responds to popular clamor rather than personal ambition.

The day unfolds in three distinct sessions, all consistent with a New York City base (confirmed by the Trump Links at Ferry Point opening in the Bronx and a Good Day New York appearance). An evening session on May 25 (8:18–10:28 PM EDT) features 14 posts dominated by supporter retweets; a rapid-fire morning session on May 26 (7:54–8:00 AM EDT) packs 8 posts into just 6 minutes, likely timed around the GDNY media hit; and an afternoon session (1:03–5:20 PM EDT) transitions from brand promotion to motivational content to nascent policy positioning. The sleep window of approximately 9.5 hours suggests no deprivation, and the posting cadence, while high-volume, reflects strategic scheduling rather than hypomanic output.

Most psychologically notable is the afternoon drift toward campaign themes: a Henry Ford quote on self-belief, an attack on Iraq War supporters' fitness for command (x_603275253310169088), a trio of entrepreneur platitudes likely drawn from his books, and the day's sole elevated-danger post—an endorsement of Ann Coulter's "Adios, America!" (x_603309709236510720), the very book widely credited with crystallizing Trump's immigration platform. The absence of any mention of the catastrophic Texas/Oklahoma flooding—which killed over 30 people during Memorial Day weekend—is consistent with low empathy markers but also with a pre-campaign operation laser-focused on self-referential messaging.

Full digest for 2015-05-26: https://trump.fm/date/2015-05-26/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2015, May 26). Entrepreneurs: Realize that persistence can go a... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_603279849814433792
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Entrepreneurs: Realize that persistence can go a long way...." X (Twitter), 26 May. 2015. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_603279849814433792. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Entrepreneurs: Realize that persistence can go a long way....," X (Twitter), May 26, 2015, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_603279849814433792.

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