# Post x_610967340465946624

- Post ID: `x_610967340465946624`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2015-06-17T00:28:59.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_610967340465946624
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_610967340465946624/analysis
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## Post text

> @ericbolling, watched you on my flight to Iowa. Will not be forgotten.

## Engagement

- Likes: 196
- Reposts: 43
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.350Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-07T08:50:26.344Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: @ericbolling Thank You Post (June 16, 2015)

A brief, transactional gratitude post directed at Fox News host Eric Bolling, sent the day Trump announced his presidential candidacy. The phrase "Will not be forgotten" appears verbatim in the adjacent Kimberly Guilfoyle post, suggesting a templated formula for thanking media allies.

**Context:** Trump announced his candidacy on June 16 and was flying to Iowa for campaign events. He is thanking Fox News personalities who covered him favorably.

**Authorship:** Posted at 8:28 PM ET, consistent with either Trump or an aide. The brevity and personal tone ("watched you on my flight") suggest authentic Trump, though the polished grammar is ambiguous. The repeated "Will not be forgotten" phrase across posts suggests a personal verbal habit rather than aide drafting.

**Psychological State:** Supply-seeking and alliance-building. Trump is in early campaign mode, rewarding favorable media coverage with public acknowledgment — a transactional loyalty dynamic. The phrase "Will not be forgotten" carries implicit reciprocity: loyalty will be repaid.

**Clinical Significance:** Low. This is routine relationship maintenance with mild transactional undertones typical of Trump's interpersonal style.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 65%)

### Indicators

- Personal detail ('watched you on my flight to Iowa')
- Evening timing (8:28 PM ET)
- Repeated phrase pattern ('Will not be forgotten') matches adjacent post
- Correct grammar and punctuation

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Eric Bolling favorable coverage)

Sentiment: +0.60

### Clinical

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- public acknowledgment of ally
- transactional loyalty signaling

## Tags

- media-alliance (70%)
- campaign-launch (60%)
- transactional-loyalty (50%)

## That day

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

**Day One of Candidate Trump: A Fox News Thank-You Tour and the First Campaign Swing**

June 17, 2015 marks Donald Trump's first full day as a declared presidential candidate, following his famous Trump Tower escalator announcement on June 16. The day's posting activity reveals a man consumed with cataloging and rewarding favorable media coverage of his announcement. The first five posts of the day (all from the evening of June 16 local time, while Trump was in Iowa) consist entirely of thanking Fox News personalities—Kimberly Guilfoyle, Eric Bolling, Greg Gutfeld, and Monica Crowley—for positive commentary, each paired with an implicit promise of reciprocity ("Will not be forgotten"). This phrase, repeated verbatim to two different hosts, reveals a transactional framework for media relationships that would become a defining feature of the Trump political apparatus.

The daytime hours show a shift toward campaign logistics—retweeting a supporter, posting a campaign slogan image, and documenting travel from Iowa to New Hampshire—interspersed with a single flash of retaliatory rage against the New York Daily News, which had mocked his candidacy announcement. The overall psychological profile is uniformly grandiose but remarkably low-intensity: this is not rage or defensiveness but rather the expansive, distributing-favors posture of a man savoring a moment of maximum attention. Many daytime posts carry very low authorship scores (0.10–0.40), suggesting a campaign staff rapidly learning to post on his behalf.

The Charleston Church Massacre, which would occur later that evening at approximately 9:05 PM EDT, had not yet taken place during Trump's posting window (last post at 6:56 PM EDT) and thus does not factor into this day's analysis. The day is psychologically unremarkable in isolation but historically significant as the template-setting first day of a candidacy that would reshape American politics.

Full digest for 2015-06-17: https://trump.fm/date/2015-06-17/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2015, June 17). @ericbolling, watched you on my flight to Iowa.... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_610967340465946624
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "@ericbolling, watched you on my flight to Iowa. Will not be..." X (Twitter), 17 Jun. 2015. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_610967340465946624. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "@ericbolling, watched you on my flight to Iowa. Will not be...," X (Twitter), June 17, 2015, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_610967340465946624.

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