# Post x_613073899505500160

- Post ID: `x_613073899505500160`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2015-06-22T19:59:42.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @nojoed
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_613073899505500160/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_613073899505500160.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

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

> "@nojoed: @realDonaldTrump @KarlRove Karl, why don't you sit this election cycle out, we had enough losers to last us a life time." True.

## Engagement

- Likes: 228
- Reposts: 99
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.350Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-07T09:02:55.801Z (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 with Endorsement — Devaluation of Karl Rove

**Post:** Quote-retweet of a user calling Karl Rove a "loser" and telling him to sit out the election cycle, with Trump's endorsement: "True."

### Authorship
Posted at ~3:59 PM ET (Trump was based in New York, days after his June 16 campaign announcement). Business hours, but the brevity and quote-retweet-with-one-word-endorsement pattern is characteristic of authentic Trump. This was a common Trump Twitter behavior — amplifying supporter attacks on his critics.

### Psychological Analysis
This is a low-intensity devaluation post. Karl Rove, a GOP establishment strategist, represents the Republican old guard Trump was positioning against. The post uses a proxy — retweeting a supporter's insult rather than attacking directly — which provides plausible distance while still delivering the message.

**Motive:** Status competition within the Republican field. Days after announcing his candidacy, Trump is establishing himself against the GOP establishment by endorsing the frame that establishment figures like Rove are "losers."

**Defense:** Splitting — GOP establishment = losers; Trump/supporters = winners. Devaluation of Rove via proxy.

### Rhetorical Techniques
- **Proxy attack**: Amplifying a supporter's words rather than making the attack himself
- **Ad hominem**: Rove dismissed as a "loser" rather than engaging his views
- **Winner/loser binary**: Core Trump rhetorical frame

### Context
This fits the early campaign pattern of attacking GOP establishment to differentiate from the field. The Dana Perino post from the same day (Perino was a Fox News host and former Bush press secretary, closely associated with Rove's political world) suggests a broader pattern of engaging with Bush-era Republican figures.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 80%)

### Indicators

- Business hours but characteristic one-word endorsement pattern
- Quote-retweet amplification of supporter attack is signature Trump behavior
- Brevity and combative content consistent with authentic Trump

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Preemptive Attack (Karl Rove / GOP establishment)

Sentiment: -0.30

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 10%
- Sadism: 10%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- devaluation (immature)
- splitting (immature)

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Amplifying supporter voice to create sense of movement/community

## Tags

- devaluation (60%)
- anti-establishment (80%)
- proxy-attack (70%)

## That day

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

**The Supply Machine: Trump Files FEC Candidacy Amid Narcissistic Supply Binge and Karl Rove Feud**

Six days after his famous escalator announcement, Donald Trump's June 22, 2015 social media output reveals a psychologically significant day dominated by a relentless search for narcissistic supply. Of 52 posts, the overwhelming majority (approximately 30+) are retweets of supporter praise—a massive, mechanistic harvesting operation in which Trump scrolled through his mentions amplifying adulation. The day's marquee event was the filing of his official Statement of Candidacy with the Federal Election Commission, but this milestone was almost buried beneath a torrent of self-congratulatory retweet activity and a pointed feud with Karl Rove over a distorted claim about the 2nd Amendment.

The psychological profile is remarkably uniform: 51 of 52 posts register as grandiose, with only a single post briefly touching vulnerability when Trump amplified a follower's question about why Fox News turned on him after his candidacy announcement. Rage was confined to a brief, controlled burst against Karl Rove during the late-evening session (8:46–8:54 PM EDT), peaking at a modest 0.50. The day's most psychologically revealing moments are not the rage posts but the sustained, almost compulsive supply-seeking behavior—22 retweets in 44 minutes during the evening session—and the passive-aggressive threat directed at Dana Perino regarding a private thank-you card. The short sleep window (approximately 5.5 hours between last post at 1:08 AM and first at 6:31 AM EDT) and elevated posting volume suggest heightened arousal consistent with the early-campaign adrenaline phase, though the pattern does not definitively meet clinical hypomanic thresholds.

A notable authorship gradient exists across the day: Trump appears personally engaged during the late-evening retweet sessions and early-morning Fox & Friends farewell (authorship 0.70–0.90), while midday and afternoon posts—including generic entrepreneur platitudes and polished campaign messaging—show markedly lower authorship scores (0.10–0.30), consistent with staff or scheduled content. This bifurcation provides a useful fingerprint for distinguishing Trump's personal psychological state from his campaign's managed output.

Full digest for 2015-06-22: https://trump.fm/date/2015-06-22/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2015, June 22). "@nojoed: @realDonaldTrump @KarlRove Karl, why... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_613073899505500160
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@nojoed: @realDonaldTrump @KarlRove Karl, why don't you..." X (Twitter), 22 Jun. 2015. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_613073899505500160. Accessed 15 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, ""@nojoed: @realDonaldTrump @KarlRove Karl, why don't you...," X (Twitter), June 22, 2015, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_613073899505500160.

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