# Post x_613400615914446848 - Post ID: `x_613400615914446848` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2015-06-23T17:37:57.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @Stevenfclifford - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_613400615914446848 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_613400615914446848/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_613400615914446848.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text _Quotes @Stevenfclifford, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @Stevenfclifford's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._ > "@Stevenfclifford @realDonaldTrump thank you for running. You have my vote and I'm spreading the word. We need you there to fix this mess." ## Engagement - Likes: 258 - Reposts: 100 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.350Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-07T09:04:31.728Z (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 Praise (2015-06-23) This is a retweet/quote of a supporter's message expressing support for Trump's presidential candidacy. It fits a clear pattern visible in the surrounding posts from the same day — Trump is amplifying supporter testimonials in bulk shortly after announcing his candidacy (June 16, 2015). ### Authorship Posted at 1:37 PM ET (Trump based in New York). Business hours, part of a batch of similar retweets. Likely aide-curated supply-seeking activity, though Trump may have selected which tweets to amplify. ### Psychological Function Pure narcissistic supply harvesting. The selected tweet contains: validation ("thank you for running"), commitment ("you have my vote"), evangelism ("spreading the word"), and savior framing ("we need you there to fix this mess"). This is the ideal supply tweet — it positions Trump as needed, chosen, and spreading virally. ### Narrative The supporter's language reinforces Trump's preferred protagonist role as the fixer/savior who will rescue a broken system ("fix this mess"). This is consistent with the Order Restorer archetype. ### Context Part of a rapid-fire series of supporter retweets on June 23, all reinforcing the same themes: first-time voter enthusiasm, anti-politician sentiment, jobs messaging, and personal commitment. This is early-campaign supply consolidation. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 30%) ### Indicators - Business hours (1:37 PM ET) - Part of batch of similar retweets - Curated supporter amplification pattern - No personal commentary added ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (early campaign momentum building) Sentiment: +0.60 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 40% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - idealization (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 30% **Parasocial Techniques:** - supporter amplification - implied reciprocity via retweet ## Tags - supply_seeking (80%) - supporter_retweet (100%) - early_campaign (90%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Post-Announcement Honeymoon: A Day of Pure Narcissistic Supply Harvesting One Week After Campaign Launch** June 23, 2015 — exactly one week after Trump's presidential campaign announcement at Trump Tower — presents a textbook day of narcissistic supply-seeking with zero aggression, zero defensiveness, and no engagement with any external criticism or current event. All eleven posts exist on a single emotional register: grandiose self-validation. The day is dominated by retweeting supporters who pledge their votes and praise his candidacy (7 of 11 posts), sharing favorable New Hampshire polling coverage (2 posts), and promoting a Fox News interview (1 post). The average authorship score across the day is a remarkably low 0.40, indicating Trump is largely curating others' praise rather than generating original content — a behavioral signature of narcissistic supply harvesting at its most efficient. The posting pattern, when adjusted to his likely location in New York City (EDT, UTC-4), reveals a conventional schedule: a brief three-post burst at approximately 10:12–10:15 PM on the evening of June 22, followed by an 11-hour gap consistent with normal sleep, then steady posting from 9:35 AM through 6:24 PM on June 23. There is no evidence of sleep deprivation, hypomanic acceleration, or escalating intensity. The day represents a psychologically stable, if monotonously self-referential, baseline — the calm before the storm of combative campaign rhetoric that would shortly follow as media scrutiny and Republican primary competition intensified. Notably, none of the significant external events of the day — the Confederate flag removal debate in South Carolina, the Pakistan heat wave, Deflategate hearings, or the ongoing Ebola crisis — register in Trump's feed at all. His attentional field on this date is entirely self-enclosed, focused exclusively on evidence that his candidacy is being received with enthusiasm. The sole reference to another political figure is Obama, cast as an incompetent negotiator in a promoted Fox News interview clip, functioning not as genuine political commentary but as a foil to elevate Trump's self-image as a superior dealmaker. Full digest for 2015-06-23: https://trump.fm/date/2015-06-23/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2015, June 23). "@Stevenfclifford @realDonaldTrump thank you for... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_613400615914446848 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@Stevenfclifford @realDonaldTrump thank you for running...." X (Twitter), 23 Jun. 2015. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_613400615914446848. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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