# Post x_636159580549066756

- Post ID: `x_636159580549066756`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2015-08-25T12:53:57.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @ibemoshing
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## Post text

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

> "@ibemoshing: No hope for Jeb Bush anymore, @realDonaldTrump has been on fire! Really hope he can get the win and fix this country!

## Engagement

- Likes: 1,347
- Reposts: 461
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.345Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-07T19:34:22.277Z (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 Fan Praise — August 25, 2015

### Post Type
This is a manual retweet (old-style @handle: text format) of an obscure fan account praising Trump and dismissing Jeb Bush. Trump authored no original text.

### Authorship Attribution
**Verdict: Likely Authentic (medium confidence)**

Posted at 8:53 AM EDT — early business hours, slightly outside the classic late-night authentic window but not disqualifying. More importantly, retweeting individual fan flattery is a well-documented personal Trump behavior pattern. No aide would strategically amplify an unknown fan account; the value here is purely narcissistic supply, not communications strategy.

### Psychological State: Grandiose Pole
Trump is in a clearly grandiose, expansive state. The surrounding posts on this date show an aggressive offensive against Jeb Bush (anchor babies controversy, wall vs. fence, name branding, Pataki/Graham attacks). This retweet functions as the triumphant punctuation mark — external validation of the offensive. The fan's language ("on fire") is precisely the mirroring supply a grandiose narcissistic state requires.

### Narcissistic Dynamics
**Trigger:** Supply-seeking, reinforced by rival devaluation  
**Mechanism:** The retweet externalizes self-praise — grandiosity is maintained while appearing to originate organically from the public. This is projection of admiration via proxy: the fan says what Trump believes about himself, and Trump amplifies it as social proof.

### Defense Mechanisms
- **Splitting** (immature): Binary framing — Trump all-good ("on fire"), Bush all-bad ("no hope")
- **Idealization via proxy** (immature): Fan's hyperbolic language absorbed as self-image
- **Projection of admiration** (immature): Self-aggrandizement routed through third-party voice for ego-protective distancing

### Rhetorical Techniques
- **Social proof**: Citizen endorsement creates appearance of organic grassroots movement
- **Third-party authority laundering**: Self-promotion achieved without self-authorship
- **Appeal to restoration**: "Fix this country" — implicit diagnosis of national brokenness requiring Trump alone
- **False dichotomy**: Trump wins or country stays broken; no alternatives offered
- **Devaluation by proxy**: "No hope for Jeb" delivered via fan voice, maintaining plausible distance

### Archetypal Layer
The post invokes Hero/Savior and ascending King archetypes. The fan's framing maps onto the "broken kingdom restored by true king" mythological structure. The Jeb Bush shadow receives all projected failure, weakness, and irrelevance — qualities Trump's persona is constructed in explicit opposition to.

### Longitudinal Note
Fifth Jeb Bush-targeting post of the day. The Bush "anchor babies/Asians" gaffe appears to be the precipitating stimulus for an extended rival-attack sequence. This retweet represents the grandiose supply-intake phase following the aggressive attack phase — a cycling pattern worth tracking longitudinally.

### Danger Assessment
**None.** Political rivalry language within normal campaigning parameters.

### Clinical Significance
Below threshold for summary. Routine supply-seeking retweet consistent with established Trump Twitter baseline for this period.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "No hope for Jeb Bush (implied: Trump is clearly winning)" | **Mostly True** | By August 2015, Trump had surged to lead Republican primary polls while Bush's numbers had declined significantly. The directional claim is accurate; 'no hope' overstates certainty at this stage of the primary. |
| "Trump 'has been on fire' (implied: performing exceptionally well)" | **Unverifiable** | Normative/evaluative claim about political performance. Directionally supported by poll data showing Trump surge, but 'on fire' is subjective fan characterization. |

Overall Veracity: 65%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 78%)

### Indicators

- Retweeting individual fan flattery is a documented personal Trump behavior, not a comms strategy
- No aide would amplify an obscure unknown fan account with no reach
- Fits emotional cadence of surrounding anti-Bush post cluster
- 8:53 AM EDT is early business hours — slightly outside late-night authentic window but not disqualifying
- Old-style manual retweet format consistent with Trump's 2015 Twitter behavior

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (fan account @ibemoshing)

Sentiment: +0.65

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 55%
- Antisocial: 5%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 10%

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

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

Cognitive Markers:
- perseveration

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Social proof via citizen endorsement
- Broadcasting fan voice to simulate organic grassroots movement
- Third-party validation as substitute for direct self-promotion

## Fact Checks (2)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-07._

> No hope for Jeb Bush (implied: Trump is clearly winning)

**MOSTLY TRUE**

By August 2015, Trump had surged to lead Republican primary polls while Bush's numbers had declined significantly. The directional claim is accurate; 'no hope' overstates certainty at this stage of the primary.

> Trump 'has been on fire' (implied: performing exceptionally well)

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Normative/evaluative claim about political performance. Directionally supported by poll data showing Trump surge, but 'on fire' is subjective fan characterization.

Overall Veracity: 65%

## Tags

- supply_seeking (90%)
- grandiose_state (80%)
- retweet_of_praise (100%)
- rival_devaluation (70%)
- social_proof (85%)
- splitting (70%)
- jeb_bush_targeting (75%)
- savior_archetype (65%)
- restoration_narrative (70%)

## That day

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

**Day 19 of Kelly Siege: 38-Post Barrage Oscillates Between Sustained Journalist Harassment and Multi-Vector Primary Rival Demolition**

August 25, 2015 captures Donald Trump operating at peak early-campaign intensity across 38 posts — a volume well above his typical daily output, placing it near the 80th percentile for the period. Two dominant campaigns structure the day: a sustained harassment operation against Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly (9 posts, concentrated in a 44-minute late-evening cluster peaking with amplification of the gendered slur "bimbo" in post x_635995703182016513) and a multi-angle demolition campaign against Jeb Bush (7 posts, spanning evening through morning). The psychological state is overwhelmingly grandiose, with the Kelly posts introducing mixed-state indicators reflecting narcissistic rage that has not diminished 19 days after the original August 6 debate injury. The stochastic terrorism pattern is structurally operative across the Kelly posts: named target, sustained grievance articulation, massive audience mobilization, no explicit call to action required — and Kelly publicly documented receiving death threats during this period.

The Bush campaign reflects a psychologically distinct register — cold, tactical, and strategically opportunistic rather than emotionally driven. Trump cynically exploits Bush's "anchor babies" misstep by instrumentalizing Asian-American grievance (x_636128157788192768, x_636129007164108800), despite his own concurrent defense of the identical term on Face the Nation — the day's most notable contradiction. Approximately 15 posts serve a pure narcissistic supply function, structurally integrated with attack posts in a deliberate alternating rhythm that regulates grandiose equilibrium. Cognitive function is stable and baseline-consistent throughout; no markers of decline are detectable. Sleep appears adequate at approximately 8 hours, and while volume is elevated, posting remains organized and strategically coherent rather than pressured or disorganized, placing the day below threshold for a hypomanic episode. Notably absent is any reference to the previous day's historic "Black Monday" global market crash — a striking omission for a self-described business genius that may reflect strategic avoidance of a narrative that undermines economic savior positioning.

Full digest for 2015-08-25: https://trump.fm/date/2015-08-25/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2015, August 25). "@ibemoshing: No hope for Jeb Bush anymore,... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_636159580549066756
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@ibemoshing: No hope for Jeb Bush anymore,..." X (Twitter), 25 Aug. 2015. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_636159580549066756. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, ""@ibemoshing: No hope for Jeb Bush anymore,...," X (Twitter), August 25, 2015, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_636159580549066756.

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