# Post x_661759247559061504

- Post ID: `x_661759247559061504`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2015-11-04T04:17:54.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @ethansimmons111
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_661759247559061504
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_661759247559061504/analysis
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## Post text

_Quotes @ethansimmons111, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @ethansimmons111's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._

> "@ethansimmons111: @DanScavino @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/d9QlsddCRy"

## Engagement

- Likes: 1,442
- Reposts: 816
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.341Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-08T07:46:29.077Z (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 Content (2015-11-04)

This post is a simple retweet/quote of a supporter's tweet directed at Trump and Dan Scavino, containing only a link (likely an image or video of support). There is zero original language from Trump to analyze. The post is a routine engagement retweet during the primary campaign season.

### Timing
Posted at 4:17 AM UTC = 11:17 PM ET on November 3, 2015. Trump was likely in New York during this period (book promotion for *Crippled America*). Late-night timing is consistent with authentic Trump behavior — scrolling through mentions before bed.

### Context
This fits a well-documented pattern of late-night retweet sessions where Trump would amplify supportive content from followers. The preceding posts show the same pattern: three consecutive retweets of supporters praising him, followed by an attack on Rubio and a Hannity appearance promo.

### Psychological Note
The retweet-of-praise pattern is consistent with narcissistic supply-seeking behavior — curating and amplifying adulation. However, given the near-zero original content, no meaningful linguistic, cognitive, or rhetorical analysis is possible.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 70%)

### Indicators

- Late night timing (11:17 PM ET)
- Pattern of rapid-fire retweets of supporters
- No original text to stylistically analyze

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (supporter praise)

Sentiment: +0.30

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 0%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- amplifying supporter content to model desired behavior

## Tags

- supply-seeking (50%)
- retweet (100%)

## That day

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

**Book Launch Blitz: "Crippled America" Promotion Dominates a Low-Rage Day**

November 4, 2015 was a textbook promotional day during the early primary campaign. The overwhelming majority of Trump's 25 posts were retweets of supporter praise for his newly released book "Crippled America" (published November 3), interspersed with campaign logistics and media appearance teasers. The psychological profile is uniformly grandiose, with narcissistic supply-seeking as the dominant trigger across nearly every post. A late-night retweet burst (11:17 PM–1:26 AM ET) suggests an energized post-book-launch state, though not clearly pathological.

The sole disruption to this promotional monotone came at 8:28 AM ET (x_661897728432173056), when Trump pivoted to a grievance against Megyn Kelly over her alleged selective use of polling data. This post registered as the day's only rage-flagged item (0.40) and only vulnerable-state marker, reflecting a narcissistic injury pattern — the perception that a media figure is deliberately undermining him by cherry-picking unfavorable data. The complaint was brief and isolated; by 9:58 AM he had landed in New Hampshire and returned to campaign mode. The evening brought a celebratory Fox News poll tweet and announcements for the next morning's media blitz, closing the day on a self-assured note.

Cognitively, the day's output is low-complexity and repetitive, dominated by retweet amplification rather than original composition. Two posts appear to be near-duplicates of earlier entries (x_661760750520836100 and x_661785765790277600), suggesting either platform artifacts or re-sharing of the same content. No escalation pattern, no elevated danger signals, and no stochastic terrorism markers were detected. This was a controlled, promotional day with a single flash of media grievance.

Full digest for 2015-11-04: https://trump.fm/date/2015-11-04/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2015, November 4). "@ethansimmons111: @DanScavino @realDonaldTrump... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_661759247559061504
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@ethansimmons111: @DanScavino @realDonaldTrump..." X (Twitter), 4 Nov. 2015. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_661759247559061504. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, ""@ethansimmons111: @DanScavino @realDonaldTrump...," X (Twitter), November 4, 2015, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_661759247559061504.

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