# Post x_662569952126349312

- Post ID: `x_662569952126349312`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2015-11-06T09:59:21.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @rhinostate
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_662569952126349312
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_662569952126349312/analysis
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## Post text

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

> "@rhinostate: .@realDonaldTrump @GrundleMan27 Rubio is a Manchurian Candidate. People will own him if he ever became president."

## Engagement

- Likes: 1,560
- Reposts: 910
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.341Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-08T07:52:03.286Z (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 Attacking Marco Rubio as "Manchurian Candidate"

Trump retweets a supporter calling Rubio a "Manchurian Candidate" — someone controlled by hidden forces who would be "owned" if elected. This is part of a rapid-fire early morning retweet session attacking GOP rivals (Carson and Rubio) using supporters' words as proxy attacks.

### Authorship
Posted at ~5:00 AM EST (Trump likely in NYC). This falls squarely in Trump's characteristic early-morning tweeting window. The retweet-as-weapon pattern — amplifying supporter attacks rather than making them directly — is classic Trump behavior during this period.

### Psychological Dynamics
The post uses supporters as ventriloquist dummies to attack rivals while maintaining plausible deniability. By retweeting rather than originating the attack, Trump distributes the "Manchurian Candidate" conspiracy framing without owning it. This is a characteristic pattern of projection and splitting — Rubio is cast as a puppet controlled by unnamed "people," while Trump implicitly positions himself as the authentic, uncontrollable candidate.

### Context
The longitudinal sequence shows Trump in a coordinated early-morning attack mode: amplifying Carson violence narratives and Rubio financial/corruption narratives simultaneously, while also retweeting poll numbers and supporter praise. This alternation between narcissistic supply (polls, praise) and rival devaluation is a stable baseline pattern.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Rubio is a Manchurian Candidate who would be owned by others" | **Unverifiable** | Conspiracy framing without specific evidence; standard political attack implying donor influence |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 85%)

### Indicators

- 5:00 AM EST posting time
- retweet-as-attack pattern
- part of early morning rapid-fire session
- no original text added

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Preemptive Attack — Comparison (Rubio as rising GOP rival)

Sentiment: -0.50

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- rapid-fire early morning posting
- multiple targets attacked in sequence

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 50%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 40%
- Sadism: 20%

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- amplifying supporter voices to create illusion of grassroots consensus
- using retweets as proxy attacks

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-08._

> Rubio is a Manchurian Candidate who would be owned by others

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Conspiracy framing without specific evidence; standard political attack implying donor influence

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- proxy-attack (80%)
- rival-devaluation (70%)
- conspiracy-framing (60%)
- early-morning-tweet-storm (50%)

## That day

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

**Carson Obsession Consumes 39-Post Day as West Point Fabrication Story Breaks**

On November 6, 2015 — the eve of his Saturday Night Live hosting appearance — Donald Trump produced an unusually high-volume day of 39 posts dominated by a sustained, perseverative attack campaign against Ben Carson, who was threatening Trump's polling lead at the time. The Politico report alleging Carson fabricated a West Point scholarship offer provided the external catalyst, but Trump's fixation on Carson's autobiographical claims of childhood violence (the hammer and stabbing incidents) preceded the West Point story and continued throughout the day, consuming nearly a third of all posts. The attack pattern — primarily amplifying third-party retweets that mock Carson while preserving plausible deniability — reveals a psychologically gratifying campaign to dismantle a rival's redemption narrative that competes with Trump's own self-mythology.

The day's activity pattern raises concerns about sleep disruption: after posting until 10:22 PM EST on November 5, Trump resumed at 4:18 AM EST on November 6 with a rapid-fire burst of 10 posts in 41 minutes, all from New York City where he was preparing for SNL. The approximately six-hour maximum sleep window, combined with the 39-post total volume and multiple rapid-fire bursts (including 8 posts in 8 minutes during the early afternoon), places this day in the upper range of his posting behavior. Throughout, the psychological state remained uniformly grandiose with no vulnerable periods, defensive retreats, or state transitions — a sustained offensive posture characteristic of narcissistic dominance behavior during a period of perceived competitive threat.

Notably, while the Carson attacks dominate, Trump also distributed fire across multiple secondary targets (Marco Rubio's credit card ethics, Megyn Kelly's polling coverage, the New York Times, Bill Kristol) and interspersed supply-seeking retweets of supporter praise. The policy content was minimal — a single Keystone Pipeline criticism of Obama containing the false claim that the pipeline would be "good for the environment." Despite the aggressive tone, no posts reached elevated danger levels, and the attacks remained within the bounds of political rhetoric rather than crossing into stochastic terrorism territory.

Full digest for 2015-11-06: https://trump.fm/date/2015-11-06/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2015, November 6). "@rhinostate: .@realDonaldTrump @GrundleMan27... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_662569952126349312
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@rhinostate: .@realDonaldTrump @GrundleMan27 Rubio is a..." X (Twitter), 6 Nov. 2015. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_662569952126349312. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, ""@rhinostate: .@realDonaldTrump @GrundleMan27 Rubio is a...," X (Twitter), November 6, 2015, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_662569952126349312.

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