# Post x_666052324146720769

- Post ID: `x_666052324146720769`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2015-11-16T00:37:03.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @peg4cats
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## Post text

_Quotes @peg4cats, pasted in quotation marks the way early X retweets were made by hand. The words in quotation marks are @peg4cats's, not his; a reply of his, if any, follows the closing mark._

> "@peg4cats: @TerryLambert201 @realDonaldTrump you are so right. I only trust Trump to be tough on immigration"

## Engagement

- Likes: 2,660
- Reposts: 1,042
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.340Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-08T08:17:28.430Z (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 on Immigration Toughness

This post is a quote-retweet of a supporter expressing trust in Trump on immigration. It fits a pattern visible in the surrounding posts—a rapid-fire series of retweeted supporter praise, constituting a narcissistic supply-seeking session.

### Context
Posted at 7:37 PM ET (likely NYC), this falls within evening hours. The cluster of similar retweets suggests a scrolling-and-retweeting session. The Paris attacks (Nov 13) had just occurred, making immigration an intensely salient topic. Trump was already positioning as the toughest candidate on immigration; this retweet amplifies that framing in a post-Paris-attacks context.

### Authorship
Evening timing, low-effort retweet format, and the pattern of rapid successive retweets are consistent with authentic Trump behavior—scrolling mentions and amplifying favorable ones.

### Psychological Function
This is straightforward supply-seeking behavior. The post requires no original composition; it simply amplifies a supporter who validates two key narcissistic needs: being trusted ("I only trust Trump") and being seen as strong ("tough on immigration"). The word "only" provides exclusivity—Trump is uniquely trustworthy, reinforcing grandiosity.

### Rhetorical Function
By retweeting rather than stating directly, Trump achieves third-party endorsement of his own claim to toughness—a social proof technique that appears more credible than self-assertion.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 70%)

### Indicators

- Evening posting time (7:37 PM ET)
- Rapid-fire retweet cluster pattern
- Low-effort quote retweet format
- Consistent with known scrolling-and-amplifying behavior

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

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

Sentiment: +0.40

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 50%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 10%
- Sadism: 0%

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- third-party validation
- social proof amplification

## Tags

- supply-seeking (80%)
- immigration (70%)
- retweet-cluster (60%)

## That day

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

**Prophet Without Empathy: Paris Tragedy Becomes Vehicle for Personal Vindication**

On November 16, 2015—three days after the Paris attacks that killed 130 people—Trump's 25 posts reveal a uniformly grandiose psychological state with no discernible vulnerability, empathy, or acknowledgment of human suffering. The day's central psychological operation is the conversion of a mass casualty event into narcissistic supply: multiple posts claim prophetic foresight on ISIS oil strategy ("I TOLD YOU SO!"), while not a single original post offers condolence or mourning. The only Paris-related expression of sympathy is a retweet of Sarah Palin. This pattern—instrumentalizing tragedy for self-aggrandizement—is the day's defining clinical feature.

Beyond the ISIS vindication theme, Trump engages in a characteristic multi-front pattern: celebrating Ronda Rousey's defeat in apparent retaliation for a prior slight, attacking T-Mobile's CEO and Macy's stock price with grandiose causal attribution, praising Tom Brady as a proxy for elite association, and retweeting a high volume of supporter adulation. The day closes with campaign rally posts from Knoxville, Tennessee. Rage levels remain low (only 3/25 posts flagged, all below 0.50), and no posts reach elevated danger thresholds. The absence of escalation or state transitions suggests a psychologically stable but clinically notable day—stable in its sustained grandiosity, and notable for the complete dissociation of empathic response from a global tragedy unfolding in real time.

Full digest for 2015-11-16: https://trump.fm/date/2015-11-16/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2015, November 16). "@peg4cats: @TerryLambert201 @realDonaldTrump you... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_666052324146720769
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@peg4cats: @TerryLambert201 @realDonaldTrump you are so..." X (Twitter), 16 Nov. 2015. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_666052324146720769. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, ""@peg4cats: @TerryLambert201 @realDonaldTrump you are so...," X (Twitter), November 16, 2015, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_666052324146720769.

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