# Post x_667023957367914496

- Post ID: `x_667023957367914496`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2015-11-18T16:57:58.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_667023957367914496
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_667023957367914496/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_667023957367914496.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Great New Poll  https://t.co/178k1ERFqT

## Engagement

- Likes: 3,403
- Reposts: 1,567
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.340Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-08T08:21:38.947Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: "Great New Poll" (2015-11-18)

A minimal, low-content post sharing a poll link with two words of commentary. This is a routine supply-seeking post during the primary campaign season, consistent with Trump's pattern of amplifying favorable polling data.

### Authorship
Posted at 11:57 AM EST (Trump based in New York). Business hours, polished brevity, and link-sharing format suggest aide involvement, though the brevity and exclamatory style are also consistent with Trump's own quick retweet/share habits. Indeterminate.

### Psychological State
Routine narcissistic supply-seeking. Sharing favorable polls serves self-validation and audience reinforcement. No emotional reactivity, no targets, no grievance. This is maintenance-level engagement.

### Rhetorical Devices
- Superlative framing ("Great") — characteristic but minimal
- Appeal to authority (polling data as validation)

### Context
This falls within a day of heavy posting about the Paris attacks, ISIS, and attacks on Ben Carson. This particular post is a brief interlude of self-promotion amid more charged content.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 40%)

### Indicators

- Business hours posting (11:57 AM EST)
- Brief link-sharing format common to both Trump and aides
- Minimal text makes stylometric attribution difficult

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking

Sentiment: +0.60

### Clinical

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- sharing validation metrics with audience

## Tags

- poll-sharing (100%)
- campaign-2016 (80%)

## That day

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

**Grandiose Cruise Control: Poll-Pumping and Light Jabs on a Low-Intensity Campaign Day**

November 18, 2015 was a remarkably stable day in Trump's social media output, characterized by near-uniform grandiosity with minimal rage. Against the backdrop of the post-Paris attacks security crisis — the Saint-Denis raid killing attack mastermind Abaaoud and 31 U.S. governors opposing Syrian refugee resettlement — Trump's feed was dominated by self-congratulatory poll sharing and amplification of positive media coverage. The single rage-flagged post, an attack on the Associated Press (x_666719680179085300), opened the evening at 8:48 PM EST on November 17 but registered only moderate intensity (0.40), and the remaining nine posts settled into a steady rhythm of supply-seeking at low intensity.

The day's only strategic offensive move was a pointed question about rival Ben Carson's biographical controversies (x_667002902402179072), framed as a preemptive attack referencing a New York Times front page story. This was measured and calculated rather than impulsive — a hallmark of Trump's more composed campaign-mode behavior. Notably, despite the major terrorism and refugee events dominating the news cycle, Trump engaged only tangentially through a retweeted supporter comment linking Obama's credibility deficit to ISIS (x_666752220290007000), suggesting a deliberate choice to let the political environment work in his favor without direct inflammatory commentary.

Sleep patterns appear normal for Trump's known baseline: the last post before a gap landed at 11:01 PM EST, with the next arriving at 5:27 AM EST — a roughly 6.5-hour window consistent with his frequently reported short sleep schedule. Ten posts across the day is within normal campaign-period frequency. No cognitive concerns, no escalation, and no danger signals were detected. This was a day of disciplined message control during a period when the political environment was already working in the subject's favor.

Full digest for 2015-11-18: https://trump.fm/date/2015-11-18/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2015, November 18). Great New Poll https://t.co/178k1ERFqT [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_667023957367914496
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Great New Poll https://t.co/178k1ERFqT" X (Twitter), 18 Nov. 2015. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_667023957367914496. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Great New Poll https://t.co/178k1ERFqT," X (Twitter), November 18, 2015, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_667023957367914496.

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