# Post x_673562801701568512

- Post ID: `x_673562801701568512`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2015-12-06T18:01:00.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @revdojoe
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_673562801701568512
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_673562801701568512/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_673562801701568512.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

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

> "@revdojoe:  We will elect @realDonaldTrump for President! We must!😊 https://t.co/Ivgy8VqLku"

## Engagement

- Likes: 1,571
- Reposts: 620
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.339Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-09T05:31:40.433Z (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 (2015-12-06)

## Overview

This post is a straight retweet of a supporter message — "@revdojoe" declaring Trump must be elected president. There is no original text from Trump; the post consists entirely of amplified third-party enthusiasm. Within the session's posting cluster (Face the Nation appearance, retweeting multiple supporters), this fits a documented pattern of supply-seeking behavior through strategic retweeting.

## Authorship Attribution

**Timing:** UTC 18:01 → 13:01 EST (Trump's likely location: New York/Trump Tower). This is early afternoon business hours, which weakly suggests aide involvement. However, the surrounding posts from this same day show a burst of personally-flavored activity (informal follow-up "So, how did I do?", retweeting individual supporters), indicating Trump was personally engaged with Twitter. Retweeting supporter praise was a known personal habit — classic narcissistic supply-seeking requiring minimal effort. **Confidence: medium** that this is authentic Trump.

## Psychological State

**Trigger:** Supply-seeking, post-media-appearance. Trump had just appeared on Face the Nation and was harvesting validation. Retweeting "We MUST elect Trump" functions as indirect grandiosity — outsourcing self-aggrandizement to followers preserves deniability while delivering the same ego reinforcement.

**Narcissistic State:** Grandiose. The post's implicit message — "people are calling for my election as a necessity" — serves the narrative of indispensability. The "We must!" phrasing casts Trump's presidency not as a preference but as a categorical imperative, feeding the savior/hero archetype.

**Defense Mechanisms:** Externalization through retweet — admiration is voiced by others, allowing Trump to claim he is "merely sharing" while the effect is self-promotion. This is a low-pathology, routine mechanism in this context.

## Narrative Identity (McAdams Level 3)

- **Protagonist role:** Hero/Savior — "We must!" frames his candidacy as existential necessity
- **Contrasting other:** Absent in this post, but the adjacent retweet criticizing Kasich as a "puppet" provides implicit contrast
- **Identity claims:** Via proxy — "will be elected," "we must" — claim of popular destiny

## Rhetorical Analysis

- **Social proof:** Amplifying a constituent voice implies mass groundswell
- **Parasocial technique:** Sharing individual testimonials creates illusion of personal relationship with voters
- **No propaganda or dehumanizing elements present**

## Cognitive Status

Not assessable from a retweet with no original language production.

## Danger Assessment

None. Benign supporter amplification with no threatening content.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 60%)

### Indicators

- Afternoon EST timing (13:01) is ambiguous — not a strong authentic or aide indicator
- Retweeting individual supporter praise was a documented personal Trump habit consistent with narcissistic supply-seeking
- Surrounding posts from same day show personal, informal Twitter engagement (e.g., 'So, how did I do?')
- No original text to stylometrically analyze — pure retweet

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Post-Face the Nation media appearance; harvesting validation from supporter base)

Sentiment: +0.70

### Clinical

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

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- rationalization (neurotic)

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Individual supporter testimonial amplification
- Implied popular mandate through third-party framing

## Tags

- supply-seeking (80%)
- retweet-amplification (70%)
- savior-archetype (50%)
- post-media-appearance (60%)
- parasocial-cultivation (60%)

## That day

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

**Journalist Targeting Cluster and San Bernardino Exploitation Anchor a Grandiose Campaign Sunday**

On December 6, 2015, Trump produced approximately 31 posts (including apparent duplicate entries) across a roughly 22-hour span, anchored by two psychologically distinct behavioral phases. The first phase — a concentrated late-evening cluster of 4–5 attack posts targeting NBC's Katy Tur, CBS's Sopan Deb, and MSNBC's Rachel Maddow — represents the day's highest-intensity activity, driven by narcissistic injury over media coverage of his Iowa rally departure. This cluster featured escalating demands (from "3rd rate reporter" to "should be fired"), DARVO dynamics, and the strategic elevation of Gateway Pundit as an authorized counter-narrative source. Five posts reached elevated danger level, all linked to the named-journalist targeting pattern that commentary notes would eventually require Secret Service protection for Tur.

The second phase, spanning the full daylight hours, was dominated by stable grandiose-state supply-seeking: promotion of his Face the Nation appearance, absorption of supporter praise via retweets, attacks on Hillary Clinton's terrorism terminology, and strategic pre-positioning for Obama's rare Oval Office address on San Bernardino. Trump's framing of the Obama speech — "Will he finally state the real problems?" — and his exploitation of the mass casualty event for self-validation ("I have been saying it for sometime now") reveal the narcissistic supply economy operating at campaign-season efficiency: national tragedy processed exclusively through the lens of personal political vindication. No significant cognitive concerns were detected; rhetorical complexity remained consistent with the 2015 baseline. The day functions as a clean specimen of Trump's dual-mode campaign Twitter operation — reactive rage against perceived media enemies and proactive grandiose positioning against political rivals — on the eve of his December 7 announcement calling for a ban on Muslim entry to the United States.

Full digest for 2015-12-06: https://trump.fm/date/2015-12-06/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2015, December 6). "@revdojoe: We will elect @realDonaldTrump for... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_673562801701568512
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@revdojoe: We will elect @realDonaldTrump for President!..." X (Twitter), 6 Dec. 2015. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_673562801701568512. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, ""@revdojoe: We will elect @realDonaldTrump for President!...," X (Twitter), December 6, 2015, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_673562801701568512.

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