# Post x_673587704572092417

- Post ID: `x_673587704572092417`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2015-12-06T19:39:58.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_673587704572092417.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Wow, @GeorgeWill said some very nice things about me today on @FoxNewsSunday with Chris Wallace. I am making progress, thanks George!

## Engagement

- Likes: 3,060
- Reposts: 998
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.339Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-09T05:33:15.440Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Psychological & Rhetorical Analysis

**Post:** *"Wow, @GeorgeWill said some very nice things about me today on @FoxNewsSunday with Chris Wallace. I am making progress, thanks George!"*
**Date:** December 6, 2015 | ~2:39 PM EST | Age 69

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### Level 1: Dispositional Traits

Extraversion is highly salient — the post is socially expressive, positive in affect, and designed for public broadcast rather than private reflection. Low neuroticism in this instance; no hostility, anxiety, or impulsive reactivity. Agreeableness is present instrumentally (gratitude display) but serves self-promotional ends. Conscientiousness is low — the post is informal, brief, and reactive to external events rather than deliberative.

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### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency motive dominant:** The post is fundamentally about status acquisition and legitimization. Receiving praise from George Will — a conservative intellectual establishment figure — represents a specific kind of status currency directed at skeptical Republican primary voters. Broadcasting it is not incidental; it is the act itself.

**Schema revealed:** Trump's worldview positions the establishment as an initially resistant adversary. Will's praise is not simply pleasant; it is *evidence* that the adversary is yielding. This reveals an ongoing schema in which Trump's worth is perpetually validated *against* initial skepticism.

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### Level 3: Narrative Identity

- **Protagonist role:** Underdog-turned-legitimate-contender
- **Narrative sequence:** Mild redemption arc — *resistance → progress → vindication*
- **Identity claim:** "I am someone even skeptics must eventually acknowledge"
- **Contrasting other:** The unnamed skeptics (the establishment) who are now coming around
- **"thanks George!"** — characteristic first-name intimacy with a prominent figure; collapses social hierarchy, positions Trump as Will's peer rather than subject of commentary

The phrase **"I am making progress"** is the most analytically interesting element. It would be more consistent with uninhibited grandiosity to claim "I am winning" or "everyone loves me." Instead, *progress* implies movement from a less favorable prior state — a rare implicit concession to prior resistance. This suggests the campaign narrative at this juncture was not pure grandiosity but a more nuanced striving arc.

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### Level 4: Clinical Indicators

**Malignant narcissism components:** Narcissistic supply amplification is present (mild). Antisocial, paranoid, and sadistic features are entirely absent. This is among the more benign posts in Trump's corpus.

**Narcissistic trigger:** Supply-reception and re-broadcast. The post does not seek validation so much as *announce received validation* — a secondary supply loop.

**Defense mechanisms:** Mild idealization of Will's remarks ("very nice things"), rationalization of praise as momentum evidence ("making progress").

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### Authorship Attribution

**Timing:** UTC 19:39 = approximately 2:39 PM EST. Trump was almost certainly in New York or possibly the early campaign trail on this Sunday. Mid-afternoon is within business hours, offering a slight argument for aide-assisted posting, but the informal register — exclamatory "Wow," colloquial "thanks George!" — is strongly consistent with authentic Trump style. In December 2015, Trump was a highly active personal Twitter user. **Assessment: moderate-high confidence authentic (0.72).**

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### Rhetorical Function

The strategic choice to amplify Will's praise is calculated. George Will occupied a unique position in 2015 conservative media: a credentialed intellectual skeptic of populism who held sway with educated Republican primary voters Trump needed to court. Citing Will's praise — whether accurately characterized or mildly inflated — serves as a credibility transfer to a demographic otherwise resistant. The multi-account tagging ensures maximum indexing and draws both Will and Fox News Sunday audiences into the post's orbit.

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### Danger Assessment

**None.** No adversarial targets, no eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no threat imagery. This post represents Trump in an affirmative, low-aggression mode.

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### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "George Will said some very nice things about Trump on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace on December 6, 2015" | **Unverifiable** | The specific Fox News Sunday episode from this date is not in available records. George Will was broadly skeptical of Trump throughout the 2015-2016 primary cycle and ultimately left the Republican Party over Trump's nomination. While isolated favorable remarks are possible, Trump's characterization of 'very nice things' may reflect selective emphasis. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 72%)

### Indicators

- 'Wow' exclamatory opener is characteristic authentic Trump register
- Informal 'thanks George!' with first-name familiarization is consistent Trump style
- Direct tagging of multiple accounts for amplification is a personal Trump pattern
- UTC 19:39 = ~2:39 PM EST (business hours) is mildly against authentic timing
- Correct spelling and complete sentences are neutral — both Trump and aides produce this in short posts

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (George Will / Fox News Sunday)

Sentiment: +0.78

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 35%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 28%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Broadcasting received third-party praise to followers to reinforce legitimacy
- First-name familiarity with establishment figure ('thanks George!') to project peer-level relationships with intellectual elite

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-09._

> George Will said some very nice things about Trump on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace on December 6, 2015

**UNVERIFIABLE**

The specific Fox News Sunday episode from this date is not in available records. George Will was broadly skeptical of Trump throughout the 2015-2016 primary cycle and ultimately left the Republican Party over Trump's nomination. While isolated favorable remarks are possible, Trump's characterization of 'very nice things' may reflect selective emphasis.

Sources: General knowledge of George Will's public record on Trump, 2015-2016

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- narcissistic-supply-broadcast (70%)
- establishment-legitimization (65%)
- first-name-intimacy (50%)
- underdog-narrative (55%)
- campaign-2016-primary (80%)
- low-aggression (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). Wow, @GeorgeWill said some very nice things about... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_673587704572092417
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Wow, @GeorgeWill said some very nice things about me today..." X (Twitter), 6 Dec. 2015. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_673587704572092417. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Wow, @GeorgeWill said some very nice things about me today...," X (Twitter), December 6, 2015, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_673587704572092417.

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