# Post x_673666079022039041

- Post ID: `x_673666079022039041`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2015-12-07T00:51:24.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_673666079022039041
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_673666079022039041/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_673666079022039041.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> I will be re-tweeting some of your better, most imaginative and hopefully insightful tweets. Make them good (great)! Important stuff.

## Engagement

- Likes: 3,623
- Reposts: 1,150
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.339Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-09T05:35:34.863Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Analysis: Trump Twitter — December 6, 2015 (7:51 PM EST)

## Situational Context
This post arrives on one of the most consequential days of Trump's 2015 campaign: the same day he proposed a "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States" at a rally in South Carolina. President Obama is hours away from his rare Oval Office address on terrorism in response to the San Bernardino attack. Trump is explicitly positioning himself as the authoritative counter-voice to the sitting president.

## Authorship Attribution
**High confidence: authentic Trump.** The parenthetical self-upgrade ("Make them good (great)!") is among the most reliable Trump stylistic fingerprints — an automatic upward revision reflecting an internalized grandiosity floor where "good" is insufficient. Combined with imperative register, sentence fragmentation, and absence of aide-typical polish, this reads as unmediated Trump. Timing (7:51 PM EST) is evening rather than his signature late-night window, but explained by the pre-speech mobilization function.

## Multi-Level Personality Analysis

### Level 1: Traits
Dominant facet is **Extraversion/assertiveness**: high energy, audience-seeking, directive. Agreeableness is characteristically suppressed — followers are instructed to perform, not engaged as equals. Low openness is implicit in the bounded criteria ("better, most imaginative").

### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations
**Agency motives dominate.** Trump is orchestrating narrative infrastructure — soliciting raw material he will curate and amplify, positioning himself as editor-in-chief of the counter-narrative to a presidential address. The dynamic is one of control: followers audition; Trump selects. **Communion motives are instrumentalized** — the appearance of collective participation masks a hierarchical structure where Trump holds all evaluative authority.

### Level 3: Narrative Identity
Trump casts himself as the **crowd-director and central arbiter**: he will survey the field, select the worthy, and amplify them. The contrasting other is implicit — Obama's "official" Oval Office address, which Trump is about to interrupt with a competing broadcast. The narrative arc of this single post is a microcosm of his broader identity claim: I am the real voice; the establishment's version is what needs to be checked.

### Level 4: Clinical Indicators
At low intensity, this post is not clinically notable in isolation. The parenthetical upgrade is consistent with **grandiose narcissistic baseline** — the reflexive need to inhabit superlatives. No rage, paranoia, or sadism is expressed. The post reflects an energized, expansive state (consistent with the concurrent ALL-CAPS live-tweet announcement), suggesting mild **hypomanic activation** rather than pathological process.

## Rhetorical Mechanics
The post's core rhetorical work is **parasocial co-optation**: converting passive followers into active content contributors who compete for Trump's curatorial approval. The retweet promise functions as a status incentive within the parasocial economy — followers are offered proximity to a high-status figure in exchange for generating content that serves his commentary agenda. "Important stuff" inflates the significance of routine live-tweeting into a civic event.

## Broader Context
Read against the Muslim ban announcement from the same day, this post takes on additional dimension. Trump is actively mobilizing his follower network at the precise moment he faces maximum cross-party condemnation. The follower-engagement architecture serves a dual function: generating content for the live-tweet session and reinforcing group cohesion and identity during a period of external pressure.

## Danger Assessment
**None** from this post in isolation. The broader period (Muslim ban, terrorism framing, Obama counter-narrative positioning) carries elevated concern, but this specific post presents no direct danger indicators.

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Parenthetical self-upgrade '(great)' is a signature Trump verbal tic — correcting himself upward mid-sentence
- Casual imperative register ('Make them good') without diplomatic softening
- Stream-of-consciousness structure: invitation → directive → punctuation flourish
- Fragment sentence ('Important stuff.') consistent with Trump's staccato cadence
- UTC 00:51 = 7:51 PM EST December 6 — evening, not late-night window, but timing aligns with pre-speech mobilization activity documented in same-day posts

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Followers/base)

Sentiment: +0.38

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Concurrent ALL-CAPS post ('BIG NIGHT ON TWITTER TONIGHT') suggests elevated arousal state
- Energized directive register with exclamation points
- Appetite for high-visibility, high-engagement events on same day as major policy announcement

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 25%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 25%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct address to followers as collaborative participants ('your better, most imaginative...tweets')
- False intimacy — framing retweet curation as a joint project
- Competitive incentivization — implicit status reward of being retweeted by Trump
- Urgency inflation — 'Important stuff' elevates routine audience engagement to significance

## Tags

- supply-seeking (70%)
- audience-mobilization (80%)
- parasocial-co-optation (75%)
- grandiose-baseline (45%)
- counter-narrative-positioning (70%)
- parenthetical-upgrade (90%)

## That day

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

**Pearl Harbor Day 2015: Sustained Grandiose State Converts San Bernardino Grief into Categorical Muslim Exclusion Proposal**

December 7, 2015 represents the single most consequential day in Trump's pre-nomination campaign — the formal announcement of a "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States." Across 39 posts spanning from 7:09 PM EST December 6 through 6:39 PM EST December 7, the subject maintained an almost unbroken grandiose narcissistic state, channeling the San Bernardino attack (December 2), Obama's Oval Office address (December 6), and Pearl Harbor anniversary symbolism into a coordinated rhetorical architecture that identified a categorical target (Muslims), articulated an existential grievance (terrorism as civilizational threat), delegitimized institutional opposition (Obama as weak, media as corrupt, GOP rivals as inadequate), and proposed decisive action (total religious ban). The day's psychological signature is strategic escalation from a position of felt omnipotence rather than reactive rage — rage appeared in only 6 of 39 posts, always modulated and purposeful rather than spiraling.

The day's posting arc reveals three distinct operational phases: (1) an evening live-tweet session of Obama's terrorism address (7:09 PM–12:50 AM EST) that pre-framed the next day's Muslim ban by establishing Obama's "failure" to name "radical Islamic terrorism"; (2) a morning media-delegitimization cluster targeting the Washington Post and Jeff Bezos (10:08–10:22 AM EST) that inoculated followers against critical coverage; and (3) an afternoon-to-evening announcement phase (11:43 AM–6:39 PM EST) that rolled out the Muslim ban statement, deflected bipartisan condemnation, and pivoted to polling validation. Three posts received a danger rating of HIGH — the false FBI citation on 9/11 Muslim celebrations, the sanitized Muslim ban framing, and the formal ban statement itself. The coordinated, multi-element structure of the day's messaging meets documented criteria for stochastic terrorism pattern analysis: explicit target group, articulated grievance narrative, authority-validated dehumanization, and policy demand for categorical exclusion — all activated on a date that historically frames enemy-identification as patriotic duty.

Cognitively, the subject showed no markers of deterioration against 2015 baseline. The 39-post volume is well above typical daily output, though much of it consists of retweets and amplification during the live-tweet session. A brief mixed state appeared during the Bezos/WaPo attack cluster, suggesting narcissistic injury from media criticism had penetrated the grandiose shell, but this resolved quickly. The most diagnostically significant feature of the day is not any single post but the total absence of integrative ambivalence: warm Hanukkah greetings to "our Jewish friends" and a solemn Pearl Harbor memorial coexist within hours of proposing categorical religious exclusion, with no evidence of internal tension — a hallmark of narcissistic personality organization's object-relations pathology.

Full digest for 2015-12-07: https://trump.fm/date/2015-12-07/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2015, December 7). I will be re-tweeting some of your better, most... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_673666079022039041
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "I will be re-tweeting some of your better, most imaginative..." X (Twitter), 7 Dec. 2015. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_673666079022039041. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "I will be re-tweeting some of your better, most imaginative...," X (Twitter), December 7, 2015, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_673666079022039041.

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