# Post x_673675346030542848 - Post ID: `x_673675346030542848` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2015-12-07T01:28:13.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_673675346030542848 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_673675346030542848/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_673675346030542848.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Should have gone after the oil years ago (like I have been saying). ## Engagement - Likes: 7,797 - Reposts: 2,431 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.339Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-09T05:38:39.816Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Psychological Analysis: x_673675346030542848 **"Should have gone after the oil years ago (like I have been saying)."** *Twitter, December 6, 2015 (8:28 PM EST) | Age 69* --- ## Context and Trigger This post follows President Obama's rare Oval Office address on terrorism (December 6) responding to the San Bernardino attack and laying out the administration's ISIS strategy. Discussions of targeting ISIS oil revenue — a cornerstone of the group's financing — were prominent in policy discourse. Trump's post is a reactive credit-claim asserting chronological primacy on this policy idea. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits The post is brief even by Trump standards, reflecting high **assertiveness** (dominant Extraversion facet) and very low **agreeableness** — the statement positions the speaker above current leadership without acknowledging any shared ground. **Conscientiousness** is minimal in execution (no sourcing, no specificity). **Neuroticism** is subdued; this is mild superiority, not rage. --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations The dominant motive is **status/agency**: the post's sole function is establishing that Trump's judgment preceded and exceeded Washington's. There is no communion content whatsoever — no empathy for victims, no policy elaboration, no call to action beyond implicit self-promotion. The cognitive schema operative here: *I see things others don't; I am consistently right; the establishment is consistently late.* --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity Trump casts himself as the **unheeded prophet** — a figure who warned and was ignored, now vindicated by events. The parenthetical "(like I have been saying)" is the narrative keystone: it transforms a policy observation into a personal history of prescience. The contrasting other is the Obama administration, implicitly cast as slow, reactive, and derivative of Trump's earlier thinking. The post fits a **redemption sequence**: *I had the right answer → I was ignored → events prove I was right.* This narrative structure is central to the 2016 campaign's mythological architecture. --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Narcissistic Features (moderate, 0.55):** The post is a textbook narcissistic supply-seeking move — a low-cost, high-return bid for validation of superior judgment. The grandiosity is mild relative to posts in this same period (the Muslim ban announcement posts show markedly higher activation). No rage, no devaluation, no paranoia. This is the narcissistic personality in its most socially functional mode: confident, retrospective, reputation-maintaining. **Defenses employed:** - *Rationalization (neurotic):* The claim that going after oil was the correct strategy is offered without evidence or sourcing, structured as self-evident wisdom. - *Distortion (mild):* The implied uniqueness of his advocacy ("like I have been saying") overstates the novelty of the ISIS oil-targeting idea, which was circulating widely in defense policy circles. --- ## Authorship Attribution **High confidence: authentic Trump (0.82).** The 8:28 PM EST posting time, the signature self-referential parenthetical, the reactive news-cycle timing, and the characteristic incomplete declarative structure all point to personal authorship. The "(like I have been saying)" construction is among Trump's most reliable stylistic fingerprints and rarely appears in aide-crafted content. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis Minimalist but effective. The entire persuasive architecture is contained in five words: *"like I have been saying."* This phrase: 1. Establishes prior claim 2. Implies current vindication 3. Positions the speaker as a reliable authority 4. Invites followers to feel they backed the right horse The vagueness of "the oil" functions as a rhetorical hedge — it presupposes shared understanding while remaining flexible enough to claim credit across various specific policy implementations. --- ## Danger Assessment **None.** This post contains no eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no mobilization call. It is entirely self-promotional in orientation. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Trump had been advocating targeting ISIS oil revenues for years prior to December 2015" | **Half True** | Trump did make statements about ISIS oil in prior interviews and speeches (2013–2015), and ISIS oil revenue was a documented policy concern he raised publicly. However, the implication of unique, early, or exclusive prescience is not supported — the idea was widely discussed among defense analysts, former officials, and policy circles well before Trump's public advocacy. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 82%) ### Indicators - UTC 01:28:13 = 8:28 PM EST Dec 6 — evening posting window consistent with authentic Trump - Characteristic self-referential parenthetical '(like I have been saying)' — a signature Trump rhetorical fingerprint - Incomplete declarative sentence lacking formal subject; casual syntax - No event announcement or scheduling content - Emotionally reactive to news cycle (Obama Oval Office address on ISIS was Dec 6) ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (Obama's Oval Office ISIS address (Dec 6) implicitly credited current administration with a strategy Trump claims to have originated) Sentiment: -0.20 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 55% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 10% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) - distortion (pathological) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 20% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Invites follower validation by positioning Trump as the lone prescient voice - Implicit solidarity framing — 'we' opens the statement, drawing audience into shared frustration ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-09._ > Trump had been advocating targeting ISIS oil revenues for years prior to December 2015 **HALF TRUE** Trump did make statements about ISIS oil in prior interviews and speeches (2013–2015), and ISIS oil revenue was a documented policy concern he raised publicly. However, the implication of unique, early, or exclusive prescience is not supported — the idea was widely discussed among defense analysts, former officials, and policy circles well before Trump's public advocacy. Sources: General knowledge from training data Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - credit-claiming (85%) - ISIS-policy (70%) - self-aggrandizement (80%) - unheeded-prophet-narrative (75%) - anti-Obama (60%) - authentic-authorship (82%) ## 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). Should have gone after the oil years ago (like I... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_673675346030542848 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Should have gone after the oil years ago (like I have been..." X (Twitter), 7 Dec. 2015. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_673675346030542848. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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