# Post x_682514849579057152

- Post ID: `x_682514849579057152`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2015-12-31T10:53:15.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @deggow
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_682514849579057152
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_682514849579057152/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_682514849579057152.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

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

> "@deggow: Just heard a 25 year old man say "I would rather work for Donald Trump than Bernie Sanders"it's time for me to leave this party."

## Engagement

- Likes: 4,581
- Reposts: 1,432
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.337Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-09T08:59:41.405Z (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_682514849579057152 (2015-12-31)

### Post Character
A bare retweet of @deggow, who reported overhearing a 25-year-old express preference for working under Trump over Sanders, then announced they were leaving the Democratic Party. Trump appends no text. The selection itself constitutes the entire communicative act.

### Authorship Attribution
**Likely authentic (medium confidence).** UTC 10:53 converts to **5:53 AM EST**, placing this squarely in Trump's documented pre-dawn posting window. The absence of editorial prose, the impulsive supply-collection logic, and the timing all point to authentic Trump rather than aide-authored content.

### Psychological State & Trigger
State is **mild grandiose**. Trigger is **supply-seeking** — routine harvesting of cross-ideological validation. No narcissistic injury is present; this is expansive, not defensive.

The most clinically informative feature is the empathic blind spot: @deggow's tweet is an expression of grief (party abandonment). Trump processes only the flattering fragment. The original poster's distress is phenomenologically absent. This is a characteristic object-relations signature: others exist as containers of supply, not subjects with interior states.

### Narrative Identity
Trump's implicit identity claim: *I am the aspirational employer choice — even young Democrats recognize it.* Sanders is cast as the ideological other, economically inferior. The 25-year-old becomes a proxy witness to Trump's cross-demographic appeal.

### Rhetorical Function
Structurally elegant low-cost advertising. Third-party attribution provides deniability while delivering the persuasive payload: organic, cross-aisle endorsement.

### Danger Assessment
**None.** Routine supply-collection post with no threatening, dehumanizing, or mobilizing content.

### Longitudinal Note
Fits cleanly within the pattern visible across today's prior posts: selective RT amplification of flattering content, supply-seeking as dominant mode, grandiose-stable state. No deviation from apparent baseline. No clinical summary warranted.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "A 25-year-old said they would rather work for Donald Trump than Bernie Sanders" | **Unverifiable** | Anecdotal, third-hand report from @deggow. No corroboration possible. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 75%)

### Indicators

- UTC 10:53 AM converts to 5:53 AM EST — consistent with Trump's documented early-morning posting pattern
- No added commentary (bare retweet), consistent with impulsive, reactive sharing
- Self-aggrandizing selection without editorial polish typical of authentic Trump
- New Year's Eve — likely at Mar-a-Lago or Trump Tower, both EST

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Cross-ideological validation — a self-identified Democrat lamenting that a young person prefers Trump over Sanders)

Sentiment: +0.35

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 40%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 20%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Social proof by proxy — implies cross-party appeal without making the claim directly
- Deniability: the words belong to someone else; Trump merely amplifies

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> A 25-year-old said they would rather work for Donald Trump than Bernie Sanders

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Anecdotal, third-hand report from @deggow. No corroboration possible.

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- supply_seeking (85%)
- bare_retweet (70%)
- cross_party_appeal (65%)
- social_proof (60%)
- grandiose_stable (50%)
- empathic_deficit (55%)
- pre_dawn_authentic (75%)

## That day

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

**New Year's Eve in Campaign Mode: Grandiose Victory Laps, a Jeb Bush Fixation, and One Late-Night Press Attack**

Trump spent New Year's Eve in full campaign mode from Mar-a-Lago, posting 25 times across the day with an unusually heavy focus on Jeb Bush. The one flash of real anger came late at night when he attacked the Union Leader newspaper and its publisher, predicting the paper would be "dead in 2 years" — a prediction that proved wrong. The rest of the day was a steady stream of poll-sharing, supporter retweets, and self-congratulation about running a low-cost campaign. He closed out the year with a dig at Hillary Clinton over her emails and a holiday greeting that doubled as a campaign slogan.

Full digest for 2015-12-31: https://trump.fm/date/2015-12-31/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2015, December 31). "@deggow: Just heard a 25 year old man say "I... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_682514849579057152
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@deggow: Just heard a 25 year old man say "I would rather..." X (Twitter), 31 Dec. 2015. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_682514849579057152. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, ""@deggow: Just heard a 25 year old man say "I would rather...," X (Twitter), December 31, 2015, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_682514849579057152.

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