# Post x_682635132038176800 - Post ID: `x_682635132038176800` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2015-12-31T23:51:12.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_682635132038176800 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_682635132038176800/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_682635132038176800.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > THANK YOU ILLINOIS! Let's not forget to get family &, friends- out to VOTE IN 2016! https://t.co/lg5kMbNLYK https://t.co/dtMAsIq4cf ## Engagement - Likes: 0 - Reposts: 1,951 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:33:24.949Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-09T09:01:46.123Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: "THANK YOU ILLINOIS!" — December 31, 2015 ## Authorship Attribution **Verdict: Likely aide-assisted / hybrid (medium confidence)** Trump was almost certainly in Palm Beach, Florida on New Year's Eve 2015 — he regularly hosted ticketed New Year's Eve galas at Mar-a-Lago, and this was the case in 2015–16. Florida observes Eastern Standard Time (UTC−5), placing this post at **6:51 PM local time** — solidly within evening business hours on a major social occasion night. This timing militates against spontaneous late-night authentic posting. Authentic indicators present: ALL CAPS opener ("THANK YOU ILLINOIS!"), the em-dash intrusion after "friends-" (slightly awkward punctuation consistent with Trump's informal register). The HTML entity error ("&," with a comma instead of semicolon) is likely a platform/data rendering artifact rather than a genuine typo and should not be weighted. Aide indicators: This is a boilerplate get-out-the-vote message — one of hundreds issued during the 2015–16 primary season. It contains no emotional reactivity, no grievance, no personal color. The construction is clean and purposive. The linked URLs (almost certainly to a rally clip or campaign graphic) support a pre-planned content deployment model. On a night Trump was hosting a high-profile social event, delegation to Scavino or a campaign digital staffer is the most parsimonious explanation. ## Psychological State & Triggers **Trigger type: Maintenance / supply-seeking (routine)** No acute narcissistic injury, rage, or notable grandiosity is expressed. The post represents standard campaign-cycle admiration harvesting: thanking a state crowd reinforces the parasocial reciprocity loop (supporter feels seen → loyalty deepens → Trump collects validation). The mechanism is low-intensity and instrumental. **Narcissistic state: Grandiose (baseline, subclinical)** The state-level address ("ILLINOIS!") performs expansive dominance — the candidate addresses an entire state as a collective, positioning himself as the focal point of civic energy. This is characteristic of the grandiose mode but at a very mild expression level. ## Personality Framework (McAdams & Pals) **Level 1 — Trait expression:** - Extraversion dominant: assertive address, excitement orientation ("VOTE IN 2016!") - Agreeableness: atypically elevated for Trump — gratitude framing, inclusive appeal to "family & friends" - Neuroticism: absent in this post - Conscientiousness: low-moderate; the message is functional but minimal **Level 2 — Characteristic adaptations:** Agency motive (status/power) is the underlying driver: GOTV messaging serves the instrumental goal of electoral dominance. Communion motive is mimicked (family framing) but is performative rather than intimate. **Level 3 — Narrative identity:** Protagonist role here is the **Grateful Winner** — presupposing victory is achievable, that Illinois is "his," and that collective mobilization is already in motion. The "Let's not forget" construction performs a mild paternal reminder role, casting Trump as the responsible shepherd of civic participation. No contamination sequence. Faint redemption arc implicit in "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN" subtext. ## Defense Mechanisms None prominently deployed. The post is too operationally thin to require defensive architecture. At most, the uniformly positive framing represents mild **reaction formation** (suppressing campaign anxiety behind enthusiastic affect), but this is speculative with low confidence. ## Rhetorical Techniques - **Direct address / apostrophe** ("THANK YOU ILLINOIS!"): activates in-group identity and tribal belonging - **Inclusive "we" construction** ("Let's not forget"): parasocial intimacy, collapses distance between candidate and supporter - **Call to action** (VOTE IN 2016): basic persuasion, creates behavioral commitment - **Capital letters for emphasis**: signature Trump register, signals energy and sincerity to his audience - **Family invocation** ("family & friends"): expands the social network activation frame, community norm appeal - **Implied scarcity/urgency** ("not forget"): mild loss-aversion framing No dehumanizing language, violent imagery, eliminationist rhetoric, or stochastic terrorism indicators. ## Cognitive Status No clinically relevant markers present. Sentence construction is simple but coherent. No word-finding difficulty, no perseveration, no confabulation. The brief, telegraphic style is consistent with Trump's established Twitter baseline from this period and does not represent degradation. ## Danger Assessment **None.** Routine GOTV content with no threat indicators. ## Longitudinal Note In the same-day posting cluster, this post is the warmest and least psychologically complex. The adjacent posts show more characteristic patterns: conspiratorial framing (State Dept/Hillary email post), narcissistic grandiosity ("MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN AND GREAT AGAIN"), and tribal affiliation (Palin retweet). This ILLINOIS post is the most operationally functional and least personally expressive of the cluster — consistent with aide-assisted deployment. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 35%) ### Indicators - ALL CAPS opener consistent with Trump register - Awkward dash after 'friends-' suggests informal editing - 6:51 PM EST on New Year's Eve — business/social hours, not late night - Boilerplate GOTV content with no personal emotional color - Linked media URLs suggest pre-planned content deployment ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (Illinois rally/event audience) Sentiment: +0.80 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 20% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 20% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Direct state address creating in-group identity - Inclusive 'Let's' collapsing candidate-supporter distance - Family invocation expanding social network activation ## Tags - GOTV (90%) - Illinois (70%) - 2016-primary (80%) - aide-assisted (60%) - maintenance-post (80%) ## 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). THANK YOU ILLINOIS! Let's not forget to get... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_682635132038176800 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "THANK YOU ILLINOIS! Let's not forget to get family &,..." X (Twitter), 31 Dec. 2015. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_682635132038176800. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "THANK YOU ILLINOIS! 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