# Post x_756974970312462336

- Post ID: `x_756974970312462336`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2016-07-23T22:11:11.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no, but it quotes a tweet by @OliMauritania
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_756974970312462336
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_756974970312462336/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_756974970312462336.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

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

> "@OliMauritania: @realDonaldTrump Kaine supported the stupidest deal in the history of deals https://t.co/0FFeKTsuJn #HillaryKaine2016"

## Engagement

- Likes: 12,690
- Reposts: 5,921
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.375Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-10T10:48:09.794Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Analysis: x_756974970312462336 — July 23, 2016

## Contextual Frame

This post is a retweet rather than original composition, placed on the day Hillary Clinton announced Tim Kaine as her running mate. Trump's feed shows a coordinated same-day offensive: five posts in rapid succession targeting Kaine on the TPP, jobs, and optics. This retweet is the lowest-effort unit of that offensive — a follower-amplification that functions as both narcissistic supply and political signal.

## Authorship Attribution (Medium Confidence: Authentic)

The 6:11 PM EDT timestamp is within Trump's known personal Twitter window. More diagnostically, the tweet he selected employs his own characteristic superlative vocabulary — "stupidest deal in the history of deals" is structurally identical to his longstanding deal-framing register (cf. "Art of the Deal"; "worst deal ever negotiated"). Former aides documented Trump's habit of personally curating retweets of supporters who mirrored his language back to him. Aide-authored content at this hour characteristically takes the form of original event announcements, not retweets of obscure followers.

## Narcissistic Dynamics

The selection functions as a **mirror object** (Kohut): a follower has internalized Trump's rhetoric and reflects it back, producing validation while simultaneously delivering the political attack. Trump avoids direct authorship while still claiming the message. Narcissistic state is **grandiose** — this is opportunistic offense, not wounded reaction.

## Cognitive Indicators

The phrasing "stupidest deal in the history of deals" is within expected Trump baseline for this period: deal-centric framing, superlative intensifiers, compressed syntax. No markers of concern relative to 2016 baseline.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Tim Kaine supported the TPP" | **Mostly True** | Kaine publicly praised TPP in 2014 as a 'pro-worker, pro-environment' deal and supported it up to his VP nomination, after which he announced opposition. Characterization of prior support is accurate; framing as 'pushing hard' is slightly overstated. |

Overall Veracity: 80%

## Summary Assessment

Routine retweet within a coordinated same-day narrative offensive against the newly announced Clinton–Kaine ticket. Psychologically unremarkable relative to baseline; demonstrates characteristic mirror-object selection pattern and surrogate-voice amplification technique.

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Retweet of a supporter using Trump's own superlative vocabulary ('stupidest...in the history of deals')
- 6:11 PM EDT – evening hours, within Trump's known personal Twitter window
- Pattern of retweeting followers who mirror his rhetoric is well-documented authentic behavior
- No aide-typical features (event announcement, polished prose, scheduling content)
- RNC just concluded; Trump likely back in New York and personally active on device

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (Clinton–Kaine ticket announcement)

Sentiment: -0.50

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 50%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 10%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- displacement (neurotic)
- projection (immature)

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Amplifying a named follower creates appearance of grassroots validation
- Retweet format implies 'the people are saying this, not just me' — diffusion of accountability
- Selecting a tweet that mirrors own rhetoric signals to supporters what language is approved

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-10._

> Tim Kaine supported the TPP

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Kaine publicly praised TPP in 2014 as a 'pro-worker, pro-environment' deal and supported it up to his VP nomination, after which he announced opposition. Characterization of prior support is accurate; framing as 'pushing hard' is slightly overstated.

Sources: Kaine's 2014 op-ed supporting TPP; Contemporaneous reporting on his position reversal upon VP nomination

Overall Veracity: 80%

## Tags

- retweet (100%)
- TPP (80%)
- Kaine (90%)
- surrogate-voice (70%)
- narcissistic-supply (60%)
- deal-identity (80%)
- VP-announcement-response (90%)

## That day

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

**Post-Coronation Offensive: Trump Deploys Systematic Multi-Vector Attack on Clinton-Kaine Ticket From Position of Peak Grandiosity**

Fresh off his RNC acceptance speech, Trump spent the day in full attack mode against the newly announced Clinton-Kaine ticket, firing off 16 posts from late Friday night through Saturday evening. He hammered Kaine as a Wall Street puppet, exploited the WikiLeaks DNC email dump to drive a wedge between Sanders supporters and Clinton, and attacked Clinton's economic record in Pennsylvania ahead of the DNC convention there. The mood was confident and aggressive throughout — no defensiveness, no grievance spirals, just sustained campaign offense with a brief late-afternoon flash of competitive irritation when he saw Clinton and Kaine appear together. One notable thread: Trump simultaneously dismissed Bernie Sanders as having "fought for nothing" while positioning himself as the defender of Sanders voters' legitimate grievances — a contradiction that reveals the purely tactical nature of the populist appeal.

Full digest for 2016-07-23: https://trump.fm/date/2016-07-23/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2016, July 23). "@OliMauritania: @realDonaldTrump Kaine supported... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_756974970312462336
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""@OliMauritania: @realDonaldTrump Kaine supported the..." X (Twitter), 23 Jul. 2016. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_756974970312462336. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, ""@OliMauritania: @realDonaldTrump Kaine supported the...," X (Twitter), July 23, 2016, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_756974970312462336.

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