# Post x_760957697579708416 - Post ID: `x_760957697579708416` - Platform: X (Twitter) - Posted: 2016-08-03T21:57:07.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_760957697579708416 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_760957697579708416/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_760957697579708416.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > THANK YOU Daytona Beach, Florida! > #MakeAmericaGreatAgain https://t.co/IAcLfXe463 ## Engagement - Likes: 23,424 - Reposts: 7,440 - Replies: 0 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.375Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-10T13:42:46.052Z (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_760957697579708416 | August 3, 2016 ## Authorship Attribution **Verdict: Aide-authored (high confidence)** Posted at **17:57 EDT** (Trump was in Daytona Beach, Florida on a campaign swing through the state). This falls squarely within business hours. The content is a formulaic post-rally thank-you — the most template-like communication type in campaign social media operations. Clean grammar, correct spelling, standard hashtag deployment, and an attached media URL (likely a crowd photo managed by staff) all point to Dan Scavino or equivalent campaign digital staff. The ALL CAPS "THANK YOU" is a stylistic Trump brand marker that aides routinely replicate. No authentic Trump vocal fingerprints are present (no run-on sentences, no parenthetical asides, no spontaneous attacks, no superlatives beyond the implied enthusiasm of capitalization). ## Psychological State Psychologically, this post is largely inert. It functions as **narcissistic supply maintenance** — extending the emotional feedback loop of a physical rally into digital space. Trump had appeared in Daytona Beach (3 PM) and Jacksonville (7 PM) that day as part of a Florida campaign sweep. The crowds serve as supply; the thank-you tweet recirculates that supply to the broader audience. Notably, this post exists in conspicuous silence regarding the **Khan family controversy** that was dominating political news at exactly this moment — John McCain had that day issued a direct rebuke of Trump over his Khan comments. The absence of any reactive or defensive content here, during a period of acute political pressure, is itself diagnostic: it confirms staff control of the account's output at this moment rather than Trump's characteristic inability to let attacks pass unaddressed. ## Narrative Identity Protagonist role: **Grateful leader receiving crowd validation.** No contrasting other, no contamination sequence, no redemption arc. The post simply performs the social ritual of reciprocal acknowledgment. The hashtag does all ideological heavy lifting without requiring any propositional content. ## Rhetorical Analysis Minimal technique: geographic anchoring (naming the city creates local identity resonance), parasocial reciprocity (mass audience addressed as personal relationship), and hashtag-as-tribal-signal. No persuasion load, no attack vector, no narrative construction. ## Danger Assessment **None.** No eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no target identification. ## Longitudinal Note The surrounding posts from August 2–3 show the authentic Trump voice more clearly: "Our **incompetent** Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton..." with the attack framing and exclamatory punctuation characteristic of self-authored content. The stark contrast with this post's neutrality reinforces the aide-authorship assessment. The "great unity" post from the same day also reads as more authentic (responsive to the Khan unity-fracture narrative) but still polished enough to be borderline. *Post is clinically insignificant; no summary generated.* ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 20%) ### Indicators - Posted at 17:57 EDT (5:57 PM local time in Florida — business hours) - Formulaic post-rally thank-you — standard campaign template - Correct spelling and grammar throughout - No stream-of-consciousness structure - Appended campaign hashtag without deviation ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (post-rally crowd) Sentiment: +0.72 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 20% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 5% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Direct address ('THANK YOU') simulating personal gratitude to mass audience - Geographic specificity (naming city) creating local belonging ## Tags - post-rally (90%) - aide-authored (80%) - maintenance-communication (85%) - MAGA-hashtag (70%) - Florida-rally (90%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Studied Silence on Khan Controversy as Trump Deflects Through Rally Gratitude and Clinton Attacks** Trump spent the day campaigning through Virginia and Daytona Beach, Florida, posting a mix of rally thank-yous and a pointed attack on Clinton over Iran payments. The most revealing feature of the day was what went unsaid: despite facing a firestorm of Republican criticism over the Khan family feud, he never addressed it directly, instead posting an early-morning claim of "great unity" in his campaign. The overall tone was low-key and disciplined by his standards, with no angry outbursts and a heavy reliance on staff-composed posts in the afternoon. Full digest for 2016-08-03: https://trump.fm/date/2016-08-03/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2016, August 3). THANK YOU Daytona Beach, Florida!... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_760957697579708416 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "THANK YOU Daytona Beach, Florida! #MakeAmericaGreatAgain..." X (Twitter), 3 Aug. 2016. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_760957697579708416. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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