# Post x_815185071317676033

- Post ID: `x_815185071317676033`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2016-12-31T13:17:21.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_815185071317676033
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_815185071317676033/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_815185071317676033.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don't know what to do. Love!

## Engagement

- Likes: 350,860
- Reposts: 141,853
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.370Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-11T08:00:40.985Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

This iconic New Year's Eve tweet exemplifies narcissistic communication patterns: the structural inability to offer a prosocial greeting without embedding dominance assertion. The sandwich construction (warmth → humiliation → warmth) is a sophisticated form of passive aggression with plausible deniability. "Love!" functions as ego-syntonic sadism — cruelty delivered with a wink. The post reveals splitting (all people categorized as supporters or defeated enemies), grandiosity (framing political opposition as personal combat with decisive victory), and reaction formation (hostility disguised as generosity). Posted during the president-elect period after a week of escalating in-group/out-group sorting (praising Putin and Fox News while mocking CNN/NBC), this tweet crystallizes Trump's worldview into a single memorable statement: the world consists of the winner (himself) and losers who "don't know what to do." The inability to simply say "Happy New Year" without asserting superiority is clinically consistent with narcissistic personality features — specifically grandiosity, need for admiration, and interpersonal exploitation. The vagueness of "enemies" is strategic, allowing any critic to self-identify as a target while Trump maintains the pose of inclusive generosity.

## Psychological Analysis: "Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies..."

### Overview
This is one of Trump's most iconic tweets — a New Year's greeting that became instantly memorable for its passive-aggressive structure. Posted December 31, 2016, at approximately 8:17 AM EST (Trump was at Mar-a-Lago for the holidays). The morning timing and polished-yet-unmistakably-Trumpian tone suggest authentic authorship, possibly with some deliberation.

### Authorship
The post is almost certainly authentic Trump. While the timing (8:17 AM EST) falls in early morning rather than his typical late-night window, the psychological fingerprint is unmistakable: the grandiose framing, the inability to simply wish people well without asserting dominance, and the characteristic sign-off "Love!" as a sardonic bookend. No aide would compose this.

### Personality Analysis

**Level 1 - Traits:** Low agreeableness dominates — even a holiday greeting becomes a vehicle for dominance assertion. The post radiates extraversion (assertiveness, positive affect channeled through combat framing).

**Level 2 - Motives:** Power and status motives are paramount. The post is a victory lap disguised as a greeting. "Lost so badly they just don't know what to do" is pure dominance display from a president-elect position.

**Level 3 - Narrative Identity:** Trump casts himself as the triumphant warrior-king surveying defeated enemies from his throne. The "enemies" are unnamed — maximizing the scope of his victory. The redemption narrative is implicit: doubters became losers.

### Defense Mechanisms
- **Reaction formation**: Hostility wrapped in the language of warmth ("Happy New Year," "Love!")
- **Splitting**: The world divided into supporters and "enemies who lost"

### Clinical Indicators
The inability to produce a simple prosocial greeting without dominance assertion is consistent with narcissistic personality features — specifically grandiosity, need for admiration, and interpersonal exploitation. The "Love!" sign-off functions as ego-syntonic sadism with plausible deniability: cruelty delivered with a smile.

### Rhetorical Techniques
The post is structurally brilliant propaganda: it performs magnanimity while delivering humiliation. "Including to my many enemies" frames opponents as personally hostile rather than politically opposed. "Lost so badly they just don't know what to do" is hyperbolic dominance. The sandwich structure (warmth → aggression → warmth) makes the aggression difficult to criticize without appearing humorless.

### Context
This arrives during the president-elect honeymoon, days after praising Putin and mocking CNN/NBC. The pattern of the prior week shows escalating confidence and in-group/out-group sorting (Fox praised, CNN/NBC mocked, Putin praised over Obama). This post crystallizes that dynamic into a single memorable statement.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Enemies fought him and lost so badly they don't know what to do" | **Half True** | Trump won the electoral college but lost the popular vote by ~2.9 million. 'So badly' is hyperbolic. Opposition was actively organizing, not directionless. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 90%)

### Indicators

- Unmistakable psychological fingerprint — no aide would compose this structure
- Sardonic 'Love!' sign-off characteristic of Trump's voice
- Stream-of-consciousness dominance assertion embedded in greeting
- 8:17 AM EST from Mar-a-Lago — early morning but within authentic range

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (New Year's Eve occasion as platform for victory lap)

Sentiment: +0.30

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Elevated, expansive mood
- Grandiose self-assessment

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 80%
- Antisocial: 20%
- Paranoid: 30%
- Sadism: 50%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- reaction formation (neurotic)
- splitting (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 40%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- inclusive greeting creating in-group belonging
- shared triumph over unnamed enemies
- performative magnanimity

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-11._

> Enemies fought him and lost so badly they don't know what to do

**HALF TRUE**

Trump won the electoral college but lost the popular vote by ~2.9 million. 'So badly' is hyperbolic. Opposition was actively organizing, not directionless.

Sources: 2016 election results

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- victory_lap (90%)
- passive_aggression (80%)
- grandiosity (70%)
- new_years (50%)
- splitting (70%)

## That day

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

**New Year's Eve greeting doubles as victory lap over unnamed "enemies"**

A quiet New Year's Eve at Mar-a-Lago with just four posts -- the lightest day in recent memory. The standout moment was a morning tweet wishing "Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly," a passive-aggressive greeting that went viral. The rest of the day was unremarkable: a promotional post for an inauguration event and two near-identical birthday wishes for his son Don Jr. No anger, no feuds, no late-night storms.

Full digest for 2016-12-31: https://trump.fm/date/2016-12-31/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2016, December 31). Happy New Year to all, including to my many... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_815185071317676033
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and..." X (Twitter), 31 Dec. 2016. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_815185071317676033. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and...," X (Twitter), December 31, 2016, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_815185071317676033.

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