# Post x_842739155230740481

- Post ID: `x_842739155230740481`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2017-03-17T14:07:26.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_842739155230740481
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_842739155230740481/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_842739155230740481.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> "The President Changed. So Has Small Businesses' Confidence"
> https://t.co/daTGjPmYeJ

## Engagement

- Likes: 51,602
- Reposts: 11,473
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.391Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-11T10:28:11.982Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: Shared Article on Small Business Confidence (2017-03-17)

This post shares a news headline about small business confidence rising after Trump took office. It is a straightforward signal-boost of favorable economic coverage with no original commentary beyond the quoted headline.

### Authorship
Posted at 14:07 UTC = 10:07 AM ET. Trump was in Washington, D.C. (Merkel visit scheduled for March 17). The post is a clean article share with a properly formatted headline in quotes, no typos, no editorializing — consistent with aide/Scavino curation of favorable press clips during business hours.

### Psychological Content
Minimal direct psychological content. The act of sharing positive economic coverage serves narcissistic supply maintenance — associating the presidency with measurable positive outcomes. The implied causal framing ("The President Changed") positions Trump as the catalyst for economic optimism.

### Rhetorical Function
The headline itself does the rhetorical work: post hoc ergo propter hoc (confidence rose after Trump took office, therefore because of Trump). By letting the headline speak, the post adopts a veneer of objectivity while claiming credit.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Small business confidence increased after Trump became president" | **Mostly True** | NFIB Small Business Optimism Index surged after November 2016 election, reaching historically high levels in early 2017. |

Overall Veracity: 80%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 15%)

### Indicators

- Business hours posting (10:07 AM ET)
- Clean formatting with quoted headline
- No original commentary or typos
- Standard article-sharing pattern

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (favorable economic coverage)

Sentiment: +0.50

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 10%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- implicit credit-taking

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> Small business confidence increased after Trump became president

**MOSTLY TRUE**

NFIB Small Business Optimism Index surged after November 2016 election, reaching historically high levels in early 2017.

Sources: NFIB surveys

Overall Veracity: 80%

## Tags

- economy (80%)
- supply-seeking (50%)
- aide-written (85%)

## That day

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

**A quiet St. Patrick's Day at the White House: routine governance with a brief North Korea warning**

Trump had a calm, uneventful St. Patrick's Day largely spent on routine White House business. He posted about meetings with the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the Republican Study Committee, shared a holiday greeting in Irish, and twice promoted an article about rising small business confidence. The only notable policy signal was a brief shot at North Korea and China, timed to his Secretary of State's first Asia trip. No anger, no feuds, no drama -- an unusually quiet day.

Full digest for 2017-03-17: https://trump.fm/date/2017-03-17/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2017, March 17). "The President Changed. So Has Small Businesses'... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_842739155230740481
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. ""The President Changed. So Has Small Businesses'..." X (Twitter), 17 Mar. 2017. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_842739155230740481. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, ""The President Changed. So Has Small Businesses'...," X (Twitter), March 17, 2017, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_842739155230740481.

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