# Post x_859874689442775045

- Post ID: `x_859874689442775045`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2017-05-03T20:57:56.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_859874689442775045
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_859874689442775045/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_859874689442775045.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> It was an honor to stop by a #SchoolChoice event hosted by @VP Pence and @usedgov Secretary @BetsyDeVosED at the… https://t.co/B8VxVsYNHA

## Engagement

- Likes: 41,938
- Reposts: 8,738
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.390Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-11T12:31:51.494Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: School Choice Event Post (May 3, 2017)

A routine, aide-composed post documenting Trump's attendance at a School Choice event hosted by VP Pence and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. The post is formulaic, polished, and entirely unremarkable from a psychological standpoint.

### Authorship
Clearly aide-written (likely Scavino). The post uses proper hashtags, correct @-mentions with titles, polished grammar, and was posted at 4:57 PM ET — squarely in business hours. It follows the standard template for presidential appearance documentation.

### Psychological Content
Minimal. The word "honor" is standard presidential boilerplate. The post serves a maintenance/scheduling function with no emotional content, no targets, no grievance, and no self-aggrandizement beyond the implicit status display of being president.

### Context
This post sits amid a more psychologically active day — earlier posts attacked Comey and relitigated the Russia investigation. This event post represents the "official presidency" layer managed by staff, contrasting sharply with the authentic Trump posts from the same day.

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 5%)

### Indicators

- Business hours posting (4:57 PM ET)
- Proper hashtag formatting (#SchoolChoice)
- Correct @-mentions with titles
- Truncated URL (standard Twitter auto-truncation)
- Formulaic 'It was an honor' opening

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance

Sentiment: +0.30

### Clinical

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 30%

## Tags

- school_choice (50%)
- staff_post (90%)
- event_documentation (90%)

## That day

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

**Quiet Day at the White House Masks the Groundwork for Comey's Firing**

A light posting day split between routine presidential photo-ops and a pointed late-night attack on FBI Director Comey. The evening brought a two-post burst rewriting the Comey-Clinton narrative -- claiming the FBI director had been Clinton's greatest ally, a striking inversion of the widely held view that his October 2016 letter hurt her campaign. The rest of the day was standard White House fare: hosting the Palestinian president, dropping in on a school choice event, and congratulating Air Force Academy athletes. In hindsight, the Comey posts stand out as the opening salvo in a public case that would end with his firing six days later.

Full digest for 2017-05-03: https://trump.fm/date/2017-05-03/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2017, May 3). It was an honor to stop by a #SchoolChoice event... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_859874689442775045
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "It was an honor to stop by a #SchoolChoice event hosted by..." X (Twitter), 3 May. 2017. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_859874689442775045. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "It was an honor to stop by a #SchoolChoice event hosted by...," X (Twitter), May 3, 2017, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_859874689442775045.

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