# Post x_875500520840060928

- Post ID: `x_875500520840060928`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2017-06-15T23:49:24.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_875500520840060928
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_875500520840060928/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_875500520840060928.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> #CongressionalBaseballGame⚾️ https://t.co/u8InOJTf6D

## Engagement

- Likes: 75,576
- Reposts: 17,119
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.389Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-11T14:00:24.066Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: Congressional Baseball Game Post (June 15, 2017)

### Context
This post references the Congressional Baseball Game, which took place the day after the June 14, 2017 shooting at the Republican congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia, where House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and others were critically wounded. The game proceeded as scheduled as a show of bipartisan unity.

### Authorship
Posted at 7:49 PM EDT (Trump was in Washington, DC). The post is a simple hashtag with baseball emoji and a link—classic aide/Scavino formatting. No personal voice, no emotional reactivity, no opinion. This is institutional social media management.

### Psychological Significance
This post is notably restrained and conventional compared to the earlier posts from the same day, which show intense narcissistic rage about the Mueller investigation ("WITCH HUNT," "phony collusion"). The shift from deeply personal grievance to anodyne institutional messaging strongly suggests different authorship.

The post functions as routine presidential communication—showing support for a bipartisan event following a national trauma. It reveals little about Trump's psychological state precisely because it almost certainly wasn't composed by him.

### Rhetorical Function
Simple solidarity signaling. The hashtag and emoji create accessible, shareable content. No persuasion techniques, no attack framing. This is maintenance-mode communication.

### Longitudinal Note
The contrast with same-day posts is striking: from "single greatest WITCH HUNT in American political history" to a bland hashtag. This pattern of aide-managed posts interspersed with authentic outbursts is consistent with the established dual-authorship pattern.

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 10%)

### Indicators

- Business hours posting (7:49 PM EDT)
- Hashtag-only format with emoji
- No personal commentary or opinion
- Professional link sharing
- Complete absence of Trump's characteristic voice

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance

Sentiment: +0.30

### Clinical

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 5%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- solidarity signaling

## Tags

- aide-written (90%)
- congressional-baseball-shooting (100%)
- institutional-messaging (90%)

## That day

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

**Mueller Obstruction Probe Triggers Day-Long Defensive Cascade Behind Presidential Veneer**

Trump's day split sharply between two modes: the empathetic Commander in Chief mourning the Scalise shooting and cheering the Congressional Baseball Game, and the embattled defendant lashing out at the Russia investigation. The morning brought a rapid one-two punch against Mueller's newly expanded obstruction probe, including the now-iconic "WITCH HUNT" branding. By afternoon he'd pivoted to attacking Hillary Clinton with a laundry list of her alleged offenses -- posting the same attack twice in what looked like agitated haste. The investigation clearly got under his skin more than anything else that day.

Full digest for 2017-06-15: https://trump.fm/date/2017-06-15/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2017, June 15). #CongressionalBaseballGame⚾️ https://t.co/u8InOJTf... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_875500520840060928
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "#CongressionalBaseballGame⚾️ https://t.co/u8InOJTf6D" X (Twitter), 15 Jun. 2017. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_875500520840060928. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "#CongressionalBaseballGame⚾️ https://t.co/u8InOJTf6D," X (Twitter), June 15, 2017, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_875500520840060928.

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