# Post x_919909494200528897

- Post ID: `x_919909494200528897`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2017-10-16T12:54:49.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_919909494200528897
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_919909494200528897/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_919909494200528897.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Since Election Day on November 8, the Stock Market is up more than 25%, unemployment is at a 17 year low & companies are coming back to U.S.

## Engagement

- Likes: 92,771
- Reposts: 20,216
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.385Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-12T00:19:31.629Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Psychological Analysis: Post x_919909494200528897

### Overview
A routine economic boasting post citing stock market gains, unemployment figures, and corporate repatriation since Election Day. This is classic supply-seeking behavior — anchoring all positive economic indicators to himself personally.

### Authorship
Posted at 12:54 UTC = 8:54 AM ET. Trump was at the White House during this period (Trudeau visit). The timing is business hours but early enough for Trump. The content is simple, uses ampersand, and follows a pattern of morning Fox News-inspired economic boasting. Likely authentic but could be either.

### Psychological Dynamics
This is a maintenance/supply-seeking post. No injury is evident; rather, this represents the grandiose baseline — cataloguing wins. The implicit claim is that all economic gains since November 8, 2016 are personally attributable to Trump, a classic grandiose attribution pattern.

### Rhetorical Analysis
The post uses a common Trump technique: cherry-picking a favorable starting date and bundling multiple metrics to create an impression of overwhelming success. "Companies are coming back to U.S." is vague and unverifiable as stated.

### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Stock Market up more than 25% since Election Day" | **Mostly True** | S&P 500 rose roughly 20-25% from Nov 8, 2016 to mid-Oct 2017. The 25% figure is at the high end but approximately correct depending on index used. |
| "Unemployment at 17 year low" | **True** | September 2017 unemployment was 4.2%, lowest since February 2001 — approximately 16.5 years, rounding to 17 is reasonable. |
| "Companies are coming back to U.S." | **Unverifiable** | Vague claim with no specific companies named. Some announcements existed but trend attribution is debatable. |

Overall Veracity: 77%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 55%)

### Indicators

- Early morning business hours
- Simple declarative structure
- Ampersand usage
- No typos but also not overly polished

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking

Sentiment: +0.70

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 60%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- distortion (pathological)

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

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

## Fact Checks (3)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-12._

> Stock Market up more than 25% since Election Day

**MOSTLY TRUE**

S&P 500 rose roughly 20-25% from Nov 8, 2016 to mid-Oct 2017. The 25% figure is at the high end but approximately correct depending on index used.

> Unemployment at 17 year low

**TRUE**

September 2017 unemployment was 4.2%, lowest since February 2001 — approximately 16.5 years, rounding to 17 is reasonable.

> Companies are coming back to U.S.

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Vague claim with no specific companies named. Some announcements existed but trend attribution is debatable.

Overall Veracity: 77%

## Tags

- economic_boasting (90%)
- supply_seeking (80%)
- grandiosity (50%)

## That day

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

**A Low-Key Day of Economic Boasting and Democratic Attacks From the Grandiosity Playbook**

Trump spent the morning watching Fox News and firing off a cluster of posts attacking Democrats on taxes and the Iran deal while touting stock market gains and low unemployment. The tone was self-congratulatory but notably calm -- no flashes of anger, no personal vendettas beyond routine jabs at Schumer and Clinton. He traveled to South Carolina in the evening for what appeared to be a routine political visit, closing out one of his more subdued days on social media.

Full digest for 2017-10-16: https://trump.fm/date/2017-10-16/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2017, October 16). Since Election Day on November 8, the Stock... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_919909494200528897
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Since Election Day on November 8, the Stock Market is up..." X (Twitter), 16 Oct. 2017. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_919909494200528897. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Since Election Day on November 8, the Stock Market is up...," X (Twitter), October 16, 2017, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_919909494200528897.

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