# Post x_921848853090983938

- Post ID: `x_921848853090983938`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2017-10-21T21:21:08.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_921848853090983938
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_921848853090983938/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_921848853090983938.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Crooked Hillary Clinton spent hundreds of millions of dollars more on Presidential Election than I did. Facebook was on her side, not mine!

## Engagement

- Likes: 102,739
- Reposts: 23,221
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-01-31T23:43:13.385Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-12T00:36:03.629Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Personality Analysis: Post x_921848853090983938

### Context
Saturday evening, October 21, 2017. Trump was likely at the White House or Camp David. 21:21 UTC = ~5:21 PM ET — business hours, but Saturday. This is part of a sustained tweetstorm touching on the stock market, ISIS, the dossier, and Facebook/media bias. The Gold Star controversy dominated the news cycle, yet Trump pivots away from it here.

### Content Analysis
The post makes two claims: (1) Clinton outspent him, and (2) Facebook favored Clinton. This continues the thread from the previous post about Facebook ads — a topic driven by Congressional investigations into Russian-purchased Facebook ads during the 2016 campaign. Trump reframes the narrative: rather than Russian interference helping him, Clinton had the spending advantage and platform support.

### Psychological Dynamics
This post is a textbook deflection from the Russian interference narrative. By repositioning himself as the underdog who won despite disadvantages, Trump simultaneously validates his victory and undermines the interference narrative. The continued relitigating of the 2016 election 10 months into his presidency reflects characteristic supply-seeking and grievance maintenance.

### Rhetorical Notes
"Crooked Hillary" — established branding/ad hominem. The framing inverts the actual controversy (Russian Facebook ads helping Trump) into a claim that Facebook helped Clinton — a classic DARVO-adjacent move.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Clinton spent hundreds of millions of dollars more on the presidential election than Trump" | **Mostly True** | Clinton's campaign spent approximately $768M vs Trump's $398M. Including outside groups, Clinton's side spent significantly more. |
| "Facebook was on her side, not mine" | **Mostly False** | Facebook as a platform did not formally support Clinton. Russian-purchased Facebook ads disproportionately helped Trump. Facebook's algorithm amplified partisan content benefiting both sides, but the active interference operation favored Trump. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 70%)

### Indicators

- Saturday evening timing
- Use of 'Crooked Hillary' epithet
- Exclamation point
- Short punchy sentences
- Reactive emotional content

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Congressional investigation into Russian Facebook ad purchases)

Sentiment: -0.50

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 60%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 40%
- Sadism: 10%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)
- denial (pathological)
- rationalization (neurotic)

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- underdog framing
- shared grievance against elite institutions

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Inverting the Facebook narrative — claiming Facebook helped Clinton when investigations show Russian-purchased Facebook ads helped Trump

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> Clinton spent hundreds of millions of dollars more on the presidential election than Trump

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Clinton's campaign spent approximately $768M vs Trump's $398M. Including outside groups, Clinton's side spent significantly more.

Sources: FEC filings; OpenSecrets.org

> Facebook was on her side, not mine

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Facebook as a platform did not formally support Clinton. Russian-purchased Facebook ads disproportionately helped Trump. Facebook's algorithm amplified partisan content benefiting both sides, but the active interference operation favored Trump.

Sources: Senate Intelligence Committee findings; Facebook's own disclosures to Congress

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- election-relitigating (80%)
- clinton-fixation (70%)
- narrative-inversion (80%)
- russia-investigation-deflection (70%)

## That day

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

**A Saturday of Self-Congratulation and Media Grievance**

Trump spent a relatively calm Saturday alternating between boasting about economic wins -- the budget, stock market highs, and historic jobless claims -- and complaining that the media refused to cover any of it. He kept his feud with Rep. Frederica Wilson simmering over the Gold Star widow controversy, then pivoted to the Russia investigation in the evening, attacking the Steele dossier and dismissing Facebook's role while simultaneously claiming the platform was biased against him. The mood was uniformly self-congratulatory with only brief flashes of irritation, never rising above a simmer.

Full digest for 2017-10-21: https://trump.fm/date/2017-10-21/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2017, October 21). Crooked Hillary Clinton spent hundreds of... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_921848853090983938
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Crooked Hillary Clinton spent hundreds of millions of..." X (Twitter), 21 Oct. 2017. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_921848853090983938. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Crooked Hillary Clinton spent hundreds of millions of...," X (Twitter), October 21, 2017, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_921848853090983938.

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