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Analysis: "We will see what happens!" — March 6, 2018

Authorship Attribution

Local time conversion: UTC 13:05:34 on March 6, 2018. Trump was in Washington, D.C. (White House), placing local time at 8:05 AM EST. This falls squarely within his documented early-morning Fox & Friends viewing and reactive-tweeting window (roughly 6:00–9:30 AM). The extreme brevity, stream-of-consciousness non-sequitur quality, and use of a highly characteristic verbal tic ("We will see what happens!") are all markers of authentic, unmediated Trump authorship. No aide would craft a post this devoid of message content.

Confidence: High. Authorship score: 0.85 (Trump himself).

Contextual Reconstruction

The linked URL (t.co/Y1qxoAUfd9) returned a connection error and could not be retrieved. The post therefore must be read in contextual terms. The day of posting was saturated with overlapping crises: Hope Hicks's resignation announcement (one of his most trusted aides), Stormy Daniels's lawsuit filing to void her NDA, Gary Cohn's imminent departure over tariffs, and intense public fallout from the steel/aluminum tariff announcement made days earlier. Trump's same-day tweets addressed the tariffs ("We are getting it done — jobs and security!") and the White House chaos narrative ("There is no Chaos, only great Energy!"). The cryptic "We will see what happens!" most plausibly teases a tariff or trade-related development — consistent with the NAFTA negotiation pressure he applied publicly (tariffs coming off only if a new NAFTA deal is signed, per his March 5 tweet) — but cannot be confirmed without the link.

Level 1: Dispositional Traits

The five words of actual content are almost entirely uninformative about dispositional traits. What can be observed:

• Extraversion: The teaser format — withholding information, generating curiosity, inviting clicks — is consistent with the high excitement-seeking and attention-commanding facets of extraversion documented across thousands of prior posts.
• Conscientiousness (low): No policy specifics, no developed argument, no follow-through on context. Consistent with low deliberation.
• Openness (low): No ideational complexity visible.

Confidence: Low, due to insufficient textual material.

Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

Despite the post's brevity, the phrase "We will see what happens!" encodes a specific motivational posture:

• Agency/control assertion: The subject positions himself as an informed insider watching outcomes unfold — someone who knows more than the audience and is already monitoring events. "We will see" implies calm oversight rather than anxious waiting.
• Optionality preservation: A defining feature of Trump's rhetorical strategy is commitment avoidance. This phrase preserves maximum flexibility: if the referenced development goes well, he can claim credit; if badly, he never committed to an outcome.
• Supply-seeking: The click-bait structure (cryptic phrase + link) is designed to generate engagement — a routine narcissistic supply mechanism common throughout his Twitter corpus.

Level 3: Narrative Identity

The protagonist role here is the knowing observer — a figure who already understands what is coming, who is above the fray, watching with equanimity. This is a minor but characteristic narrative move: Trump-as-omniscient-dealmaker. The ambiguity invites followers to project their own hopes or anxieties onto the teaser.

No redemption or contamination sequence is visible. No explicit identity claim is made beyond the implied competence of being the one who "sees."

Level 4: Clinical Indicators

At five words of substantive content, no meaningful clinical inference is warranted. The phrase itself is too formulaic to distinguish from Trump's extensive documented use of the same construction across years of posts. No word-finding difficulties, no tangentiality (within the post), no confabulation detectable.

Cognitive complexity score: 0.05 — but this reflects intentional minimalism rather than degraded capacity. Deviation from baseline: none.

Defense Mechanisms

• Rationalization (mild): By presenting an ambiguous "wait and see" frame, the subject implicitly positions any outcome as expected and within his purview.
• No pathological or immature defenses are visible at this level of textual resolution.

Rhetorical Techniques

• Suspense/anticipation hook: Classic teaser format; the sentence creates a narrative gap the reader is compelled to fill.
• Vagueness as power: The total absence of specificity is itself a rhetorical choice — it maximizes plausible deniability and maintains dominance through information asymmetry.
• "We" construction: Faint inclusive framing — the subject and audience watch together, creating subtle parasocial bonding around shared anticipation.
• No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no eliminationist rhetoric.

Psychological State Assessment

Given the extraordinary turbulence of March 6, 2018 — Hicks departure, Stormy Daniels lawsuit, Cohn resignation imminent, tariff backlash — the breezy, five-word post suggests one of two states:

1. Compartmentalization: Genuine psychological partitioning of the crises, with this tweet functioning as a routine engagement mechanism unrelated to the personal/legal chaos.
2. Grandiose equilibrium: The confident "we will see what happens" cadence is inconsistent with a psychologically destabilized actor. It presents as calm, superior observation — consistent with a grandiose narcissistic state in which the subject experiences himself as in control even amid objective disorder.

The latter is more consistent with the same-day posting pattern ("There is no Chaos, only great Energy!" — a defensive grandiosity response to chaos narratives) and his longitudinal baseline.

Narcissistic trigger type: Likely maintenance/supply-seeking, possibly minor preemptive framing around a pending development.

Danger Assessment

No danger indicators present. No target identification, no dehumanization, no eliminationist language, no mobilization rhetoric.

Summary

Post is not clinically significant as a standalone unit. It is too brief and context-dependent to support meaningful psychological inference beyond baseline pattern confirmation.