# Post ts_108459937799991625 - Post ID: `ts_108459937799991625` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2022-06-11T17:08:32.621Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108459937799991625 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108459937799991625/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_108459937799991625.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Really BAD T.V. Ratings for the Unselect Committee. Only 19,000,000 for at least 12 Networks, far lower than anticipated. I guess the American People don’t want to see one sided Witch Hunts. Besides, they know what happened with the Election! ## Engagement - Likes: 40,580 - Reposts: 12,030 - Replies: 2,236 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.440Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-23T11:31:02.292Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary This post constitutes a controlled narcissistic defense response to the first prime-time January 6 Committee hearing, which presented direct evidence of the subject's role in the Capitol attack. Rather than engaging substantively, the subject attacks viewership metrics — reducing a constitutional oversight proceeding to a ratings contest, terrain on which he is comfortable after decades in television. The 19 million viewer figure he cites as failure is objectively a substantial prime-time audience. This quantitative distortion is a textbook defense mechanism: reshaping external reality to meet internal need (Vaillant's distortion, pathological level). The post exhibits the subject's characteristic mixed grandiose/vulnerable narcissistic state — grandiose in claiming the hearing failed, vulnerable in invoking the Witch Hunt frame. Authorship is assessed as highly authentic despite daytime posting, based on the density of proprietary linguistic markers. The continued amplification of the stolen-election narrative in direct response to evidence presentation functions as ongoing grievance maintenance and epistemic closure reinforcement for his base. The 'Unselect Committee' rebranding and 'Witch Hunt' invocation are stable features of his Jan 6 counter-narrative. No acute danger indicators; danger level assessed as elevated given the broader context of ongoing post-Jan-6 election fraud promotion. No cognitive deviation from established baseline. # Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post — June 11, 2022 ## Overview This post is a characteristic defensive response to the first prime-time January 6 Committee hearing (June 9, 2022), issued two days after that event. The subject employs his signature rhetorical and psychological toolkit to reframe a threatening public spectacle — testimony and footage implicating him in the Capitol attack — as a ratings flop and partisan charade. The post is compact but dense with psychological signal. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Local time:** UTC 17:08 converts to 1:08 PM EDT (Trump almost certainly at Mar-a-Lago, Florida, in June 2022). This is firmly within business/daytime hours, which tips toward aide-influenced. However, stylistic fingerprints are overwhelmingly authentic: - "Really BAD T.V. Ratings" — characteristic capitalization of evaluative adjectives - "Unselect Committee" — Trump's proprietary coinage, used consistently in this period - Ratings-frame reduction (reducing consequential political events to viewership metrics) is a lifelong Trump cognitive schema rooted in his television career - Stream-of-consciousness sentence structure with "Besides" as a casual pivot - "I guess" hedge followed by populist consensus claim - "They know what happened with the Election!" — signature epistemic closure move Verdict: **Likely authentic Trump**, possibly lightly edited by staff. The daytime posting hour introduces modest uncertainty but does not override the overwhelming stylistic evidence. --- ## Multi-Level Personality Analysis (McAdams & Pals) ### Level 1 — Dispositional Traits - **Neuroticism (angry hostility):** Reactive framing of a congressional oversight body as a "Witch Hunt" indicates threat-activated hostility. The ALL-CAPS "BAD" signals emotional arousal disproportionate to the ostensible topic (TV ratings). - **Low Agreeableness:** No acknowledgment of the hearing's content, no engagement with evidence presented. Pure counter-attack mode. - **Extraversion (audience-seeking):** The ratings frame is self-revealing — the subject monitors viewership as a proxy for his own relevance and social dominance. - **Low Openness (values rigidity):** "The American People don't want to see" — attribution of his own views to a collective, with no tolerance for alternative interpretation. ### Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations - **Dominant motive: Power/status preservation.** The hearing represents a direct threat to his status narrative. This post is a counter-narrative strike. - **Secondary motive: Validation.** The ratings frame allows him to declare victory ("people don't want to watch") without engaging substance — a classic avoidance-as-triumph schema. - **World-schema:** Divided into loyal Americans (who "know" the truth) versus a corrupt elite (the committee, the media networks that carried it). Binary and closed. ### Level 3 — Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** Simultaneously victim (targeted by "Witch Hunt") and truth-keeper (the only one who understands the "real" election story). - **Narrative sequence:** Contamination — a legitimate election victory was stolen, and now corrupt forces construct a false counter-narrative. The committee is cast as the continuation of that corruption. - **Contrasting other:** "Unselect Committee" — the derogatory rename is not casual; it's an identity-positioning device. They are *illegitimate* ("unselect" = not truly selected/sanctioned), and therefore their findings are illegitimate by definition. - **Identity claims:** "I represent the American People who already know the truth." The collective is conscripted as his validation apparatus. --- ## Clinical Analysis ### Narcissistic Dynamics **Trigger:** Narcissistic injury from the hearing's explicit, televised presentation of evidence of his role in the Capitol attack. Footage of violence, testimony from a police officer injured defending the Capitol, and direct narrative framing of his culpability constitute a significant public exposure event — precisely the type that activates defensive narcissistic response. **State:** Mixed grandiose/vulnerable. The ratings attack is a grandiose move (I win because no one watched). The "Witch Hunt" framing is vulnerable (I am being persecuted). The oscillation within a single short post is notable and consistent with prior patterns. **Rage:** Present, modulated. Not the raw fury of some earlier posts; this is a controlled, instrumentalized hostility — contempt more than explosive rage. Intensity: moderate (~0.55). Proportionality to trigger: low (the hearing presented serious evidence; the response ignores content entirely and attacks the audience size). **Supply dynamics:** The post is not primarily supply-seeking (no self-glorification) but rather supply-defending — attempting to maintain existing follower belief by preemptively delegitimizing the hearing before followers can be influenced by it. ### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Denial (pathological):** Refusing to engage with the substance of the hearing at all. Zero acknowledgment of the testimony, footage, or specific factual claims presented. 2. **Distortion (pathological):** Reframing 19 million viewers — a substantial prime-time audience by any objective measure, comparable to major State of the Union addresses — as a catastrophic failure ("Really BAD"). This reshapes external reality to meet internal need. 3. **Projection (immature):** "One sided Witch Hunts" — the subject's own narrative (election was stolen, committee is corrupt) is maximally one-sided; he projects this quality onto the committee. 4. **Rationalization (neurotic):** "I guess the American People don't want to see" — manufacturing a populist interpretation of viewership data to justify his pre-existing conclusion. ### Malignant Narcissism Assessment - **Narcissistic features:** Elevated — grandiosity, entitlement, contempt for institutional process, inability to acknowledge legitimate oversight. - **Antisocial features:** Moderate — continued promulgation of the election fraud narrative despite court findings, legal consequences for followers who acted on it, and documented harm to democratic institutions. - **Paranoid features:** Moderate-high — "Witch Hunt," "Unselect," conspiratorial framing of bipartisan committee as coordinated persecution. - **Ego-syntonic sadism:** Low in this specific post — more contempt than cruelty. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis - **Rebranding/semantic manipulation:** "Unselect Committee" deploys a single-word negation to pre-poison the noun. This is a practiced propaganda technique: attach a delegitimizing modifier to an institutional name until it becomes automatic. - **False consensus:** "I guess the American People don't want to see" — presents the subject's interpretation of viewership data as revealed popular will. "They know what happened with the Election!" — the exclamation point marks certainty; the subject claims to speak for collective knowledge. - **Ratings reduction:** Converting a constitutional oversight proceeding into a television performance metric is a dehumanizing rhetorical move — it denies the content any serious consideration while playing to a frame the subject controls (he spent decades as a television personality and is comfortable on this terrain). - **Whataboutism/deflection:** "Besides, they know what happened with the Election!" — the "Besides" is the tell; it signals an argumentative pivot away from the ratings claim (which has already done its work) to the foundational grievance. - **Hyperbole:** "Really BAD," "far lower than anticipated," "Witch Hunt" — escalatory adjectives deployed without calibration. - **No dehumanizing language** in this post specifically; no violent imagery; danger level elevated but not high. --- ## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion - **"They know what happened with the Election!"** — Classic epistemic closure move. Rather than arguing the claim, he asserts it as shared, settled knowledge within the in-group. This demands that followers treat a disputed, extensively litigated, and court-rejected claim as obvious truth. Continued post-Jan-6 repetition of the Big Lie after 60+ court losses constitutes documented reality distortion. - **Ratings reframe:** Asserting 19 million viewers represents public rejection of the committee is quantitative gaslighting — using real numbers in a false interpretive frame. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Only 19,000,000 for at least 12 Networks" | **Mostly True** | The June 9 prime-time hearing drew approximately 19-20 million viewers across broadcast and cable networks. The figure itself is roughly accurate. | | "Far lower than anticipated" | **Half True** | Some pre-hearing projections cited Watergate-era comparisons suggesting higher numbers. However, 19-20M is objectively a strong prime-time congressional hearing audience and the 'anticipated' baseline is unspecified and self-serving. | | "The American People don't want to see one sided Witch Hunts" | **Mostly False** | Post-hearing polling showed significant public interest and concern about January 6. Viewership of 19M is not evidence of rejection. Characterization as 'one sided' is contested — the committee included Republicans and presented documentary evidence. | | "They know what happened with the Election" | **False** | The 2020 election fraud narrative has been rejected by 60+ courts, certified by Republican and Democratic election officials in all contested states, and described as false by the subject's own Attorney General William Barr. | Overall Veracity: 38% ## Cognitive Status No markers of cognitive decline in this post. Sentence structure is brief but coherent. The rhetorical moves are executed with practiced efficiency. No word-finding errors, no temporal confusion, no perseveration beyond his characteristic thematic loops. Complexity is characteristically low (baseline), but not degraded from baseline. **Complexity score:** 0.28 (consistent with established Trump baseline of short, punchy, colloquial syntax) **Baseline deviation:** None --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: Elevated** No explicit violence in this post. However, the continued amplification of the stolen-election narrative — particularly in response to a proceeding presenting evidence of violence he is accused of inciting — functions as ongoing grievance maintenance. The "Witch Hunt" framing implicitly casts the committee members as persecutors engaged in illegitimate political warfare. This does not rise to stochastic terrorism in isolation, but in the context of the ongoing post-Jan-6 period, it reinforces the grievance ecosystem that produced that event. The specific post contains no eliminationist language, no target-plus-grievance-plus-implied-action pattern. --- ## Longitudinal Notes This post sits within a multi-post cluster on June 11 attacking the committee (including a longer post asking why the committee won't call "experts" on election rigging, posted twice). The pattern is consistent with prior behavior during perceived narcissistic injury events (Mueller investigation, first impeachment): multi-post, rapid-fire counter-narrative deployment designed to fill the information space available to his audience before competing narratives can consolidate. The ratings-obsession frame is a stable Trump signature across decades — he reduced the NFL's declining ratings, the Emmy Awards, and his own inauguration crowd size to the same metric. This consistency reinforces the authentic authorship assessment. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 82%) ### Indicators - 'Unselect Committee' is a Trump-proprietary coinage used consistently in this period - 'Really BAD T.V. Ratings' uses characteristic evaluative capitalization - Ratings-reduction frame is a lifelong Trump cognitive schema rooted in his television career - Stream-of-consciousness pivot with 'Besides' is authentic Trump syntax - 'They know what happened with the Election!' deploys signature epistemic closure ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (January 6 Committee prime-time hearing presenting evidence of Trump's role in the Capitol attack) **Rage:** Intensity 55% targeting House Select Committee on January 6 - Proportionality: 20% Sentiment: -0.62 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 78% - Antisocial: 55% - Paranoid: 65% - Sadism: 20% **Defense Mechanisms:** - denial (pathological) - distortion (pathological) - projection (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 28% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Conscripts 'the American People' as collective validator of his claims - Epistemic closure — 'they know what happened' asserts shared certainty to bind in-group - Frames hearing rejection as populist act, binding audience identity to his counter-narrative ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Continued amplification of stolen-election grievance narrative in direct response to accountability proceedings, reinforcing the same belief system that motivated the January 6 attack - 'Witch Hunt' framing implicitly casts committee members as illegitimate persecutors engaged in political warfare rather than constitutional oversight - Post is part of a same-day cluster of committee attacks, consistent with coordinated counter-narrative deployment to inoculate his audience against hearing evidence ### Gaslighting - 'They know what happened with the Election!' — asserts disputed, court-rejected claims as shared, settled knowledge within the in-group, demanding followers treat the Big Lie as obvious truth - Quantitative gaslighting: using a real number (19M) in a false interpretive frame to manufacture evidence of public rejection - Attacks on institutional legitimacy ('Unselect') designed to preemptively discredit any finding the committee produces ## Fact Checks (4) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-23._ > Only 19,000,000 for at least 12 Networks **MOSTLY TRUE** The June 9 prime-time hearing drew approximately 19-20 million viewers across broadcast and cable networks. The figure itself is roughly accurate. Sources: General knowledge: reported viewership figures for June 9, 2022 hearing > Far lower than anticipated **HALF TRUE** Some pre-hearing projections cited Watergate-era comparisons suggesting higher numbers. However, 19-20M is objectively a strong prime-time congressional hearing audience and the 'anticipated' baseline is unspecified and self-serving. Sources: General knowledge: historical congressional hearing viewership comparisons > The American People don't want to see one sided Witch Hunts **MOSTLY FALSE** Post-hearing polling showed significant public interest and concern about January 6. Viewership of 19M is not evidence of rejection. Characterization as 'one sided' is contested — the committee included Republicans and presented documentary evidence. Sources: General knowledge: post-hearing polling data > They know what happened with the Election **FALSE** The 2020 election fraud narrative has been rejected by 60+ courts, certified by Republican and Democratic election officials in all contested states, and described as false by the subject's own Attorney General William Barr. Sources: General knowledge: post-2020 election litigation record; Barr public statements on election fraud claims Overall Veracity: 38% ## Tags - january-6-committee (95%) - election-fraud-narrative (88%) - ratings-obsession (82%) - narcissistic-defense (85%) - witch-hunt (90%) - institutional-delegitimization (80%) - unselect-committee (85%) - epistemic-closure (78%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Morning-After Wounds: Jan 6 Hearings Trigger Full DARVO Cycle From Bedminster** Trump spent the day at Bedminster reacting to the first prime-time January 6 Committee hearing that aired two nights earlier. The morning opened with back-to-back near-identical attacks on the committee — an unusual double-post suggesting real agitation — before shifting to a dismissive ratings attack in the afternoon. The mood softened through the day, moving from angry defensiveness to routine endorsements and an oddly gentle compliment about a baseball commentator by evening. The dominant story was a man working through a narcissistic injury in stages: fury, dismissal, then deliberate distraction. Full digest for 2022-06-11: https://trump.fm/date/2022-06-11/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, June 11). Really BAD T.V. Ratings for the Unselect... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_108459937799991625 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Really BAD T.V. Ratings for the Unselect Committee. Only..." Truth Social, 11 Jun. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108459937799991625. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Really BAD T.V. 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