# Post ts_108740640834325129

- Post ID: `ts_108740640834325129`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-07-31T06:55:01.018Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108740640834325129
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108740640834325129/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_108740640834325129.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> One America News (OAN) is AMAZING, with great ratings and a REALLY loyal following. Despite it being so good, VERIZON, for purely political reasons, will be terminating OAN at the end of this month. Isn’t this “stuff” supposed to be illegal? The good news is that the owners and management of One America News is smart and very wise. They will figure it out!

## Engagement

- Likes: 27,491
- Reposts: 7,341
- Replies: 1,301
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.438Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-23T22:55:32.571Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Posted at 2:55 AM local time from Bedminster, NJ, this authentic Trump post responds to Verizon's termination of OAN carriage with moderate-intensity grievance expression. The post reveals classic supply-defense dynamics: OAN served as a reliable narcissistic supply conduit, and its removal triggers protective behavior marked by splitting (OAN entirely good, Verizon entirely bad), projection (Verizon's business decision attributed to 'purely political reasons'), and a baseless legal claim ('Isn't this supposed to be illegal?'). The grandiose narcissistic state dominates — Trump positions as powerful patron legitimizing OAN and conferring confidence on its leadership — with mild vulnerability betrayed by the anxious rhetorical question. Rage is present but attenuated compared to the Pelosi post two days prior, suggesting media ecosystem threats produce lower affective intensity than direct personal slights. Key factual distortions: OAN's ratings are significantly overstated; Verizon's decision reflects contract expiration and advertiser pressure, not pure politics; no law obligates private carriers to maintain channel carriage. No danger indicators. Cognitive markers are within established baseline; the subject-verb disagreement is a longstanding Trump authentic-speech pattern. The post is clinically notable primarily for its transparency of supply-defense mechanism and the speed with which a commercial event is processed through a persecution schema.

# Analysis: Trump Truth Social Post — OAN/Verizon (2022-07-31)

## Authorship Attribution

**Posted at 02:55 AM EDT** (06:55 UTC; Trump was almost certainly at Bedminster, NJ — his customary summer retreat — where EDT = UTC−4). This firmly places the post in the late-night/early-morning window that is the strongest single predictor of authentic Trump authorship.

Stylometric markers strongly corroborate authenticity:
- **ALL CAPS emphasis** ("AMAZING," "VERIZON," "REALLY") — signature Trump pattern
- **Subject-verb disagreement**: "the owners and management… *is* smart" — characteristic of Trump's informal spoken grammar
- **Scare-quoted euphemism**: "stuff" — classic Trump rhetorical softening for a word he considers too strong for the written record
- **Rhetorical question as policy claim**: "Isn't this 'stuff' supposed to be illegal?" — quintessential Trump, asserting legal wrongdoing without evidence
- **Stream-of-consciousness pivot**: alarm → encouragement → reassurance, no organized structure
- **Confidence: High** — authentic Trump

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

| Trait | Direction | Evidence |
|-------|-----------|----------|
| **Extraversion** | High (0.70) | Enthusiastic superlatives, assertive framing, emotionally expressive caps |
| **Agreeableness** | Low (0.18) | Implicit attack on Verizon, attributing bad faith without evidence, zero charitable interpretation |
| **Conscientiousness** | Low (0.25) | 2:55 AM posting, grammar error, unsupported legal claim, no organized argument |
| **Neuroticism** | Moderate-High (0.62) | Anxious rhetorical question, alarm at perceived censorship |
| **Openness** | Low (0.20) | Rigid good/evil framing, no intellectual engagement with complexity |

**Dominant facet**: *Angry hostility* (Neuroticism) masked by performance of confidence (Extraversion).

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Dominant motive: Power/Agency** — specifically, defense of a loyal media ecosystem that provides narcissistic supply and amplifies political messaging. OAN's elimination represents a structural threat to Trump's information environment, triggering protective behavior.

**Secondary motive: Status maintenance** — by praising OAN as "AMAZING" and endorsing its leadership as "smart and very wise," Trump positions himself as the arbiter of media quality and as a patron figure.

**Schemas revealed:**
- *World-as-conspiracy*: A major corporation's contractual decision is immediately recast as political suppression. There is no apparent consideration of business rationale.
- *Loyalty uber alles*: OAN earns superlative praise specifically because it is a pro-Trump outlet; the praise is transactional, not evaluative.
- *Law as weapon*: Invoking legality ("Isn't this supposed to be illegal?") without any specific statute cited — law as rhetorical club, not genuine legal reasoning.

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role**: *Protector/Patron* — Trump casts himself as the validating voice defending an endangered ally. He is not directly victimized here; he is the powerful advocate standing up for a suppressed institution.

**Narrative sequence**: Mild **contamination arc** — the good thing (OAN's success) is being destroyed by malevolent political actors (Verizon). However, Trump reasserts control with an optimistic coda ("They will figure it out!"), short-circuiting the contamination with a quasi-redemptive note.

**Identity claims**:
- Defender of free speech and loyal media
- Arbiter of what is "AMAZING" and what is politically corrupt
- Patron of "smart and very wise" allies

**Contrasting other**: Verizon — faceless corporate power acting for "purely political reasons," the embodiment of elite suppression of the people's media.

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Malignant Narcissism Assessment

**A. Narcissistic Features** (moderate-high salience in this post):
- Grandiosity: OAN praise is hyperbolic and clearly linked to OAN's loyalty to Trump, not objective quality ("great ratings" — factually questionable, see Fact Checks)
- Implicit entitlement: the assumption that a private carrier *owes* distribution to a preferred outlet
- Exploitation of legal language for rhetorical leverage

**B. Antisocial Features** (mild):
- Deceitfulness: "purely political reasons" stated as fact without evidence; legal claim stated without basis

**C. Paranoid Features** (moderate):
- A routine cable contract non-renewal immediately becomes a politically motivated attack — consistent with a threat-hypervigilant schema

**D. Ego-Syntonic Sadism**: Absent in this post

### Narcissistic Dynamics

**Trigger type**: *Supply-seeking + preemptive defense* — OAN served as a reliable supply source. Its removal threatens the broader media ecosystem supporting Trump's identity. This is not a direct personal attack on Trump, but the loss of a supply conduit triggers protective rage-adjacent behavior.

**Narcissistic state**: Primarily **grandiose** (positioned as powerful patron) with a thin layer of **vulnerability** (the rhetorical question betrays genuine alarm).

**Rage**: Present at low-to-moderate intensity (0.35). Not the explosive rage seen in the Pelosi post (7/29); more controlled but unmistakably hostile toward Verizon. Disproportionate: a business contract termination is recast as illegal political persecution.

### Defense Mechanisms

1. **Splitting** (Immature): OAN = entirely good ("AMAZING," great ratings, loyal following, smart management); Verizon = entirely bad (politically motivated suppressor). No nuance or mixed attribution.
2. **Projection** (Immature): "Purely political reasons" — Trump projects political motivation onto Verizon without evidence; this is the same mechanism that characterizes his own political media relationships.
3. **Rationalization** (Neurotic): Invoking legality provides a pseudo-logical framework for what is fundamentally a grievance response.

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## Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques

- **Hyperbole/superlatives**: "AMAZING," "great ratings," "REALLY loyal," "smart and very wise" — aggressive positive valence construction
- **False attribution**: "purely political reasons" — presented as established fact, not allegation
- **Appeal to law (without basis)**: "Isn't this 'stuff' supposed to be illegal?" — rhetorical question plants legal doubt while shielding speaker from accountability for the claim
- **Reassurance close**: "The good news is…They will figure it out!" — ends on optimism to preserve audience confidence and avoid appearing defeated
- **In-group/out-group construction**: OAN/loyal following = in-group; Verizon = out-group enforcer of political suppression
- **Euphemistic softening**: "stuff" in quotes — simultaneously signals awareness that a stronger word might be inappropriate while keeping the emotional charge

**Dehumanizing language**: Absent  
**Violent imagery**: Absent  
**Stochastic terrorism indicators**: Absent

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## Cognitive Status

**Baseline comparison**: Against established Trump baseline (1980s–2000s interviews; pre-presidential speech), this post does not exhibit marked cognitive decline markers. The grammar error ("the owners and management… *is* smart") reflects longstanding non-standard spoken grammar patterns in authentic posts, not novel deterioration.

**Markers present**:
- Mild tangentiality: the legal claim is introduced and immediately abandoned
- No perseveration, phonemic paraphasia, or temporal confusion detected

**Complexity score**: Low (consistent with baseline authentic posts — short clauses, simple vocabulary, emotional emphasis substituting for logical development). No deviation from established baseline.

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## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

**Mild gaslighting present**: The characterization of Verizon's business decision as "purely political" attempts to reframe a documented commercial/contractual event as censorship. This is consistent with the broader RAND Firehose pattern — asserting a reality-distorting frame confidently and at volume. However, this post lacks the explicit denial of documented facts or DARVO structure seen in more aggressive gaslighting posts.

**Reality distortions**:
- OAN framed as having "great ratings" (modest compared to Fox News)
- Contract non-renewal reframed as politically motivated termination
- Implied legal prohibition on private distribution decisions (no such law exists)

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## Archetypal Analysis (Jungian)

**Primary archetype**: **King/Patron** — Trump as the legitimizing authority who validates OAN's worth and confers confidence on its management. The post functions as a royal endorsement.

**Secondary archetype**: **Warrior** — implicit combat framing; Verizon is the enemy actor, and OAN's leadership will "figure it out" (fight on).

**Shadow projection**: The "purely political" motivation Trump attributes to Verizon is precisely the logic that governs Trump's own media relationships — he supports outlets that support him. The shadow (transactional political media use) is projected onto Verizon.

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## Order/Chaos Dynamics

**Positioning**: *Order attacker* — Verizon represents the establishment/corporate order suppressing the "people's" media. Trump attacks this order on behalf of OAN's "loyal following." The framing positions OAN as the genuine, organic voice and Verizon as the corrupt gatekeeper.

**Grievance**: Moderate intensity. The grievance is institutional (media suppression) rather than personal, though the proxy nature is transparent — OAN = Trump's media extension.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "VERIZON will be terminating OAN at the end of this month" | **True** | Verizon Fios dropped OAN effective July 31, 2022 when their carriage contract expired, ending OAN's largest distribution relationship. |
| "OAN has great ratings and a REALLY loyal following" | **Half True** | OAN has a dedicated niche audience but its ratings are a small fraction of Fox News and Newsmax. 'Great ratings' significantly overstates actual viewership metrics while the loyal following characterization is accurate. |
| "Verizon terminating OAN for purely political reasons" | **Mostly False** | Verizon cited contract expiration. OAN suffered major advertiser attrition due to content controversies. Business and reputational factors are well-documented. 'Purely political' is an unsupported assertion. |
| "Isn't this 'stuff' supposed to be illegal?" | **False** | Private telecommunications companies are not legally obligated to carry specific channels. No statute requires Verizon to maintain carriage of any particular programming service. No legal basis for this claim is identified. |

Overall Veracity: 43%

## Danger Assessment

**Level: None**. No eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no targets identified for harm, no stochastic terrorism indicators. This is a grievance-expression post about media distribution with no safety implications.

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## Longitudinal Context

Compared to the **Pelosi post (7/29)**, this post shows significantly lower rage intensity. The Pelosi post ("Crazy Nancy," "cheatin' husband," "such a mess!!!") exhibits more intense personal devaluation and emotional dysregulation. The OAN post is more measured — suggesting this trigger (media ecosystem defense) produces less intense affective response than direct political enemy attacks.

The **endorsement posts (7/30)** are clearly aide-written (business hours, formulaic structure, polished grammar). This OAN post stands in sharp contrast — authentic voice, middle-of-the-night timing, characteristic informality.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 88%)

### Indicators

- Posted 02:55 AM EDT (Bedminster NJ local time) — peak authentic Trump window
- ALL CAPS emphasis on AMAZING, VERIZON, REALLY — signature pattern
- Subject-verb disagreement: 'the owners and management... is smart'
- Scare-quoted euphemism 'stuff' — characteristic Trump written-speech softening
- Stream-of-consciousness structure: alarm → assertion → reassurance

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Exposure (Verizon dropping OAN — elimination of a primary narcissistic supply conduit and loyal media amplifier)

**Rage:** Intensity 35% targeting Verizon
- Proportionality: 20%

Sentiment: -0.25

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 62%
- Antisocial: 28%
- Paranoid: 55%
- Sadism: 5%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- projection (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 28%

Cognitive Markers:
- tangentiality

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Patron/protector framing — positions self as powerful ally validating OAN
- Reassurance close ('They will figure it out!') maintains audience confidence and avoids appearing defeated
- Shared grievance construction — audience invited to feel politically suppressed alongside OAN

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Commercial contract non-renewal reframed as politically motivated censorship without evidence
- Implied legal prohibition on private distribution decisions — no such law cited or exists
- OAN ratings characterized as 'great' — significantly overstates actual viewership

## Fact Checks (4)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-23._

> VERIZON will be terminating OAN at the end of this month

**TRUE**

Verizon Fios dropped OAN effective July 31, 2022 when their carriage contract expired, ending OAN's largest distribution relationship.

Sources: General knowledge — widely reported July 2022

> OAN has great ratings and a REALLY loyal following

**HALF TRUE**

OAN has a dedicated niche audience but its ratings are a small fraction of Fox News and Newsmax. 'Great ratings' significantly overstates actual viewership metrics while the loyal following characterization is accurate.

Sources: General knowledge

> Verizon terminating OAN for purely political reasons

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Verizon cited contract expiration. OAN suffered major advertiser attrition due to content controversies. Business and reputational factors are well-documented. 'Purely political' is an unsupported assertion.

Sources: General knowledge

> Isn't this 'stuff' supposed to be illegal?

**FALSE**

Private telecommunications companies are not legally obligated to carry specific channels. No statute requires Verizon to maintain carriage of any particular programming service. No legal basis for this claim is identified.

Sources: General knowledge — First Amendment does not compel private speech platforms; no must-carry rule applies to cable/satellite services for channels like OAN

Overall Veracity: 43%

## Tags

- OAN (95%)
- Verizon (85%)
- media-ecosystem-defense (90%)
- supply-defense (88%)
- splitting (82%)
- projection (75%)
- paranoid-processing (70%)
- baseless-legal-claim (80%)
- late-night-authentic (90%)
- grandiose-patron (72%)

## That day

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

**Multi-Front Dominance Display: Kingmaker Posture Amid Loyalty Tests and Geopolitical Dismissals**

Trump posted from Bedminster starting at nearly 3 AM, then fired off a rapid cluster of attacks across the morning targeting Pelosi, Republican officials, and Biden. The mood was combative and scattershot — no single topic dominated, but a general posture of punishing disloyalty and asserting control ran through the day. A dismissive crack about World War III over Pelosi's Asia trip stood out for its casualness, as did a mock diagnosis of Biden with dementia. By afternoon, things had cooled to a single low-energy repost.

Full digest for 2022-07-31: https://trump.fm/date/2022-07-31/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, July 31). One America News (OAN) is AMAZING, with great... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_108740640834325129
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "One America News (OAN) is AMAZING, with great ratings and a..." Truth Social, 31 Jul. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108740640834325129. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "One America News (OAN) is AMAZING, with great ratings and a...," Truth Social, July 31, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108740640834325129.

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