# Post ts_108957076001153197

- Post ID: `ts_108957076001153197`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-09-07T12:17:19.574Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108957076001153197
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_108957076001153197/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_108957076001153197.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Wow! Really big T.V. & Streaming Ratings at the Rally last Saturday night in Pennsylvania. The overflow crowd was amazing! Thousands of people not able to get into the Arena. New Arena attendance record set. Biden had almost no crowd, but the Fake News never says that, or never shows an overlay comparison. MAGA has NEVER been stronger! Very cool & professional coverage by Newsmax, especially the two hours of pre-speech. Rumble, as always, was great! Next Rally in Ohio in 9 days, Saturday Night.

## Engagement

- Likes: 39,082
- Reposts: 9,646
- Replies: 1,800
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.435Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T22:52:35.614Z (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: Rally Ratings Post (2022-09-07)

This post is a classic narcissistic supply-seeking communication centered on crowd size, TV ratings, and media validation. It follows a well-established Trump pattern of post-rally self-congratulation.

### Context
This comes days after Biden's "Battle for the Soul of the Nation" speech, which directly targeted Trump and MAGA as threats to democracy. The rally in Wilkes-Barre, PA (Sept 3) was Trump's direct counter-programming. This post functions as a victory lap and implicit rebuttal — "Biden had almost no crowd" directly contrasts with Biden's Philadelphia speech.

### Authorship
Posted at 12:17 UTC = 8:17 AM ET. Trump was likely at his Bedminster, NJ golf club during this period. Morning posting during business-adjacent hours, combined with relatively polished structure but emotional content and characteristic patterns (ALL CAPS "NEVER," exclamation marks, ampersands), suggests authentic Trump composition, possibly dictated or typed shortly after waking.

### Psychological Dynamics
The post is fundamentally about narcissistic supply — crowd size as proxy for love/validation. The comparison to Biden's crowd size reveals the competitive, zero-sum schema. Praise for Newsmax and Rumble (friendly outlets) while attacking "Fake News" demonstrates the splitting defense: good media vs. bad media mapped perfectly onto flattering vs. unflattering coverage.

### Rhetorical Structure
Classic Trump rally-recap formula: superlatives → grievance about media → in-group validation → forward momentum (next rally announcement). The "overflow crowd" and "attendance record" claims serve as evidence of mass adoration.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "New Arena attendance record set at Wilkes-Barre rally" | **Unverifiable** | Trump frequently claims record attendance; independent verification rarely confirms these claims. The Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza holds approximately 10,000. |
| "Biden had almost no crowd" | **Mostly False** | Biden's Philadelphia speech was an invited-audience prime-time address, not a rally. Comparing crowd sizes between a campaign rally and a presidential address is a category error. |

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 70%)

### Indicators

- Characteristic ampersands (&)
- ALL CAPS emphasis on 'NEVER'
- Exclamation-heavy style
- Stream of consciousness flow
- 8:17 AM local time — early morning but not late night

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Comparison (Post-rally validation cycle; secondary response to Biden's Philadelphia speech)

Sentiment: +0.75

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Elevated, boastful mood
- Rapid-fire superlatives
- Forward-planning energy

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 70%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 20%
- Sadism: 5%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- denial (pathological)
- idealization (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 35%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Shared triumph ('MAGA has NEVER been stronger')
- In-group media endorsement (Newsmax, Rumble)
- Forward scheduling creates anticipation and belonging

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- 'Fake News never says that' — frames media's non-coverage of Biden crowd sizes as deliberate suppression
- False equivalence between rally and presidential address audiences

## Fact Checks (2)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-19._

> New Arena attendance record set at Wilkes-Barre rally

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Trump frequently claims record attendance; independent verification rarely confirms these claims. The Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza holds approximately 10,000.

> Biden had almost no crowd

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Biden's Philadelphia speech was an invited-audience prime-time address, not a rally. Comparing crowd sizes between a campaign rally and a presidential address is a category error.

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Tags

- narcissistic_supply (90%)
- crowd_size_fixation (85%)
- media_splitting (70%)
- rally_promotion (60%)
- biden_comparison (50%)

## That day

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

**Mar-a-Lago Siege Narrative Dominates a Day of Declining Intensity**

Trump's day opened with a midnight conspiracy post linking the FBI, Facebook, and the debunked '2000 Mules' documentary into a single persecution narrative, then shifted to morning boasts about rally crowd size before pivoting back to outrage over court filings revealing the FBI seized his medical records during the Mar-a-Lago search. The afternoon tapered off into low-effort retweets about immigration. The mood was largely grievance-driven but never escalated -- intensity actually declined as the day went on, ending with routine border alarm posts. Notably absent was any mention of the massive Ukrainian counteroffensive unfolding in Kharkiv, one of the biggest developments of the war.

Full digest for 2022-09-07: https://trump.fm/date/2022-09-07/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, September 7). Wow! Really big T.V. & Streaming Ratings at... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_108957076001153197
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Wow! Really big T.V. & Streaming Ratings at the Rally..." Truth Social, 7 Sep. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108957076001153197. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Wow! Really big T.V. & Streaming Ratings at the Rally...," Truth Social, September 7, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_108957076001153197.

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