# Post ts_109043037784180489

- Post ID: `ts_109043037784180489`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-09-22T16:38:32.282Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109043037784180489
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109043037784180489/analysis
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## Post text

> “Nolte: Don Lemon Loses Primetime Slot to Co-host Failed ‘New Day’” https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2022/09/15/nolte-don-lemon-loses-primetime-slot-to-co-host-failed-new-day/

## Engagement

- Likes: 9,352
- Reposts: 2,100
- Replies: 287
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.434Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T23:10:01.404Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Analysis: Breitbart Share on Don Lemon's CNN Demotion

## Context
This post is one of several link-shares on September 22, 2022—a day when Trump faced extraordinary legal pressure from the NY AG fraud lawsuit, adverse 11th Circuit ruling, and Special Master Dearie's challenges. None of the day's posts address these legal threats directly.

## Psychological Function
The post serves as **displacement**: rather than engaging with serious legal setbacks, Trump (or his team) curates content celebrating a media rival's professional decline. This pattern of focusing on enemies' misfortunes during personal crises is well-documented in Trump's posting behavior.

The schadenfreude element—sharing news of Don Lemon's move from primetime to a morning show framed as a demotion—reflects the **scoreboard mentality** characteristic of high-agency, status-motivated personality organization. Lemon, as a frequent Trump critic, functions as an out-group target whose misfortune reinforces the narrative that Trump's critics ultimately fail.

## Rhetorical Note
The post contains no original language, relying entirely on the Breitbart headline to convey the devaluation. This minimalist approach is consistent with aide-curated content sharing, though Trump himself frequently shared articles with minimal commentary.

## Assessment
Low-intensity, routine post. Psychologically interesting primarily in context—the complete avoidance of major legal developments across the day's posting pattern suggests coordinated deflection or avoidance coping.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Don Lemon lost his primetime CNN slot to co-host CNN This Morning (successor to New Day)" | **True** | CNN announced in September 2022 that Don Lemon would move from CNN Tonight to co-anchor the new morning show replacing New Day |

Overall Veracity: 100%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 30%)

### Indicators

- Business hours posting (12:38 PM ET)
- Simple link share with quoted headline
- No personal commentary or typos
- Professional formatting

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Multiple concurrent legal threats)

Sentiment: -0.40

### Clinical

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

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- displacement (neurotic)
- devaluation (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 10%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- shared enemy bonding
- scoreboard mentality

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> Don Lemon lost his primetime CNN slot to co-host CNN This Morning (successor to New Day)

**TRUE**

CNN announced in September 2022 that Don Lemon would move from CNN Tonight to co-anchor the new morning show replacing New Day

Sources: CNN announcement September 2022

Overall Veracity: 100%

## Tags

- media-schadenfreude (80%)
- displacement (60%)
- link-share (100%)

## That day

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

**Rapid-Fire Media Blitz Builds Defensive Wall Against AG Lawsuit Fallout**

Trump spent the early afternoon carpet-bombing Truth Social with over 30 posts in roughly half an hour, almost all of them links to favorable press coverage. The burst was clearly a response to the New York Attorney General's massive fraud lawsuit filed the day before. The mood was overwhelmingly self-congratulatory — including sharing a months-old article calling him "the greatest man alive" — but flashes of real anger surfaced when he attacked AG Letitia James directly and warned the country "won't stand for an indictment." The day's most notable moment was his explicit argument that the Vice President should have had the power to overturn the 2020 election results.

Full digest for 2022-09-22: https://trump.fm/date/2022-09-22/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, September 22). “Nolte: Don Lemon Loses Primetime Slot to Co-host... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109043037784180489
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“Nolte: Don Lemon Loses Primetime Slot to Co-host Failed..." Truth Social, 22 Sep. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109043037784180489. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "“Nolte: Don Lemon Loses Primetime Slot to Co-host Failed...," Truth Social, September 22, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109043037784180489.

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