# Post ts_109360498984039597

- Post ID: `ts_109360498984039597`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2022-11-17T18:13:05.766Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109360498984039597
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109360498984039597/analysis

## Post text

> https://www.mediaite.com/daily-ratings/cable-news-ratings-tuesday-november-15-fox-news-and-cnn-soar-in-ratings-during-trumps-announcement/

## Engagement

- Likes: 17,190
- Reposts: 3,682
- Replies: 1,810
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.429Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T00:22:48.287Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: Ratings Boast Post (2022-11-17)

This post shares a Mediaite article about cable news ratings spiking during Trump's 2024 presidential campaign announcement on November 15. The post contains no original text — just the URL. This is a narcissistic supply post: Trump is sharing evidence of his cultural dominance and audience-drawing power two days after his announcement.

### Personality Analysis

**Level 1 (Traits):** Low-intensity expression. Extraversion (attention-seeking) and narcissistic need for admiration are the only salient traits, expressed through passive sharing rather than direct assertion.

**Level 2 (Motives):** Pure status/validation motive. The ratings serve as quantified proof of importance — narcissistic supply in numerical form. The implicit message: "I am the most important person in media."

**Level 3 (Narrative):** Protagonist as ratings magnet, cultural center of gravity. Even without commentary, sharing this article is an identity claim: "I dominate."

### Authorship

Posted at 1:13 PM ET (Trump was at Mar-a-Lago post-announcement). Business hours, no original text, clean URL share — this has aide characteristics, likely Scavino curating favorable press clips.

### Clinical Notes

Minimal clinical signal. This is routine narcissistic supply-seeking behavior — collecting and broadcasting evidence of one's importance. Unremarkable in isolation but consistent with the broader pattern of using quantitative metrics (ratings, crowd sizes, poll numbers) as narcissistic fuel.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Fox News and CNN soared in ratings during Trump's announcement" | **True** | Trump's 2024 announcement on Nov 15 was a major media event that predictably drew high viewership across cable news networks. |

Overall Veracity: 100%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 20%)

### Indicators

- Business hours (1:13 PM ET)
- No original text, just URL
- Clean formatting
- Curated press clip style

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (2024 campaign announcement ratings)

Sentiment: +0.40

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 40%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 0%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- implicit self-aggrandizement via third-party validation

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._

> Fox News and CNN soared in ratings during Trump's announcement

**TRUE**

Trump's 2024 announcement on Nov 15 was a major media event that predictably drew high viewership across cable news networks.

Sources: Mediaite ratings report

Overall Veracity: 100%

## Tags

- narcissistic_supply (70%)
- ratings_boast (80%)
- aide_authored (60%)

## That day

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

**Post-Announcement Victory Lap: A Day of Basking in Campaign Launch Ratings**

Two days after announcing his 2024 presidential bid at Mar-a-Lago, Trump spent the day in a quiet, self-congratulatory mood -- sharing articles about his announcement's TV ratings and retweeting supporter endorsements. There was no anger, no attacks, and no engagement with critics or the January 6 Committee subpoena looming in the background. It was a light posting day focused entirely on savoring positive coverage, with Melania's endorsement and cable news viewership numbers as the main talking points.

Full digest for 2022-11-17: https://trump.fm/date/2022-11-17/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2022, November 17). https://www.mediaite.com/daily-ratings/cable-news-... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109360498984039597
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://www.mediaite.com/daily-ratings/cable-news-ratings-tu..." Truth Social, 17 Nov. 2022. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109360498984039597. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "https://www.mediaite.com/daily-ratings/cable-news-ratings-tu...," Truth Social, November 17, 2022, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109360498984039597.

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