# Post ts_109644590640600535

- Post ID: `ts_109644590640600535`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-01-06T22:21:20.428Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109644590640600535
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109644590640600535/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_109644590640600535.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> It’s amazing how poorly Fake News CNN, and MSDNC, are doing in the Ratings. TRUTH SOCIAL IS DELIVERING A FAR BIGGER AND MORE IMPORTANT VOICE!!!

## Engagement

- Likes: 37,894
- Reposts: 7,057
- Replies: 1,259
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.424Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T01:25:07.533Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

On the second anniversary of January 6th—while Biden awarded medals to Capitol defenders—Trump posted exclusively about media ratings, Facebook's losses, Republican prospects, and Truth Social's supposed dominance. The systematic avoidance of the anniversary across all posts that day constitutes a clinically notable pattern of denial and displacement. Rather than addressing the event central to his legal jeopardy and public narrative, he constructed an alternative reality in which the day's significance was platform competition. The grandiose claim that Truth Social delivers a "FAR BIGGER" voice than major cable networks is objectively false and functions as compensatory narcissism—inflating his current platform to counter the implicit diminishment of being banned from Twitter and Facebook. The pairing with his earlier Facebook post (claiming it lost $750B "since they took me off") reveals a coherent defensive strategy: reframing his deplatforming as others' loss rather than his punishment. This day's posting pattern is more revealing for what it omits than what it contains.

## Psychological Analysis: Truth Social vs. CNN/MSNBC Ratings Post (2023-01-06)

### Context
Posted on the **second anniversary of January 6th**, while Biden was awarding medals to Capitol defenders. Trump makes no mention of the anniversary, instead attacking media competitors and promoting Truth Social.

### Authorship
Posted at 5:21 PM EST (Trump likely at Mar-a-Lago). Business hours but stylistically authentic—ALL CAPS emphasis, emotional tone, invented nickname "MSDNC," exclamation marks. Hybrid: possibly self-composed during a period of aide availability.

### Psychological Analysis
The post is a textbook **avoidance through narcissistic supply-seeking**. On the most psychologically threatening anniversary date, Trump redirects to a safe grandiosity narrative: Truth Social superiority. This pairs with the earlier Facebook post—both deflect from January 6th by reframing the day around his platform dominance.

The **displacement** is striking: rather than addressing the anniversary (narcissistic injury territory), he attacks CNN/MSNBC ratings and inflates Truth Social's importance. The phrase "FAR BIGGER AND MORE IMPORTANT VOICE" is compensatory grandiosity—Truth Social's actual user base was a fraction of these networks' audiences.

### Rhetorical Devices
"MSDNC" (portmanteau insult), superlatives ("FAR BIGGER AND MORE IMPORTANT"), false comparison (social media platform vs. cable networks), ALL CAPS for emotional amplification.

### Significance
The **absence** is the story. On J6+2, Trump produces a day of posts about Facebook, McCarthy, Republican prospects, and media ratings—a systematic avoidance of the event that defines his legal and political vulnerability.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "CNN and MSNBC are doing very poorly in ratings" | **Half True** | Cable news ratings did decline post-2020 election cycle across all networks, but CNN and MSNBC still had audiences orders of magnitude larger than Truth Social's user base. |
| "Truth Social is delivering a far bigger and more important voice" | **False** | Truth Social had roughly 2-5 million monthly active users in early 2023, compared to CNN and MSNBC reaching tens of millions of viewers. By no standard metric was Truth Social's reach 'far bigger.' |

Overall Veracity: 25%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 70%)

### Indicators

- ALL CAPS passages
- MSDNC nickname
- triple exclamation marks
- emotional/boastful tone
- business hours posting

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (January 6th anniversary and Biden's medal ceremony for Capitol defenders)

Sentiment: +0.40

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- grandiose claims
- exclamation marks

### Clinical

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

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- displacement (neurotic)
- denial (pathological)
- distortion (pathological)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 30%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- shared triumph narrative
- in-group platform loyalty

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> CNN and MSNBC are doing very poorly in ratings

**HALF TRUE**

Cable news ratings did decline post-2020 election cycle across all networks, but CNN and MSNBC still had audiences orders of magnitude larger than Truth Social's user base.

Sources: Nielsen ratings data

> Truth Social is delivering a far bigger and more important voice

**FALSE**

Truth Social had roughly 2-5 million monthly active users in early 2023, compared to CNN and MSNBC reaching tens of millions of viewers. By no standard metric was Truth Social's reach 'far bigger.'

Sources: Similarweb traffic data; Nielsen ratings

Overall Veracity: 25%

## Tags

- narcissistic_supply (80%)
- displacement (90%)
- j6_avoidance (100%)
- media_attack (70%)
- platform_promotion (60%)

## That day

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

**The Anniversary That Wasn't: Systematic Avoidance of January 6th Reveals a Day-Long Psychological Defense**

Trump spent the second anniversary of the January 6th Capitol attack posting about everything except January 6th. His six posts ranged from claiming Facebook lost $750 billion because it banned him, to vague cheerleading about Republican prospects, to attacking a former Republican congressman who investigated the insurrection. The mood was consistently self-congratulatory, building toward a sharper edge by evening when he targeted Adam Kinzinger by name and demanded governors eliminate mail-in voting -- the very grievance that fueled the original Capitol breach. The day was more notable for what he refused to say than anything he actually said.

Full digest for 2023-01-06: https://trump.fm/date/2023-01-06/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, January 6). It’s amazing how poorly Fake News CNN, and MSDNC,... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109644590640600535
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "It’s amazing how poorly Fake News CNN, and MSDNC, are doing..." Truth Social, 6 Jan. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109644590640600535. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "It’s amazing how poorly Fake News CNN, and MSDNC, are doing...," Truth Social, January 6, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109644590640600535.

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