Analysis: It’s amazing how poorly Fake News CNN, and MSDNC, are doing ...

3y ago Jan 6, 2023 at 10:21 PM

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!!!

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AI Analysis

Machine-generated analysis of the post above on 2026-03-20. Not written by the author of the post.

Danger Level

None

Narcissistic State

Grandiose

Authorship

Uncertain

Intensity

50%

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.

Authorship Analysis

Uncertain

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 claimsexclamation marks

▶ Clinical

Malignant Narcissism:

Narcissistic

70%

Antisocial

20%

Paranoid

20%

Sadism

10%

Defense Mechanisms:

displacementdenialdistortion

Cognitive Complexity:

Complexity

30%

Parasocial Techniques:

shared triumph narrativein-group platform loyalty

Fact Checks (2)

"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.'

Receipts

No contradictions with other posts detected yet.

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%