# Post ts_109655855569333577

- Post ID: `ts_109655855569333577`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-01-08T22:06:09.603Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109655855569333577
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109655855569333577/analysis

## Post text

> https://radaronline.com/p/nbc-regrets-jimmy-fallon-80-million-contract-low-ratings-fox-news-greg-gutfeld-ratings-tonight-show/

## Engagement

- Likes: 20,840
- Reposts: 4,664
- Replies: 1,532
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.424Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T01:23:51.936Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: Link-Only Post About Late Night TV Ratings

This post shares a Radar Online article about NBC allegedly regretting Jimmy Fallon's $80 million contract due to low ratings, with Fox News's Greg Gutfeld outperforming The Tonight Show.

### Authorship
Posted at 5:06 PM ET (Trump likely at Mar-a-Lago). Business hours, link-only format with no personal commentary — consistent with aide posting or curated content sharing. However, Trump is known to personally share media validation articles. Medium confidence aide-written given the clean URL-only format during business hours.

### Psychological Analysis
This fits a recurring pattern of sharing articles that validate the superiority of Fox News / conservative media over mainstream competitors. It's narcissistic supply by proxy — Fox's success = Trump's ecosystem winning. The implicit message: the cultural apparatus aligned against Trump is failing while pro-Trump media thrives.

Combined with the previous post about cable network decline (Forbes article), this represents a **schadenfreude cluster** — pleasure in the declining fortunes of mainstream media outlets perceived as hostile.

### Rhetorical Function
The post lets the article do the rhetorical work. By sharing without comment, Trump amplifies the narrative of mainstream media decline without making explicit claims himself. This is curation-as-commentary.

### Clinical Significance
Minimal. This is routine maintenance-level posting — audience engagement through shared grievance about media. No cognitive markers assessable from a link-only post.

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Business hours posting (5:06 PM ET)
- Clean URL-only format with no personal commentary
- No typos or emotional language to assess
- Content curation style consistent with aide or casual Trump sharing

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Media ratings validating conservative media dominance)

Sentiment: +0.40

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 10%

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- curated content sharing
- implicit in-group validation

## Tags

- media-schadenfreude (80%)
- supply-seeking (60%)
- link-only (100%)

## That day

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

**A Quiet Afternoon of Link-Sharing Erupts Into a Targeted Attack on Adam Schiff**

A notably light day with just five posts crammed into a 90-minute afternoon window. Most of it was routine link-sharing -- articles about cable news ratings declines and Biden administration failures -- likely queued up by staff. The day's only real flash of anger came at the very end: a sharp, personal attack on Rep. Adam Schiff over revelations about Schiff's role in getting Trump removed from Twitter. Perhaps most striking was what went unsaid -- total silence on the Brazilian Congress attack, a global headline explicitly compared to January 6, just two days after its anniversary.

Full digest for 2023-01-08: https://trump.fm/date/2023-01-08/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, January 8). https://radaronline.com/p/nbc-regrets-jimmy-fallon... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109655855569333577
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://radaronline.com/p/nbc-regrets-jimmy-fallon-80-millio..." Truth Social, 8 Jan. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109655855569333577. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "https://radaronline.com/p/nbc-regrets-jimmy-fallon-80-millio...," Truth Social, January 8, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109655855569333577.

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