# Post ts_109659561130365439

- Post ID: `ts_109659561130365439`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-01-09T13:48:31.979Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109659561130365439
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109659561130365439/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_109659561130365439.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Wow, those TRUMP Hating Late Night Network “Shows” are doing really badly…The worst ratings that those time slots have had (in Television History!). Why are the untalented fools who “host” paid so much? Does the DNC make a $contribution as a wing of the Democrat Party? They are all a total joke - Not Talent, No Laughs!

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.424Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T01:23:27.186Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Psychological Analysis: Late Night Shows Attack (2023-01-09)

### Context & Authorship
Posted at 13:48 UTC = 8:48 AM EST. Trump was likely at Mar-a-Lago (Palm Beach) in early January 2023. This is morning posting — borderline timing. The post shows authentic Trump markers: stream-of-consciousness style, scare quotes, ALL CAPS emphasis, rhetorical questions, characteristic typo ("Not Talent" likely meant "No Talent"), and the trademark "Wow" opener. High confidence authentic.

### Psychological Analysis
This post follows Trump's previous day share of a Radar Online article about Jimmy Fallon's ratings struggles — this is the elaborated commentary. The trigger is supply-seeking through devaluation of cultural adversaries. Late night hosts represent a cultural elite that consistently mocked him; this is ongoing narcissistic injury management.

The post employs **devaluation** (hosts are "untalented fools," "total joke") and **projection** (accusing shows of being DNC propaganda while himself using media as political instrument). The DNC conspiracy framing reflects paranoid ideation — the notion that entertainment is covertly funded by political opponents.

### Rhetorical Devices
Classic Trump pattern: superlative claims ("worst ratings...in Television History!"), rhetorical questions as accusations, conspiracy insinuation without evidence (DNC funding), and the dismissive closing summary. The parenthetical "(in Television History!)" is characteristic hyperbolic escalation.

### Cognitive Notes
The typo "Not Talent" (likely "No Talent") is minor. The "it's" vs "its" error in the previous post about Krugman is more notable. Overall coherence is maintained; this is standard-complexity Trump rhetoric.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Late night shows have the worst ratings those time slots have had in television history" | **Mostly False** | While late night ratings declined significantly post-2020, they were not at historic lows for all time slots. Early television era and various periods had lower absolute viewership. However, relative to recent decades, ratings were indeed at multi-year lows. |

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 85%)

### Indicators

- 'Wow' opener
- scare quotes on 'Shows' and 'host'
- ALL CAPS emphasis
- rhetorical questions
- typo 'Not Talent' for 'No Talent'

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Criticism (late night television hosts)

**Rage:** Intensity 40% targeting late night TV hosts
- Proportionality: 30%

Sentiment: -0.60

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 50%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 30%
- Sadism: 20%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- devaluation (immature)
- projection (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 40%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- shared grievance against cultural elites
- positioning audience as discerning vs mass media consumers

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> Late night shows have the worst ratings those time slots have had in television history

**MOSTLY FALSE**

While late night ratings declined significantly post-2020, they were not at historic lows for all time slots. Early television era and various periods had lower absolute viewership. However, relative to recent decades, ratings were indeed at multi-year lows.

Sources: Nielsen ratings data; industry reporting

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Tags

- media_attack (90%)
- cultural_grievance (70%)
- conspiracy_insinuation (50%)
- ratings_obsession (60%)

## That day

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

**McCarthy Victory Lap Gives Way to Racial Attacks on McConnell's Wife and Evening Legal Anxiety**

Trump spent the day claiming credit for Kevin McCarthy's House speakership and launching racially charged attacks against Mitch McConnell and former Cabinet secretary Elaine Chao, whom he repeatedly mocked with ethnic slurs. He pushed Republicans toward aggressive debt ceiling brinkmanship, calling potential economic disruption "a beautiful and joyous thing to watch." The mood shifted in the evening toward self-defense as he recycled his "perfect phone call" script for the Georgia investigation and jumped on the newly breaking Biden classified documents story to cry foul over his own FBI raid. Overall a combative day with a notable undercurrent of racial hostility and a late pivot from offense to legal anxiety.

Full digest for 2023-01-09: https://trump.fm/date/2023-01-09/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, January 9). Wow, those TRUMP Hating Late Night Network... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109659561130365439
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Wow, those TRUMP Hating Late Night Network “Shows” are..." Truth Social, 9 Jan. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109659561130365439. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Wow, those TRUMP Hating Late Night Network “Shows” are...," Truth Social, January 9, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109659561130365439.

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