# Post ts_109737120052431338

- Post ID: `ts_109737120052431338`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-01-23T06:32:47.289Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109737120052431338
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109737120052431338/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_109737120052431338.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Wow. Morning Joe (Scarborough) and his lovely and very soothing wife, “Mike,” have really bad television ratings. That’s what happens when you become “Trump Deranged.” Better yet, Fake News CNN & MSDNC are dying!!!

## Engagement

- Likes: 16,495
- Reposts: 3,659
- Replies: 675
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.423Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T01:53:05.543Z (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: Truth Social Post ts_109737120052431338

### Post Content
Attack on Morning Joe (Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski) for low ratings, extending to CNN and MSNBC ("MSDNC").

### Timing & Authorship
Posted 06:32 UTC on Jan 23, 2023. Trump was likely at Mar-a-Lago (EST = 1:32 AM). Classic late-night/early-morning posting window strongly suggesting authentic Trump authorship. The deliberate misnaming of Mika as "Mike," the sarcastic quotation marks, nicknames ("MSDNC"), and the exclamation-heavy style are all signature Trump.

### Psychological Analysis
This is a relatively routine maintenance post — narcissistic supply-seeking through media devaluation. The core message: critics suffer (bad ratings) while Trump thrives. The post functions as a dominance display through schadenfreude.

The deliberate misgendering of Mika Brzezinski as "Mike" is ego-syntonic sadism — a calculated humiliation deployed as entertainment for the in-group. The sarcastic "lovely and very soothing" functions as devaluation through ironic praise.

### Context
This comes amid significant legal pressure (NY AG fraud case, special counsel). The post conspicuously avoids these topics, instead targeting media critics — a classic displacement pattern. The longitudinal context shows the previous posts that day engaged with Biden classified documents and the special counsel, so this represents a pivot to a "safer" target for emotional discharge.

### Defense Mechanisms
- **Devaluation**: Reducing critics to their ratings
- **Displacement**: Targeting media rather than engaging with legal threats
- **Projection**: "Trump Deranged" frames critics as mentally unwell rather than examining the criticism

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Morning Joe has really bad television ratings" | **Half True** | Morning Joe ratings were down from peaks but remained competitive in cable news morning slot. 'Really bad' is subjective exaggeration. |
| "CNN and MSNBC are dying" | **Mostly False** | Both networks experienced ratings declines post-2020 election cycle but remained operational major cable networks with millions of viewers. |

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 95%)

### Indicators

- 1:32 AM EST posting time
- deliberate misnaming 'Mike' for Mika
- MSDNC nickname
- exclamation marks
- stream-of-consciousness sarcasm

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance — Criticism (Morning Joe coverage)

Sentiment: -0.40

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- late-night posting
- gleeful tone about rivals' failures

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 60%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 20%
- Sadism: 50%

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- shared contempt for media
- insider humor with 'Mike' nickname

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> Morning Joe has really bad television ratings

**HALF TRUE**

Morning Joe ratings were down from peaks but remained competitive in cable news morning slot. 'Really bad' is subjective exaggeration.

Sources: Nielsen ratings data

> CNN and MSNBC are dying

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Both networks experienced ratings declines post-2020 election cycle but remained operational major cable networks with millions of viewers.

Sources: Nielsen ratings data

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Tags

- media-attack (80%)
- ratings-as-validation (70%)
- misgendering (50%)
- displacement (60%)

## That day

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

**Golf Trophies and Grievance Spirals: A Day of Whataboutism Over Classified Documents**

Trump opened the day celebrating a senior golf championship at his own club, then spent most of the remaining hours hammering a single theme: that Biden's classified documents situation proves the Mar-a-Lago search was unjust. The mood shifted from self-congratulation to agitation as the day wore on, with a late-night cluster of posts after 1 AM showing rising anger about the Special Counsel investigation. The most heated moments came around midday, when he used a racist nickname to attack Mitch McConnell's wife, defended his imprisoned former CFO Allen Weisselberg, and repeatedly demanded his own exoneration. The Monterey Park mass shooting, which killed eleven people the night before, went unacknowledged except as a vehicle for grievance about January 6th defendants.

Full digest for 2023-01-23: https://trump.fm/date/2023-01-23/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, January 23). Wow. Morning Joe (Scarborough) and his lovely and... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109737120052431338
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Wow. Morning Joe (Scarborough) and his lovely and very..." Truth Social, 23 Jan. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109737120052431338. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Wow. Morning Joe (Scarborough) and his lovely and very...," Truth Social, January 23, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109737120052431338.

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