# Post ts_109761065800192435

- Post ID: `ts_109761065800192435`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-01-27T12:02:30.397Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109761065800192435
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109761065800192435/analysis
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## Post text

> Fake News Media, like CNN, MSDNC (MSNBC) The Washington Post, The Failing New York Times, are doing really badly and closing up shop all over the place. CNN is shuttering its longtime Headquarters Building, and the money losing Washington Post is being peddled all over the place while they fire 🔥 massive numbers of people. Not reporting with credibility has its consequences! The future for Fake News looks bleak, but beware the Marxists & Communists, which are well represented in our Government!

## Engagement

- Likes: 14,747
- Reposts: 3,755
- Replies: 419
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.422Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T01:57:40.910Z (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: Media Schadenfreude with McCarthyist Coda

## Overview
This post exemplifies Trump's characteristic media-attack pattern, celebrating industry difficulties as cosmic vindication of his "Fake News" narrative. The post follows a two-act structure: (1) gleeful cataloguing of media misfortune, and (2) an abrupt pivot to Cold War-era political labeling.

## Personality Analysis (McAdams Framework)

**Traits:** High assertiveness, very low agreeableness, moderate angry hostility. The post radiates dominance and contempt.

**Motives:** Pure agency — power and vindication. Zero communion. The post constructs a world where Trump's enemies are punished by reality itself.

**Narrative Identity:** Trump casts himself as the vindicated prophet who correctly identified media corruption. The "I told you so" is implicit throughout. The closing warning ("beware the Marxists") positions him as protective sentinel.

## Narcissistic Dynamics

The post is **supply-seeking through schadenfreude** — a grandiose state where the subject derives narcissistic supply from adversaries' misfortune, interpreted as proof of his own correctness. The causal logic (media fails *because* of dishonesty toward Trump) reflects narcissistic distortion: all events orbit the self.

## Rhetorical Techniques

The fire emoji (🔥) is notable — a visual celebration of destruction that adds performative glee. Characteristic branding nicknames (MSDNC, Failing NYT) function as ritualized devaluation. The closing pivot to "Marxists & Communists in our Government" is classic red-baiting, echoing McCarthyist rhetoric without factual grounding.

## Danger Assessment

Elevated — not for direct incitement, but for the ideological labeling of government officials as Marxists/Communists. This framing has historically preceded purges and loyalty tests. The directive to "beware" implies a threat requiring citizen response.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "CNN is shuttering its longtime Headquarters Building" | **Mostly True** | CNN did announce plans to leave its Atlanta headquarters as part of Warner Bros. Discovery restructuring, though framing it as consequence of 'fake news' is misleading |
| "Washington Post is being peddled all over the place while they fire massive numbers of people" | **Mostly False** | WaPo had some layoffs in early 2023 but was not being sold; Jeff Bezos retained ownership. The characterization is exaggerated. |
| "Marxists & Communists are well represented in our Government" | **False** | No elected federal officials identify as Marxist or Communist. This is McCarthyist rhetoric without factual basis. |

Overall Veracity: 33%

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Stream-of-consciousness style
- Fire emoji usage
- Characteristic nicknames (MSDNC, Failing NYT)
- 7:02 AM ET posting time (early morning Mar-a-Lago)
- Emotional reactivity and schadenfreude

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Criticism (Media industry layoffs and restructuring)

Sentiment: -0.40

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Gleeful tone about adversaries' misfortune
- Early morning posting
- Rapid-fire posting day (multiple posts)

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 60%
- Antisocial: 20%
- Paranoid: 50%
- Sadism: 40%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 45%

Cognitive Markers:
- perseveration

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Shared enemy construction
- Warning/protective father framing ('beware')

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Labels government officials as Marxists/Communists — historically loaded accusation that can motivate extremist action
- Warning to 'beware' implies threat requiring response

### Gaslighting

- Frames all mainstream media as uniformly lacking credibility
- Implies media decline is caused by dishonesty rather than industry economics

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> CNN is shuttering its longtime Headquarters Building

**MOSTLY TRUE**

CNN did announce plans to leave its Atlanta headquarters as part of Warner Bros. Discovery restructuring, though framing it as consequence of 'fake news' is misleading

> Washington Post is being peddled all over the place while they fire massive numbers of people

**MOSTLY FALSE**

WaPo had some layoffs in early 2023 but was not being sold; Jeff Bezos retained ownership. The characterization is exaggerated.

> Marxists & Communists are well represented in our Government

**FALSE**

No elected federal officials identify as Marxist or Communist. This is McCarthyist rhetoric without factual basis.

Overall Veracity: 33%

## Tags

- media_attack (90%)
- schadenfreude (70%)
- red_baiting (60%)
- vindication_narrative (70%)

## That day

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

**Grandiose Peacemaker Fantasy Gives Way to "Gestapo" Tirade and Fox News Betrayal Narrative**

Trump spent the day oscillating between grandiose self-promotion and targeted attacks on perceived enemies. The morning opened with a burst of high-intensity posts, including a volatile tirade labeling federal law enforcement as "Gestapo" and warning that "patriots" won't tolerate the status quo much longer. Media figures bore the brunt -- Fox News was attacked twice, once over a specific panelist's voice and again for allegedly conspiring with Republican rivals against him. The Tyre Nichols video release, arguably the biggest news story of the day, went unacknowledged except through oblique calls to "stop the Atlanta riots" with no mention of their cause. The overall tone was combative grandiosity punctuated by flashes of genuine agitation.

Full digest for 2023-01-27: https://trump.fm/date/2023-01-27/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, January 27). Fake News Media, like CNN, MSDNC (MSNBC) The... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109761065800192435
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Fake News Media, like CNN, MSDNC (MSNBC) The Washington..." Truth Social, 27 Jan. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109761065800192435. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Fake News Media, like CNN, MSDNC (MSNBC) The Washington...," Truth Social, January 27, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109761065800192435.

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