# Post ts_109836578176407297

- Post ID: `ts_109836578176407297`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-02-09T20:06:17.740Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109836578176407297
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109836578176407297/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_109836578176407297.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/washtimes/statuses/109836263332668026 Their Stock took a BIG PLUNGE without US!

## Engagement

- Likes: 9,969
- Reposts: 2,214
- Replies: 444
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.420Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T00:41:42.811Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Analysis: Truth Social RT — "Their Stock took a BIG PLUNGE without US!" (2023-02-09)

## Authorship Attribution

**Verdict: Likely authentic Trump (medium confidence).** The decisive indicator is the structurally malformed URL — the word "Their" is concatenated directly onto the URL string (`...109836263332668026Their`), consistent with Trump impulsively appending commentary without a line break while copy-pasting. Aide-crafted posts do not produce broken URLs. The afternoon posting time (≈3:06 PM EST, likely Mar-a-Lago or New York) introduces modest doubt, as business-hours posts skew toward staff-written, but the formatting artifact overrides that heuristic here. The adjacent same-day RTs show a similar pattern of terse, reactive commentary.

## Psychological State

This is a **routine grandiose maintenance post** with a supply-seeking trigger. The dominant dynamic is Trump's core narcissistic schema: *my presence generates economic value; my absence causes losses*. The word "US" performs double duty — it asserts personal indispensability while flattering the audience by enrolling them as co-causers of media's decline. No narcissistic injury is apparent; this is not a rage post. The grandiose state is stable and moderate.

The post fits the broader same-day cluster: all February 9 posts reinforce a single narrative arc — Biden is failing (low SOTU ratings, "RIGGED" election), Trump's poll numbers are rising (62%), Trump's platform is superior ("TRUTH IS THE BEST, BY FAR!"), and mainstream media suffers without Trump's attention economy.

## Defense Mechanisms

- **Rationalization (neurotic):** Frames a market metric as proof of personal indispensability via a logical-sounding but unverified causal claim.
- **Distortion (pathological):** The adjacent SOTU post inflates Trump's viewing figures ("close to 50,000,000") beyond documented figures (~37M for his 2020 SOTU) to maintain a superiority narrative.

## Narrative Identity (Level 3)

Trump casts himself as an **indispensable value-creator** whose withdrawal from mainstream media constitutes economic punishment for those who rejected him. The narrative sequence is mildly **contamination-flavored**: media once thrived (implicitly when Trump was on it), and now declines in his absence. The contrasting other is unnamed mainstream media — symbolically positioned as dependent on Trump for survival.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Biden's SOTU Speech was the Lowest Rated such Speech in history at 27,000,000 viewers" | **Mostly False** | The 2023 SOTU drew approximately 27-29M viewers across networks, which is on the lower end historically but not the all-time lowest. Direct comparisons across eras are complicated by cord-cutting and streaming fragmentation. |
| "Trump's SOTU addresses drew close to 50,000,000 viewers" | **Mostly False** | Trump's best-rated address to Congress (2020 SOTU) drew approximately 37.2 million viewers — well below 50 million. His 2017 joint address to Congress drew approximately 47.7M but was not a formal SOTU. The '50 million' figure materially overstates his typical audience. |
| "Mainstream media stock took a BIG PLUNGE without Trump/Truth Social" | **Unverifiable** | Media company stocks did face headwinds in 2022-23 (ad market contraction, streaming competition), but attributing this to Trump's migration to Truth Social is an unsupported causal claim with no data cited. |

Overall Veracity: 30%

## Archetypal Frame

The post embodies the **Trickster-King hybrid**: Trump has walked away from the establishment media order and declares that order now suffering for his absence. The appeal to his base is gratification at legacy media's perceived punishment.

## Danger Assessment

**None.** No eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no mobilization signal, no stochastic terrorism indicators.

## Cognitive Status

No markers of concern. Brevity is characteristic. The URL formatting error is consistent with impulsive composition rather than language production deficit.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 65%)

### Indicators

- Malformed URL — 'Their' concatenated directly to the URL without space or line break, a classic impulsive copy-paste error consistent with authentic Trump posting
- ALL CAPS emphasis ('BIG PLUNGE') matching Trump's habitual capitalization pattern
- Terse, reactive clause appended as commentary rather than a polished standalone statement
- Time 20:06 UTC = ~3:06 PM EST (Mar-a-Lago or NY) — business hours favor aide, but formatting error undermines that inference
- Adjacent RTs on the same day show similar pattern of brief reactive commentary, suggesting Trump himself browsing and retruthing in an afternoon session

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Mainstream media viewership and stock narrative)

Sentiment: +0.35

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 65%
- Antisocial: 15%
- Paranoid: 10%
- Sadism: 5%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- rationalization (neurotic)
- distortion (pathological)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 18%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Inclusive 'US' pronoun fuses Trump's identity with his audience, implying the audience shares in the power that made media stocks rise
- Positions followers as co-agents of market consequences, reinforcing parasocial bond

## Fact Checks (3)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._

> Biden's SOTU Speech was the Lowest Rated such Speech in history at 27,000,000 viewers

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The 2023 SOTU drew approximately 27-29M viewers across networks, which is on the lower end historically but not the all-time lowest. Direct comparisons across eras are complicated by cord-cutting and streaming fragmentation.

Sources: Nielsen ratings, major network aggregate figures for 2023 SOTU

> Trump's SOTU addresses drew close to 50,000,000 viewers

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Trump's best-rated address to Congress (2020 SOTU) drew approximately 37.2 million viewers — well below 50 million. His 2017 joint address to Congress drew approximately 47.7M but was not a formal SOTU. The '50 million' figure materially overstates his typical audience.

Sources: Nielsen historical SOTU ratings data

> Mainstream media stock took a BIG PLUNGE without Trump/Truth Social

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Media company stocks did face headwinds in 2022-23 (ad market contraction, streaming competition), but attributing this to Trump's migration to Truth Social is an unsupported causal claim with no data cited.

Overall Veracity: 30%

## Tags

- grandiosity (65%)
- supply_seeking (60%)
- media-criticism (75%)
- authentic-authorship-likely (65%)
- narrative-indispensability (70%)
- capitalization-emphasis (50%)
- SOTU-response-cluster (60%)

## That day

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

**Biden's SOTU Triggers Afternoon Spiral Through Election Denial, Koch Rejection, and Legal Threat**

Trump spent a quiet late evening on February 8th sharing grateful retweets before going silent for sixteen hours. The afternoon kicked off around 2:30 PM with poll numbers and a Biden ratings comparison, then steadily darkened as he worked through grievances about the Koch Network dropping him, a former prosecutor's tell-all book, and a contemptuous personal attack likely aimed at Beyoncé. The stolen-election claim kept surfacing even in unrelated posts about media subscriptions and donor politics, functioning almost like a verbal tic. He wound down the evening with a rapid-fire dump of conservative news links, shifting from combative to curatorial mode.

Full digest for 2023-02-09: https://trump.fm/date/2023-02-09/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, February 9). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/washtimes/status... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109836578176407297
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/washtimes/statuses/1098362..." Truth Social, 9 Feb. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109836578176407297. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/washtimes/statuses/1098362...," Truth Social, February 9, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109836578176407297.

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