# Post ts_109854145855294349 - Post ID: `ts_109854145855294349` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-02-12T22:33:59.248Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109854145855294349 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109854145855294349/analysis ## Post text > https://www.nydailynews.com/snyde/ny-snl-strike-editors-nbc-20230209-djgmhsvgevhj7jvwnzj6gnzmom-story.html ## Engagement - Likes: 11,489 - Reposts: 2,562 - Replies: 487 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.420Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T01:49:43.330Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Post Analysis: ts_109854145855294349 — February 12, 2023 ### Overview This post consists entirely of a bare URL to a New York Daily News article (dated February 9, 2023) about SNL editors striking against NBC. There is no accompanying text, making it among the most minimal posts in the corpus and severely limiting direct psychological inference. The URL slug (`snl-strike-editors-nbc`) provides sufficient content context without fetching. --- ### Authorship Attribution **UTC to Local Conversion:** 2023-02-12T22:33:59Z → **5:33 PM EST** at Mar-a-Lago (Trump's typical February residence). This falls within standard business hours (9 AM–6 PM), the primary window associated with aide-authored content. **Format evidence:** The total absence of accompanying commentary is highly atypical of authentic Trump posts. His authenticated posts almost universally include at least a brief evaluative phrase, superlative, or emotional signal. A bare URL with zero text more closely matches the curation style of Dan Scavino or communications staff sharing article links. The surrounding posts on the same day show mixed signals — some are text-heavy (clearly authentic-feeling rants about Fox, fake news, AT&T) while this one is a stark outlier in its minimalism. **Assessment:** Probable aide-authored or aide-queued share. Confidence: medium. The timing (late afternoon) and format (link-only) both point toward staff curation rather than direct emotional posting. --- ### Psychological State and Content Selection Despite minimal text, article selection is itself psychologically informative. Trump has a richly documented, multi-year antagonism toward SNL and NBC: - Repeatedly called for FCC investigations of SNL - Attacked cast members, writers, and producers by name - Called SNL a "one-sided, anti-Trump" show and demanded action - Has referred to NBC as part of the "fake news" apparatus Sharing a story about NBC/SNL experiencing labor disruption (editors' strike) represents **passive schadenfreude** — deriving satisfaction from an enemy's difficulties without direct confrontation. This is a lower-intensity expression of the same hostility visible in the surrounding posts attacking Fox, Washington Post, AT&T, and "Lamestream Media." The day's posting pattern is coherent thematically: a sustained media-grievance cluster targeting mainstream outlets while promoting conservative alternatives (Newsmax, OAN, Trump's own platform). This post slots into that cluster as implied commentary — the subject choice signals sentiment without stating it. --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity The selection operates within Trump's ongoing "falling empire of fake news" narrative. The protagonist role here is the **vindicated outsider watching enemies crumble**: NBC's internal labor conflict is framed implicitly as confirmation that the media establishment is deteriorating. This mirrors the explicit language in the surrounding posts ("People aren't buying Fake News anymore," "all because the REAL NEWS is cancelled"). --- ### Rhetorical Analysis No direct rhetorical devices are deployed — the post's rhetoric is entirely **implicit and denotative**. The technique is *signaling by selection*: the post asserts nothing but implies that NBC/SNL's difficulties are noteworthy and presumably deserved. This is a lower-commitment form of Firehose-adjacent messaging: continuous ambient positioning without exposable claims. --- ### Clinical Indicators **Cognitive assessment:** Insufficient data. A bare URL provides no language sample for complexity scoring, word-finding assessment, or coherence analysis. Cannot contribute meaningfully to longitudinal cognitive tracking. **Narcissistic dynamics:** The schadenfreude pattern (pleasure in enemy's suffering) is consistent with ego-syntonic sadism at a mild, passive level — characteristic of baseline narcissistic functioning rather than an acute state. No rage, no injury, no active supply-seeking detectable. **Defense mechanisms:** None clearly identifiable from this content alone. --- ### Danger Assessment No danger indicators. No dehumanizing language, no eliminationist rhetoric, no stochastic terrorism pattern. The post is passive in character. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "SNL editors went on strike against NBC (implied by URL slug and article date)" | **True** | IATSE-represented SNL editors did conduct a labor action against NBC Universal in early February 2023. The NY Daily News article dated February 9, 2023 is consistent with contemporaneous reporting. | Overall Veracity: 100% ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 20%) ### Indicators - 5:33 PM EST local time — within standard business hours window - Zero accompanying text — highly atypical of authentic Trump posts - Bare URL format consistent with Scavino/staff content curation - Stark contrast to adjacent text-heavy posts on same day ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (NBC/SNL labor dispute) Sentiment: -0.15 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 20% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 10% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._ > SNL editors went on strike against NBC (implied by URL slug and article date) **TRUE** IATSE-represented SNL editors did conduct a labor action against NBC Universal in early February 2023. The NY Daily News article dated February 9, 2023 is consistent with contemporaneous reporting. Sources: NY Daily News, February 9, 2023 Overall Veracity: 100% ## Tags - media-grievance (80%) - schadenfreude (50%) - NBC (70%) - SNL (70%) - aide-authored (65%) - bare-url (90%) - minimal-content (90%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **While America Watches the Super Bowl, Trump Wages a Quiet Media War From Mar-a-Lago** Trump had a relatively low-key Sunday dominated by two short bursts of posting — one in the evening prior and one in the late afternoon. The day opened with a single furious post alleging a vast conspiracy between federal agencies and Biden to cover up classified documents, but the anger dissipated quickly into a long string of shared articles celebrating his poll numbers and mocking media competitors. Notably, he made no mention of the Super Bowl — the most-watched TV event in American history — or the dramatic military shootdowns of unidentified aerial objects that dominated national news. The overall mood was smug and self-congratulatory, with the media ecosystem itself serving as both battlefield and trophy case. Full digest for 2023-02-12: https://trump.fm/date/2023-02-12/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, February 12). https://www.nydailynews.com/snyde/ny-snl-strike-ed... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109854145855294349 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://www.nydailynews.com/snyde/ny-snl-strike-editors-nbc-..." Truth Social, 12 Feb. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109854145855294349. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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