# Post ts_109915524686843979 - Post ID: `ts_109915524686843979` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-02-23T18:43:25.890Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109915524686843979 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109915524686843979/analysis ## Post text > https://theconversation.com/news-corps-job-cuts-cast-a-shadow-over-the-future-of-its-newspapers-199762 ## Engagement - Likes: 9,334 - Reposts: 2,388 - Replies: 207 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.419Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T03:11:59.248Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: ts_109915524686843979 | 2023-02-23 | Truth Social ## Overview This post consists entirely of a single URL to a *The Conversation* article titled *"News Corp's job cuts cast a shadow over the future of its newspapers."* There is no accompanying text, commentary, capitalization, or emotional signal of any kind. Psychological inference is correspondingly constrained; this analysis relies heavily on contextual and stylometric factors rather than linguistic content. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Verdict: Aide-written (high confidence)** At **18:43 UTC**, Trump was almost certainly at Mar-a-Lago (February is peak Palm Beach season), placing this post at approximately **1:43 PM EST** — mid-afternoon business hours. This timing alone is a primary indicator of staff authorship. Compounding this: - No text = no typos, no ALL CAPS emotional bursts, no stream-of-consciousness structure - No reactive commentary despite the rich emotional material available (Murdoch schadenfreude, media decline narrative) - Bare URL shares of this type are characteristic of a social media scheduling queue Authentic Trump posts from this period typically feature emotional charge, personal framing, and late-night or early-morning timing. This post exhibits none of those markers. --- ## Contextual Significance **News Corp and the Murdoch relationship** is the interpretive key here. By February 2023, the Trump–Murdoch alliance had visibly frayed: - Fox News had declined to call the 2020 election for Trump in real time, then certified Biden's win - Murdoch was reportedly vetting Ron DeSantis as an alternative - The Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit (discovery ongoing at this time) was revealing privately damaging Fox internal communications Sharing an article about News Corp's institutional decline — job cuts threatening the future of its flagship newspapers — carries potential schadenfreude valence. However, this interpretation requires imputing intent from an aide, not from the subject directly. --- ## Day's Posting Pattern The surrounding posts on February 23 are thematically coherent and emotionally loaded: Trump bringing water to East Palestine (Ohio gratitude narrative), hero-framings ("thank you for not forgetting us"), and an *American Thinker* piece comparing him to a Frank Capra film protagonist — all elements of a Savior/Hero redemption arc. The News Corp link is thematically discontinuous, reinforcing the conclusion that it was inserted by staff as a media-tracking item, not as an organic expression of the subject's affective state in that moment. --- ## Cognitive Assessment No text to assess. Cognitive markers cannot be evaluated. Baseline deviation: none measurable. --- ## Danger Assessment **None.** No threat-relevant content of any kind. --- ## Summary *Not generated* — post lacks sufficient content for clinically significant analysis. The bare URL share is almost certainly aide-authored and cannot support reliable first-person psychological inference. Contextual reading suggests possible institutional schadenfreude toward Murdoch's media empire, but this remains speculative and inferential rather than textually grounded. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 10%) ### Indicators - Posted at 18:43 UTC (approx. 1:43 PM EST at Mar-a-Lago) — squarely within business hours - Zero accompanying text; no typos, emotional punctuation, or capitalization possible - No stream-of-consciousness or reactive commentary - Passive content sharing with no personal stamp; consistent with a staff social media queue ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Unknown Sentiment: -0.10 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 0% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% ## Tags - aide_authored (95%) - bare_url_share (99%) - news_corp (90%) - murdoch (70%) - media_decline_narrative (50%) - schadenfreude_implicit (30%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **East Palestine victory lap curdles into Biden conspiracy theory by nightfall** Trump spent most of the day coasting on positive coverage of his East Palestine, Ohio visit from the day before, sharing flattering links from right-wing outlets in the early morning hours and again in the afternoon. The mood was self-congratulatory and calm through most of the day, with a brief boast about Mar-a-Lago's ballroom mixed in. But the final post of the evening broke sharply from the pattern — a heated, all-caps claim that air raid sirens during Biden's surprise Kyiv visit were "STAGED, FAKE, PHONY," a false assertion that doubled as pro-Russian disinformation on the eve of the invasion's anniversary. Full digest for 2023-02-23: https://trump.fm/date/2023-02-23/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, February 23). https://theconversation.com/news-corps-job-cuts-ca... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109915524686843979 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://theconversation.com/news-corps-job-cuts-cast-a-shado..." Truth Social, 23 Feb. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109915524686843979. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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