# Post ts_110475883925202446

- Post ID: `ts_110475883925202446`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-06-02T17:50:09.306Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110475883925202446/analysis
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## Post text

> Has anybody noticed how badly the New York Post is doing since going anti-Trump? A beautiful thing to see!

## Engagement

- Likes: 13,245
- Reposts: 2,819
- Replies: 299
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.410Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T05:27:30.761Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

A brief but psychologically dense post expressing ego-syntonic sadism triggered by the New York Post's editorial shift away from Trump. The outlet's perceived business decline is framed as cosmic confirmation of Trump's power — a classic grandiose defense converting narcissistic injury (betrayal by a formerly loyal media ally) into a dominance affirmation. The causal attribution (decline *because* of going anti-Trump) reflects magical thinking in service of self-aggrandizement, while the rhetorical question device performs parasocial bonding and pre-validates the claim. Most clinically significant is the affect: "A beautiful thing to see!" expresses pleasure in a rival's suffering without guilt or conflict — ego-syntonic sadism integrated into the self-image. Defense mechanisms include splitting (NY Post now categorically bad), rationalization (business decline attributed to political disloyalty), and projection (his aggression reframed as the universe's verdict). The post simultaneously functions as a demonstration effect threatening other media outlets, though no explicit threat appears. Authorship is likely authentic Trump — the personal affective content and rhetorical question style are inconsistent with aide composition, despite business-hours timing. Consistent with the grandiose narcissistic state observed across same-day posts. No danger indicators.

# Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post, June 2, 2023

## Post
*"Has anybody noticed how badly the New York Post is doing since going anti-Trump? A beautiful thing to see!"*

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

**Agreeableness (very low):** The post expresses unambiguous pleasure at a rival's misfortune — a canonical indicator of low agreeableness, specifically the low-tender-mindedness and low-trust facets. No warmth, no charitable attribution.

**Extraversion (high):** Assertive, expressive, crowd-directed. The rhetorical question is a high-extraversion communication pattern.

**Neuroticism (moderate, controlled):** Underlying hostile affect from a narcissistic injury is present but regulated here into satisfaction rather than overt anger — compare to the same day's ALL CAPS post ("THE DOJ & FBI ARE RUNNING THE DEMOCRATS 2024 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN"). The emotional modulation here reflects strategic rather than reactive expression.

**Conscientiousness (low):** No deliberative framing, no evidence-citation, no qualifications. Impulsive affective expression.

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency motive (dominant):** The post is entirely structured around power and status. The core claim — media outlets decline when they oppose Trump — is a power assertion masquerading as an observation.

**Communion motive (instrumental):** The "Has anybody noticed..." device creates superficial communion but serves an agency goal: reinforcing the in-group's shared worldview and validating Trump as the organizing axis of media fortunes.

**Schema — self:** Enormously powerful; so central to media success that loyalty to him is a survival variable.

**Schema — others:** Bifurcated into loyal (rewarded) and disloyal (suffer consequences). The NY Post has moved from the loyalty category to the disloyalty category.

**Schema — world:** A dominance hierarchy in which alignment with Trump is the key determinant of institutional success.

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** The vindicated observer. Trump does not cast himself as attacking — he is merely *noticing* what the universe has arranged as justice. This is a subtle but significant framing: it positions him as passive recipient of the world's confirmation of his importance.

**Narrative sequence:** Contamination-then-redemption for Trump's side. The NY Post contaminated itself by going anti-Trump; Trump is now witnessing the redemptive confirmation of his worldview.

**Contrasting other:** The New York Post, formerly a loyal ally (Rupert Murdoch's tabloid long supported Trump), now coded as a cautionary tale.

**Identity claims:** "I am so consequential that media organizations live and die by their relationship to me."

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Malignant Narcissism Components

**Narcissistic features (high, ~0.75):**
- Grandiosity: Implicit claim that his approval/disapproval governs media fortunes
- Entitlement: Expectation that formerly loyal outlets remain aligned
- Lack of empathy: Zero acknowledgment of editorial independence or any competing consideration

**Antisocial features (low-moderate, ~0.2):**
- No explicit deception or rights violation, though the implied warning to other outlets carries a manipulative edge

**Paranoid features (low-moderate, ~0.3):**
- The NY Post "going anti-Trump" is framed as a deliberate act of betrayal rather than editorial evolution — consistent with paranoid attribution of intentionality to neutral events

**Ego-syntonic sadism (moderate-high, ~0.65):**
- "A beautiful thing to see!" — pleasure in the perceived suffering of a disloyal former ally, expressed without conflict or guilt. This is sadism in the Kernberg sense: cruelty as dominance display, integrated into the self-image without distress.

### Defense Mechanisms

1. **Splitting (immature):** The NY Post is now entirely "bad." There is no acknowledgment of the prior relationship's complexity or the legitimacy of editorial independence. Good-bad binary organized entirely around loyalty to Trump.

2. **Rationalization (neurotic):** The outlet's business performance — which may reflect many market factors — is attributed entirely to the anti-Trump stance. This converts a personal grievance into an apparent causal law, which is more ego-syntonic than admitting the injury.

3. **Projection (immature):** His own aggression toward the outlet is projected outward and reframed as the universe's verdict rather than his wish.

### Narcissistic Dynamics

**Trigger:** Classic narcissistic injury by disloyalty/unfavorable comparison. In early-mid 2023, the NY Post's editorial staff had begun covering DeSantis favorably and running pieces critical of Trump's electability. This constitutes both a status threat and betrayal schema activation.

**State:** Grandiose. Rather than manifesting as wounded vulnerability (which the same underlying injury sometimes produces), Trump converts the injury into power affirmation: "those who leave me suffer." This is the grandiose narcissistic defense against narcissistic wound — the injury is metabolized by inflating the self rather than experiencing pain.

**Rage:** Not overtly present. The post is notable for its *absence* of rage despite being triggered by betrayal. The emotional tone is satisfaction, which is clinically more significant than rage — it suggests the sadistic enjoyment has fully processed the injury into pleasure.

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## Authorship Attribution

**Assessment: Likely authentic Trump (confidence: medium)**

Timing (17:50 UTC ≈ 1:50 PM EDT in Bedminster/NY area) falls within business hours, a mild aide indicator. However, every stylometric feature points to authentic expression: the rhetorical question opener, the informal grammar, the personal affective content ("A beautiful thing to see!"), and the total absence of organizational purpose. Staff communications serve scheduling, event promotion, or strategic messaging functions — they do not express personal schadenfreude. High confidence this reflects Trump's own impulse, likely composed independently.

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## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis

The rhetorical architecture is deceptively efficient. "Has anybody noticed..." performs three simultaneous functions:
1. **Simulates organic observation** — positions Trump as merely noting what's obvious, deflecting the appearance of attack
2. **Builds parasocial communion** — "we're all seeing this together," reinforcing in-group identity
3. **Pre-validates the claim** — assumes shared perception, making disagreement socially costly

The deepest propaganda function is *implicit*: the post serves as a demonstration effect for other media outlets. No explicit threat is made, but the message is clear — defection from Trump loyalty carries observable consequences. This is soft intimidation through exemplar, operating below the threshold of actionable threat while maximizing its chilling effect on media coverage.

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## Cognitive Status

No deviation from baseline. The post is brief, syntactically simple, and affectively direct — all consistent with Trump's established social media register. No word-finding difficulty, perseveration, or temporal confusion observed. Complexity score is characteristically low but not anomalously so.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The New York Post is doing badly since going anti-Trump" | **Unverifiable** | The NY Post did shift editorial stance in early-mid 2023, running critical Trump coverage and favorable DeSantis pieces. Whether this correlated with measurable circulation/traffic decline at this specific moment is unverifiable without proprietary data. The causal attribution is a post hoc fallacy regardless. |
| "The New York Post went anti-Trump" | **Half True** | The NY Post did publish critical Trump coverage in 2023, including a notable front page mocking him after his legal troubles and endorsing DeSantis. However, 'anti-Trump' overstates the stance — the outlet maintained generally conservative editorial alignment and later returned to Trump support. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Danger Assessment

**Level: None.** No eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no violent imagery. The implied threat to media organizations is reputational/competitive, not physical.

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## Order/Chaos Dynamics

**Position:** Order restorer + order attacker (dual).

Trump positions himself as representing legitimate order (the natural hierarchy in which supportive media thrives) while attacking what he frames as corrupt establishment media that has betrayed that order. The NY Post's alleged decline is framed as the natural order reasserting itself against disloyalty.

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## Archetypal Analysis

**Primary:** Trickster/King hybrid. The Trickster element: disrupting established media power by demonstrating that loyalty governs survival. The King element: those who reject the king suffer — this is classic sovereign authority narrative. The Shadow projection: the NY Post's "failure" represents what happens when entities choose the wrong side of the archetypal conflict.

**Mythological narrative invoked:** The cautionary tale archetype — "look what happened to those who turned against us." This resonates with deep political folklore about the consequences of betrayal.

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## Longitudinal Context

In the context of same-day posts, this represents the low-intensity end of Trump's emotional spectrum on June 2, 2023. The same day produced ALL CAPS rage about the DOJ, a mocking nickname deployment against DeSantis ("DeSanctimonious"), and a gleeful political attack on DeSantis's Iowa performance. The NY Post post is the one moment of quiet satisfaction — schadenfreude rather than active combat. This oscillation within a single day (rage → mockery → satisfaction → more rage) is consistent with the emotional lability pattern observed longitudinally in the corpus.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 72%)

### Indicators

- Rhetorical question opener ('Has anybody noticed...') is a signature Trump crowd-engagement device
- Schadenfreude expressed in first person with affective exclamation — personally motivated, not staff-drafted
- Colloquial, unpunctuated flow typical of authentic posts
- Timing: 17:50 UTC = ~1:50 PM EDT (Bedminster/NYC area likely; business hours slightly disfavors authentic, but emotional content favors it)
- No event announcement, no schedule info, no professional formatting — staff posts rarely express personal glee

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (New York Post editorial shift toward DeSantis/anti-Trump coverage in 2023)

Sentiment: +0.35

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Expressed pleasure ('A beautiful thing to see!') with characteristic enthusiasm
- Part of a high-volume posting day with multiple topics and emotional registers — consistent with mild elevated energy state

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 75%
- Antisocial: 20%
- Paranoid: 30%
- Sadism: 65%

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Rhetorical question ('Has anybody noticed...') invites followers into shared observation, simulating in-group communion
- Crowd-sourcing validation — implies followers have already noticed and agrees with them preemptively

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> The New York Post is doing badly since going anti-Trump

**UNVERIFIABLE**

The NY Post did shift editorial stance in early-mid 2023, running critical Trump coverage and favorable DeSantis pieces. Whether this correlated with measurable circulation/traffic decline at this specific moment is unverifiable without proprietary data. The causal attribution is a post hoc fallacy regardless.

Sources: General knowledge of NY Post editorial history 2023

> The New York Post went anti-Trump

**HALF TRUE**

The NY Post did publish critical Trump coverage in 2023, including a notable front page mocking him after his legal troubles and endorsing DeSantis. However, 'anti-Trump' overstates the stance — the outlet maintained generally conservative editorial alignment and later returned to Trump support.

Sources: General knowledge of NY Post editorial history 2023

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- schadenfreude (95%)
- narcissistic_injury_processed_as_triumph (85%)
- media_intimidation (70%)
- splitting (80%)
- ego_syntonic_sadism (72%)
- new_york_post (95%)
- loyalty_enforcement (75%)
- grandiose_state (80%)
- rhetorical_question (90%)
- rupert_murdoch (60%)

## That day

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

**Legal Siege and Rival Warfare: Trump Wages Multi-Front Campaign as Jack Smith Probe Tightens**

Trump spent the day waging a multi-front campaign against Ron DeSantis, Fox News, the New York Post, and incoming Republican challengers, all while the Jack Smith classified documents investigation loomed over every post. The mood swung between confident, mocking attacks on rivals and agitated defenses against legal pressure, with two sharp spikes of anger -- one accusing the DOJ and FBI of running the Democrats' campaign, and another lashing Fox News for backing the wrong horse. A notable creative burst produced "MAGADONIANS," a new tribal label accompanied by a directive for followers to get their news exclusively from Truth Social. The day ended on a defensive note, with Trump pushing back against a conservative legal analyst's unfavorable comparison of his document-handling cooperation to Biden's and Pence's.

Full digest for 2023-06-02: https://trump.fm/date/2023-06-02/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, June 2). Has anybody noticed how badly the New York Post... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110475883925202446
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Has anybody noticed how badly the New York Post is doing..." Truth Social, 2 Jun. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110475883925202446. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Has anybody noticed how badly the New York Post is doing...," Truth Social, June 2, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110475883925202446.

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