# Post ts_110560022896798935 - Post ID: `ts_110560022896798935` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-06-17T14:27:48.126Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110560022896798935 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110560022896798935/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110560022896798935.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > “Fox News Gets Dethroned from Powerful Position Network Has Held Over 2 Years” https://www.westernjournal.com/fox-news-gets-dethroned-powerful-position-network-held-2-years/ ## Engagement - Likes: 19,835 - Reposts: 4,838 - Replies: 1,570 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.408Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T05:38:12.828Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Posted four days after his federal arraignment on 37 counts, this post consists entirely of a Western Journal headline claiming Fox News lost a ratings position it had held for two years. No original prose is present. Authorship is likely aide-mediated: business hours (10:27 AM EDT at Bedminster), clean format, zero stylistic markers of authentic Trump composition. Psychological significance lies in curation rather than content. The selection enacts devaluation of Fox News — a former idealized supply source whose relationship with Trump ruptured after 2020 — and performs displacement: during what should be a period of acute legal anxiety, attention is redirected to the satisfying spectacle of a former ally's decline. The post also functions as supply-seeking, tapping the anti-Fox sentiment strong in Trump's base. The monarchical vocabulary of the headline ("dethroned," "powerful position") resonates with Trump's power-and-hierarchy schema. No danger indicators, no gaslighting, no violent imagery. The post is best understood as low-intensity devaluation maintenance during a high-stress legal period — psychologically significant primarily for what it avoids (the arraignment) rather than what it says. ## Analysis: June 17, 2023 — Fox News "Dethroned" Post ### Overview This post is minimal in original content — a quoted article headline followed by a URL from the Western Journal. Trump contributes zero original prose. The psychological signal lies not in the text itself but in the **selection and timing**: four days after his historic federal arraignment on 37 felony counts, Trump's Truth Social activity includes amplifying a story about the decline of his former preferred media ally. ### Authorship Attribution **Trump's likely location:** Post-arraignment, Trump traveled from Miami to his Bedminster, NJ club on June 13. By June 17 he was almost certainly at Bedminster (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC−4). **Local time:** 14:27 UTC = **10:27 AM EDT** — solidly within business hours. **Format indicators:** The post consists solely of a quoted headline string plus URL, a clean, aide-consistent pattern: no typos, no ellipses, no emotional register, no ALL CAPS, no stream-of-consciousness. There is nothing stylistically identifiable as authentic Trump original composition. **Assessment:** High likelihood of aide (Scavino-pattern) authorship. The post may reflect Trump's instruction or approval — "share this Fox News piece" — but execution reads as a staff function. Confidence: **medium-high** (lean aide). --- ### Psychological State & Triggers **Trigger:** The post arrives in the immediate aftermath of the most legally consequential week of Trump's life. The arraignment on 37 federal felony counts (June 13) represents one of the most objectively threatening narcissistic injuries of his career — public, documented, bipartisan in its procedural legitimacy. **Displacement function:** Rather than engaging the legal threat directly, this post redirects psychic and audience attention toward the decline of a former idealized supply source. The Fox News relationship had been one of Trump's most significant external validation channels during his presidency; its deterioration since late 2020 represents a protracted narcissistic injury. Sharing evidence of Fox's decline performs a **devaluation function** — confirming the former ally's unworthiness, which retroactively justifies the rupture. **Supply dynamics:** This post likely generates affirmation from Trump's base, who broadly share his animus toward Fox News following their 2020 election night calls. The post is thus simultaneously devaluing (Fox News) and supply-seeking (from the audience). **Narcissistic state:** The post is ambiguous given its minimal content, but the curation choice suggests a **mixed state**: grandiose (they are sinking; I no longer need them) with undercurrent vulnerability (post-arraignment pressure). The framing of Fox News being "dethroned" uses regal/power language that resonates with Trump's own self-positioning as the true source of conservative power. --- ### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Displacement** (neurotic): Attention directed from the acute legal threat toward the safer, more satisfying target of Fox News's decline. 2. **Devaluation** (immature): Amplifying evidence of Fox News's degradation retroactively justifies the splitting event (formerly idealized → now devalued). 3. **Rationalization** (neurotic): Implicitly framing Fox News's decline as evidence that the audience follows Trump, not the network — supporting his self-narrative as the essential figure. --- ### Rhetorical Analysis The post does essentially no rhetorical work of its own — the headline does it by proxy. The word **"Dethroned"** is notable: it frames media ratings dominance in monarchical/power terms, resonating with Trump's habitual power-and-hierarchy framing. "Powerful Position" reinforces this schema. No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no direct targets. This is a passive-aggressive media volley — letting an external source deliver the blow while maintaining plausible restraint. --- ### Cognitive Assessment **Verdict: Insufficient data.** There is no original prose from which to assess vocabulary, syntax, coherence, or cognitive complexity. No markers of word-finding difficulty, paraphasia, tangentiality, or perseveration can be evaluated. Baseline comparison is not applicable here. --- ### Danger Assessment **Level: None.** The post contains no eliminationist language, no target identification, no mobilization rhetoric, and no stochastic terrorism indicators. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Fox News was dethroned from a powerful position it held for over 2 years" | **Mostly True** | Following Tucker Carlson's departure (April 24, 2023) and the $787.5M Dominion settlement, Fox News suffered significant ratings declines. MSNBC briefly surpassed Fox in certain prime time demographics in mid-2023 for the first time in years. The directional claim is supported; the specific '2 years' framing depends on the metric used. | Overall Veracity: 80% ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 20%) ### Indicators - Business hours post (10:27 AM EDT at Bedminster) - Zero original prose — only quoted headline and URL - Clean format with no typos, no ALL CAPS, no emotional punctuation - Aide-consistent link-sharing pattern - Post part of apparent curated feed on high-stress legal date ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Federal arraignment four days prior (June 13); Fox News as ongoing devaluation target) Sentiment: +0.25 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 40% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 10% - Sadism: 20% **Defense Mechanisms:** - displacement (neurotic) - devaluation (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Supply-seeking through shared schadenfreude with anti-Fox base - Implicit identity claim as the power Fox has lost ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Fox News was dethroned from a powerful position it held for over 2 years **MOSTLY TRUE** Following Tucker Carlson's departure (April 24, 2023) and the $787.5M Dominion settlement, Fox News suffered significant ratings declines. MSNBC briefly surpassed Fox in certain prime time demographics in mid-2023 for the first time in years. The directional claim is supported; the specific '2 years' framing depends on the metric used. Sources: General knowledge of Fox News ratings trajectory 2023; Tucker Carlson departure April 2023; Dominion settlement April 2023 Overall Veracity: 80% ## Tags - Fox News devaluation (90%) - post-arraignment period (80%) - displacement (70%) - aide-authored (70%) - supply-seeking (50%) - minimal original content (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **"Long Live the King": Royal Self-Coronation and Prosecutorial Rage Four Days After Historic Federal Arraignment** Four days after becoming the first former president charged with federal crimes, Trump spent the morning flooding his feed with a coordinated counter-narrative — attacking Jack Smith, sharing conservative articles alleging DOJ misconduct, and declaring himself the only person who can save Fox News. The day's emotional arc ran from late-night grandiose mythologizing about his 2015 escalator ride, through a rapid-fire morning barrage targeting prosecutors, rivals, and disloyal Republicans, peaking with an accusation that Biden personally orchestrated the indictment. The afternoon went quiet, closing with a serene golf course promotion — a striking mood shift after hours of grievance and rage. Full digest for 2023-06-17: https://trump.fm/date/2023-06-17/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, June 17). “Fox News Gets Dethroned from Powerful Position... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110560022896798935 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“Fox News Gets Dethroned from Powerful Position Network Has..." Truth Social, 17 Jun. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110560022896798935. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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