# Post ts_110560026256628789

- Post ID: `ts_110560026256628789`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-06-17T14:28:39.444Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110560026256628789
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110560026256628789/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110560026256628789.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/110560022896798935….Also—Do not broadcast negative ads against Republican and Conservative Candidates by Perverts and Misfits like the Failing Lincoln Project, and others. Roger Ailes never allowed that—And neither should a new and less successful Fox. Big turnoff! MSDNC and Fake News CNN will never allow positive Republican ads or hit pieces on Crooked Joe Biden. Fox must get smart fast before it’s too late. Only “TRUMP” can save Fox News. It is in freefall!

## Reposted post

Original: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110560022896798935 (2023-06-17T14:27:48.126Z (UTC))

> “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

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.408Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T05:38:51.005Z (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 on the day of his federal arraignment on 37 felony counts, Trump's post makes no direct reference to those proceedings. Instead, it attacks Fox News for insufficient loyalty, demands editorial compliance, invokes a deceased patriarch as authority, and concludes with the grandiose claim that "Only 'TRUMP' can save Fox News." This displacement is psychologically diagnostic: the arraignment constitutes a maximal narcissistic injury, and the response is to assert dominance in a domain where leverage is perceived. The self-referential "TRUMP" in quotation marks and all-caps — treating himself as a brand entity distinct from the person — reflects the narcissistic architecture at its most visible. Defense mechanisms include displacement, projection ("Perverts and Misfits"), splitting (all-good Ailes past / all-bad present), idealization, and distortion. The Roger Ailes invocation is temporally incoherent (Ailes died before the Lincoln Project existed) but rhetorically functional — the deceased founder as unassailable loyalty standard. The post is consistent with acute grandiose narcissistic compensation activated by catastrophic injury: the self is most expansively proclaimed as indispensable precisely when most legally constrained. No cognitive decline markers present. This is the system operating within baseline range under extreme stress.

## Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post — June 17, 2023

### Context & Timing

This post was authored on the day of Trump's historic federal arraignment in Miami — his first appearance as a criminal defendant on 37 federal felony counts. By 14:28 UTC (10:28 AM EDT), he had likely completed or was awaiting his courthouse appearance; later that day he delivered a defiant speech at Bedminster. This temporal context is essential: the most significant legal event of his life is the backdrop, yet the post is ostensibly about Fox News.

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### Authorship Attribution

**Assessment: High confidence authentic Trump (not aide-written).**

Local time at posting: approximately 10:28 AM EDT — within business hours, which normally suggests possible aide authorship. However, the stylistic signatures are overwhelmingly authentic:

- **Pejorative nicknames**: "MSDNC," "Fake News CNN," "Crooked Joe Biden," "Failing Lincoln Project" — the full lexicon of Trump's established brand vocabulary
- **Third-person self-reference in quotes and ALL CAPS**: `"Only 'TRUMP' can save Fox News"` — treating himself as a branded entity distinct from the person; this device appears nowhere in aide-drafted content
- **Run-on asides with em-dashes**: `"Roger Ailes never allowed that—And neither should a new and less successful Fox."`
- **Multiple exclamation points closing declarative sentences**: `"Big turnoff!"`, `"Fox must get smart fast before it's too late."`
- **Stream-of-consciousness sequencing**: The post pivots abruptly from Lincoln Project ads → Roger Ailes → CNN/MSNBC → ultimatum → grandiose rescue claim — no aide would construct this arc
- **Emotional urgency consistent with acute stress**: The post is reactive, not scheduled

The morning-hour timing on an arraignment day also suggests Trump was awake, stressed, and posting personally — not delegating.

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### Psychological State & Triggers

**Primary trigger: Acute narcissistic injury (multiple simultaneous sources)**

The arraignment constitutes a catastrophic narcissistic wound — criminalization of the self, public humiliation, loss of control. Rather than addressing the injury directly, the post demonstrates **displacement**: aggression is redirected from the unbearable legal threat toward a controllable target (Fox News). This is psychologically economical: Fox represents a domain where Trump historically has exerted leverage.

Secondary injury is embedded in the previous posts' RT of a Fox News ratings story ("Fox News Gets Dethroned") — the network's declining ratings provided a proximate hook to activate the deeper grievance: Fox's insufficient loyalty following the arraignment coverage.

**Narcissistic state: Primarily grandiose with vulnerable substrate**

The grandiose defense is most visible in `"Only 'TRUMP' can save Fox News"` — a maximal self-aggrandizement claim on a day when his freedom was legally constrained. The vulnerable state (persecution, victimhood) is visible in the framing of Fox as betraying Republican/conservative interests.

---

### Multi-Level Personality Analysis

**Level 1 — Trait Signatures:**
- **Low agreeableness**: Devaluation ("Perverts and Misfits"), pejorative labeling, zero reciprocity
- **High extraversion**: Dominance assertion, attention-seeking via ultimatum
- **High neuroticism (angry hostility)**: The post is affectively hot; threat urgency ("get smart fast before it's too late") signals barely regulated affect
- **Low openness**: Rigid us/them schema, no acknowledgment of complexity
- **Low conscientiousness**: Impulsive, multi-topic, unedited quality

**Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations:**
- **Agency motives dominant**: Power, control, and status across the entire post. Trump asserts the right to dictate Fox's programming, advertising standards, and editorial direction
- **Schema — others**: Divided sharply into loyal instruments (implied) and treacherous enemies (Lincoln Project, MSNBC, CNN, Fox-that-has-strayed)
- **Schema — self**: Irreplaceable, uniquely powerful ("Only TRUMP"), existing above normal constraints
- **Schema — world**: A zero-sum battlefield where loyalty determines survival

**Level 3 — Narrative Identity:**
- **Protagonist role**: The indispensable Savior/King — Fox is "in freefall" and only he can arrest it
- **Contamination sequence**: Fox was great under Ailes (idealized past), now corrupted by disloyalty and poor judgment
- **Redemption potential**: Fox *can* be saved — if it submits to Trump's guidance
- **Identity claims**: "I am the most powerful force in conservative media; institutions need me more than I need them"
- **Contrasting other**: The "Failing Lincoln Project" and "Perverts and Misfits" — degraded opponents who embody what true Republicans reject

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### Defense Mechanisms

1. **Displacement (immature)**: Arraignment-day affect redirected toward Fox News. The legal threat is existential; Fox is manageable. *Evidence*: A man arraigned on 37 federal counts writes not about his legal situation but about cable news ad policy.

2. **Projection (immature)**: "Perverts and Misfits" attributed to Lincoln Project members — derogatory moral accusations directed outward. Lincoln Project figures include several people who have faced personal scandal; Trump's application of the label likely involves projection of disowned personal material.

3. **Splitting (immature)**: Fox is either a loyal instrument of conservative victory or it is "in freefall." CNN/MSNBC are all-bad ("will *never* allow"). No middle ground exists in the schema.

4. **Idealization/devaluation (immature)**: Roger Ailes is idealized as the platonic standard ("Roger Ailes never allowed that"). Current Fox leadership is implicitly devalued as lesser ("a new and less successful Fox").

5. **Distortion (pathological)**: The claim that "Only TRUMP can save Fox News" represents a grossly self-inflating reshaping of the media landscape reality to meet inner psychological needs — particularly notable given the day's actual events.

6. **Rationalization (neurotic)**: Fox's ratings troubles are attributed specifically to their failure to serve Trump's interests — a post-hoc explanatory framework that conveniently places Trump at the center of causation.

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### Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis

- **Ad hominem**: "Perverts and Misfits" (Lincoln Project) — character assassination substituted for argument
- **Pejorative branding**: "MSDNC," "Fake News CNN," "Crooked Joe Biden," "Failing Lincoln Project" — tribal in-group signaling, dehumanization-lite
- **False dichotomy**: Fox either obeys Trump's formula or fails; no third path offered
- **Appeal to nostalgia/authority** (Roger Ailes invocation): The deceased founder as idealized standard, weaponized as a loyalty benchmark. Notably, Ailes died in 2017 — before the Lincoln Project existed (est. 2019) — making the comparison technically incoherent while emotionally resonant
- **Ultimatum/threat structure**: "Fox must get smart fast before it's too late" — implicit threat of continued ratings collapse, withdrawal of Trump's endorsement, or audience migration
- **Grandiose rescue claim**: The closing `"Only 'TRUMP' can save Fox News. It is in freefall!"` functions as a dominance display and supply-seeking mechanism simultaneously — asserting indispensability while predicting ruin

**Stochastic terrorism**: Absent. No violence-adjacent language or targeting of individuals for crowd action.

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### Cognitive Status Markers

No significant deviations from Trump's established baseline. The post exhibits:
- Characteristic run-on structure with em-dash interruptions
- Compressed multi-topic logic that is idiosyncratic but internally coherent
- No word-finding difficulty, no phonemic paraphasia, no temporal confusion
- Vocabulary consistent with baseline (early 2000s Trump speech)
- Perseveration on Fox News theme (across multiple posts that day) is contextually motivated rather than pathological

**Baseline deviation: None.** This is Trump operating within his characteristic range under acute stress.

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### Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

- **Distortion of CNN/MSNBC advertising policy**: The claim they "will *never* allow positive Republican ads" is an absolute that overstates demonstrated network bias; both networks do run Republican advertising
- **Fox News "freefall"**: As of June 2023, Fox News had experienced specific post-2020 and post-Dominion-settlement ratings challenges, but remained the dominant cable news network — the "freefall" characterization is reality-distorting
- **Roger Ailes standard**: Invoking Ailes as a gold standard of Republican loyalty obscures that Ailes-era Fox also ran Lincoln Project-style content attacking Republican primary opponents

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### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Roger Ailes never allowed negative ads against Republican candidates by groups like the Lincoln Project" | **Half True** | Technically accurate in that the Lincoln Project (founded 2019) did not exist during Ailes's tenure (he died 2017), but the implication that Ailes's editorial philosophy would have prohibited such content is speculative. Ailes-era Fox did run intra-Republican attack advertising during primary cycles. |
| "MSDNC and Fake News CNN will never allow positive Republican ads or hit pieces on Crooked Joe Biden" | **Mostly False** | Both MSNBC and CNN run paid political advertising from Republican campaigns and candidates as a matter of standard broadcast practice. The 'never' absolute is demonstrably false, though both networks' editorial content is left-leaning. |
| "Fox News is in freefall" | **Mostly False** | As of June 2023, Fox News had experienced meaningful ratings challenges — post-2020 election, post-Dominion settlement revelation, and post-Tucker Carlson firing (April 2023) — but remained the #1 rated cable news network by total viewers. 'Freefall' significantly overstates a relative and contextual ratings decline. |
| "Only TRUMP can save Fox News" | **Unverifiable** | Counterfactual opinion claim not amenable to factual verification. |

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 91%)

### Indicators

- Third-person self-reference with ALL CAPS and quotation marks ('Only TRUMP can save Fox News')
- Full suite of established pejorative nicknames: MSDNC, Fake News CNN, Crooked Joe Biden, Failing Lincoln Project
- Em-dash interrupted run-on sentence structure characteristic of authentic posts
- Multiple exclamation point closings on declarative sentences
- Stream-of-consciousness topic sequencing (Lincoln Project → Ailes → CNN → ultimatum → rescue claim)

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Defeat (Federal arraignment on 37 felony counts; secondary: Fox News coverage insufficiently loyal)

**Rage:** Intensity 65% targeting Fox News, Lincoln Project, CNN/MSNBC
- Proportionality: 20%

Sentiment: -0.62

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Pressured multi-topic output across several posts within a short window on arraignment day
- Grandiosity disproportionate to context (indispensable media savior while being arraigned)
- Urgency escalation ('get smart fast before it's too late')
- Reduced reality-testing in rescue fantasy formulation

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 90%
- Antisocial: 35%
- Paranoid: 65%
- Sadism: 45%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- displacement (immature)
- projection (immature)
- splitting (immature)
- idealization (immature)
- distortion (pathological)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 38%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Shared enemy construction (Lincoln Project as common threat)
- In-group loyalty signaling (Roger Ailes invocation as shibboleth)
- Ultimatum framing that positions followers to feel urgency on his behalf
- Third-person branding that positions 'TRUMP' as a collective identity rather than individual person

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Absolute claim that CNN/MSNBC 'will never' run positive Republican content — denies documented advertising reality
- Fox News 'freefall' framing overstates decline to manufacture crisis requiring Trump's intervention
- Roger Ailes standard deployed as unassailable authority for a position Ailes never actually articulated about a group that didn't exist in his lifetime

## Fact Checks (4)

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

> Roger Ailes never allowed negative ads against Republican candidates by groups like the Lincoln Project

**HALF TRUE**

Technically accurate in that the Lincoln Project (founded 2019) did not exist during Ailes's tenure (he died 2017), but the implication that Ailes's editorial philosophy would have prohibited such content is speculative. Ailes-era Fox did run intra-Republican attack advertising during primary cycles.

Sources: General knowledge: Lincoln Project founding date 2019; General knowledge: Roger Ailes death July 2017

> MSDNC and Fake News CNN will never allow positive Republican ads or hit pieces on Crooked Joe Biden

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Both MSNBC and CNN run paid political advertising from Republican campaigns and candidates as a matter of standard broadcast practice. The 'never' absolute is demonstrably false, though both networks' editorial content is left-leaning.

Sources: General knowledge of cable network advertising practices

> Fox News is in freefall

**MOSTLY FALSE**

As of June 2023, Fox News had experienced meaningful ratings challenges — post-2020 election, post-Dominion settlement revelation, and post-Tucker Carlson firing (April 2023) — but remained the #1 rated cable news network by total viewers. 'Freefall' significantly overstates a relative and contextual ratings decline.

Sources: General knowledge of cable news ratings landscape 2023

> Only TRUMP can save Fox News

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Counterfactual opinion claim not amenable to factual verification.

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Tags

- narcissistic-injury-response (95%)
- displacement (90%)
- grandiose-compensation (88%)
- media-loyalty-demand (85%)
- pejorative-labeling (80%)
- arraignment-day (95%)
- splitting (75%)
- idealization-of-deceased-authority (70%)
- supply-seeking (72%)
- fox-news-loyalty-test (80%)

## 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). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110560026256628789
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1..." Truth Social, 17 Jun. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110560026256628789. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1...," Truth Social, June 17, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110560026256628789.

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