# Post ts_110593743808151273 - Post ID: `ts_110593743808151273` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-06-23T13:23:28.444Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110593743808151273 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110593743808151273/analysis ## Post text > https://dcenquirer.com/no-fox-news-trump-actually-does-hire-the-best-people ## Engagement - Likes: 12,941 - Reposts: 3,278 - Replies: 505 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.408Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T05:53:27.754Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2023-06-23T13:23:28Z ### Overview This post consists entirely of a single hyperlink to a DC Enquirer article titled *"No, Fox News, Trump Actually Does Hire The Best People."* There is no added commentary, no emotional punctuation, no signature rhetorical markers. The evidentiary floor for psychological inference is accordingly low; analysis must be appropriately hedged. --- ### Authorship Attribution **Timing:** UTC 13:23:28 converts to **9:23 AM EDT** (Trump was almost certainly at Bedminster, NJ in late June 2023, having departed Mar-a-Lago for his summer residence). This is mid-morning business hours — well within the aide-posting window (9am–6pm local time). **Style indicators:** No commentary appended; clean URL-only format; no typos, ALL CAPS, emotional outbursts, or stream-of-consciousness markers. This is the most aide-consistent posting format possible. **Confidence: high — aide-written (likely Scavino team curation).** --- ### Psychological State and Triggers Despite the post's minimal content, article selection is itself a psychological act. The "I hire the best people" claim is one of Trump's most frequently invoked and most frequently falsified identity assertions. Associates who have faced criminal conviction include Paul Manafort (convicted), Michael Flynn (pleaded guilty twice), Michael Cohen (convicted), Rick Gates (pleaded guilty), Roger Stone (convicted), Steve Bannon (convicted), Rudy Giuliani (disbarred), among others. The claim has become a persistent wound in his public identity. That this particular article was surfaced and shared suggests: - **Monitoring of Fox News coverage** for threats to his narrative — consistent with hypervigilance (paranoid features) - **Narcissistic injury trigger:** Fox News, historically his most reliable media ally, is perceived as criticizing a core identity boast, generating the need for counter-supply - **State:** Mildly vulnerable narcissistic state — the defensive posture (requiring external validation from a third-party article rather than asserting the claim directly) suggests wounded grandiosity rather than full grandiose expression **Context weight:** This post appears June 23, during a period when Trump's federal indictment for mishandling classified documents (announced June 9, 2023) was dominating news. His hiring record was under scrutiny partly through the lens of classified-document co-defendants. Amplifying a "best people" defense fits the broader pattern of indictment-era identity repair. --- ### Defense Mechanisms - **Rationalization (neurotic):** Rather than confronting the substantial evidence against the "best people" claim, the post defers to a third-party article to construct a logical defense. Medium confidence. - **Projection (immature):** The framing ("No, Fox News") displaces ownership of the counter-argument onto a media outlet, maintaining plausible deniability about the wound being felt. --- ### Rhetorical Techniques - **Counter-narrative by proxy:** Amplifying a favorable article rather than making the claim directly is a low-cost, low-accountability way to rehabilitate a damaged talking point - **Appeal to authority (third-party):** The DC Enquirer piece lends the appearance of journalistic validation to what is essentially a political identity defense - **In-group signaling:** Sharing this article signals to the MAGA base that Fox News criticism of Trump's hiring record is unfair/incorrect, subtly priming audience members to discount Fox coverage - **Implicit whataboutism:** Directing attention to Fox News rather than addressing the underlying facts of associate convictions --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Trump hires the best people (implicit in article title amplified)" | **Mostly False** | Multiple senior Trump hires faced criminal conviction: Paul Manafort (tax/bank fraud, witness tampering), Michael Flynn (lying to FBI, pleaded guilty twice), Michael Cohen (multiple felonies), Rick Gates (pleaded guilty), Roger Stone (convicted on 7 counts), Steve Bannon (fraud conviction), Rudy Giuliani (disbarred). The empirical record substantially contradicts the claim. | Overall Veracity: 20% ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 10%) ### Indicators - Post timestamp converts to ~9:23 AM EDT (Bedminster, NJ — summer residence), squarely within business hours aide-posting window - Post contains zero added commentary — bare URL only - No typos, emotional punctuation, ALL CAPS, or stream-of-consciousness markers - Clean, minimal formatting consistent with Scavino team curation pattern ## Psychological Profile ### State **Vulnerable State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (Fox News) Sentiment: +0.20 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 40% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 30% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) - displacement (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Counter-narrative seeding via third-party article amplification - In-group signaling against Fox News to prime audience skepticism of coverage ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Trump hires the best people (implicit in article title amplified) **MOSTLY FALSE** Multiple senior Trump hires faced criminal conviction: Paul Manafort (tax/bank fraud, witness tampering), Michael Flynn (lying to FBI, pleaded guilty twice), Michael Cohen (multiple felonies), Rick Gates (pleaded guilty), Roger Stone (convicted on 7 counts), Steve Bannon (fraud conviction), Rudy Giuliani (disbarred). The empirical record substantially contradicts the claim. Sources: Department of Justice public records; Bar association proceedings Overall Veracity: 20% ## Tags - aide-written (90%) - identity-defense (70%) - fox-news-tension (70%) - best-people-narrative (80%) - link-only-post (100%) - indictment-period (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Post-Indictment Deflection Machinery Hums Quietly as Wagner Mutiny Goes Unmentioned** Trump opened the day with a late-night burst of posts hammering Hunter Biden's plea deal, framing it as proof of a rigged justice system protecting the president's family. By morning, the emotional charge faded into routine campaign maintenance — a rapid-fire dump of supportive articles, endorsements, and opposition research hits on Ron DeSantis. He briefly weighed in on reports of Chinese military facilities in Cuba, casting it as proof only he could command global respect. The most striking feature of the day was what went unsaid: the Wagner Group's dramatic armed march on Moscow, arguably the biggest geopolitical event of the year, drew zero comment. Full digest for 2023-06-23: https://trump.fm/date/2023-06-23/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, June 23). https://dcenquirer.com/no-fox-news-trump-actually-... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110593743808151273 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://dcenquirer.com/no-fox-news-trump-actually-does-hire-..." Truth Social, 23 Jun. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110593743808151273. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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