# Post ts_110611386916617060

- Post ID: `ts_110611386916617060`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-06-26T16:10:20.872Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> So FoxNews, which is down 37% in the Ratings, doesn’t cover my getting the “Man of the Decade” Award (because of my great trade policies!) in Michigan, or my Keynote Speech for Faith & Freedom in D.C., and then wants me to show up and get them ratings for their “Presidential” Debate, where I’m leading the field by 40 points. All they do is promote, against all hope, Ron DeSanctimonious, and he’s dropping like a rock. Sorry FoxNews, life doesn’t work that way!!!

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T06:06:57.569Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Textbook narcissistic injury response triggered by Fox News's editorial decision to cover a DeSantis border event while omitting Trump's weekend speeches. The injury is processed through a characteristic three-part sequence: grandiose compensation (Trump as the ratings asset Fox cannot afford to lose), devaluation of the offending source (Fox down 37%), and punitive dismissal ("life doesn't work that way"). A mixed narcissistic state is evident — simultaneously claiming dominant power over Fox while complaining of being ignored — reflecting the classic oscillation between grandiose and vulnerable poles under supply deprivation. Moderate narcissistic rage is present, discharged through contemptuous dismissal and an implicit debate boycott signal rather than direct aggression. A secondary sadistic note in "dropping like a rock" registers pleasure at DeSantis's polling decline. Active defense mechanisms include splitting, devaluation, rationalization, and projection. Language is coherent and fully consistent with established baseline; no cognitive deviation noted. Post is one of at least two same-day iterations on the identical grievance, suggesting sustained emotional activation. Contextually, Trump's framing ignores a crowded news environment (Wagner rebellion, Titan submersible) that would naturally compete for coverage — a selective reality construction consistent with the paranoid interpretive style documented longitudinally.

# Analysis: Truth Social Post — June 26, 2023 (ts_110611386916617060)

## Authorship Attribution

Posted at 16:10 UTC. Trump's most probable location on June 26, 2023 was Mar-a-Lago (EDT, UTC-4), placing this post at **12:10 PM EDT**—midday business hours. That timing alone would suggest aide authorship. However, the stylistic fingerprints are overwhelmingly authentic Trump: the "DeSanctimonious" coinage (a personal nickname he deploys with consistent relish), the parenthetical self-congratulation ("because of my great trade policies!"), the escalating complaint arc, triple exclamation marks, and the dismissive vernacular sign-off ("life doesn't work that way!!!"). The post likely represents either self-authored content or closely dictated content with minimal staff editing. Corroborating evidence: this is the second post of the day on the near-identical grievance (Fox News / DeSantis), suggesting sustained emotional activation across hours rather than a single staff-drafted communication. **Confidence: medium-high for authentic authorship.**

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## Psychological State and Triggers

The governing trigger is **narcissistic injury via supply deprivation**: Fox News, a historically allied platform, chose to cover DeSantis's border event while ignoring Trump's two weekend speeches. From a narcissistic supply framework, this constitutes a withdrawal of expected validation—particularly acute because it involves an *implicit comparison* (DeSantis received the coverage Trump was denied).

The post exhibits a **mixed narcissistic state**. Grandiose elements include: positioning Fox as dependent on Trump for ratings (reversing the power dynamic), citing a "Man of the Decade" award, and asserting a 40-point polling lead. Vulnerable/persecuted elements include: the tone of complaint, the sense of being "erased," and the implicit martyrdom of "life doesn't work that way." This oscillation between grandiose and vulnerable is a clinically recognized pattern under narcissistic injury conditions.

**Narcissistic rage** is present at moderate intensity. The response is disproportionate to the trigger (editorial decisions by a private network) and is discharged through contemptuous dismissal rather than direct aggression. A secondary sadistic note surfaces in "he's dropping like a rock"—registering pleasure at a rival's decline.

The **transactional leverage frame** deserves specific attention: "wants me to show up and get them ratings for their 'Presidential' Debate." This reframes the debate invitation not as a political opportunity but as Fox extracting value from Trump without fair exchange—a power-assertion compensation mechanism that converts injury into leverage. The scare-quotes around "Presidential" function as a devaluing aside, subtly delegitimizing the event.

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## Defense Mechanisms

1. **Splitting** (immature/Level 2): Fox is cast as wholly corrupt and ungrateful; DeSantis as wholly failing. No acknowledgment of partial coverage, complex motivations, or mixed outcomes.
2. **Devaluation** (immature/Level 2): The opening salvo—"FoxNews, which is down 37% in the Ratings"—pre-emptively degrades the source before the grievance is even stated. This is a classic priming devaluation: undermining credibility to blunt any legitimacy the target might possess.
3. **Rationalization** (neurotic/Level 3): The implicit debate boycott threat is framed as principled reciprocity ("life doesn't work that way") rather than retaliatory self-interest or strategic calculation—lending a veneer of reasonableness to what is a punitive signal.
4. **Projection** (immature/Level 2) trace: Accuses Fox of using him transactionally for ratings, while the complaint itself is fundamentally about Fox not sufficiently serving Trump's promotional interests.

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## Rhetorical Techniques

- **Ad hominem / nickname**: "DeSanctimonious" is deployed with relish—a devaluing fusion of the target's name with a character accusation (sanctimony), repeated across multiple same-day posts for cumulative effect.
- **Hyperbole**: "dropping like a rock," "against all hope," "rarely seen in American politics" (from the companion post).
- **Implied leverage**: The debate boycott is never stated explicitly but is unmistakably signaled, creating pressure through implication—a more sophisticated rhetorical move than direct threat.
- **Parenthetical self-praise**: "(because of my great trade policies!)" injects a self-aggrandizing claim mid-complaint without disrupting the grievance arc.
- **Transactional framing**: The media relationship is reduced to an extractive economy in which Trump is the underpriced asset.
- **False reciprocity logic**: "life doesn't work that way" invokes a common-sense fairness principle to legitimize what is functionally a retaliatory signal.

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## Cognitive Status

Language production is coherent and consistent with established baseline. The compound run-on sentence structure, parenthetical asides, emphatic capitalization of "Man of the Decade" and "Presidential," and vernacular phrasing ("dropping like a rock," "against all hope") are all characteristic pattern elements. Vocabulary sophistication and syntactic complexity are consistent with prior posts from this period. No word-finding difficulties, temporal confusion, neologisms, or perseveration beyond the thematic repetition of the DeSantis rivalry (which is volitional, not cognitive). **Baseline deviation: none.** Complexity score reflects characteristic mid-low sophistication with intact logical flow.

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## Personality Framework (McAdams & Pals)

**Level 1 – Dispositional Traits**: Dominant facets are *assertiveness* (high extraversion), *angry hostility* and *impulsiveness* (high neuroticism), *antagonism* (very low agreeableness), and *values rigidity* (low openness). Low deliberation (low conscientiousness) is evident in the unguarded grievance escalation.

**Level 2 – Characteristic Adaptations**: Agency motives dominate—specifically power and status maintenance. Communion motives are virtually absent. The governing schema casts the self as a dominant resource being undervalued and the media as an ungrateful extraction apparatus.

**Level 3 – Narrative Identity**: The protagonist role here is the *aggrieved powerbroker*—simultaneously the most powerful figure in the field (40-point lead, ratings asset) and a martyr to institutional betrayal. The contamination narrative is salient: Fox was an ally; Fox has become a betrayer promoting a rival "against all hope." Identity claims include: greatest trade policy president, Man of the Decade, dominant frontrunner, ratings generator. The contrasting other is the Fox News/DeSantis nexus, cast as a futile alliance.

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## Broader Context

This post is one of at least two on June 26 targeting the identical grievance. The repetition across posts separated by hours suggests sustained emotional activation, not a one-off reaction. Contextually, the post was composed the day of the Wagner Group rebellion resolution (major international news) and during the Titan submersible aftermath—events consuming significant media bandwidth that would naturally crowd out coverage of weekend political speeches. Trump's framing entirely ignores this context, treating the absence of coverage as conspiratorial rather than competitive. This selective framing is consistent with the paranoid interpretive style documented across prior posts.

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## Gaslighting and Reality Distortion

The post contains moderate reality distortion: framing Fox News's editorial choices as a targeted slight against Trump rather than routine news prioritization in a crowded news environment. The "against all hope" characterization of Fox's DeSantis coverage implies a coordinated effort to prop up a failing candidate—a conspiratorial read without evidentiary support. The claim that DeSantis's career was entirely a product of Trump's endorsement ("Prior to getting my Endorsement, his campaign was DEAD") in the companion post, and the implicit claim that Fox debate coverage depends wholly on Trump's participation, both involve selective reality construction consistent with the gaslighting framework.

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## Danger Assessment

No eliminationist language, dehumanizing content, violent imagery, or stochastic terrorism indicators. The aggression here is reputational and transactional. **Danger level: none.**

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "FoxNews is down 37% in the Ratings" | **Half True** | Fox News did experience significant ratings declines post-2020 election, particularly after calling Arizona for Biden. Various measurement periods and metrics show declines of 20-40% from peak 2020 levels depending on time window and demographic slice. The specific '37%' figure is plausible but appears to be a selectively chosen metric; Fox retained dominant cable news rankings in absolute terms through mid-2023. |
| "Leading the [Republican primary] field by 40 points" | **Mostly True** | June 2023 national Republican primary polling consistently showed Trump leading DeSantis by approximately 30-40 points. RealClearPolitics averages from this period put Trump's lead at roughly 35-40 points, making this claim broadly accurate. |
| "DeSantis 'dropping like a rock' in polls" | **Mostly True** | DeSantis entered the race in May 2023 with elevated expectations; his polling declined notably through June 2023, falling from a high of ~30% in some surveys to the low-to-mid 20s. The trajectory of decline was real, though 'dropping like a rock' overstates the pace. |
| "Fox didn't cover 'one minute' of Trump's two big speeches while covering DeSantis border conference 'from beginning to end'" | **Unverifiable** | Specific airtime allocation data for Fox News programming on June 24-25, 2023 is not independently verifiable from available sources. The companion post makes this claim more explicitly. Cable news coverage decisions are editorial choices not publicly logged in accessible archives. |

Overall Veracity: 65%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 82%)

### Indicators

- 'DeSanctimonious' nickname — personal coinage used consistently across posts
- Parenthetical self-praise mid-sentence: '(because of my great trade policies!)'
- Triple exclamation marks in sign-off
- Vernacular dismissal: 'life doesn't work that way'
- Complaint arc mirroring same-day earlier post — sustained grievance pattern

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (Fox News)

**Rage:** Intensity 55% targeting Fox News, with secondary discharge toward DeSantis
- Proportionality: 20%

Sentiment: -0.68

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Multiple posts on identical grievance across same day (sustained activation)
- Triple exclamation marks in sign-off
- Rapid escalation of complaint arc within single post
- Grandiosity markers: 'Man of the Decade,' 40-point lead, ratings asset framing

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 82%
- Antisocial: 38%
- Paranoid: 58%
- Sadism: 32%

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Shared grievance framing — positions audience as co-witnesses to unfair media treatment
- Insider access rhetoric — 'they're not showing you my speeches'
- Implied collective victory: 'he's dropping like a rock' invites follower satisfaction

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Frames Fox's editorial choices as conspiratorial targeting rather than routine news prioritization in a crowded news week (Wagner rebellion, Titan submersible aftermath)
- 'Against all hope' characterization implies Fox is irrationally propping up DeSantis against evidence — conspiratorial framing without evidentiary support
- Companion post claim that DeSantis's entire career was a product of Trump's endorsement — revisionist inflation of Trump's causal role

## Fact Checks (4)

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

> FoxNews is down 37% in the Ratings

**HALF TRUE**

Fox News did experience significant ratings declines post-2020 election, particularly after calling Arizona for Biden. Various measurement periods and metrics show declines of 20-40% from peak 2020 levels depending on time window and demographic slice. The specific '37%' figure is plausible but appears to be a selectively chosen metric; Fox retained dominant cable news rankings in absolute terms through mid-2023.

Sources: Nielsen ratings historical data; Cable news ratings tracking

> Leading the [Republican primary] field by 40 points

**MOSTLY TRUE**

June 2023 national Republican primary polling consistently showed Trump leading DeSantis by approximately 30-40 points. RealClearPolitics averages from this period put Trump's lead at roughly 35-40 points, making this claim broadly accurate.

Sources: RealClearPolitics polling averages June 2023

> DeSantis 'dropping like a rock' in polls

**MOSTLY TRUE**

DeSantis entered the race in May 2023 with elevated expectations; his polling declined notably through June 2023, falling from a high of ~30% in some surveys to the low-to-mid 20s. The trajectory of decline was real, though 'dropping like a rock' overstates the pace.

Sources: FiveThirtyEight Republican primary polling tracker

> Fox didn't cover 'one minute' of Trump's two big speeches while covering DeSantis border conference 'from beginning to end'

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Specific airtime allocation data for Fox News programming on June 24-25, 2023 is not independently verifiable from available sources. The companion post makes this claim more explicitly. Cable news coverage decisions are editorial choices not publicly logged in accessible archives.

Overall Veracity: 65%

## Tags

- narcissistic-injury (95%)
- media-grievance (90%)
- desantis-rivalry (85%)
- fox-news (85%)
- supply-deprivation (80%)
- implied-leverage (75%)
- splitting (75%)
- devaluation (75%)
- mixed-narcissistic-state (70%)
- republican-primary-2024 (65%)
- debate-boycott-signal (60%)
- paranoid-framing (55%)

## That day

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

**Post-Rally Adrenaline Fuels 23-Post Day of DeSantis Obsession, Biden Attacks, and Eliminationist Rhetoric**

Trump rode the high of a Michigan Republican dinner into a marathon evening posting session, cycling through crowd celebration, Biden attacks, and aggressive policy promises before landing on his real target: Ron DeSantis. The Florida governor dominated the day's emotional energy across at least four dedicated posts plus indirect references, with Trump oscillating between dismissing him as irrelevant and clearly seething over Fox News covering DeSantis instead of him. The most alarming moment came in a culture-war post labeling transgender identity as "insanity" and promising executive punishment of schools -- language that targets a vulnerable group through the lens of child protection. The day ended on a quieter, slightly defensive note as Jack Smith's classified documents probe surfaced briefly before being buried under one last loyalty-signaling share.

Full digest for 2023-06-26: https://trump.fm/date/2023-06-26/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, June 26). So FoxNews, which is down 37% in the Ratings,... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110611386916617060
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "So FoxNews, which is down 37% in the Ratings, doesn’t cover..." Truth Social, 26 Jun. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110611386916617060. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "So FoxNews, which is down 37% in the Ratings, doesn’t cover...," Truth Social, June 26, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110611386916617060.

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