# Post ts_111043066987177575

- Post ID: `ts_111043066987177575`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-09-10T21:52:16.006Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> The Globalist Wall Street Journal has lost most of its influence over the last few years. They are America Last, and rapidly going down the tubes. The Editorial Board doesn’t have a clue. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

## Engagement

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- Replies: 669
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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.399Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T08:29:49.114Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

This brief post is the fifth in a same-day cluster targeting the Wall Street Journal, functioning as the terminal devaluation phase of a narcissistic-injury response cycle. The WSJ's dual provocation — criticizing Trump's tariff economic claims and running a poll questioning his mental fitness — triggered an extended reactive arc consistent with Kohut's narcissistic rage model. The current post resolves the cycle through institutional dismissal: the WSJ is declared 'Globalist,' 'America Last,' and 'rapidly going down the tubes,' effectively eliminating the critic rather than engaging the criticism. Defense mechanisms include devaluation (immature), projection (immature), and reality distortion (pathological) — the claim that WSJ has 'lost most of its influence' is factually unsupported by circulation data. The 'Globalist' label activates paranoid-adjacent schema, recasting good-faith editorial criticism as conspiratorial elite attack. Authorship assessment leans authentic Trump (72%) based on characteristic vocabulary ('Globalist,' 'America Last,' ALL CAPS MAGA sign-off) and precise emotional positioning within the day's arc, though the 5:52 PM EDT timing provides mild counter-signal. Danger level: none — institutional devaluation without individual targeting or mobilization language. Cognitively, the post shows no discrete markers, though the five-post perseveration on a single daily injury stimulus is worth longitudinal tracking. The five-post arc taken as a whole is more clinically significant than any individual post.

## Post Analysis: ts_111043066987177575 — September 10, 2023

### Contextual Frame

This is the **fifth post in a same-day cluster** targeting the Wall Street Journal, all on September 10, 2023. The trigger is identifiable: the WSJ ran an editorial criticizing Trump's tariff claims and — critically — a poll questioning his mental fitness and age. The five posts show a characteristic narcissistic-injury arc: substantive policy rebuttal → cognitive-challenge defensiveness → cognitive boasting (mental acuity test, golf championship) → devaluation of a WSJ commentator → this final dismissive epitaph. The current post functions as the terminating devaluation after the more elaborated rage cycle exhausts itself.

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### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

**Extraversion (very high):** Assertive, dominant tone even in brief format. Uses a rallying slogan rather than closing quietly.

**Agreeableness (very low):** No acknowledgment of valid criticism, no concession. Pure devaluation mode: "doesn't have a clue."

**Conscientiousness (low):** Reactive, impulsive output — the fifth in a cluster, adding nothing new except the "going down the tubes" dismissal. Achievement-striving here is entirely defensive, not constructive.

**Neuroticism (elevated):** Angry-hostility facet salient. The sheer volume of WSJ posts on a single day (five) signals dysregulated reactivity. This individual post is brief and superficially controlled, but is the tail-end of a high-arousal injury response.

**Openness (very low):** Rigid, binary framing. "America Last" admits no nuance. The WSJ is either for "us" or against "us."

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### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency motives dominant:** The post is an act of dominance re-establishment. After being exposed to questioning of his cognitive fitness (a profound threat to the grandiose self-image), the strategy is to destroy the credibility of the source. "They are rapidly going down the tubes" is a bid to reverse the status hierarchy — making the critic small and declining while the subject remains ascendant.

**Schemas revealed:**
- *Self-schema:* America's champion against globalist elites; the only authentic patriot.
- *Other-schema:* Institutions that criticize him are corrupt, foreign-influenced ("Globalist"), and failing.
- *World-schema:* Zero-sum contest between authentic nationalists and globalist elites who control major institutions.

**"Globalist" as loaded schema:** The term "Globalist" applied to the Wall Street Journal is ideologically meaningful. In Trump's discursive system it primarily signals elite/establishment opposition to economic nationalism, but in broader right-wing discourse the term carries documented antisemitic adjacency (coded reference to Jewish financial elites). The WSJ's ownership by Rupert Murdoch (mentioned in an earlier same-day post) and its prominence in financial journalism make the "Globalist" label a standard schema-activation for Trump's base. Confidence: medium that this is primarily about economic nationalism framing; the antisemitic-adjacent resonance is real but likely unintentional.

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### Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** *Order Restorer / Wronged Champion.* The subject positions himself as the true patriot whose legitimate tariff policy is being maligned by a declining globalist institution.

**Contamination sequence:** The WSJ editorial board (once respected) has become "America Last" and is "going down the tubes" — a contamination narrative that delegitimizes the critic by narrating their decline.

**Identity claims:** "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" — the post ends by affirming his core identity as the nationalist restoration candidate, not primarily responding to specific criticism but re-asserting the foundational identity claim.

**Contrasting other:** The WSJ Editorial Board = Globalist, declining, clueless, America Last. Subject = America First, ascendant, the standard of greatness.

**Redemption/Contamination:** The five-post arc today itself follows a contamination-into-redemption structure: the WSJ tried to contaminate him (mental acuity questions) → he rebuts and restores himself (mental acuity test, golf championship) → concludes by contaminating *them* (going down the tubes). This is narrative judo: redirecting the contamination sequence onto the attacker.

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### Level 4: Clinical Indicators

**Narcissistic personality features (high):**
- *Devaluation:* "going down the tubes," "doesn't have a clue" — classic dismissal of anyone who questions the grandiose self-image.
- *Envy inversion:* By asserting the WSJ is "rapidly" declining, the subject pre-emptively eliminates the possibility that their institutional prestige could threaten his status.
- *Entitlement:* The WSJ is implicitly owed deference; their failure to provide it renders them "Globalists" and "America Last."

**Paranoid features (moderate):**
- "Globalist" framing implies conspiratorial foreign/elite influence rather than good-faith editorial disagreement. This is consistent with the paranoid feature cluster (suspiciousness without sufficient basis, interpreting criticism as attack).

**Narcissistic rage dynamics:** This post is low-intensity rage in its resolved phase — the devaluation endpoint after the energy of the earlier posts. Kohut's model predicts exactly this: rage → elaborated defense → dismissive devaluation of the offending object. The brevity here is not calm; it is exhaustion-of-interest, the narcissistic solution of making the other "disappear" through declared irrelevance.

**Narcissistic trigger:** Narcissistic injury — dual threat from WSJ's mental-acuity poll questioning his cognitive fitness (the most sensitive of all injuries, touching the grandiose self-image directly) and tariff policy criticism (challenging his economic legacy).

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### Authorship Attribution

**Location/Timezone analysis:** On September 10, 2023, Trump was in or returning to the East Coast; same-day posts reference having "just returned from 2 days of massive crowds in Iowa and South Dakota," suggesting he was back in his home region (likely Bedminster, NJ or New York area) by this point.

**UTC 21:52 → EDT (UTC-4) = 17:52 (5:52 PM Eastern)** — late afternoon, within business hours.

**Assessment:** The late-afternoon timing does not provide strong authentication signal either way. However, the vocabulary profile strongly suggests authentic Trump: "Globalist," "America Last" (his own brand inverted), ALL CAPS MAGA slogan, short punchy sentence structure, the specific derogatory framing. This post slots precisely into the emotional arc of the day's prior posts, suggesting a continuous authentic voice rather than aide intervention. The simplicity and reactivity outweigh the business-hours timing. **Lean: authentic Trump, moderate confidence.**

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### Defense Mechanisms

**Primary: Devaluation (immature):** "lost most of its influence," "rapidly going down the tubes," "Editorial Board doesn't have a clue." The WSJ is transformed from credible critic to irrelevant, declining institution.

**Secondary: Projection (immature):** Labeling the WSJ "America Last" projects onto them the inverse of his own brand identity, implying their criticism represents anti-American motivation rather than substantive disagreement.

**Tertiary: Distortion (pathological, Level 1):** The WSJ remains one of the most-read newspapers in the United States by circulation, with sustained editorial influence. Claiming they've "lost most of their influence" and are "going down the tubes" distorts reality to meet the inner need to eliminate the threatening critic.

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### Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques

1. **"Globalist" label:** In-group/out-group coding. Signals elite, foreign-influenced, anti-populist identity for the target. Activates nationalist schema in base audience.

2. **"America Last" brand inversion:** Directly mirrors and negates his "America First" slogan — rhetorically placing WSJ in the ideological anti-position, making disagreement with him equivalent to opposing America itself.

3. **Decline narrative:** "going down the tubes" — positions WSJ as already losing, therefore not worth taking seriously. Pre-emptively discredits future criticism.

4. **Ad hominem institutionalism:** "Editorial Board doesn't have a clue" — attacks the credibility of the institutional source rather than engaging specific editorial claims.

5. **Rallying cry sign-off:** "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" — converts a defensive devaluation post into a mobilization moment. Regardless of the attack content, the base is left with the identity affirmation.

6. **False dichotomy:** WSJ is either "America First" or "America Last" — no middle ground, no legitimate editorial disagreement acknowledged.

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### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "The Globalist Wall Street Journal has lost most of its influence over the last few years" | **Mostly False** | The WSJ maintained approximately 3.3 million digital and print subscribers in 2023, ranking among the most-read newspapers in the United States. Its editorial board retains significant influence among financial, business, and conservative policy audiences. While print media has faced structural headwinds industry-wide, the WSJ's influence decline does not approximate 'most of its influence.' |
| "They are America Last" | **Unverifiable** | Characterization/opinion framing. The WSJ editorial board holds conservative, free-trade positions that conflict with Trump's economic nationalism. Whether this constitutes being 'America Last' depends entirely on definitional premises that are not empirically adjudicable. |

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Characteristic 'Globalist' label — repeated Trump vocabulary
- 'America Last' — direct inversion of his own brand, unlikely aide formulation
- ALL CAPS MAGA sign-off — authentic Trump stylistic signature
- Short, punchy, dismissive register consistent with post-injury devaluation
- Temporal position in a 5-post arc of escalating WSJ attacks suggests continuous authentic voice

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (Wall Street Journal)

**Rage:** Intensity 35% targeting Wall Street Journal Editorial Board
- Proportionality: 15%

Sentiment: -0.65

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 75%
- Antisocial: 20%
- Paranoid: 50%
- Sadism: 20%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- devaluation (immature)
- projection (immature)
- distortion (pathological)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 22%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Shared enemy construction ('Globalist' WSJ as audience's enemy, not just Trump's)
- Identity affirmation sign-off (MAGA rallying cry bonds audience to subject's cause)
- False dichotomy framing (WSJ is either America First or America Last — invites audience to choose sides)

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- 'Lost most of its influence' — factually inverts WSJ's actual sustained circulation and institutional standing, requiring audience to accept a false empirical claim as condition of alignment
- Reframing WSJ editorial criticism as 'America Last' ideology rather than substantive policy disagreement — attacks audience members' ability to interpret WSJ's stated motives accurately

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> The Globalist Wall Street Journal has lost most of its influence over the last few years

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The WSJ maintained approximately 3.3 million digital and print subscribers in 2023, ranking among the most-read newspapers in the United States. Its editorial board retains significant influence among financial, business, and conservative policy audiences. While print media has faced structural headwinds industry-wide, the WSJ's influence decline does not approximate 'most of its influence.'

Sources: WSJ circulation data, Alliance for Audited Media 2023; Newspaper industry readership trend reporting

> They are America Last

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Characterization/opinion framing. The WSJ editorial board holds conservative, free-trade positions that conflict with Trump's economic nationalism. Whether this constitutes being 'America Last' depends entirely on definitional premises that are not empirically adjudicable.

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Tags

- narcissistic-injury-response (90%)
- institutional-devaluation (85%)
- wsj-conflict (95%)
- globalist-framing (80%)
- america-last-inversion (75%)
- campaign-trail (60%)
- cognitive-fitness-sensitivity (70%)
- devaluation-defense (85%)
- maga-identity-affirmation (70%)
- media-attack (90%)

## That day

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

**Iowa Football Warmth Collapses Into Five-Post WSJ Rage Spiral Over Mental Fitness Poll**

Trump spent the weekend in Iowa for a football game and campaign events, opening with upbeat posts about the state and friendly crowds. The mood turned sharply in the afternoon when a Wall Street Journal poll questioned his mental fitness, triggering a sustained five-post barrage attacking the newspaper, challenging media figures to cognitive tests, and bragging about a golf championship as proof of vigor. The day closed with a combative retruth targeting Hunter Biden using dehumanizing language and accusing the Biden family of controlling prosecutors -- a familiar persecution frame sharpened by his own ongoing legal exposure.

Full digest for 2023-09-10: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-10/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 10). The Globalist Wall Street Journal has lost most... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111043066987177575
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