# Post ts_111047921616610040

- Post ID: `ts_111047921616610040`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-09-11T18:26:51.863Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> Why doesn’t FoxNews, or the Globalist Wall Street Journal, put up the tremendous polls that are being released daily showing that I am up on their “candidate,” Ron DeSanctimonious, & all of the others that are having a good time “running” (but with no results!), by record type numbers. “Aida” Hutchinson just scored a big, fat ZERO. What is he doing? Same for Sloppy Chris Christie, a complete psycho with nothing to say. I hope they are all having a good time. Poll: I’m beating Crooked Joe BIG!!!

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T08:29:56.463Z (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 22nd anniversary of 9/11 — within hours of a pro forma memorial acknowledgment — this post exemplifies Trump's primary psychological mode: grandiose supply-seeking combined with paranoid conspiracy framing when supply is perceived as blocked. The post targets multiple Republican rivals with systematic devaluation (DeSanctimonious, Sloppy, 'Aida,' psycho) while casting media outlets as globalist co-conspirators protecting establishment candidates. Defense mechanisms are dense: projection (Christie as 'psycho'), splitting (binary winner/loser schema), and rationalization (media suppression explains discordant reality). Ego-syntonic sadism is visible in performative pleasure ('big, fat ZERO'). Cognitively consistent with baseline; the 'Aida' substitution for 'Asa' Hutchinson likely represents deliberate mockery but warrants longitudinal monitoring. Danger assessment: none — standard competitive political rhetoric. The juxtaposition of solemn national memorial with nakedly competitive self-promotion is clinically consistent with motivational profiles in which national symbols serve self-referential rather than communal functions.

# Analysis: Truth Social Post — September 11, 2023 (18:26 UTC / 2:26 PM EDT)

## Contextual Frame

Posted on the 22nd anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Earlier that same day Trump posted the obligatory "WE WILL NEVER FORGET!" — the analyzed post follows without transition into multi-target competitive political aggression. That juxtaposition is clinically significant: solemn national observance and naked self-promotion operate as parallel, non-integrating motivational tracks.

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## Authorship Attribution

**Assessment: High probability authentic Trump (confidence: high)**

The 2:26 PM EDT timing falls within business hours — weakly consistent with aide authorship. However, the stylistic fingerprint overwhelms this consideration:

- **"DeSanctimonious"**: Trump's coinage, not something an aide would originate
- **"Aida" Hutchinson**: Substitution of *Asa* Hutchinson's first name with "Aida" (Verdi opera) — in-the-moment creative mockery; too idiosyncratic for staff
- **Scare quotes around 'running'**: Structural Trump — delegitimizing through ironic framing
- **"complete psycho"**: Unpolished personal attack; aides maintain institutional deniability
- **Triple exclamation points + "BIG!!!"**: Graphological signature
- **Stream-of-consciousness structure**: No editorial organization; abrupt topic pivots
- **"big, fat ZERO"**: Vernacular idiom consistent with Trump's lexical register

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## Psychological Analysis

### Trigger
**Primary: Supply-seeking + supply-deprivation frustration.** The post opens with perceived injury: favorable polls exist but preferred media amplifiers (Fox News, WSJ) are withholding them. This is supply deprivation — the admiration is present (in polls) but the broadcast mechanism is blocked. Trump transforms supply frustration into persecution narrative via "Globalist WSJ" framing, thereby protecting grandiose self-concept while externalizing blame.

### Narcissistic State: Grandiose (with paranoid substrate)
Dominant mode is grandiose ("record type numbers," "beating Crooked Joe BIG!!!"). Paranoid features provide the explanatory architecture for why dominance isn't universally acknowledged. The oscillation — *I'm undeniably dominant* / *they're conspiring to hide it* — is the structural tension of the post.

### Defense Mechanisms

| Mechanism | Level | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| **Projection** | Immature | Labeling Christie "a complete psycho" while publicly exhibiting impulsive, dysregulated behavior |
| **Splitting** | Immature | Binary schema: Trump (legitimate, record-breaking) vs. all rivals (performing, zero, psycho) |
| **Rationalization** | Neurotic | Media conspiracy explains supply deprivation without threatening self-concept |
| **Devaluation** | Immature | Systematic — each rival assigned a diminishing label; none granted competitive reality |

### Malignant Narcissism Components

- **Narcissistic features (~0.80)**: Grandiosity, entitlement, need for admiration, conspicuous contempt, devaluation of all rivals
- **Antisocial features (~0.50)**: Public mockery using humiliating labels; "complete psycho" directed at Christie crosses from political criticism into personal cruelty with no policy content
- **Paranoid features (~0.65)**: "Globalist WSJ" framing applies paranoid schema to perceived editorial slight; coordinated suppression attributed to a single media decision
- **Ego-syntonic sadism (~0.55)**: Visible performative pleasure in the "big, fat ZERO" for Hutchinson — this isn't dismissal, it's savoring

### Rage Assessment
Rage is **present but moderate and targeted**, not dysregulated. The emotional register is contemptuous rather than explosive — closer to sadistic pleasure in diminishment than to raw narcissistic fury. Proportionality is low: the trigger (media editorial decisions) generates significant public contempt and mockery of multiple individuals.

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## Narrative Identity (McAdams, Level 3)

**Protagonist Role**: The uncontested frontrunner being actively suppressed by corrupt media gatekeepers who protect establishment candidates.

**Redemption Sequence**: Despite media suppression, polls confirm inevitable dominance. The obstacle (globalist media) cannot obscure the underlying truth.

**Contrasting Others (two-layer)**:
1. Republican rivals — illegitimate performers "having a good time 'running' (but with no results!)"
2. Media — co-conspirators who protect those performers by suppressing Trump's numbers

**Identity Claims**: Poll-confirmed frontrunner; voice of the majority; media conspiracy target; dominant vs. Biden

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## Cognitive Status

**No notable markers of cognitive impairment.** The "Aida" substitution for "Asa" Hutchinson is the only item warranting annotation. Given: (a) quotation marks signal intentionality; (b) "Aida" is a famous Verdi opera about a character who achieves zero political traction; (c) Trump has a demonstrated history of deliberate nickname construction — this is more plausibly intentional mockery than a name-recall failure. However, the ambiguity makes it worth tracking longitudinally. Overall coherence, syntactic fluency, and volitional structure are consistent with Trump's established baseline.

**Complexity: 0.40** — below average for educated adult speech, consistent with Trump's documented register: simple syntax, repetitive structure, limited vocabulary range, but internally coherent.

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## Rhetorical Analysis

- **Nickname weaponization**: "DeSanctimonious," "Sloppy Chris Christie," "Crooked Joe" — identity reduction via label
- **Scare quotes**: 'candidate,' 'running' — ironic delegitimization without argumentation
- **Loaded labeling**: "Globalist Wall Street Journal" — nationalist coding activating in-group antipathy toward media/financial elites
- **Hyperbole**: "record type numbers," "big, fat ZERO," "BIG!!!"
- **False victimhood**: The dominant winner persecuted by those who won't acknowledge the winning
- **Ad hominem**: Christie as "complete psycho" — zero policy content, pure personal attack
- **Conspiracy framing**: Media suppression as coordinated editorial strategy

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## 9/11 Anniversary Context

The pivot from solemn memorial to political attack without rhetorical bridge is clinically consistent with a motivational profile in which national symbols serve self-referential rather than communal functions. September 11 provides stage dressing; the underlying drive-state (competitive dominance, supply-seeking) is continuous and uninterrupted.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "I am up on Ron DeSanctimonious and all others by record type numbers" | **Mostly True** | In September 2023, Trump was polling at approximately 50-60% in national Republican primary surveys with DeSantis at 12-15% — historically large margins for a contested primary. 'Record type' is hyperbolic framing of a directionally accurate claim. |
| "'Aida' Hutchinson just scored a big, fat ZERO" | **Mostly True** | Asa Hutchinson was consistently polling below 1% in national Republican primary surveys in September 2023, effectively zero in competitive terms. |
| "I'm beating Crooked Joe BIG" | **Mostly False** | September 2023 general election head-to-head polling showed Trump vs. Biden races within the margin of error (approximately ±2-4 points), not decisive 'BIG' margins in either direction. |
| "FoxNews and WSJ don't put up polls showing Trump leading" | **Mostly False** | Both Fox News and the Wall Street Journal published and covered polls showing Trump's significant primary lead during this period. The 'suppression' claim vastly overstates editorial decisions as coordinated concealment. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- 'DeSanctimonious' nickname — Trump coinage, not aide-originated
- 'Aida' Hutchinson substitution — idiosyncratic in-the-moment mockery
- Scare quotes around 'running' and 'candidate' — structural Trump rhetorical device
- 'complete psycho' — unpolished attack inconsistent with institutional aide style
- Triple exclamation points and ALL CAPS 'BIG!!!' — graphological signature

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Comparison (Fox News and Wall Street Journal not amplifying favorable primary polling leads)

**Rage:** Intensity 55% targeting Fox News, Wall Street Journal, Republican primary rivals (DeSantis, Christie, Hutchinson)
- Proportionality: 20%

Sentiment: -0.35

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Rapid sequential attacks on five distinct targets within a single brief post
- Elevated grandiosity with no hedging or qualification
- Reduced impulse control evident in 'complete psycho' label
- Elevated affect in punctuation and capitalization (BIG!!!)

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 80%
- Antisocial: 50%
- Paranoid: 65%
- Sadism: 55%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 40%

Cognitive Markers:
- name confusion

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- shared grievance activation (media suppression narrative positions audience as fellow victims)
- identity validation (I represent 'a vast majority of the Country')
- supply mirroring (my polling dominance = your vindication)

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Frames Fox News and WSJ editorial decisions as coordinated suppression of objective reality ('tremendous polls being released daily') rather than editorial discretion
- Implies that audiences who consume these outlets are being actively deceived about Trump's dominance
- Positions own perception of poll coverage as ground truth against media gatekeeping

## Fact Checks (4)

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

> I am up on Ron DeSanctimonious and all others by record type numbers

**MOSTLY TRUE**

In September 2023, Trump was polling at approximately 50-60% in national Republican primary surveys with DeSantis at 12-15% — historically large margins for a contested primary. 'Record type' is hyperbolic framing of a directionally accurate claim.

Sources: National Republican primary polling aggregates, September 2023

> 'Aida' Hutchinson just scored a big, fat ZERO

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Asa Hutchinson was consistently polling below 1% in national Republican primary surveys in September 2023, effectively zero in competitive terms.

Sources: National Republican primary polling, September 2023

> I'm beating Crooked Joe BIG

**MOSTLY FALSE**

September 2023 general election head-to-head polling showed Trump vs. Biden races within the margin of error (approximately ±2-4 points), not decisive 'BIG' margins in either direction.

Sources: General election head-to-head polling aggregates, September 2023

> FoxNews and WSJ don't put up polls showing Trump leading

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Both Fox News and the Wall Street Journal published and covered polls showing Trump's significant primary lead during this period. The 'suppression' claim vastly overstates editorial decisions as coordinated concealment.

Sources: Fox News polling coverage, September 2023

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- primary-attacks (90%)
- media-grievance (80%)
- grandiosity (85%)
- devaluation (85%)
- nickname-weaponization (90%)
- conspiracy-framing (70%)
- 9-11-anniversary (65%)
- poll-claims (70%)
- supply-seeking (80%)

## That day

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

**On 9/11 Anniversary, Legal Grievance Eclipses National Mourning in 18-Post Barrage**

Trump spent the 22nd anniversary of September 11 almost entirely consumed by his legal troubles and political attacks, offering only a single four-word memorial before pivoting to hours of grievance. A late-night burst of posts processing his Georgia indictment gave way to an aggressive afternoon session attacking Biden, Fox News, Republican rivals, and the justice system itself. The most alarming moment came when he framed immigration as an "invasion" destroying American cities, deploying dehumanizing language on the nation's most emotionally charged date. The day revealed how completely personal legal crisis had displaced any capacity for communal mourning or national reflection.

Full digest for 2023-09-11: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-11/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 11). Why doesn’t FoxNews, or the Globalist Wall Street... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111047921616610040
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Why doesn’t FoxNews, or the Globalist Wall Street Journal,..." Truth Social, 11 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111047921616610040. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Why doesn’t FoxNews, or the Globalist Wall Street Journal,...," Truth Social, September 11, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111047921616610040.

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