# Post ts_111108732912114792

- Post ID: `ts_111108732912114792`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-09-22T12:11:58.511Z (UTC)
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## Post text

> Many people are saying that,”You forced Rupert Murdoch into retirement!” I do not believe this is so, but while we’re at it, how about getting rid of “Democrat” Mitch McConnell, who gives the Radical Left Lunatics, together with his small band of automatic “yes” votes, EVERYTHING they want. There is ZERO Republican Leadership in the United States Senate. MAGA!!!

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T08:42:28.287Z (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 post exemplifies a clinically significant dual-function narcissistic communication. The opening 'Many people are saying' sequence is a refined supply-extraction mechanism: a flattering power-claim (Trump ended Murdoch's media dynasty) is amplified, technically denied, and left standing — all in 18 words. This structure simultaneously harvests admiration, maintains deniability, and plants the narrative in followers' minds without accountability.

The pivot to McConnell is immediate and only thinly pretexted, revealing that the McConnell grievance was the primary emotional payload and the Murdoch frame merely the occasion. McConnell is processed through pathological splitting — labeled 'Democrat' in scare quotes, positioned as functionally equivalent to 'Radical Left Lunatics.' This is part of a documented multi-day campaign (cf. prior day's Tuberville RT) to delegitimize Senate Republican leadership during the government shutdown standoff.

Defense mechanisms include immature denial (amplifies what it disclaims), immature projection (McConnell as crypto-Democrat while Trump destabilizes his own party), pathological splitting (zero moderate category), and neurotic rationalization (Murdoch as pretext).

No cognitive baseline deviation detected. Danger level is elevated: this is political eliminationist language targeting a sitting Republican Senate leader during an acute institutional crisis, functioning within Trump's sustained intraparty loyalty-purge campaign. No violence indicators, but institutional destabilization risk is real and documented.

# Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2023-09-22T12:11:58Z

## Context
Rupert Murdoch announced his resignation as chairman of Fox Corp and News Corp on September 21, 2023 — the day before this post. This provides the direct trigger. The post arrives at 8:11 AM EDT, consistent with Trump's early-morning authentic posting window.

## Authorship Attribution
**High confidence: authentic Trump.** The 'Many people are saying' opener is one of Trump's most individually distinctive rhetorical signatures, appearing hundreds of times across his documented communications history. Combined with stream-of-consciousness mid-post pivoting, idiosyncratic scare-quote deployment, ALL CAPS emphasis, and triple-exclamation MAGA close, no aide-written indicators are present.

## Level 1: Dispositional Traits
The post exhibits sharply elevated **neuroticism** (angry hostility toward McConnell), very low **agreeableness** (intraparty attack, zero cooperative framing), high **extraversion** via assertiveness and dominance displays, and low **conscientiousness** in the impulsive topic pivot. Openness is minimal — rigid in-group/out-group taxonomy governs framing throughout.

## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations
**Dominant motive: power/status.** The Murdoch anecdote is instrumentalized purely as a power demonstration — even in nominal denial, Trump amplifies a claim of extraordinary influence over a global media dynasty. The McConnell attack reflects **agency** motives: asserting hierarchical control over the Republican party by delegitimizing the sitting Senate Minority Leader. Communion motives are absent except for the closing tribal appeal (MAGA!!!).

**Schema of self:** The unchallenged force who reshapes even media empires; the only legitimate leader of the Republican party.  
**Schema of others:** Party members who deviate from MAGA loyalty are functionally Democrats ('Democrat' Mitch McConnell), traitors deserving removal.  
**Schema of world:** Constant ideological warfare in which ambiguity equals betrayal.

## Level 3: Narrative Identity
**Protagonist role:** The rightful Republican king whose authority is undermined by treasonous subordinates.  
**Redemption sequence:** Implicit — once McConnell is removed, proper MAGA Republican leadership will be restored.  
**Contamination sequence:** The Senate has been contaminated by McConnell's collaboration; the Republican institution is corrupted from within.  
**Contrasting other:** McConnell is the primary foil — not a Democrat, but a Republican who has become indistinguishable from one, making him *more* treacherous than an acknowledged enemy.  
**Identity claim:** 'I am the only real Republican leader; the Senate has ZERO leadership without my faction.'

## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Malignant Narcissism
- **Narcissistic features (0.82):** Grandiosity (claiming credit for Murdoch resignation via deniable assertion), entitlement (implicit demand for McConnell's removal), need for admiration (supply extraction from Murdoch narrative).
- **Paranoid features (0.45):** McConnell framed as covert collaborator with the 'Radical Left'; Senate leadership characterized as enemy-adjacent.
- **Antisocial features (0.35):** Disregard for Republican coalition integrity; willing to damage own party's Senate functioning for loyalty compliance.
- **Sadism (0.30):** Mild — pleasure in labeling McConnell 'Democrat' as humiliation, but not pronounced cruelty in this post.

### Narcissistic Dynamics
**Trigger:** Murdoch's retirement (supply opportunity — flattering claim of Trump's power to end media dynasties) activating a **supply-seeking** dynamic that pivots into a **pre-existing narcissistic injury** from McConnell's non-MAGA Senate management. The government shutdown standoff is the political backdrop: McConnell's approach conflicts with MAGA hardliners, fueling Trump's delegitimization campaign.

**Narcissistic state:** Grandiose dominant with no visible vulnerable oscillation. Trump is asserting dominance over both a media mogul (implicitly) and a Senate leader (explicitly).

**Rage:** Present at moderate intensity (0.55). This is not the acute, dysregulated rage of an acute narcissistic injury post — it is the sustained, cold campaign-style devaluation of a long-identified internal enemy. Proportionality is low (0.30) — the response substantially exceeds any proximate trigger.

### Defense Mechanisms
1. **Denial (immature):** 'I do not believe this is so' — the classic Trump 'denial that amplifies.' The denial comes after the claim is fully planted; the mechanism simultaneously preserves deniability and extends the flattering narrative.
2. **Projection (immature):** McConnell labeled 'Democrat' — attributing defection/disloyalty to the other while Trump himself is leading intraparty destabilization.
3. **Splitting (pathological):** Zero nuance — McConnell bloc is functionally indistinguishable from 'Radical Left Lunatics.' No moderate category exists.
4. **Rationalization (neurotic):** Murdoch retirement used as a topically coherent pretext to launch the McConnell attack, providing a veneer of logical continuity for what is a preloaded grievance.

## Cognitive Status
Within normal Trump baseline range. Vocabulary and syntax are typical. The 'but while we're at it' pivot is impulsive but coherent. No word-finding anomalies, perseveration, or temporal confusion detected. The post's logic, while manipulative, is internally consistent. **No deviation from cognitive baseline.**

## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis
The post deploys five overlapping techniques simultaneously:
1. **Deniable assertion** via 'Many people are saying' — the most efficient of Trump's rhetorical tools for floating favorable claims without accountability.
2. **Social proof manufacturing** — the unnamed 'many people' create an implied consensus validating Trump's world-historical influence.
3. **Audience co-enrollment** via rhetorical question ('how about getting rid of...') — followers are pulled into authoring the demand rather than merely receiving it.
4. **Sustained narrative campaign** — the McConnell attack is not isolated; the previous day's Tuberville retweet ('Unlike McConnell and his group of automatic Democrat YES VOTES') establishes this as a coordinated, multi-day delegitimization effort.
5. **Tribal closure** — MAGA!!! functions as a loyalty signal/reward, completing the parasocial loop.

## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion
Moderate presence. The framing of McConnell as a de facto Democrat distorts a factual record of McConnell being one of the most reliably conservative senators by voting record. The 'ZERO Republican Leadership' claim is a direct reality distortion — McConnell leads Senate Republicans as Minority Leader. These are not cognitive confabulations but deliberate rhetorical inversions serving the loyalty-purge narrative.

## Danger Assessment
**Elevated.** 'Getting rid of' McConnell is political removal language directed at a sitting senior Republican senator. Within context of Trump's concurrent campaign to primary and unseat non-MAGA Republicans, this is eliminationist *political* language (not physical violence framing). The stochastic terrorism threshold is not met — no dehumanization of McConnell as subhuman, no implied violent action. However, the sustained campaign to delegitimize Senate Republican leadership during a government shutdown crisis carries real institutional destabilization risk.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Rupert Murdoch retired/stepped down" | **True** | Murdoch announced September 21, 2023 he would step down as chairman of Fox Corp and News Corp, transitioning to chairman emeritus |
| "Trump forced Rupert Murdoch into retirement" | **Unverifiable** | No public evidence supports causal link. Murdoch cited age (92) in his letter to staff. Trump's post nominally disclaims the claim while amplifying it. |
| "McConnell and his bloc give Democrats 'EVERYTHING they want'" | **Mostly False** | Hyperbolic. McConnell has blocked numerous Democratic priorities. Specific bipartisan votes (infrastructure, debt ceiling, Ukraine aid) exist but 'everything' is demonstrably false by the legislative record. |
| "ZERO Republican Leadership in the United States Senate" | **False** | McConnell was serving as Senate Minority Leader with an active leadership record. This is opinion framed as objective fact, inverting demonstrable reality for rhetorical effect. |

Overall Veracity: 43%

## Archetypal Analysis
**Primary archetypes activated:**
- **King/Tyrant:** Claims rightful authority over Republican party hierarchy; demands removal of a leader who won't submit.
- **Trickster:** The 'Many people are saying / I don't believe it' structure is pure Trickster — rules of evidence and accountability suspended; the forbidden claim (Trump ended Murdoch's reign) spoken and simultaneously disavowed.
- **Shadow projection:** McConnell as the shadow — the institutional, deal-making Republican establishment that Trump has disowned and projects treachery onto.

## Order and Chaos Dynamics
**Order attacker** directed inward at Republican Senate structure. Trump positions himself as restorer of proper MAGA order while attacking the existing Republican institutional order as corrupt. McConnell represents the old hierarchy; MAGA!!! represents the new one demanding to replace it. The government shutdown crisis provides political oxygen — McConnell's institutional approach to Senate management is precisely the behavior Trump is branding as treason.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 88%)

### Indicators

- 'Many people are saying' is one of Trump's most distinctive and well-documented rhetorical signatures
- Stream-of-consciousness pivot from Murdoch to McConnell with 'but while we're at it' — impulsive, unplanned transition
- Scare quotes used idiosyncratically: 'Democrat', 'yes', reflecting authentic Trump punctuation habits
- ALL CAPS on EVERYTHING and ZERO for emphasis — consistent with authentic style
- MAGA!!! exclamation triple-punctuation — standard authentic sign-off

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Comparison (Rupert Murdoch's announced retirement (Sept 21, 2023))

**Rage:** Intensity 55% targeting Mitch McConnell
- Proportionality: 30%

Sentiment: -0.45

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 82%
- Antisocial: 35%
- Paranoid: 45%
- Sadism: 30%

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- 'Many people are saying' — invites followers to be the unnamed validating chorus
- MAGA!!! sign-off as tribal rallying cry, closing the parasocial loop
- Rhetorical question ('how about getting rid of...') pulls audience into conspiratorial co-authorship of the attack

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- 'Getting rid of' McConnell — political elimination language targeting sitting Senate Minority Leader
- Part of documented sustained multi-day campaign to delegitimize McConnell's leadership during government shutdown crisis
- Intraparty loyalty-purge rhetoric during an acute institutional crisis (government shutdown deadline approaching Sept 30)
- Audience co-enrollment via rhetorical question pulls followers into authoring McConnell removal demand

### Gaslighting

- Labeling McConnell 'Democrat' inverts his documented legislative record — requires followers to accept a false characterization as a loyalty test
- 'ZERO Republican Leadership' denies observable institutional reality of McConnell's active Senate Minority Leader role
- The 'Many people are saying / I don't believe it' structure models reality denial while seeding the claim — followers who repeat the Murdoch claim are implicitly accepting Trump's world-historical influence as real

## Fact Checks (4)

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

> Rupert Murdoch retired/stepped down

**TRUE**

Murdoch announced September 21, 2023 he would step down as chairman of Fox Corp and News Corp, transitioning to chairman emeritus

Sources: Multiple news reports September 21-22, 2023

> Trump forced Rupert Murdoch into retirement

**UNVERIFIABLE**

No public evidence supports causal link. Murdoch cited age (92) in his letter to staff. Trump's post nominally disclaims the claim while amplifying it.

> McConnell and his bloc give Democrats 'EVERYTHING they want'

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Hyperbolic. McConnell has blocked numerous Democratic priorities. Specific bipartisan votes (infrastructure, debt ceiling, Ukraine aid) exist but 'everything' is demonstrably false by the legislative record.

> ZERO Republican Leadership in the United States Senate

**FALSE**

McConnell was serving as Senate Minority Leader with an active leadership record. This is opinion framed as objective fact, inverting demonstrable reality for rhetorical effect.

Overall Veracity: 43%

## Tags

- many_people_are_saying (95%)
- intraparty_attack (90%)
- mitch_mcconnell (90%)
- supply_seeking (85%)
- deniable_assertion (88%)
- splitting (85%)
- rupert_murdoch (75%)
- maga_signoff (80%)
- loyalty_purge (82%)
- institutional_destabilization (65%)

## That day

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

**Routine Campaign Day Culminates in Death-Penalty Allusion Against Retiring General Milley**

The day was dominated by routine campaign activity -- aide-posted links promoting favorable polls, proxy attacks on Ron DeSantis through Laura Loomer articles, and a plug for a new border surveillance website. A morning broadside against Mitch McConnell set a combative tone but stayed within typical bounds. The day's final post, however, was a sustained attack on retiring General Mark Milley that included an explicit reference to execution as punishment for treason -- the most dangerous content of the day by a wide margin.

Full digest for 2023-09-22: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-22/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 22). Many people are saying that,”You forced Rupert... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111108732912114792
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Many people are saying that,”You forced Rupert Murdoch into..." Truth Social, 22 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111108732912114792. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Many people are saying that,”You forced Rupert Murdoch into...," Truth Social, September 22, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111108732912114792.

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