# Post ts_111116123037726712 - Post ID: `ts_111116123037726712` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-09-23T19:31:22.874Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111116123037726712 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111116123037726712/analysis ## Post text > https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/23/trumps-favorability-continues-rise/ ## Engagement - Likes: 11,835 - Reposts: 2,599 - Replies: 272 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.397Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T08:35:17.839Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Post Analysis: ts_111116123037726712 — Breitbart Favorability Link Share (2023-09-23) ## Overview This post consists entirely of a single URL with no accompanying text — a link to a Breitbart article headlined "Trump's Favorability Continues Rise." It is one of several link-only posts on this date, with a previous post sharing a Gateway Pundit article about Steve Bannon praising Trump. The post is psychologically minimal in raw material but diagnostically meaningful precisely *because* of its minimalism: it is a nearly pure specimen of narcissistic supply amplification with almost no noise. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Local time analysis:** On 2023-09-23, Trump held a campaign rally in Dubuque, Iowa, placing him in the Central Daylight Time zone (UTC−5). The post timestamp of 19:31 UTC converts to **2:31 PM CDT** — solidly within business hours. Alternatively, if still traveling from or to Bedminster (location of his Meet the Press interview, which may have been recorded nearby during this period), Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4) would place it at **3:31 PM EDT** — equally mid-afternoon. Either way, this is a daytime post with zero text, no typos, no emotional signature, no ALL CAPS, and no stream-of-consciousness content. The post conforms to the "clean link drop" pattern associated with aide (Scavino) posting: formatted, purposeful, content-free in terms of personal voice. The pattern is replicated throughout this date's post history — multiple bare-URL posts in apparent rapid succession, typical of a scheduled or batch-posted social media queue. **Verdict: High confidence aide-written (Scavino pattern).** Trump's authentic posts almost always include at least a phrase of personal commentary, especially on content flattering to himself. The absence of any "So true!", "Incredible numbers!", or similar injection is the tell. --- ## Psychological State & Triggers Despite the post being aide-authored, the *content selected* reflects the subject's psychological needs. The choice to amplify a favorability story is a textbook **supply-seeking behavior** — using the platform to funnel third-party validation back to the audience, converting media coverage into audience-delivered admiration. The article title itself ("continues rise") implies momentum, a narrative of ascent the subject is known to prize above almost all others. **Trigger type:** Maintenance / supply-seeking. No acute narcissistic injury is evident. This is ambient grandiosity maintenance, the routine replenishment of the narcissistic reservoir through favorable metrics. **Narcissistic state:** Grandiose. The post implicitly asserts: *I am winning. My numbers are going up. The world is recognizing what I always knew.* This is accomplished without a single word authored by the subject — the rhetorical economy is striking. **Context note:** The same day includes an Iowa campaign rally (77 minutes focused on border/immigration) and the broader backdrop of Trump's Meet the Press interview, government shutdown news, and Menendez indictment. The Menendez indictment is notable: a Democratic senator indicted on bribery charges provides implicit whataboutism fodder, yet Trump's posting this day focuses on personal favorability rather than attacking the political moment — suggesting the favorability narrative was the dominant psychological priority. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) The post is too thin to reliably score traits from authentic expression. However, the *selection* of this content: - **Low Agreeableness** facets are absent here — no attack, no devaluation. - **High Extraversion** (positive affect seeking, attention) is implied by the amplification of public favorability metrics. - **High Neuroticism** facets (angry hostility, vulnerability) are dormant in this post. The baseline trait signature cannot be meaningfully assessed from a URL-only post. --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations - **Dominant motive: Agency (status, power).** Favorability polling is a status metric; sharing it asserts dominance in the political hierarchy. - **Schema revealed:** *The public is recognizing my greatness. The numbers confirm what was always true.* This reflects the characteristic adaptation of externalizing validation — self-worth mediated through polls, crowd sizes, ratings. - **Communion motives:** Absent. No intimacy, belonging, or care directed at audience. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** The ascending champion. "Favorability continues rise" positions the subject as a figure whose trajectory is upward, comeback in progress. - **Narrative sequence:** Redemption arc — the implicit story is post-2020 defeat → ongoing resurgence → inevitable return. A single favorability headline reinforces this arc without requiring any explicit claim. - **Identity claim:** *I am more popular than ever. The people have not abandoned me.* - **Contrasting other:** Implicit (Biden, whose favorability is presumably lower, though unmentioned). --- ## Defense Mechanisms Given aide authorship and zero personal text, direct defense mechanisms cannot be assessed. The *content choice* reflects: - **Denial** (structural): sharing positive metrics functions as implicit denial of legal jeopardy, electoral uncertainty, and unfavorable coverage dominating this period. - **Rationalization** (weak): the poll narrative provides logical scaffolding for the "I am winning" self-concept despite four simultaneous criminal indictments in progress. --- ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques - **Appeal to authority (metrics):** Polls and favorability numbers are deployed as objective validators of subjective worth. - **Source credibility manipulation:** Breitbart is a partisan outlet whose polling methodology and editorial framing favor the subject; presenting it as a neutral data source is misleading by source selection. - **Momentum narrative:** "Continues rise" implies an ongoing trend, not a snapshot — rhetorical framing that implies inevitability. - **Parasocial technique:** No explicit call to action, but the share invites followers to celebrate alongside the subject, reinforcing in-group solidarity around the subject's electoral identity. No dehumanizing language, violent imagery, or stochastic terrorism indicators are present. --- ## Cognitive Status Assessment **Insufficient data for meaningful assessment.** A URL-only post yields no language production data. No cognitive markers can be assessed from this sample. Longitudinal tracking should not weight this post. --- ## Archetypal Analysis - **Primary archetype activated:** King — the sovereign whose favor with the people is being reaffirmed. The favorability poll is the Jungian equivalent of subjects cheering for the returning monarch. - **Secondary archetype:** Hero/Savior (latent) — the comeback arc embedded in "continues rise" implies eventual restoration. - **Shadow projection:** Absent in this post. --- ## Gaslighting / Reality Distortion None present in this post. --- ## Danger Assessment **None.** No eliminationist language, no target identification, no violent imagery. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Trump's favorability continues to rise" | **Half True** | Polling aggregates from this period did show modest improvement in Trump's Republican primary favorability through mid-2023, driven in part by a rally-around-the-indicted effect following multiple criminal indictments. General election favorability versus Biden was essentially within polling margins. The headline reflects real trend data but is editorially amplified by a partisan outlet to convey greater momentum than aggregate polling supports. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Summary This is a low-signal, aide-authored link post with no authentic textual content from the subject. Its primary psychological significance lies in what it *selects* rather than what it *says*: favorability amplification as narcissistic supply maintenance, executed without personal commentary. The absence of Trump's characteristic voice (superlatives, ALL CAPS, reactive commentary) confirms aide authorship with high confidence. The post fits a broader pattern of surrogate content curation that keeps the subject's personal brand associated with winning and ascent while outsourcing the actual posting labor. No clinical deviation from baseline is present; this is routine supply-maintenance behavior in grandiose register. The post warrants no summary flag for clinical significance. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 10%) ### Indicators - Mid-afternoon post (2:31 PM CDT / 3:31 PM EDT) — business hours, not late-night authentic Trump window - Zero accompanying text — Trump almost always adds personal commentary on flattering content - Clean URL-only format consistent with Scavino batch-posting pattern - Multiple bare-URL posts on same date suggesting scheduled or queued social media workflow - No typos, no ALL CAPS, no emotional signature, no superlatives ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Breitbart favorability article) Sentiment: +0.60 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 30% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - denial (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Invites followers to celebrate positive metrics alongside subject, reinforcing in-group identity around electoral viability - Uses third-party source (Breitbart) to deliver self-flattering message with the appearance of objective validation ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._ > Trump's favorability continues to rise **HALF TRUE** Polling aggregates from this period did show modest improvement in Trump's Republican primary favorability through mid-2023, driven in part by a rally-around-the-indicted effect following multiple criminal indictments. General election favorability versus Biden was essentially within polling margins. The headline reflects real trend data but is editorially amplified by a partisan outlet to convey greater momentum than aggregate polling supports. Sources: RealClearPolitics polling averages (September 2023); FiveThirtyEight polling tracker (September 2023) Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - supply-seeking (90%) - aide-authored (90%) - grandiose-state (60%) - favorability-amplification (85%) - breitbart-ecosystem (70%) - link-only-post (95%) - momentum-narrative (70%) - redemption-arc (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **After-Midnight Rage Spiral and Evening Election Alarm Bracket a Day of Grandiose Self-Validation** Trump's day unfolded in three distinct phases: a late-night burst of increasingly angry posts attacking Howard Stern, Biden, and the 2020 election results, followed by a quiet afternoon of sharing flattering articles and claiming he predicted aerospace disasters. The day closed with a furious all-caps post accusing Democrats of stealing Pennsylvania through automatic voter registration. The mood swung between self-congratulatory calm and bursts of genuine anger, with economic populism around the UAW strike serving as the through-line connecting the grievances. Full digest for 2023-09-23: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-23/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 23). https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/23/trum... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111116123037726712 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/23/trumps-favorab..." Truth Social, 23 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111116123037726712. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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