# Post ts_111121741713551361 - Post ID: `ts_111121741713551361` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-09-24T19:20:17.064Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111121741713551361 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111121741713551361/analysis ## Post text > https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kevin-tober/2023/09/24/panic-abc-hyperventilates-over-poll-showing-trump-beating-biden-big ## Engagement - Likes: 8,262 - Reposts: 2,181 - Replies: 293 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.397Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T08:50:30.319Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2023-09-24T19:20:17Z ## Overview This post consists entirely of a bare URL linking to a NewsBusters article headlined around ABC "hyperventilating" over a poll showing Trump beating Biden "big." It contains no original text and is analytically thin as a standalone artifact; its significance is primarily contextual and sequential. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Verdict: Aide-authored (high confidence)** UTC 19:20:17 converts to **3:20 PM EDT** (or 2:20 PM CDT if still in Iowa following the Dubuque rally). Either reading places this squarely in business hours — well outside the late-night/early-morning window associated with authentic Trump posting. The post's pure URL format — no text, no emotional punctuation, no ALL CAPS — is the signature of Scavino-style media curation. Critically, this is the **third consecutive URL share** on the same day, all linking to different conservative outlets reporting the same favorable ABC/Washington Post poll: American Thinker → Mediaite → NewsBusters. This sequenced, multi-source amplification pattern reflects editorial strategy rather than impulsive self-expression. --- ## Psychological Dynamics **State: Grandiose (muted expression)** The triggering context is the ABC News/Washington Post poll showing Trump leading Biden by 10 points among registered voters — a genuine narcissistic supply event. Rather than narcissistic injury requiring defense, this post responds to favorable external validation. The behavioral response is **supply-seeking through broadcast**: accumulating and disseminating evidence of electoral dominance to an audience whose enthusiastic reception feeds the grandiose self-narrative. The selection of NewsBusters is non-trivial. The framing embedded in the linked headline — that ABC "hyperventilates," that the poll shows Trump winning "big" — does rhetorical work the subject never explicitly claims. Mainstream media alarm is reframed as involuntary tribute: *even my opponents cannot contain their panic at my strength.* This is supply extraction from the perceived enemy's distress rather than merely from allied praise. **Trigger classification: Supply-seeking** (not narcissistic injury). The broader day's posting pattern — including the preceding abortion self-credit post ("I GOT IT DONE!") and the voter fraud alarm post — shows oscillation between grandiose self-aggrandizement and threat-vigilance, but this particular post sits firmly in the grandiose register. --- ## Defense Mechanisms **Rationalization (neurotic level):** The link title frames media alarm as confirmatory data rather than as a signal that the poll result is contested, subject to methodological critique, or a statistical outlier. Mainstream discomfort becomes proof of validity. No pathological or immature defenses are operationally present in this post's minimal content. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis The post deploys **borrowed authority** and **repetition through volume**. By using a conservative media watchdog (NewsBusters) as the final amplifier in a three-outlet sequence, the message gains apparent depth through source diversity while remaining ideologically homogeneous. The URL-only format creates studied nonchalance — a "this speaks for itself" posture — that paradoxically heightens the triumphalist signal by implying the data is so favorable it requires no elaboration. The embedded framing of "hyperventilates" pathologizes media reaction, reinforcing the in-group narrative that institutional opposition to Trump is emotional rather than substantive. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "ABC News poll shows Trump beating Biden 'big'" | **Mostly True** | The Mediaite article shared in the immediately preceding post confirms an ABC News/Washington Post poll showing Trump leading Biden by 10 points among registered voters — described even by ABC's own panel as a 'poll shocker.' NewsBusters is reporting on the same data. | Overall Veracity: 80% ## Longitudinal Context This post sits within a dense same-day sequence illustrating the subject's (or his team's) capacity to rapidly curate favorable signal. The day opened with a threat-vigilance post (Pennsylvania voter registration "scam"), shifted to grandiose self-credit (abortion), then pivoted to three consecutive poll-amplification shares. This pattern — threat/grievance → self-aggrandizement → external validation loop — is consistent with documented behavioral cycles across the broader corpus. --- ## Danger Assessment **None.** No eliminationist language, no target identification, no violent imagery. Standard electoral signal-boosting. --- *Note: Clinical summary omitted — post does not meet threshold for clinically significant standalone content. Psychological significance is primarily contextual (sequential posting pattern, supply-seeking dynamics) rather than intrinsic to post content.* ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 20%) ### Indicators - UTC 19:20:17 converts to approximately 3:20 PM EDT (Trump likely in or returning from Dubuque, Iowa rally — CDT would make it 2:20 PM), firmly within business hours - Post is bare URL with zero accompanying text — a hallmark of aide-curated media amplification - Part of a coordinated same-day sequence of URL shares (American Thinker, Mediaite, now NewsBusters) all promoting the same favorable polling narrative, suggesting editorial curation rather than spontaneous posting - No typos, emotional punctuation, ALL CAPS, or stream-of-consciousness text that would mark authentic Trump authorship ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (ABC News poll showing Trump leading Biden by 10 points) Sentiment: +0.55 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 30% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 10% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Signal-boosting favorable third-party media to provide audience with 'permission' to feel optimistic about Trump's prospects - Outsourcing the triumphalist framing to a conservative media outlet (NewsBusters) while maintaining plausible neutrality through URL-only format ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._ > ABC News poll shows Trump beating Biden 'big' **MOSTLY TRUE** The Mediaite article shared in the immediately preceding post confirms an ABC News/Washington Post poll showing Trump leading Biden by 10 points among registered voters — described even by ABC's own panel as a 'poll shocker.' NewsBusters is reporting on the same data. Sources: Same-session prior post linking Mediaite coverage of same poll; Known events context confirming active polling period Overall Veracity: 80% ## Tags - supply-seeking (70%) - signal-boosting (80%) - aide-authored (80%) - electoral-grandiosity (50%) - media-criticism (60%) - poll-amplification (90%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **From Abortion Victory Lap to Media 'Treason' Threats: Grandiosity Curdles Into Authoritarian Escalation** Trump spent most of the day in self-congratulatory mode, sharing a flood of favorable polling articles and claiming sole credit for overturning Roe v. Wade. The afternoon brought a burst of link-sharing -- over a dozen posts in two hours, mostly curated by staff -- highlighting polls showing him leading Biden by 10 points. The mood darkened toward evening as he pivoted to the Menendez indictment to relitigate his own legal grievances, and the day ended with the most alarming post: an explicit threat to use federal regulatory power against NBC and MSNBC for what he called "Country Threatening Treason." That final post stood out as a concrete, specific vision of press suppression framed as patriotic duty. Full digest for 2023-09-24: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-24/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 24). https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kevin-tober/2023/... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111121741713551361 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kevin-tober/2023/09/24/pani..." Truth Social, 24 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111121741713551361. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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