# Post ts_111122815628828712

- Post ID: `ts_111122815628828712`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-09-24T23:53:23.800Z (UTC)
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## Post text

> They are almost all dishonest and corrupt, but Comcast, with its one-side and vicious coverage by NBC NEWS, and in particular MSNBC, often and correctly referred to as MSDNC (Democrat National Committee!), should be investigated for its “Country Threatening Treason.” Their endless coverage of the now fully debunked SCAM known as Russia, Russia, Russia, and much else, is one big Campaign Contribution to the Radical Left Democrat Party. I say up front, openly, and proudly, that when I WIN the Presidency of the United States, they and others of the LameStream Media will be thoroughly scrutinized for their knowingly dishonest and corrupt coverage of people, things, and events. Why should NBC, or any other of the corrupt & dishonest media companies, be entitled to use the very valuable Airwaves of the USA, FREE? They are a true threat to Democracy and are, in fact, THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE! The Fake News Media should pay a big price for what they have done to our once great Country!

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.397Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T08:59:15.676Z (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 is clinically significant not for emotional intensity — which is baseline Trump — but for the specificity of its authoritarian threat architecture. Operating in a grandiose narcissistic state following a Dubuque campaign rally, Trump explicitly pre-announces plans to weaponize FCC regulatory authority against named media institutions upon winning the presidency. The 'ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE' construction carries documented Jacobin-to-Stalinist lineage specifically used to remove targets from civic legitimacy before persecution. Defense mechanisms include pathological denial (Russia investigation 'fully debunked' despite 34 indictments), projection (accusing press of threatening democracy while planning press suppression), and splitting (categorical corruption attribution). The malignant narcissism tetrad is fully expressed: narcissistic grandiosity, antisocial disregard for constitutional constraints, paranoid global-malevolence attribution, and ego-syntonic sadism — the pleasure in punitive intent framed as virtue via 'openly and proudly.' No cognitive decline markers are present; this is authentic Trump (high confidence) at established behavioral baseline. Danger rating HIGH: the post constitutes institutional eliminationism — specific targets named, legal frame established (treason), punishment pre-announced, normalized as patriotic governance. This is structurally more dangerous than vague intimidation precisely because of its specificity and the explicit virtue-framing of the authoritarian impulse.

## Authorship Attribution
**Verdict: Authentic Trump — High Confidence**

The post was published at 23:53 UTC / 18:53 CDT on September 24, 2023. Trump held a campaign rally in Dubuque, Iowa that day (speaking 77 minutes on border/immigration). Late-afternoon/evening posting from a post-rally emotional state is the most authentic Trump window. Style markers are definitive: stream-of-consciousness run-ons, parenthetical asides ("Democrat National Committee!"), ALL CAPS emphasis bursts, the lexical coinage "MSDNC," multiple exclamation points, the self-congratulatory "openly, and proudly" construction, and abrupt rhetorical pivots. The raw HTML entity `&` is a Truth Social rendering artifact, not editorial polish. No aide writes sentences structured this way.

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## Psychological State and Triggers

The proximate trigger is chronic rather than acute: no single news event is cited; instead, this is cumulative narcissistic injury from institutional media perceived as systematically hostile. The Russia investigation — concluded years prior — remains an active wound, consistent with the pathological grudge-bearing pattern of malignant narcissism. The narcissistic **state is grandiose**: expansive, dominant, future-oriented ("when I WIN"), and expressing power through threatened governmental action rather than wounded withdrawal. However, the paranoid substrate ("they are almost all dishonest and corrupt") reveals the mixed grandiose-vulnerable oscillation characteristic of Kernberg's malignant narcissism construct.

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## Multi-Level Personality Framework (McAdams & Pals, 2006)

**Level 1 — Dispositional Traits:**
- Low agreeableness: contempt, global attribution of malevolence to institutional actors
- High assertiveness (extraversion facet): dominant, declarative, commanding
- Low openness: rigid values, zero epistemic flexibility
- Hostile affect (neuroticism facet): barely sublimated rage throughout
- No conscientiousness markers: no deliberation, no restraint, no proportionality

**Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations:**
Dominant agency motive: **power and control**. The explicit pledge to use FCC licensing as punishment is not metaphorical — it is a stated power-assertion directed at institutional opponents. Achievement motive appears instrumentally (electoral victory framing). Communion motives: entirely absent.

Schemas: Media is wholly corrupt. Press freedom is a cover for partisan warfare. Presidential power properly deployed = punishing enemies. Self = lone truth-teller.

**Level 3 — Narrative Identity:**
- Protagonist: Warrior-Savior fighting on behalf of "our once great Country" against corrupt institutional actors
- Contamination sequence: Great country → ruined by dishonest media
- Redemption implied: winning the presidency restores order
- Contrasting other: "Radical Left Democrat Party" and their media apparatus
- Identity claims: "openly and proudly" — virtue signaled through transparency of retributive intent

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## Clinical Indicators

### Malignant Narcissism (Kernberg 1984/1992)

**A. Narcissistic Features (high):**
Grandiosity ("when I WIN the Presidency"); entitlement (presidential power framed as legitimately deployable against critics); lack of empathy (zero acknowledgment of press freedom); arrogant self-congratulation ("openly, and proudly").

**B. Antisocial Features (moderate-high):**
Explicit promise to weaponize governmental regulatory power for personal retaliation. Disregard for First Amendment protections. "Pay a big price" signals punitive intent with no due process consideration. Prior same-day posts reference "illegal" FBI raid while implicitly approving mirror-image governmental action against enemies.

**C. Paranoid Features (high):**
"Almost all dishonest and corrupt" — global malevolence attribution with no exceptions permitted. Preoccupation with Russia investigation years after conclusion. Institutional grudge-bearing. Counter-attack is not proportionate — it is total and permanent ("thoroughly scrutinized").

**D. Ego-Syntonic Sadism (moderate):**
"Pay a big price" — punitive pleasure framed as patriotism. The public declaration of future retaliation ("openly, and proudly") signals not just intent but *enjoyment* of the anticipated punishment. Delight is made explicit and virtue-framed.

### Narcissistic Rage
Present. Intensity: 0.78. Disproportionate to any proximate trigger (no specific news event cited; chronic grievance activation). Target: institutional (NBC, MSNBC, Comcast). The rage is discharged upward through projected authority — not implosive rage but grandiose rage, which is the more dangerous form.

### Defense Mechanisms
- **Denial** (pathological): "now fully debunked SCAM" — wholesale refusal of documented reality (34 Mueller indictments, Senate Intelligence bipartisan confirmation of Russian interference)
- **Projection** (immature): Accusing media of being enemy of democracy while explicitly planning authoritarian press suppression
- **Splitting** (immature): Media is entirely corrupt, no gradient admitted
- **Rationalization** (neurotic): Reframing retaliatory governmental action as legitimate regulatory inquiry ("entitled to use... Airwaves... FREE?")
- **Acting out** (immature): Public declaration of future punitive action as emotional discharge

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## Cognitive Status Assessment

No notable deviations from Trump's established baseline. Vocabulary, syntactic structure, and coherence match his documented speech patterns from 2016–present. Parenthetical asides, CAPS bursts, and run-on construction are consistent stylistic features, not cognitive disorganization. The "MSDNC" coinage shows active wordplay capacity. **No markers of decline present in this post.** Complexity score at or near Trump's established baseline.

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## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis

**"ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE"** is the clinically and historically most significant phrase in this post. Its lineage runs from the Jacobin Terror through Leninist and Stalinist usage — employed specifically to remove targets from the sphere of legitimate political participation and render them subject to extraordinary measures. Trump's use is not accidental; it has been consistent since 2017 and functions as an eliminationist frame.

Additional techniques identified:
- **Eliminationist framing**: "Treason" charge removes media actors from civic legitimacy
- **Authoritarian promise**: Explicit pre-announcement of executive-branch regulatory retaliation
- **Lexical capture**: "MSDNC," "LameStream Media," "Fake News" — parallel taxonomy replacing mainstream labels
- **False legal equivalence**: News coverage reframed as illegal "Campaign Contribution" (no legal basis)
- **Fairness appeal**: Airwave licensing rhetorically reframed as market subsidy for enemies
- **Hyperbole/superlatives**: "Country Threatening Treason," "one big Campaign Contribution"
- **Ad hominem**: Entire category of people/institutions dismissed as corrupt without specific evidence
- **RAND Firehose**: Volume of accusations makes individual rebuttal impossible

**Dehumanizing language:** Institutional rather than personal, but "threat to Democracy" and "ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE" perform the dehumanization at scale.

**Violent imagery:** "Pay a big price" is the closest to violent imagery — retributive rather than physically violent, but the framing is punitive and eliminationist in effect.

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## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

- **Denial of documented events**: Russia investigation characterized as "fully debunked" — directly contradicted by Mueller report, Senate Intelligence Committee findings, and 34 indictments
- **Reality inversion**: Threatens to use presidential power to punish press while simultaneously claiming media is a "threat to Democracy"
- **DARVO pattern**: Media (accusers) recast as criminals ("Treason"); Trump (investigated) recast as victim and righteous enforcer
- **Epistemic closure**: Readers accepting this framing must accept that documented federal investigations are fabrications — a loyalty test requiring departure from verifiable reality

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## Danger Assessment

**DANGER LEVEL: HIGH**

This post is distinguished from routine media attacks by one specific element: it is not vague intimidation but an *explicit, pre-announced governmental action plan* — a promise to weaponize FCC licensing review against named media institutions after winning the presidency. The combination of:
1. Specific institutional targets (NBC, MSNBC, Comcast)
2. Legal/criminal framing ("Treason")
3. Eliminationist language ("ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE")
4. Explicit retributive promise ("thoroughly scrutinized," "pay a big price")
5. Massive audience amplification

...constitutes a structural template for authoritarian press suppression, announced publicly and framed as patriotic virtue. The historical danger of "enemy of the people" rhetoric is well-documented; combined with stated executive-power threats, this post warrants high flagging. It is not stochastic terrorism (no individual civilian actors mobilized against specific persons) but represents **institutional eliminationism** — a threat to press freedom as a systemic act of political retaliation.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Russia investigation is 'now fully debunked SCAM'" | **False** | Mueller investigation produced 34 indictments, 7 guilty pleas/convictions, confirmed multiple instances of Russian interference. Bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee (Republican-chaired) issued 5-volume report confirming Russian interference with detailed documentation of contacts and tactics. No credible authority has 'fully debunked' core findings. |
| "Media companies use airwaves 'FREE'" | **Mostly False** | Broadcast licenses carry public interest obligations, regulatory fees, license renewal requirements, and content standards obligations. However, broadcasters do not pay competitive spectrum auction prices equivalent to wireless carriers. 'FREE' is an overstatement; some subsidy argument exists but is substantially exaggerated. |
| "Media coverage constitutes a 'Campaign Contribution to the Radical Left Democrat Party'" | **False** | No FEC authority has applied this legal characterization to editorial news coverage. News coverage, even editorially biased, is constitutionally protected and legally distinct from campaign contributions under FEC regulations and Supreme Court precedent. |
| "MSNBC 'correctly referred to as MSDNC (Democrat National Committee!)'" | **False** | Polemical coinage with no factual basis. MSNBC is a subsidiary of NBCUniversal (owned by Comcast), not an organ of the DNC. No organizational, financial, or governance relationship exists between the entities. |

Overall Veracity: 5%

## Summary

This post represents one of the more clinically significant entries in the corpus, distinguished not by emotional intensity (which is routine) but by the specificity of its authoritarian threat. Operating from a grandiose narcissistic state following a Dubuque rally, Trump explicitly pre-announces plans to weaponize FCC regulatory authority against named media institutions upon winning the presidency. The "ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE" construction — with its documented historical lineage through Jacobin, Leninist, and Stalinist usage — functions as eliminationist framing that removes targets from civic legitimacy. Defense mechanisms include pathological denial (Russia investigation "fully debunked"), projection (accusing press of democratic threat while planning press suppression), and splitting (categorical corruption attribution). The post demonstrates the characteristic malignant narcissism tetrad: narcissistic grandiosity, antisocial disregard for constitutional constraints, paranoid global-malevolence attribution, and ego-syntonic satisfaction in articulating punitive intent. No cognitive decline markers are present; this is authentic Trump operating at his established baseline. Danger rating: HIGH, based on explicit institutional targeting combined with pre-announced executive retaliation and eliminationist rhetoric.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 92%)

### Indicators

- Post published 18:53 CDT following Dubuque, Iowa campaign rally — authentic Trump post-rally window
- Stream-of-consciousness run-on construction characteristic of authentic Trump
- Parenthetical asides: '(Democrat National Committee!)' — signature authentic style
- ALL CAPS bursts: 'MSDNC,' 'THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE,' 'WIN'
- Lexical coinage 'MSDNC' — active wordplay consistent with authentic authorship

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (NBC/MSNBC institutional media coverage)

**Rage:** Intensity 78% targeting NBC/MSNBC/Comcast institutional media
- Proportionality: 15%

Sentiment: -0.72

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 88%
- Antisocial: 80%
- Paranoid: 82%
- Sadism: 65%

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Us-vs-them framing creating in-group solidarity against media enemy
- Explicit promise of future action rewarding loyal followers' grievances
- Virtue-signaling transparency ('openly and proudly') to model non-shame around authoritarian impulses
- Grievance amplification validating audience's media distrust

## Danger Assessment

**HIGH**

### Indicators

- Explicit pre-announcement of FCC regulatory retaliation against named media institutions upon winning presidency
- 'THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE' — phrase with documented Jacobin/Leninist/Stalinist lineage used to remove targets from civic legitimacy before persecution
- 'Treason' framing creates quasi-legal justification framework for extraordinary governmental action against press
- 'Pay a big price' — explicit retributive promise with undefined but implied severity
- Specific institutional targets named (NBC, MSNBC, Comcast) rather than general media category — precision targeting
- Post-rally audience of mobilized supporters amplifies threat against named institutions
- Framing of authoritarian press suppression as patriotic virtue normalizes concept for followers
- Eliminationist structure complete: target named, grievance articulated (treason), punishment pre-announced

### Gaslighting

- Characterizes documented federal investigation with 34 indictments as 'fully debunked SCAM' — denial of verifiable historical record
- Reality inversion: frames planned press suppression as defense of democracy while accusing press of being democracy's threat
- DARVO pattern: media (institutional accusers) recast as criminals committing 'Treason'; investigated subject recast as righteous enforcer
- Epistemic closure demand: accepting this post's framing requires rejecting findings of federal courts, DOJ, and bipartisan Senate committee
- Reframes retaliatory governmental action as legitimate regulatory inquiry (airwave licensing question)

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

## Fact Checks (4)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._

> Russia investigation is 'now fully debunked SCAM'

**FALSE**

Mueller investigation produced 34 indictments, 7 guilty pleas/convictions, confirmed multiple instances of Russian interference. Bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee (Republican-chaired) issued 5-volume report confirming Russian interference with detailed documentation of contacts and tactics. No credible authority has 'fully debunked' core findings.

Sources: Mueller Report (March 2019); Senate Intelligence Committee Report Vol. 1-5 (2020); DOJ indictments of Internet Research Agency, GRU officers

> Media companies use airwaves 'FREE'

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Broadcast licenses carry public interest obligations, regulatory fees, license renewal requirements, and content standards obligations. However, broadcasters do not pay competitive spectrum auction prices equivalent to wireless carriers. 'FREE' is an overstatement; some subsidy argument exists but is substantially exaggerated.

Sources: FCC broadcast licensing regulations; Spectrum auction history

> Media coverage constitutes a 'Campaign Contribution to the Radical Left Democrat Party'

**FALSE**

No FEC authority has applied this legal characterization to editorial news coverage. News coverage, even editorially biased, is constitutionally protected and legally distinct from campaign contributions under FEC regulations and Supreme Court precedent.

Sources: FEC regulations 11 CFR 100.73; Citizens United v. FEC (2010); FEC press exemption doctrine

> MSNBC 'correctly referred to as MSDNC (Democrat National Committee!)'

**FALSE**

Polemical coinage with no factual basis. MSNBC is a subsidiary of NBCUniversal (owned by Comcast), not an organ of the DNC. No organizational, financial, or governance relationship exists between the entities.

Sources: NBCUniversal corporate structure; DNC organizational filings

Overall Veracity: 5%

## Tags

- press freedom threat (95%)
- enemy of the people (92%)
- authoritarian media suppression (90%)
- institutional eliminationism (88%)
- FCC weaponization threat (85%)
- malignant narcissism (85%)
- narcissistic grandiosity (82%)
- ego-syntonic sadism (72%)
- Russia hoax denial (80%)
- DARVO (78%)
- media attacks (88%)
- campaign rally aftermath (65%)
- authentic authorship (92%)
- post-rally emotional discharge (70%)

## 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). They are almost all dishonest and corrupt, but... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111122815628828712
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- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "They are almost all dishonest and corrupt, but Comcast,...," Truth Social, September 24, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111122815628828712.

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