# Post ts_111123274488248502

- Post ID: `ts_111123274488248502`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-09-25T01:50:05.356Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
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## Post text

> To show everyone how FAKE the News Media is, ABC WORLD NEWS on Sunday Morning, their big News Show, covered every aspect of a Poll on Crooked Joe Biden, except for the biggest and most important FACT, that he was losing to a person known as DONALD J. TRUMP by a staggering 10 Points. They spend millions of dollars on these polls, and then, if the result isn’t what they want it to be, refuse to properly report the results. This is what Fake News is all about, and the public has quickly gotten wise to it. ABC FAKE NEWS SHOULD BE ASHAMED!!!

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T09:00:43.531Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

A textbook narcissistic media cycle post: an ABC/Washington Post poll showing Trump +10 over Biden supplies grandiose self-image, but ABC's alleged de-emphasis of that figure constitutes supply interruption — triggering a rage response performed as public grievance. The post oscillates between grandiose ("staggering 10 Points," formal third-person self-naming as "DONALD J. TRUMP") and vulnerable ("they refuse to properly report") states within a single paragraph, illustrating the fragility underlying grandiose self-presentation. Dominant defense mechanisms — splitting, projection, and rationalization — operate simultaneously. Projection is particularly salient: Trump accuses ABC of selective data presentation while himself presenting only the poll's most favorable single metric. The 'SHOULD BE ASHAMED!!!' finale is narcissistic rage discharge, disproportionate to the editorial trigger. The ABC/Washington Post poll controversy had genuine factual basis — coverage was criticized by media critics — making this a case of legitimate grievance amplified through a paranoid and grandiose filter. Authorship is confidently authentic (9:50 PM local time, ALL CAPS pattern, triple exclamation mark, third-person grandiose self-naming). No cognitive markers of concern; consistent with established baseline. Danger level: none in isolation; mildly elevated in context of same-day cluster calling NBC's coverage 'Country Threatening Treason.' Stable longitudinal trajectory — this pattern is frequent and shows no deviation from prior behavior.

# Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2023-09-25T01:50:05Z (ts_111123274488248502)

## Authorship Attribution

**Local Time Assessment:** UTC 01:50:05 converts to 9:50 PM EDT (Trump Tower/NYC) or 8:50 PM CDT (Dubuque, Iowa, where a rally was held that day per the events log). Either timezone places this in late-evening hours — consistent with Trump's documented personal posting window. The stylistic fingerprint confirms authenticity at high confidence.

**Authentic Trump Markers Present:**
- Multiple ALL CAPS passages ("FAKE," "DONALD J. TRUMP," "ABC FAKE NEWS SHOULD BE ASHAMED!!!")
- Triple exclamation mark finale — a signature intensity marker
- Stream-of-consciousness syntactic looseness ("covered every aspect of a Poll on Crooked Joe Biden, *except for*...")
- Third-person self-reference with full formal name: "a person known as DONALD J. TRUMP" — a stylistically unique grandiose device Trump employs when the subject is his own dominance
- Nickname deployment ("Crooked Joe Biden")
- Reactive grievance structure (media wound → counterattack)

No aide-written indicators (polished grammar, event announcements, neutral tone, business hours) are present.

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## Psychological Analysis

### Trigger Identification
The triggering dynamic is bifurcated:

1. **Narcissistic supply activation**: An ABC/Washington Post poll reportedly showing Trump +10 over Biden constitutes potent narcissistic supply — external confirmation of dominance and imminent victory
2. **Supply interruption as narcissistic injury**: ABC's alleged omission of this specific figure transforms available supply into a wound. The media "took" something Trump was owed. This is the core psychodynamic structure of the post.

The previous post on 2023-09-24 already engaged this supply vein ("The WAPO has just increased my polling lead...to 10 Points, from 9"). The present post recycles the same 10-point lead, now reframed through grievance. The poll result is simultaneously trophy and weapon.

### Narcissistic State: Grandiose/Vulnerable Oscillation
This post exemplifies the **grandiose-vulnerable oscillation** characteristic of narcissistic personality structure:

- **Grandiose pole**: He is winning by "a staggering 10 Points"; his identity is formalized as "DONALD J. TRUMP" (capitalized, third-person, almost mythological)
- **Vulnerable pole**: The media conspires to suppress this truth; his legitimate triumph is being denied by malicious actors

This oscillation within a single post — from "I'm winning massively" to "they're hiding my victory from the public" — is a high-frequency pattern in this subject's Truth Social output and represents textbook narcissistic dynamics where even victories require an accompanying grievance narrative.

### Defense Mechanisms

**Splitting (Immature):** Binary framing throughout — Trump is winning, media is lying. No gradation, no alternative interpretation of partial or selective coverage is entertained. ABC is not "underemphasizing" the result; it is "FAKE."

**Projection (Immature):** The post accuses media of selective presentation of polling data while the subject himself is doing precisely that — presenting the poll result that flatters him while ignoring any context (methodology, margin of error, Biden's own numbers within the same poll) that might complicate the picture.

**Rationalization (Neurotic):** "This is what Fake News is all about" functions as a master frame that pre-explains all unflattering coverage and converts specific instances into confirmation of a general conspiracy, immunizing the belief from disconfirmation.

**Denial (Pathological):** The formulation that ABC covered "every aspect" *except* the most important one implies ABC's omission is total suppression rather than editorial prioritization — a distortion of external reality that serves psychic need.

### Malignant Narcissism Assessment

- **Narcissistic features** (high): Grandiosity ("staggering 10 Points," formal third-person self-naming), entitlement (expectation of favorable coverage), lack of empathy for journalistic judgment, belief that others envy or fear his polling strength
- **Antisocial features** (low-moderate): Contempt for press freedom implicit in "SHOULD BE ASHAMED"; prior post's call to investigate NBC for "treason" suggests escalating contempt for institutional constraints on his own power
- **Paranoid features** (moderate): Coordinated suppression narrative — multiple networks conspiring to hide his success; the public as audience to this conspiracy ("the public has quickly gotten wise to it")
- **Ego-syntonic sadism** (low in this specific post): More grievance than cruelty; the punitive enjoyment is muted compared to dehumanizing posts in the same cluster

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## Rhetorical Analysis

**Ad hominem**: "Crooked Joe Biden" — personalization of political opponent via nickname rather than engagement with policy contrast

**Hyperbole/Superlatives**: "biggest and most important FACT," "staggering 10 Points," "millions of dollars" on polls — all amplification devices

**Appeal to Populism**: "the public has quickly gotten wise to it" — enrolling an imagined mass audience as validators of his perception, parasocial solidarity-building

**False precision/selectivity**: Presenting one favorable data point (the head-to-head Trump vs. Biden margin) as the only "FACT" worth reporting, while the same poll likely contained multiple data points

**Shame induction**: "ABC FAKE NEWS SHOULD BE ASHAMED!!!" — a moral attack designed to put the target on the defensive and model the emotional response his audience should feel toward the network

**RAND Firehose elements**: Volume (multiple posts on same day attacking multiple media entities — NBC, ABC, WAPO), repetition of "Fake News" label across posts, reality contestation

**Parasocial technique**: Direct address ("To show everyone") — positions the audience as co-witnesses to an injustice, activating in-group solidarity

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## Cognitive Status

No acute markers of cognitive decline in this post. Syntax is characteristically loose but internally coherent. The logical chain (poll exists → ABC didn't report key finding → media is fake) follows Trump's established baseline rhetorical structure. Vocabulary is consistent with documented prior patterns. No word-finding difficulties, paraphasias, or temporal confusions are evident.

The third-person self-reference ("a person known as DONALD J. TRUMP") merits note: while unusual in general communication, it is a documented Trump stylistic pattern functioning as a grandiose identity assertion rather than a cognitive marker.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "ABC World News covered a Biden poll but omitted that Trump was leading Biden by 10 points" | **Half True** | The ABC News/Washington Post poll released around September 24, 2023 did show Trump +10 over Biden in a hypothetical 2024 matchup — the largest recorded lead at that point. There was legitimate media criticism of how ABC covered their own poll, with some observers noting the network de-emphasized the head-to-head matchup result. However, Trump's claim that ABC covered 'every aspect' except this finding overstates the suppression — the margin received some coverage, though Trump argues insufficient emphasis. |
| "Biden was losing to Trump by a 'staggering 10 Points'" | **Mostly True** | The Washington Post/ABC News poll published around this date did show Trump +10 in a head-to-head matchup. Consistent with Trump's prior post on 2023-09-24 celebrating the same figure. 'Staggering' is characteristically hyperbolic framing of what is a single poll snapshot. |
| "Media 'spend millions of dollars on these polls'" | **Mostly True** | Major network polling operations do involve substantial expenditure across sampling, methodology, and reporting infrastructure. Directionally accurate though characteristically amplified. |

Overall Veracity: 70%

## Danger Assessment

**Level: None to elevated.** This post contains no direct targeting of individuals for violence, no eliminationist language, and no stochastic terrorism indicators. The broader day's cluster (calling NBC's coverage "Country Threatening Treason" and implying investigation/punishment) represents a slightly elevated threat to press freedom norms, but this specific post remains within the range of aggressive media criticism.

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## Longitudinal Context

This post is the fifth in a same-day cluster that includes:
1. Menendez whataboutism (FBI raids, Biden corruption claims)
2. WAPO poll tracking (celebrating the +10 figure)
3. NBC/Comcast "treason" attack
4. Government shutdown messaging

The pattern reveals a **highly activated media grievance cycle** running in parallel with aggressive **poll supply-seeking**. Trump is using polls as narcissistic currency — broadcasting favorable results across multiple posts while attacking any media entity that fails to amplify them. The Breitbart favorability link the prior day (2023-09-24) represents the same dynamic: external validation immediately shared as supply. This is a consistent, stable pattern in his posting behavior and does not represent a departure from baseline.

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## Summary

A textbook example of Trump's narcissistic media cycle: poll supplies grandiose self-image (Trump +10), media's selective reporting constitutes supply interruption (narcissistic injury), triggering a rage response calibrated as public grievance performance. The post oscillates between grandiose ("staggering 10 Points," formal third-person self-naming as "DONALD J. TRUMP") and vulnerable ("they refuse to properly report") states within a single paragraph, illustrating the fragility underlying the grandiose self-presentation. Core defense mechanisms — splitting, projection, and rationalization — operate simultaneously. Projection is particularly salient: Trump accuses ABC of selective data presentation while himself selectively presenting only the poll's most favorable data point. Rhetorically, the post deploys populist enrollment ("the public has quickly gotten wise"), shame induction, and hyperbolic characterization as a FAKE NEWS indictment. The ABC/Washington Post poll controversy had genuine factual basis — coverage was criticized by media critics — making this a case of valid grievance amplified through a paranoid and grandiose filter. No cognitive markers of concern. Authorship is confidently authentic based on timing, caps pattern, and stylistic fingerprint. Danger level: none to elevated in the context of the day's broader media-as-enemy cluster.

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Late evening post in local timezone (8:50 PM CDT / 9:50 PM EDT)
- Multiple ALL CAPS passages throughout
- Triple exclamation mark finale (!!!) — documented Trump signature
- Third-person self-reference with formal full name: 'a person known as DONALD J. TRUMP'
- Nickname usage ('Crooked Joe Biden')

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (ABC News alleged omission of Trump's +10 poll lead)

**Rage:** Intensity 65% targeting ABC News / mainstream media
- Proportionality: 25%

Sentiment: -0.50

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 78%
- Antisocial: 35%
- Paranoid: 55%
- Sadism: 20%

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct address ('To show everyone') enrolling audience as co-witnesses to injustice
- Populist solidarity claim ('the public has quickly gotten wise to it')
- Shared enemy framing — collective 'us' against media 'them'

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Claims ABC covered 'every aspect' of a poll except the most important finding — transforms partial/selective coverage into total deliberate suppression
- Attacks on others' epistemic authority ('FAKE News', 'refuse to properly report') as reality-distortion framing
- 'This is what Fake News is all about' — generalizing specific instance into unfalsifiable conspiracy master-frame

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> ABC World News covered a Biden poll but omitted that Trump was leading Biden by 10 points

**HALF TRUE**

The ABC News/Washington Post poll released around September 24, 2023 did show Trump +10 over Biden in a hypothetical 2024 matchup — the largest recorded lead at that point. There was legitimate media criticism of how ABC covered their own poll, with some observers noting the network de-emphasized the head-to-head matchup result. However, Trump's claim that ABC covered 'every aspect' except this finding overstates the suppression — the margin received some coverage, though Trump argues insufficient emphasis.

Sources: ABC News/Washington Post poll, September 2023; Prior Trump post on 2023-09-24 referencing WAPO moving his lead from 9 to 10 points

> Biden was losing to Trump by a 'staggering 10 Points'

**MOSTLY TRUE**

The Washington Post/ABC News poll published around this date did show Trump +10 in a head-to-head matchup. Consistent with Trump's prior post on 2023-09-24 celebrating the same figure. 'Staggering' is characteristically hyperbolic framing of what is a single poll snapshot.

Sources: Washington Post/ABC News poll, September 2023

> Media 'spend millions of dollars on these polls'

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Major network polling operations do involve substantial expenditure across sampling, methodology, and reporting infrastructure. Directionally accurate though characteristically amplified.

Overall Veracity: 70%

## Tags

- media-grievance (90%)
- poll-supply-seeking (85%)
- narcissistic-injury (75%)
- fake-news-label (90%)
- grandiose-vulnerable-oscillation (70%)
- projection (80%)
- splitting (75%)
- third-person-self-reference (85%)
- authentic-trump (88%)
- epistemic-closure (80%)

## That day

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

**Post-Rally Grandiosity Meets Civil Fraud Reckoning as Trump Wages War on Multiple Fronts**

Trump spent the day ricocheting between political attack mode and legal defense, starting with a fiery post-rally burst from Iowa and ending with a brief campaign thank-you from South Carolina. The dominant thread was a two-part, all-caps rebuttal to the New York civil fraud ruling -- a rare extended legal defense suggesting the case struck a nerve. He also urged a government shutdown, attacked Biden over the UAW strike, and sounded alarms about Pennsylvania voter registration. Six of seven posts carried measurable anger, but the mood never spiraled -- it held at a high, combative baseline throughout.

Full digest for 2023-09-25: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-25/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 25). To show everyone how FAKE the News Media is, ABC... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111123274488248502
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "To show everyone how FAKE the News Media is, ABC WORLD NEWS..." Truth Social, 25 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111123274488248502. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "To show everyone how FAKE the News Media is, ABC WORLD NEWS...," Truth Social, September 25, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111123274488248502.

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