# Post ts_111133300730545983

- Post ID: `ts_111133300730545983`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-09-26T20:19:53.667Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111133300730545983/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111133300730545983.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> The ABC News/Washington Post Poll originally came out at a 9-point lead for your favorite President, but that was immediately corrected by them, to 10 points. The only Network that didn’t correct it was Fox News, they left it at 9 points. Gee, I wonder why?

## Engagement

- Likes: 9,985
- Reposts: 2,465
- Replies: 408
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.397Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T09:24:54.465Z (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 brief post functions as compensatory narcissistic supply-seeking almost certainly triggered by Judge Engoron's same-week summary judgment finding Trump personally liable for fraud — among the most consequential legal rulings of his post-presidency. Rather than engaging the ruling, Trump pivots entirely to a domain of pure hierarchical dominance (polling), asserting a 10-point lead while casting Fox News as suspiciously under-reporting his margin by a single point. The structural pattern — acute narcissistic injury followed by rapid pivot to grandiose counter-narrative — is consistent with prior observed cycles. The paranoid texture is diagnostically notable: Fox's routine editorial lag becomes motivated suppression, reflecting the demand for perfect mirroring characteristic of grandiose narcissism, in which even partial validation from allies registers as betrayal. High-confidence authentic authorship: the possessive "your favorite President," the colloquial "Gee, I wonder why?," and the psychologically personal nature of the Fox complaint are all signature Trump markers. The post is clinically significant not for what it contains but for what it displaces — the complete psychological erasure of a historic fraud finding through grandiose reality substitution, executed within what appears to be the same news cycle.

## Post Analysis: ts_111133300730545983 — September 26, 2023

### Overview

A brief, rhetorically cohesive post centered on poll performance, delivered with characteristic sarcasm ("Gee, I wonder why?") and grandiose self-reference ("your favorite President"). While superficially light in tone, this post warrants attention as a compensatory supply-seeking maneuver within the same week Judge Engoron issued a summary judgment ruling Trump personally liable for fraud — one of the most legally consequential moments in Trump's civil exposure history. The pivot to poll triumphalism is structurally consistent with narcissistic injury followed by rapid compensatory grandiosity.

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### Authorship Attribution

**UTC 20:19:53 → EDT (UTC-4) = 4:19 PM Eastern.** Trump's September 26 schedule includes a Dubuque, Iowa rally (listed in known events for this general period, though the rally appears to have been earlier that week). On the 26th itself, the available evidence suggests he was likely in the Northeast (New York / Mar-a-Lago corridor) or traveling. Either way, 4:19 PM ET falls squarely within business hours — a mild indicator of aide involvement.

However, multiple stylometric markers strongly suggest authentic authorship:
- **"your favorite President"** — a signature self-referential phrase Trump deploys habitually and which no aide would improvise
- **"Gee, I wonder why?"** — classic Trumpian mock-innocence sarcasm, colloquial and performative
- **Comma-spliced run-on logic**: the sentence structure meanders through claim, correction, and accusation in a single breath
- **Ironic target selection**: attacking Fox News for *underreporting* his lead is the kind of counterintuitive grievance only Trump himself would generate and voice
- **No professional formatting**, no event announcement quality, no call to action

Confidence: **High** that this is authentic Trump. The aide-written posts in the same-day context ("Join Team Trump today!→") are stylistically distinct, formulaic, and contain trackable links — none of which appear here.

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### Psychological Trigger and State

**Primary trigger:** Almost certainly the Judge Engoron fraud ruling (summary judgment, ~September 26, 2023), which determined Trump and his organization had committed fraud by inflating asset valuations by up to $2.6 billion. This is a severe narcissistic injury: a court declaring, on the record, that Trump engaged in sustained deception — an attack on his core identity as a dealmaker and financial genius.

**Response pattern:** Rather than addressing the legal ruling, the post pivots to a domain of pure domination — polling numbers — where Trump can reassert superiority and victimhood simultaneously. This is a textbook narcissistic injury → compensatory grandiosity sequence.

**Narcissistic state:** Predominantly **grandiose** on the surface ("your favorite President," 10-point lead), with a paranoid undercurrent directed at Fox News. The Fox complaint is psychologically interesting: Fox is among Trump's most favorable media environments, yet any perceived insufficiency in amplifying good news registers as betrayal. This reflects the demand for *perfect mirroring* characteristic of grandiose narcissism — partial validation is insufficient and may itself feel persecutory.

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### Level 1: Big Five Trait Profile (Salient Facets)

- **Extraversion**: High assertiveness, dominant self-presentation ("your favorite President")
- **Agreeableness**: Very low — suspicious of allies (Fox), no modesty, implicit contempt for correction process
- **Conscientiousness**: Low deliberation; impulsive, breezy delivery for a substantively serious legal week
- **Neuroticism**: Elevated angry hostility (latent; Fox suspicion) and vulnerability (reactive to poll exactitude)
- **Openness**: Low; no capacity for self-examination; confirmatory reality-seeking

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### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Dominant motive: Power/Status**. The post is entirely concerned with hierarchical positioning — poll rank, media allegiance, and being recognized as "favorite." There is zero communion content.

**Schema revealed:**
- *Self*: Rightful leader of exceptional standing whose numbers should be perfectly reported
- *Others*: Media networks are either compliant (ABC/WaPo, ironically praised for correcting upward) or subtly disloyal (Fox)
- *World*: Zero-sum attention economy where every decimal point in a poll is contested territory

**Supply-seeking function**: This post is a pure supply delivery mechanism — it asks the audience to receive and confirm the 10-point lead as evidence of Trump's dominance. The rhetorical question at the end invites the reader into conspiratorial agreement, creating parasocial bonding around shared suspicion of Fox.

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### Level 3: Narrative Identity

- **Protagonist role**: Dominant winner, unjustly undercounted
- **Redemption sequence**: Present. "Was 9, corrected to 10" — even the correction moves in the direction of his greatness
- **Contamination sequence**: Latent. Fox News could have been "with us" but has quietly chosen insufficiency
- **Identity claims**: "your favorite President" — claims popular legitimacy, warm parasocial ownership ("your")
- **Contrasting other**: Fox News (insufficiently loyal); implicitly Biden (the one being beaten by 10 points)

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### Level 4: Clinical Indicators

**Malignant Narcissism Components:**

| Component | Indicators in Post | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Narcissistic features | Grandiosity ("your favorite President"), entitlement to full poll credit, need for perfect admiration | 0.72 |
| Antisocial features | Minor; implied contempt for accuracy norms | 0.25 |
| Paranoid features | Suspicion of Fox News for a 1-point discrepancy; conspiratorial framing | 0.60 |
| Ego-syntonic sadism | Absent | 0.05 |

**Defense mechanisms:**
1. **Distortion** (pathological): The week's defining event is a federal fraud finding; Trump reshapes reality around a poll correction
2. **Rationalization** (neurotic): Fox News's non-update is explained as suspicious motive rather than editorial lag
3. **Denial** (pathological/implicit): Complete absence of any engagement with the Engoron ruling

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### Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis

- **Rhetorical question**: "Gee, I wonder why?" — feigns innocence while making a pointed accusation, inviting audience to complete the thought (Fox is biased against Trump)
- **Irony inversion**: The networks that corrected the poll *upward* (ABC/WaPo, typically cast as enemies) are implicitly praised; Fox (typically friendly) is subtly accused. This ironic reversal amplifies memorability and engagement
- **Grandiose superlative framing**: "your favorite President" — normalized through repetition in Trump's lexicon but functions as a constant identity assertion
- **Parasocial bonding**: "your favorite President" — the possessive "your" creates intimacy and shared ownership
- **Conspiratorial invitation**: The Fox accusation is never completed; the audience fills the gap, making them active participants in the conspiratorial narrative
- **No violent imagery, no dehumanizing language, no eliminationist rhetoric**

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### Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

Mild-to-moderate. The suggestion that Fox News deliberately left a poll at the "wrong" number (9 vs. 10) for suspicious reasons is a minor reality distortion — likely Fox simply didn't update in real time. Trump frames editorial process as motivated suppression. This is within his normal operating range and not a significant escalation.

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### Cognitive Status Markers

Post is brief but coherent. No word-finding difficulties, no phonemic or semantic paraphasia, no temporal confusion. Syntactic complexity is low but consistent with Trump's established baseline. The logical flow (poll → correction → Fox didn't correct → suspicious) is complete and intelligible. **No deviation from baseline** cognitive patterns noted.

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### Danger Assessment

**None.** No violent imagery, no target identification for harm, no eliminationist language, no mobilization rhetoric. This post is psychologically defensive (compensatory grandiosity) rather than aggressive.

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### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "ABC News/Washington Post Poll showed a 9-point lead for Trump, subsequently corrected to 10 points" | **Mostly True** | An ABC News/Washington Post poll released approximately September 24-25, 2023 did show Trump leading Biden by a substantial margin widely reported as 9-10 points among registered voters. Minor corrections and crosstab revisions after initial publication are routine. The specific correction from 9 to 10 points is plausible and consistent with known reporting on this poll. |
| "Fox News did not correct the poll figure and left it at 9 points" | **Unverifiable** | Whether Fox News specifically failed to update their on-air or digital graphics from 9 to 10 points after a correction is not verifiable without contemporaneous broadcast review. The claim is plausible given that cable news graphics are not always updated in real time, but the conspiratorial implication of deliberate suppression is unsupported. |

Overall Veracity: 65%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 82%)

### Indicators

- 'your favorite President' is a signature habitual self-reference no aide would improvise
- 'Gee, I wonder why?' is classic Trumpian mock-innocent sarcasm
- Comma-spliced run-on sentence structure consistent with authentic Trump cadence
- Counterintuitive target (Fox criticized for not amplifying his lead enough) is a personally felt grievance, not aide messaging
- No call-to-action, no URL, no event announcement — unlike same-day aide posts

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Judge Engoron summary judgment ruling Trump liable for fraud — same week, representing severe attack on Trump's core identity as a successful dealmaker)

Sentiment: +0.35

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 72%
- Antisocial: 25%
- Paranoid: 60%
- Sadism: 5%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- distortion (pathological)
- denial (pathological)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 28%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Possessive 'your favorite President' creates intimacy and shared ownership
- Rhetorical question invites audience into conspiratorial completion
- Mock-innocent sarcasm creates in-group bonding around shared suspicion

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> ABC News/Washington Post Poll showed a 9-point lead for Trump, subsequently corrected to 10 points

**MOSTLY TRUE**

An ABC News/Washington Post poll released approximately September 24-25, 2023 did show Trump leading Biden by a substantial margin widely reported as 9-10 points among registered voters. Minor corrections and crosstab revisions after initial publication are routine. The specific correction from 9 to 10 points is plausible and consistent with known reporting on this poll.

Sources: ABC News/Washington Post polling, September 2023

> Fox News did not correct the poll figure and left it at 9 points

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Whether Fox News specifically failed to update their on-air or digital graphics from 9 to 10 points after a correction is not verifiable without contemporaneous broadcast review. The claim is plausible given that cable news graphics are not always updated in real time, but the conspiratorial implication of deliberate suppression is unsupported.

Overall Veracity: 65%

## Tags

- narcissistic-supply (90%)
- compensatory-grandiosity (85%)
- paranoid-features (55%)
- poll-amplification (80%)
- fox-news-grievance (70%)
- legal-context-displacement (85%)
- authentic-trump (82%)
- parasocial-bonding (70%)
- conspiratorial-invitation (65%)

## That day

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

**On the Day Courts Called It Fraud, Trump Attacked Everyone But the Ruling**

Trump spent most of September 26 performing triumphant normalcy -- sharing rally highlights from South Carolina, blasting out fundraising links, and celebrating a 10-point polling lead over Biden -- while studiously ignoring the biggest legal blow of the day: a judge ruling he was liable for massive financial fraud. When he wasn't broadcasting strength, he was nursing a sustained grudge against Fox News, attacking the network across four posts for insufficient loyalty. A fiery response to Biden's historic UAW picket-line visit and a combative post about Jack Smith's prosecution team were the day's angriest moments. It wasn't until nearly 7 PM Eastern that he finally addressed the Engoron fraud ruling directly, dismissing it with a "done business perfectly" defense and pivoting to New York crime statistics.

Full digest for 2023-09-26: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-26/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 26). The ABC News/Washington Post Poll originally came... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111133300730545983
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The ABC News/Washington Post Poll originally came out at a..." Truth Social, 26 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111133300730545983. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "The ABC News/Washington Post Poll originally came out at a...," Truth Social, September 26, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111133300730545983.

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