# Post ts_111312750106077036 - Post ID: `ts_111312750106077036` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-10-28T12:56:13.839Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111312750106077036 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111312750106077036/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111312750106077036.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Since the New York Post went “bad” on TRUMP, there numbers have fallen, tremendously. Great, people are tired of hearing Fake News. It used to be sooo good, but not anymore! ## Engagement - Likes: 10,784 - Reposts: 2,630 - Replies: 512 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.393Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T10:23:47.973Z (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 exemplifies the narcissistic idealization-to-devaluation split applied to a media object. The New York Post's editorial drift away from Trump triggers an immediate total reversal: the outlet moves from "sooo good" to "Fake News" with no ambivalence, consistent with splitting as a primary defense. The punitive framing — their numbers have fallen "tremendously" as deserved consequence — converts Trump's narcissistic wound into the Post's punishment, preserving his grandiose self-concept. A secondary function is deterrence signaling to other conservative outlets: disloyalty leads to audience abandonment. The extension of "Fake News" to a historically allied Murdoch tabloid is clinically notable, demonstrating the label operates as a loyalty designation rather than a factual or methodological assessment. Stylometric markers (possessive error "there numbers," elongated "sooo," third-person ALL CAPS self-reference, punitive schadenfreude) strongly support authentic authorship despite business-hours UTC conversion. The mild ego-syntonic pleasure ("Great") is consistent with Kernberg's malignant narcissism framework but at low intensity. No rage, no danger indicators, no cognitive deviations from baseline. Representative of Trump's standard loyalty-enforcement communication pattern rather than a clinical outlier. # Psychological Analysis — Truth Social Post, October 28, 2023 ## Overview A moderate-intensity devaluation post directed at the New York Post following its editorial drift away from Trump support. Clinically notable primarily as a textbook idealization-to-devaluation split, executed in compressed form with characteristic Trump stylistic markers. --- ## Authorship Attribution **High confidence: authentic Trump.** UTC 12:56 → 8:56 AM EDT (New York, where Trump was almost certainly present for the ongoing civil fraud trial). Business-hours timing is the only factor pointing toward aide involvement, but the post is too stylistically specific to be ghostwritten: "there numbers" (possessive error), "sooo good" (elongation for nostalgic contrast), "TRUMP" in all-caps (third-person grandiose distancing), and the abrupt punitive structure are all deeply authentic markers. No communications aide would produce this combination of errors and affect. --- ## Multi-Level Personality Analysis ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits - **Low Agreeableness**: Contempt for formerly allied media; zero capacity for ambivalence about the Post's transition - **Low Conscientiousness**: Grammatical error ("there numbers"), impulsive framing - **High Extraversion**: Assertive, declarative, audience-directed schadenfreude - **Elevated Neuroticism (angry hostility)**: The punitive satisfaction ("Great") signals hostility even when controlled ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations - **Agency/Power motive**: Dominant. The post reasserts control over the media narrative by declaring the Post's decline as deserved punishment — Trump retains psychological dominance even when criticized. - **Schema (self)**: He is the standard by which media quality is measured; outlets rise or fall by their orientation toward him. - **Schema (world)**: Loyalty = quality; criticism = corruption. There is no middle ground. ### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role**: Aggrieved but ultimately vindicated standard-bearer. The audience is rejecting the disloyal outlet on his behalf, without him having to act. - **Contamination sequence**: "It used to be sooo good" → "not anymore!" — a classic contamination arc (good thing ruined by betrayal). - **Contrasting other**: The New York Post is cast as the fallen-from-grace ally, implicitly contrasted with loyal outlets that remain "good." - **Identity claim**: "People are tired of Fake News" — positions himself as the vehicle through which audiences discern media authenticity. ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Splitting (immature defense, high confidence):** The object (NY Post) is experienced as entirely good, then entirely bad, with no transition. This binary object relations pattern is a hallmark of narcissistic personality structure. The Post did not become complex or flawed; it became evil ("Fake News"). **Devaluation (immature defense, high confidence):** Immediate and total upon perceived disloyalty. The affective reversal is instantaneous. **Rationalization (neurotic defense, high confidence):** The claim that the Post's numbers fell because audiences reject Fake News inverts causality — Trump's grievance is reframed as cosmic justice rather than personal wound. **Denial (pathological defense, moderate confidence):** Extending "Fake News" to a formerly trusted conservative outlet erases the prior idealization and delegitimizes the criticism without engaging its substance. --- ## Narcissistic Dynamics **Trigger:** Narcissistic injury — the New York Post's editorial shift (toward DeSantis and away from Trump in this period) constitutes a loyalty betrayal from a historically allied source. **Response type:** Controlled punitive dismissal rather than explosive rage. This is characteristic of injury from a secondary rather than primary supply source. The intensity is moderate (0.42); the rage is low-grade and satisfied rather than hot. **Narcissistic state:** Mixed. Grandiose in framing (the audience ratifies his judgment; the Post suffers for betrayal) but carrying the wounded signature of a loyalty rupture. The "sooo good" nostalgia is a tell — it registers the loss before the devaluation buries it. **Schadenfreude marker:** "Great" is ego-syntonic pleasure in perceived punishment of the devalued object — mild sadism consistent with the malignant narcissism framework (Kernberg), though not at high intensity here. --- ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis The post's rhetorical work is threefold: 1. **Audience ratification**: "People are tired of hearing Fake News" converts Trump's personal rejection of the Post into collective audience judgment, recruiting followers as validators. 2. **Loyalty enforcement signal**: The post implicitly warns other conservative media that criticism leads to audience abandonment — a deterrence message dressed as observation. 3. **Epistemic expansion of 'Fake News'**: Historically applied to mainstream/liberal media, the label now reaches a Murdoch property. This is significant: it demonstrates "Fake News" is a loyalty designation, not a factual or methodological one. --- ## Cognitive Status No significant cognitive markers in this post. The error ("there numbers") is consistent with Trump's longstanding grammatical casualness rather than novel word-finding difficulty. Sentence structure is coherent, affect is appropriate to the emotional content, and the post is topic-consistent. No deviation from established baseline. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "New York Post's numbers have fallen tremendously since it turned critical of Trump" | **Unverifiable** | No reliable circulation or digital engagement data for this specific period is assessable. The claim follows Trump's standard punitive attribution pattern but cannot be confirmed or refuted without specific data. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Danger Assessment **Level: None.** No violence indicators, no dehumanizing language, no eliminationist framing. This is an interpersonal/institutional devaluation post with implicit deterrence signaling to allied media — psychologically significant but presenting no public safety concern. --- ## Summary This post is a compact, clinically legible example of narcissistic splitting applied to a media object. The New York Post's editorial drift away from Trump triggers an immediate idealization-to-devaluation reversal: the outlet transitions from "sooo good" to "Fake News" with no intermediate ambivalence, consistent with binary object relations characteristic of narcissistic personality structure. The punitive framing — their numbers have fallen "tremendously" as cosmic consequence — converts Trump's wound into the Post's punishment, preserving his grandiose self-concept while signaling deterrence to other conservative outlets. Stylometric analysis strongly supports authentic authorship despite business-hours timing. The post is representative of Trump's standard loyalty-enforcement communication pattern rather than an outlier, and carries no danger indicators. Moderate intensity, controlled affect, no cognitive deviations from established baseline. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 78%) ### Indicators - Typo: 'there numbers' instead of 'their numbers' - Third-person self-reference with ALL CAPS ('TRUMP') - Exaggerated orthographic elongation ('sooo good') - Stream-of-consciousness cadence with abrupt tonal shifts - Informal exclamatory closing ('not anymore!') ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (New York Post editorial shift away from Trump) Sentiment: -0.32 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 72% - Antisocial: 18% - Paranoid: 30% - Sadism: 28% **Defense Mechanisms:** - devaluation (immature) - splitting (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) - denial (pathological) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 28% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Invites followers to share in his schadenfreude ('Great, people are tired...') - Positions audience as validators who have already rejected the Post alongside him - Implied threat to other media: disloyalty leads to audience abandonment ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - 'Fake News' label applied to formerly trusted outlet, retroactively delegitimizing its past coverage - Implied causation presented as settled fact (Post went bad → numbers fell) without evidence ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > New York Post's numbers have fallen tremendously since it turned critical of Trump **UNVERIFIABLE** No reliable circulation or digital engagement data for this specific period is assessable. The claim follows Trump's standard punitive attribution pattern but cannot be confirmed or refuted without specific data. Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - devaluation (90%) - splitting (85%) - fake_news_label (80%) - loyalty_enforcement (78%) - narcissistic_injury (75%) - media_criticism (70%) - third_person_self_reference (65%) - schadenfreude (50%) - new_york_post (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Morning Trial Fury Escalates to Judicial Targeting Before Staff-Managed Afternoon Pivot to Israel** Trump's Saturday was a tale of two halves. The morning was consumed by fury over his New York fraud trial, escalating from a swipe at the New York Post into sustained attacks on Judge Engoron -- including a direct demand to remove him from the case. A brief detour to publicly punish a minor political figure for endorsing Nikki Haley rounded out the anger. The afternoon pivoted sharply to staff-managed Israel solidarity content and campaign rally promotion, capping the day with a sweeping claim that none of this would have happened on his watch. The morning rage stood out as the most concerning stretch of the day, particularly the direct judicial targeting just days after a gag order fine. Full digest for 2023-10-28: https://trump.fm/date/2023-10-28/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, October 28). Since the New York Post went “bad” on TRUMP,... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111312750106077036 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Since the New York Post went “bad” on TRUMP, there numbers..." Truth Social, 28 Oct. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111312750106077036. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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