# Post ts_111332672426974794 - Post ID: `ts_111332672426974794` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-11-01T01:22:44.330Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111332672426974794 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111332672426974794/analysis ## Post text > https://www.mediaite.com/news/rupert-murdoch-knew-it-was-time-to-call-it-a-day-says-colby-hall-the-power-broker-lost-his-power-post-trump/ ## Engagement - Likes: 5,054 - Reposts: 1,294 - Replies: 63 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.392Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T10:31:49.662Z (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 bare URL share functions as a narcissistic trophy display. Trump outsources a grandiose claim to a third-party article whose headline — "The Power Broker Lost His Power Post-Trump" — does the rhetorical work he prefers not to assert directly. The content reflects a completed idealization-to-devaluation cycle in the Trump-Murdoch relationship: Fox News's abandonment of Trump for DeSantis constituted a significant narcissistic injury throughout 2023; Murdoch's retirement is now seized as vindication that Trump outlasted the kingmaker. The implicit narrative — that Trump's rise rendered the world's most powerful media mogul irrelevant — represents characteristic grandiosity operating in the zero-sum power schema. Notably, this triumphalist post coexists within a single session alongside anxiety-adjacent content (Biden pseudonym emails, DeSantis decline pieces), suggesting compartmentalized narcissistic states running in parallel during intense legal pressure (gag order violations, $10K fines, sons testifying in fraud trial). Authorship leans aide-curated given the bare URL format and multi-link coordinated session. The reality distortion is macro-narrative: Murdoch's age-appropriate succession at 92 is causally reattributed to Trump's dominance, inverting the actual historical power relationship where Murdoch's Fox was instrumental in Trump's 2016 rise. # Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2023-11-01T01:22:44Z ## Overview This post consists of a bare URL share with zero original text. The rhetorical payload is entirely embedded in the article headline encoded in the URL slug: *"The Power Broker Lost His Power Post-Trump."* Despite its minimal surface, the selection is psychologically dense: Trump is curating an external source to assert that Rupert Murdoch — one of the most powerful media figures in the world — was diminished specifically by Trump's rise. This is triumphalism through curation. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Local Time Reconstruction:** UTC 01:22 → EDT (UTC−4, DST still in effect Nov 1, 2023) = **9:22 PM on October 31 (Halloween night)**, in New York, where Trump was attending his civil fraud trial (sons testifying Nov 1–2). **Assessment:** The 9:22 PM timing is evening, not deep late-night, placing it in ambiguous territory. The bare URL format with zero accompanying commentary is the most significant indicator — authentic Trump posts almost always include emotional punctuation ("Wow!", "Fake News!", "WITCH HUNT!"). The surrounding posts from this same session are also bare URL shares (Daily Caller ×2, Politico, Variety's Murdoch piece), suggesting a coordinated link-dump curation session. One earlier post does carry the word "Wow!" (on the Biden pseudonym story), which may indicate a hybrid session where an aide queues links and Trump occasionally interjects. The Variety Murdoch retirement article was shared earlier in the same block, and this Mediaite follow-up reinforces a deliberate editorial pattern around a single topic: Murdoch's fall. This has the fingerprints of aide selection, though the *target* (Murdoch) is authentically Trump's obsession. **Confidence: Medium — leaning aide-written, but content selection reflects authentic Trump fixation.** --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) No original text limits direct linguistic inference, but the act of curation reveals trait signals: - **Extraversion (High — Dominance Facet):** Even in retirement, Trump asserts hierarchical dominance over a figure who was once his most powerful patron. Cannot allow Murdoch's exit to be neutral — must be framed as Trump's victory. - **Agreeableness (Very Low):** Zero acknowledgment of Murdoch's 92-year career, his age, or any human dimension. Pure transactional devaluation. - **Neuroticism (Low in this post):** The tone is calm and triumphant, not wounded or reactive. This is a grandiose state post, not a vulnerable one. - **Conscientiousness (Moderate):** Strategic selection — the Mediaite piece was specifically chosen over others for its framing ("post-Trump"), suggesting deliberate message control. - **Openness (Low):** Rigid zero-sum framing of power relations. --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations — Goals and Motives **Dominant Motive: Power/Agency** The post is motivated by a need to establish and publicly declare hierarchical dominance over Murdoch. This is not informational sharing — it is status claiming. **Schema Revealed:** Trump's worldview as expressed here: *power is a zero-sum commodity; when a rival diminishes, I grow; my influence is so total that it restructures the media landscape itself.* This schema systematically converts Murdoch's age-appropriate succession planning (he was 92) into proof of Trump's overwhelming dominance. **Supply Mechanism:** Classic narcissistic supply-seeking via external validation. The article is the supply — it says, in print, that Trump is more powerful than Murdoch. Sharing it multiplies the supply by broadcasting it to his audience. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist Role:** The King Who Dethroned the Kingmaker. This narrative inverts the actual historical relationship. Murdoch and Fox News were primary architects of Trump's political viability in 2016. Trump now retroactively reframes himself as the dominant party who rendered Murdoch obsolete. This is a contamination-to-redemption sequence: Fox turned against Trump (contamination) → Murdoch retires → Trump recast as the cause (redemption). **Contrasting Other:** Rupert Murdoch — devalued from powerful patron to has-been. **Identity Claims (implicit):** *"I am so powerful that the most powerful media mogul in modern history lost his power because of me."* **Narrative Sequence:** Redemption — Trump's persecution by Fox/Murdoch is vindicated by Murdoch's perceived fall. **Archetypal Layer:** Trickster/King composite. The Trickster disrupted the established media order (Murdoch's); the King now claims the territory vacated. The appeal is that Trump supposedly defeated the establishment even at its most entrenched node. --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators ### Narcissistic Dynamics **Trigger:** Supply-seeking + triumph over narcissistic rival. The primary injury (Fox News abandoning Trump for DeSantis throughout 2023) has been metabolized into a victory narrative. Murdoch's retirement is seized as external confirmation that Trump "won" the rivalry. **Narcissistic State: Grandiose** — expansive, dominant, self-aggrandizing. No vulnerability visible in this post. The oscillation from vulnerable (fraud trial context, gag order violations, fines) to grandiose (triumphalism over Murdoch) within the same temporal window is clinically notable. Multiple posts on this date engage Biden and DeSantis criticism while this one handles the Murdoch rivalry — compartmentalized grandiosity running in parallel to ongoing legal persecution anxiety. **Rage:** Absent. This is the cold satisfaction phase, post-injury processing. The Murdoch-Fox rivalry generated substantial rage earlier in 2023 (documented in prior posts attacking Fox); this post represents the devaluation endpoint of that cycle. ### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Idealization → Devaluation (Immature):** Murdoch was once a valued ally; now recast as a has-been whose empire crumbled under Trump's weight. The cycle is complete. 2. **Splitting (Immature):** Murdoch is now all-bad — "power broker who lost his power." No nuance, no acknowledgment of the complex history. 3. **Rationalization (Neurotic):** Uses a third-party article to provide logical scaffolding for what is essentially a triumph fantasy. The article "proves" the narrative so Trump doesn't have to assert it himself — plausible deniability while still broadcasting the claim. ### Malignant Narcissism Components (Kernberg) - **Narcissistic Features:** High — grandiosity, entitlement, exploitation of external sources for supply - **Antisocial Features:** Low in this specific post — no overt deception or harm - **Paranoid Features:** Low in this post — grandiose state suppresses paranoid mode - **Ego-Syntonic Sadism:** Mild — quiet pleasure in Murdoch's diminishment without explicit cruelty --- ## Rhetorical Analysis Despite containing no original text, the act of curation *is* the rhetoric: 1. **Strategic Framing via Link Selection:** Of all possible Murdoch retirement coverage, Trump selects the specific article that attributes the retirement to Trump's power. The framing does the work. 2. **Implicit Hyperbole:** The article's claim that Murdoch "lost his power post-Trump" is causally grandiose. Trump amplifies this by lending it his platform. 3. **Appeal to Dominance Hierarchy:** Signals to base that Trump has surpassed the ultimate establishment gatekeeper. 4. **Dehumanization:** Absent — Murdoch is diminished but not dehumanized. 5. **Violent Imagery:** Absent. --- ## Reality Distortion Assessment **Primary Distortion:** The causal claim embedded in the shared headline — that Murdoch's retirement was caused by Trump's rise ("post-Trump" = "because of Trump") — inverts or fabricates causality. Rupert Murdoch was 92 years old. His succession to son Lachlan had been long-planned and anticipated by media observers for years. Fox News's institutional power remains largely intact post-Murdoch. The framing that Trump's political dominance rendered Murdoch obsolete is a motivated confabulation at the macro-narrative level, not a cognitive error. **Gaslighting:** Not present in this post — no direct manipulation of interlocutor's reality perception. --- ## Cognitive Status No original text is available for linguistic analysis. The bare URL format precludes assessment of vocabulary, syntax, or coherence. No cognitive markers can be scored. This is itself a data point: posts that are pure link shares contribute nothing to longitudinal cognitive baseline tracking. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Rupert Murdoch retired / stepped down from Fox Corp and News Corp" | **True** | Murdoch announced his retirement as executive chairman of Fox Corp and News Corp in late September 2023 at age 92; succeeded by son Lachlan Murdoch | | "Murdoch 'lost his power' specifically because of Trump's rise (post-Trump causality)" | **Mostly False** | Murdoch's retirement at 92 reflects long-anticipated succession planning, not Trump-driven displacement. Fox News retains institutional reach. The causal attribution is motivated framing unsupported by evidence of Trump directly diminishing Murdoch's power. | Overall Veracity: 60% ## Danger Assessment **Level: None.** No eliminationist language, no targets, no mobilization. This is pure status signaling. --- ## Summary This bare URL share functions as a narcissistic trophy display. With no original text, Trump outsources the grandiose claim to a third-party article whose headline — "The Power Broker Lost His Power Post-Trump" — does the rhetorical work he prefers not to assert directly. The content reflects a completed idealization-to-devaluation cycle in the Trump-Murdoch relationship: Fox News's abandonment of Trump for DeSantis constituted a significant narcissistic injury throughout 2023; Murdoch's retirement is now seized as external vindication that Trump outlasted and outranked the kingmaker. The implicit narrative — that Trump's rise rendered the world's most powerful media mogul irrelevant — represents characteristic grandiosity operating in the zero-sum power-ranking schema. Notably, this triumphalist post coexists within a single posting session alongside anxiety-adjacent content (Biden pseudonym emails, DeSantis decline pieces), suggesting compartmentalized narcissistic states running in parallel during a period of intense legal pressure (gag order violations, $10K fines, sons testifying in fraud trial). Authorship leans toward aide curation given bare-URL format and coordinated multi-link session, though target selection is authentically Trump. No cognitive markers assessable; no danger indicators present. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 28%) ### Indicators - Bare URL with zero original text — atypical for authentic Trump who almost always adds emotional commentary - 9:22 PM local time (EDT) on Halloween — evening but not late-night authentic window - Part of a coordinated multi-link dump session covering same topic (Murdoch) across multiple posts - Surrounding posts are also bare URL shares suggesting aide-curated batch - Content target (Murdoch/Fox) is authentically Trump's obsession — selection intent is authentic even if execution is aide-driven ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Comparison (Rupert Murdoch / Fox News abandonment of Trump for DeSantis throughout 2023) Sentiment: +0.38 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 72% - Antisocial: 12% - Paranoid: 8% - Sadism: 25% **Defense Mechanisms:** - devaluation (immature) - splitting (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Strategic link curation that lets audience share in Trump's triumph over a mutual perceived enemy - Implicit invitation for base to celebrate Murdoch's diminishment as collective victory ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Rupert Murdoch retired / stepped down from Fox Corp and News Corp **TRUE** Murdoch announced his retirement as executive chairman of Fox Corp and News Corp in late September 2023 at age 92; succeeded by son Lachlan Murdoch Sources: Variety article on Murdoch retirement (also shared in same posting session) > Murdoch 'lost his power' specifically because of Trump's rise (post-Trump causality) **MOSTLY FALSE** Murdoch's retirement at 92 reflects long-anticipated succession planning, not Trump-driven displacement. Fox News retains institutional reach. The causal attribution is motivated framing unsupported by evidence of Trump directly diminishing Murdoch's power. Sources: General knowledge of Murdoch succession planning; Lachlan Murdoch succession long anticipated by media observers Overall Veracity: 60% ## Tags - Murdoch (95%) - Fox News rivalry (88%) - triumphalism (82%) - devaluation (78%) - supply-seeking (75%) - bare URL curation (72%) - aide-written (65%) - power hierarchy (80%) - media (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Sleepless Siege: Nocturnal Rage at Judge Engoron Peaks as Sons Face Fraud Trial Testimony** Trump spent the evening of Halloween sharing a rapid-fire batch of links celebrating rivals' decline and amplifying sympathetic media coverage, then erupted into high-intensity attacks on Judge Engoron in posts stretching past 1 AM. The overnight and early-morning posts -- naming the judge "crazy, totally unhinged, and dangerous" -- marked the day's most alarming content, coming while his sons prepared to testify in the New York fraud trial. By afternoon, aide-produced campaign content took over with policy slogans and endorsements, and the day closed on a quieter note with a eulogy for basketball coach Bobby Knight that still managed to circle back to Trump himself. Full digest for 2023-11-01: https://trump.fm/date/2023-11-01/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, November 1). https://www.mediaite.com/news/rupert-murdoch-knew-... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111332672426974794 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://www.mediaite.com/news/rupert-murdoch-knew-it-was-tim..." Truth Social, 1 Nov. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111332672426974794. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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