# Post ts_111473039102287616

- Post ID: `ts_111473039102287616`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-11-25T20:19:49.814Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111473039102287616
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111473039102287616/analysis

## Post text

> https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis-post/wax-olson-trump-gains-in-new-york-could-he-win-the-state-in-2024/

## Engagement

- Likes: 11,993
- Reposts: 2,713
- Replies: 346
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.390Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T11:06:51.408Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2023-11-25T20:19:49Z (URL Share Only)

## Overview

This post consists exclusively of a hyperlink to a National Pulse article titled "Trump Gains in New York — Could He Win the State in 2024?" There is no accompanying text, commentary, or emotional expression from the subject. It is the lowest-information post type possible on social media.

## Authorship Attribution

**Verdict: Aide-written (high confidence)**

The UTC timestamp of 20:19:49 converts to approximately **3:19 PM EST** in South Carolina, where Trump was traveling to attend the Palmetto Bowl (confirmed by same-day posts). This is unambiguously business hours. The complete absence of any personal voice — particularly striking given the emotionally activated hostage posts earlier the same day — further confirms aide-managed content scheduling. A pattern of bare URL shares appears on this same day (Iowa caucus poll link shares identical format), consistent with batch-queuing of favorable media coverage by social media staff.

## Psychological Function

The post serves a **narcissistic supply delivery** function: amplifying a favorable polling narrative (New York competitiveness) that reinforces the grandiose self-story of the unprecedented winner who transcends normal electoral constraints. Republicans have not carried New York since 1984 (Reagan). The implicit claim — that Trump could break this 40-year pattern — feeds the exceptionalism narrative without requiring Trump to assert it directly.

## Rhetorical Structure

The technique is **earned-media amplification**: a partisan outlet produces favorable content; the subject's account amplifies it to millions of followers, which simultaneously drives the outlet's traffic and disseminates the electability frame. No direct rhetorical devices are employed. The work is done entirely by headline association.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Trump is gaining in New York polls ahead of 2024" | **Half True** | Some late-2023 polls showed Trump performing marginally better in deep-blue states than in 2016/2020, attributed partly to shifts among Hispanic and working-class voters. However, structural electoral math makes winning New York highly implausible; the headline overstates the significance of any marginal gain. The specific poll cited is from a partisan outlet (The National Pulse / Wax Olson), whose methodology and sample credibility are unestablished relative to peer-reviewed pollsters. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Longitudinal Note

Contrast with same-day posts on Hamas hostages, which show authentic Trump voice (emotional capitalization, rhetorical indignation, rhetorical questions). The tonal gulf between those posts and this bare URL share is itself diagnostic of dual authorship dynamics — authentic Trump produces emotionally reactive content; aide-managed accounts produce strategic electoral messaging.

## Clinical Significance

**Not clinically significant as an independent data point.** The post is content-free with respect to subject's psychology. Its primary analytical value is as a data point in the authorship and earned-media amplification pattern. No summary generated."

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 10%)

### Indicators

- Post time converts to ~3:19 PM EST in South Carolina (Trump attended Palmetto Bowl that day) — solidly business hours
- Zero accompanying text; pure URL share is characteristic of aide-managed social scheduling
- Adjacent posts on same day include polished travel announcements and other bare URL shares, consistent with an aide batch-queuing favorable coverage
- No typos, emotional punctuation, or stream-of-consciousness hallmarks

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Favorable polling coverage in a traditionally hostile state)

Sentiment: +0.30

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 20%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- idealization (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 0%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Electability signaling — implying historic inevitability to the base

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> Trump is gaining in New York polls ahead of 2024

**HALF TRUE**

Some late-2023 polls showed Trump performing marginally better in deep-blue states than in 2016/2020, attributed partly to shifts among Hispanic and working-class voters. However, structural electoral math makes winning New York highly implausible; the headline overstates the significance of any marginal gain. The specific poll cited is from a partisan outlet (The National Pulse / Wax Olson), whose methodology and sample credibility are unestablished relative to peer-reviewed pollsters.

Sources: General knowledge of 2023 polling landscape

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- aide-authored (90%)
- supply-seeking (60%)
- electability-narrative (70%)
- earned-media-amplification (80%)
- url-only-post (100%)
- grandiose-narrative (40%)

## That day

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

**Thanksgiving Weekend Grievance Cascade: Legal Anxiety Fuels Scattershot Attacks from Mar-a-Lago**

Trump spent the Saturday after Thanksgiving on a sustained posting session from Mar-a-Lago, firing off 17 posts across about four and a half hours in the late morning and afternoon. The day opened with sharp attacks on the New York civil fraud trial and false claims of election cheating in Wisconsin, then broadened into a wide-ranging grievance tour hitting Forbes, The Atlantic, an Iowa evangelical leader, and the Biden administration's hostage negotiations. Notably, he falsely claimed Hamas had not returned any American hostages, when two had been released weeks earlier. The mood was predominantly combative but controlled — more of a holiday content dump than a meltdown — and wound down with poll-boosting links and plans to attend a college football game in South Carolina.

Full digest for 2023-11-25: https://trump.fm/date/2023-11-25/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, November 25). https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis-post/wax-ols... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111473039102287616
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis-post/wax-olson-trump-g..." Truth Social, 25 Nov. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111473039102287616. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis-post/wax-olson-trump-g...," Truth Social, November 25, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111473039102287616.

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