# Post ts_113262611417711198 - Post ID: `ts_113262611417711198` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-10-06T21:31:36.291Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113262611417711198 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113262611417711198/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_113262611417711198.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Remember this? What a dope! His wife and agent begged him not to do it, and just before BEST PICTURE AWARD, yet. He suffers from TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME. All of this on top of really bad ratings for Jimmy, just like failing Bill Maher and the two clowns on CBS and NBC! NO TALENT EQUALS BAD RATINGS!!!” ## What the media says **Video transcript** (1:11), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Hi everyone, I was just you know this this doing this show is not about me And I appreciate you having me is really about you and Emma and all these great actors and actresses and filmmakers But I was told we have like an extra minute, and I'm really proud of something I was wondering if I could share it with you. I just got a review and As there ever been a worst host than Jimmy Kimmel at the Oscars His opening was that of a less than average person trying too hard to be something which he is not and never can be Get rid of Kimmel and perhaps replace him with another washed-up, but cheap ABC talent George Slopinopolis he would make everybody on stage look bigger stronger and more glamorous blah blah blah make America great again Okay See if you can guess which former president just posted that on Theresa Anyone no, well, thank you president Trump ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/113/262/611/318/018/508/original/93811dc34859bb8d.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 9,834 - Reposts: 2,926 - Replies: 947 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.331Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-28T00:50:14.965Z (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 Trump's characteristic grievance-retrieval pattern: surfacing a 7-month-old entertainment industry slight (Kimmel's Oscars mockery) as an unprompted dominance display during a high-stakes campaign week. The grandiose narcissistic pole is evident throughout — smugly triumphant rather than defensive, savoring perceived enemy humiliation. The displacement mechanism (attacking safe entertainment targets while Jack Smith files a 165-page immunity brief and Iran launches 200 missiles at Israel) is a documented recurring pattern. "TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME" operates as projection, pathologizing critics and foreclosing engagement with the substance of their critique. The devaluation cascade (Kimmel → Maher → CBS/NBC hosts) constructs a comprehensive taxonomy of corrupt, talentless media enemies, each validated in their unworthiness by poor ratings. Cognitively intact; rhetorically consistent with established baseline. High-confidence authentic Trump authorship. No danger indicators present. # Post Analysis: Truth Social · October 6, 2024 ## Overview A classic Trump grievance-retrieval post surfacing a months-old entertainment industry slight (Jimmy Kimmel's mockery at the March 2024 Oscars) as an unprompted dominance display. Posted during a week dominated by Iran's 200-missile strike on Israel and Jack Smith's 165-page immunity brief, the attack on Kimmel's ratings represents textbook displacement of electoral and legal anxiety onto a symbolically safe target. --- ## Authorship Attribution **High confidence: authentic Trump.** The colloquial insult register ("What a dope!"), signature ALL CAPS patterning, run-on associative structure, and self-coined "TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME" phrase are all inconsistent with aide drafting. Post time is 5:31 PM EDT — compatible with post-rally downtime on October 5-6, when Trump returned to Butler, PA. Staff-drafted content is typically event-announcements, not celebrity score-settling with personal contempt language. --- ## Contextual Anchor The attached video and "just before BEST PICTURE AWARD" reference anchor the post to the March 10, 2024 Oscars ceremony, which Kimmel hosted and where he publicly taunted Trump by reading his Truth Social posts live on stage. Trump is resurfacing the incident ~7 months later, framing it as a Kimmel humiliation despite mixed real-world reception. --- ## Multi-Level Personality Analysis ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits - **Low Agreeableness** dominates: antagonism, contempt, devaluation cascade (Kimmel → Maher → CBS/NBC) - **High Extraversion** (assertive, dominant, performative) - **High Angry Hostility** (Neuroticism facet) despite absence of acute injury trigger - **Low Deliberation** (Conscientiousness): unfiltered impulsive celebrity attack mid-campaign week ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations - **Dominant motive: Status** — the post's core function is restoring perceived dominance over a media figure who dared mock him publicly - **Agency schema**: Market outcomes (ratings) are framed as objective verdicts of merit, conveniently validating Trump's contempt - **Schema of critics**: pathological (TDS), talentless, and deserving of punishment ### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist**: Avenger / Witness to Justice — observes and reports enemy's deserved market punishment - **Narrative sequence**: Contamination (Kimmel tried to attack the great Trump → was humiliated, even his wife/agent knew it) - **Contrasting other**: Jimmy Kimmel as primary; the "two clowns on CBS and NBC" as secondary enemy cluster - **Identity claims**: "I outlast my enemies"; "Critics of me are mentally ill"; "Real people (the ratings) vindicate me" ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Malignant narcissism profile:** - *Narcissistic features*: grandiosity, entitlement, devaluation — prominent - *Sadism*: ego-syntonic pleasure in Kimmel's perceived humiliation ("What a dope!") - *Antisocial features*: mild (contempt for norms of civil discourse, not criminally oriented) - *Paranoid features*: moderate — detailed knowledge of Kimmel's internal camp ("wife and agent begged him") suggests surveillance of enemies' private deliberations --- ## Defense Mechanisms 1. **Projection** (immature): "TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME" attributes irrationality to critics, forecloses engagement with substance of their critique 2. **Devaluation** (immature): systematic stripping of professional worth — "dope," "failing," "clowns," "no talent" applied to entire cohort 3. **Displacement** (neurotic): celebrity score-settling during a week of genuine strategic anxieties (Smith brief, Iran-Israel escalation, hurricane FEMA controversy) 4. **Rationalization** (neurotic): "NO TALENT EQUALS BAD RATINGS" constructs a pseudo-logical market-meritocracy framework to present contempt as empirically grounded --- ## Rhetorical Analysis The architectural sequence: (1) invoke shared memory ("Remember this?"), (2) establish enemy's stupidity (ignored wife/agent), (3) apply clinical-sounding pathology label (TDS), (4) extend contempt to entire media class, (5) close with market-verdict summary. Each move is designed to cement in-group contempt without requiring followers to evaluate substantive claims. No dehumanizing language or violent imagery — this is pure status competition. --- ## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion Mild DARVO present: Kimmel (original aggressor who mocked Trump at Oscars) is recast as the one who suffered humiliation, while Trump (target of mockery) is positioned as victorious observer — victim and offender roles reversed. "TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME" attacks the validity of critics' perception rather than the substance of their critique. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Really bad ratings for Jimmy [Kimmel]" | **Half True** | Late-night ratings have declined industry-wide; Kimmel's show has experienced viewership erosion consistent with the broader trend but remains competitive within its daypart. 'Really bad' overstates the documented decline. | | "Failing Bill Maher" | **Mostly False** | Real Time with Bill Maher has aired on HBO since 2003 and maintains a substantial cable audience. No documented evidence of imminent cancellation or ratings failure at this date. | | "Two clowns on CBS and NBC have bad ratings" | **Mostly False** | Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS) and Tonight Show/Late Night (NBC) maintain audiences in the millions. Broad professional failure characterization is unsupported by available ratings data. | Overall Veracity: 30% ## Cognitive Status Post is cognitively consistent with established baseline. Sentences syntactically complete and coherent. No word-finding difficulty, perseveration beyond baseline patterns, or temporal confusion. Seven-month recall of Oscars incident with specificity argues against confabulation. Complexity score (~2.1) reflects deliberate low register, not limitation. **Stable trajectory.** --- ## Danger Assessment **None.** No eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no mobilization call, no stochastic terrorism indicators. Routine celebrity devaluation within established Trump pattern. --- ## Summary This post exemplifies Trump's characteristic grievance-retrieval pattern: surfacing a 7-month-old entertainment industry slight (Kimmel's Oscars mockery) as an unprompted dominance display during a high-stakes campaign week. The grandiose narcissistic pole is evident — the post is smugly triumphant rather than defensive, savoring perceived enemy humiliation. The displacement mechanism (attacking safe entertainment targets while Jack Smith files a 165-page immunity brief and Iran launches 200 missiles at Israel) is a documented recurring pattern. "TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME" operates as a projection mechanism, pathologizing critics and foreclosing engagement with critique substance. The devaluation cascade constructs a comprehensive taxonomy of corrupt, talentless media enemies, each validated in their unworthiness by poor ratings. High-confidence authentic Trump authorship. No danger indicators. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 88%) ### Indicators - 'What a dope!' — colloquial unpolished dismissal inconsistent with aide drafting - ALL CAPS clusters (BEST PICTURE AWARD, TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, NO TALENT EQUALS BAD RATINGS) matching established Trump typographic style - Run-on associative sentence structure without logical transitions - Signature phrase 'TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME' — self-coined, not a staff locution - Personal celebrity grievance content inconsistent with aide topic selection ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Comparison (Jimmy Kimmel / late-night media class) **Rage:** Intensity 45% targeting Jimmy Kimmel, Bill Maher, CBS/NBC late-night hosts - Proportionality: 15% Sentiment: -0.62 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Unprompted retrieval of 7-month-old grievance for public processing mid-campaign - Cascade extension from one target (Kimmel) to entire late-night media class without logical bridge - Exclamation point density (4 in short post) and ALL CAPS clusters - Pressured quality — post covers multiple targets rapidly without development ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 78% - Antisocial: 28% - Paranoid: 32% - Sadism: 52% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - devaluation (immature) - displacement (neurotic) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 100% **Parasocial Techniques:** - 'Remember this?' recruits followers as co-witnesses to enemy humiliation - Shared contempt bonding (clowns, dope) positions audience as in-group judges - TDS label invites followers to adopt diagnostic dismissal of all Trump critics ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - Mild DARVO pattern: Kimmel (original aggressor who mocked Trump at Oscars) is recast as the one who suffered humiliation, while Trump (target of mockery) is positioned as victorious observer — victim and offender roles reversed - 'TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME' label attacks the validity of critics' perception rather than the substance of their critique ## Fact Checks (3) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-28._ > Really bad ratings for Jimmy [Kimmel] **HALF TRUE** Late-night ratings have declined industry-wide; Kimmel's show has experienced viewership erosion consistent with the broader trend but remains competitive within its daypart. 'Really bad' overstates the documented decline. Sources: Nielsen late-night ratings tracking, 2023-2024 > Failing Bill Maher **MOSTLY FALSE** Real Time with Bill Maher has aired on HBO since 2003 and maintains a substantial cable audience. No documented evidence of imminent cancellation or ratings failure at this date. Sources: HBO programming records > Two clowns on CBS and NBC have bad ratings **MOSTLY FALSE** Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS) and Tonight Show/Late Night (NBC) maintain audiences in the millions. Broad professional failure characterization is unsupported by available ratings data. Sources: Nielsen network late-night data 2024 Overall Veracity: 30% ## Tags - narcissistic-devaluation (92%) - grievance-retrieval (88%) - displacement (82%) - trump-derangement-syndrome (85%) - entertainment-media-contempt (90%) - ratings-as-meritocracy (75%) - schadenfreude (80%) - authentic-trump (88%) - grandiose-pole (85%) - projection-tds (87%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Triumphant Return to Butler Yields Day of Euphoria — With One Sharp Crack of Electoral Panic** Trump rode a wave of post-rally euphoria all day after his emotionally charged return to Butler, Pennsylvania — the site of his July assassination attempt. The mood was overwhelmingly celebratory as he moved from Butler to a Wisconsin rally, posting short bursts of gratitude and campaign promotion. The only disruption came in a rapid one-two punch late in the afternoon: an unprompted attack on Jimmy Kimmel over a months-old Oscars joke, immediately followed by a panicked demand that RNC lawyers "STOP THIS FRAUD, NOW!!!" — a sharp flash of electoral anxiety that vanished as quickly as it appeared, replaced by golf course award links. Full digest for 2024-10-06: https://trump.fm/date/2024-10-06/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, October 6). Remember this? What a dope! His wife and agent... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113262611417711198 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Remember this? What a dope! His wife and agent begged him..." Truth Social, 6 Oct. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113262611417711198. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Remember this? What a dope! 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