# Post ts_113603013611501693

- Post ID: `ts_113603013611501693`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-12-06T00:20:21.562Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113603013611501693
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113603013611501693/analysis

## Post text

> https://www.mediaite.com/tv/just-in-msnbc-loses-almost-half-its-viewers-in-stunning-post-election-ratings-report/

## Engagement

- Likes: 14,403
- Reposts: 3,697
- Replies: 918
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.326Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T18:49:55.545Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Analysis: ts_113603013611501693 — URL-Only Share, MSNBC Ratings Decline

## Format and Authorship

This post consists solely of a hyperlink to a Mediaite article reporting that MSNBC lost nearly half its viewership in post-election Nielsen data. There is no original text.

**Timing:** UTC 00:20:21 on December 6 converts to **7:20 PM EST on December 5** at Mar-a-Lago (Trump's likely location in the post-election transition period). This falls in an ambiguous early-evening window — neither the late-night signature of authentic Trump impulse nor the clean business-hours pattern of aide curation. **Authorship confidence: low.** The content is deeply on-brand for authentic Trump schadenfreude, but the absence of any verbal editorializing is slightly inconsistent with his typical pattern of adding "Fake News is dying!" or similar commentary.

## Psychological Analysis

### State and Trigger
The post reflects **supply-seeking from a position of grandiose dominance** — a characteristic post-election shift from the reactive, wounded posts typical of campaign periods. The trigger is not a narcissistic injury but its opposite: an enemy's visible collapse confirming the subject's own supremacy. The implicit message — *my victory was so complete that even the media apparatus opposing me is disintegrating* — requires no words.

### Sadism and Schadenfreude
The wordless share is a form of **ego-syntonic sadism**: pleasure in MSNBC's humiliation, displayed with studied indifference. The silence amplifies contempt. Verbal attack would grant the target significance; pure URL-sharing treats the collapse as self-evidently satisfying, beneath comment. This is a mild but structurally clean sadistic display.

### Defense Mechanisms
Two immature defenses operate:
1. **Passive aggression** — contempt expressed through omission
2. **Implicit idealization of self** via devaluation of the other, without making a falsifiable claim

### Narrative Identity
Within the redemption narrative arc dominating this period, MSNBC's collapse is presented as structural confirmation — the world reorganizing itself around the subject's victory. The protagonist is the **triumphant winner surveying the field**, contrasted against a crumbling oppositional media.

## Rhetorical Function

Zero-word posts are a distinct rhetorical instrument. They:
- Transmit ideological payload without authorial fingerprints (no direct claim to rebut)
- Invite followers into shared schadenfreude without requiring them to agree with a stated position
- Contribute to cumulative anti-media narrative through volume and repetition rather than argument

The Mediaite source selection is noteworthy: a center-left outlet reporting MSNBC's decline carries implicit "even they admit it" framing.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "MSNBC lost almost half its viewers in post-election ratings report" | **Mostly True** | Post-2024 election, MSNBC did experience substantial audience decline, consistent with historical patterns where partisan news audiences contract sharply after their preferred candidate loses. The 'almost half' framing is drawn from the Mediaite headline and reflects real if somewhat peak-comparison-inflated data. |

Overall Veracity: 80%

## Clinical Significance

**Below threshold for clinically significant summary.** This is a low-intensity, low-information post consistent with the post-election grandiose phase. No rage, paranoia, cognitive markers, or danger indicators are present. The post's primary research value is as a data point in longitudinal tracking of the narcissistic state transition from pre- to post-election.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 55%)

### Indicators

- UTC 00:20:21 = 7:20 PM EST (Dec 5) at Mar-a-Lago — early evening, ambiguous zone between authentic and aide-generated
- Post contains zero text, only a URL — consistent with either authentic impulsive share or aide curation
- Content (rival media collapse) is highly on-brand for authentic Trump schadenfreude
- Absence of commentary or ALL-CAPS reaction is slightly atypical for authentic Trump, who typically editorializes
- MSNBC-baiting is a standing Trump theme requiring no special staff curation

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (MSNBC post-election ratings collapse)

Sentiment: +0.35

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 40%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 30%

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Implicit invitation to followers to share in schadenfreude without requiring explicit endorsement
- Letting 'the facts speak for themselves' as rhetorical device — follower fills in the triumphalism

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._

> MSNBC lost almost half its viewers in post-election ratings report

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Post-2024 election, MSNBC did experience substantial audience decline, consistent with historical patterns where partisan news audiences contract sharply after their preferred candidate loses. The 'almost half' framing is drawn from the Mediaite headline and reflects real if somewhat peak-comparison-inflated data.

Sources: Mediaite reporting, November–December 2024; Nielsen ratings post-election trends

Overall Veracity: 80%

## Tags

- anti-media (90%)
- schadenfreude (80%)
- MSNBC (90%)
- post-election-triumph (70%)
- url-only (100%)
- grandiose-phase (60%)

## That day

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

**President-Elect Holds Court: A Day of Appointments, Victory Laps, and One Defensive Flash**

Trump spent the day announcing a wave of administration picks, from a crypto czar to homeland security officials to an ambassador to China. The mood was triumphant and presidential throughout, with almost no anger and a steady stream of staff-drafted bios for new nominees. The only moment of real personal engagement came in an early-morning defense of Pete Hegseth's embattled Defense Secretary nomination, where a telltale word duplication ("Secretary of Defense Defense") suggested Trump typed it himself. A couple of posts gloating over MSNBC's post-election ratings collapse rounded out a day that read more like a royal court gazette than a social media feed.

Full digest for 2024-12-06: https://trump.fm/date/2024-12-06/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, December 6). https://www.mediaite.com/tv/just-in-msnbc-loses-al... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113603013611501693
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://www.mediaite.com/tv/just-in-msnbc-loses-almost-half-..." Truth Social, 6 Dec. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113603013611501693. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "https://www.mediaite.com/tv/just-in-msnbc-loses-almost-half-...," Truth Social, December 6, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113603013611501693.

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