# Post ts_114138926905836511 - Post ID: `ts_114138926905836511` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2025-03-10T15:50:09.476Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_114138926905836511 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_114138926905836511/analysis ## Post text > https://nypost.com/2025/02/26/media/fox-news-fox-amp-friends-outpaces-struggling-morning-joe-of-msnbc/ ## Engagement - Likes: 4,501 - Reposts: 939 - Replies: 271 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.317Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T23:47:51.366Z (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_114138926905836511 — March 10, 2025 ### Post Summary A bare URL to a New York Post article (dated February 26, 2025) reporting that Fox & Friends outperforms MSNBC's Morning Joe. Zero original text accompanies the link. --- ### Authorship Attribution **Verdict: Aide-authored (high confidence)** UTC 15:50 = **10:50 AM Eastern Time** on March 10, 2025. Trump was almost certainly in Washington DC or Mar-a-Lago; either way, 10:50 AM is squarely in business hours. Authentic Trump posts cluster in late-night and early-morning windows. More diagnostically, the post contains *zero personal text* — no reactive capitalization, no exclamation points, no annotation. Trump's authentic posts virtually always include some affective commentary. This bare URL format, repeated five times on the same day across Breitbart, Newsmax, Washington Examiner, Guardian, and NYPost, constitutes a mechanistic content-distribution cadence consistent with a staffer (likely Scavino) managing the account's daily link rotation. --- ### Psychological State Minimal direct signal. The *curation choice* reveals persistent supply-acquisition motivation: selecting an article that frames the preferred media outlet as winning and the enemy outlet as "struggling" provides vicarious satisfaction without requiring direct authorial effort. The binary of Fox (thriving) vs. MSNBC (struggling) enacts habitual splitting — all-good/all-bad schema — but outsourced to the headline author. No rage indicators; narcissistic state is mildly grandiose through affiliation with the "winning" side. --- ### Rhetorical Analysis All rhetorical work is embedded in article selection rather than original composition. The borrowed word "struggling" in the headline performs enemy derogation at arm's length. Ratings are deployed as moral-political validation (popularity = correctness). This is third-party laundering of diminishment — a technique that provides plausible deniability while delivering the same psychological and audience effect as a direct attack. --- ### Cognitive Indicators No usable signal. Bare URL posts are cognitively opaque; there is no language production to analyze for complexity, coherence, or deviation from baseline. --- ### Danger Assessment **None.** Routine media ecosystem reinforcement with no threat indicators. --- ### Contextual Note Posting an article from February 26 on March 10 — a two-week lag — further supports aide curation rather than reactive authentic posting. Trump's authentic posts typically respond to same-day stimuli with near-zero latency. ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Fox & Friends outpaces Morning Joe in ratings" | **Mostly True** | Consistent with well-documented long-term ratings trends in which Fox morning programming has substantially outperformed MSNBC in total viewers throughout the Trump era. Specific February 2025 figures unverifiable without fetching article. | Overall Veracity: 80% ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 15%) ### Indicators - Business hours post (10:50 AM EST) - Bare URL with zero personal commentary or reactive text - No capitalization, typos, or emotional fragments - Part of a same-day series of bare URL link-shares to right-wing media - Clean link format consistent with Scavino aggregation pattern ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Fox News ratings dominance over MSNBC Morning Joe) Sentiment: +0.20 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 20% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 10% **Defense Mechanisms:** - displacement (neurotic) - splitting (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Vicarious supply via friendly media success - Enemy derogation outsourced to third-party headline ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._ > Fox & Friends outpaces Morning Joe in ratings **MOSTLY TRUE** Consistent with well-documented long-term ratings trends in which Fox morning programming has substantially outperformed MSNBC in total viewers throughout the Trump era. Specific February 2025 figures unverifiable without fetching article. Sources: Historical Nielsen ratings trends; NY Post article (Feb 26, 2025) Overall Veracity: 80% ## Tags - aide-authored (90%) - link-aggregation (90%) - media-rivalry (80%) - supply-seeking (60%) - fox-news (80%) - msnbc-derogation (70%) - enemy-derogation-proxy (50%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **131-Post Supply Deluge Masks Single High-Danger Arrest Announcement on a Day of Chinese Tariff Retaliation** Trump's account flooded the feed with over 130 posts, the vast majority being flattering news links shared by aides covering everything from the Daytona 500 to his speaking style. The one post that mattered was an aggressive announcement of the arrest of a Columbia University student activist, framed as the "first of many" and carrying the day's only genuinely threatening language. Behind the avalanche of self-congratulation, the real story was what went unaddressed: China's retaliatory tariffs on American food products took effect that morning, and the account responded not with policy but with a wall of praise articles stretching back weeks. The mood was relentlessly self-celebratory, broken only by a sharp personal attack on Australia's former prime minister and a brief flash of anger about Democrats. Full digest for 2025-03-10: https://trump.fm/date/2025-03-10/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2025, March 10). https://nypost.com/2025/02/26/media/fox-news-fox-a... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_114138926905836511 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://nypost.com/2025/02/26/media/fox-news-fox-amp-friends..." Truth Social, 10 Mar. 2025. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_114138926905836511. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "https://nypost.com/2025/02/26/media/fox-news-fox-amp-friends...," Truth Social, March 10, 2025, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_114138926905836511. ## For agents - Site overview: https://trump.fm/llms.txt - API specification: https://trump.fm/openapi.json - MCP server: https://trump.fm/mcp (search and fetch tools, no auth) - This post as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/posts/ts_114138926905836511 - Analysis as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/analysis/ts_114138926905836511 - All citation formats: https://trump.fm/api/cite/ts_114138926905836511 - Same day: https://trump.fm/date/2025-03-10 - The record alone, without the analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_114138926905836511.md?analysis=false _Markdown view of a trump.fm page. Post, analysis, date, feed, contradictions, search and about pages answer in markdown at their URL with `.md` appended (`/index.md` for the home page), or when sent `Accept: text/markdown`._