# Post ts_116228130264134892

- Post ID: `ts_116228130264134892`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-03-14T15:02:02.830Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116228130264134892
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116228130264134892/analysis

## Post text

_No text of its own. The post is its media, below._

## What the media says

**Image** (meme), described automatically; these are a machine's words about the picture, not the poster's:

> A political infographic titled "PRESIDENT TRUMP IS RESHAPING THE MEDIA" with a photo of Trump at top-left and top-right. It is divided into three color-coded sections. A red "GONE" banner lists 12 items with icons: PBS Defunded, Joy Reid Out at MSNBC, Colbert Leaving CBS, Big Decline in MSM Ratings, NPR Defunded, Lester Holt Out at NBC, No More Biased 'Fact Checking' (Meta logo), Jim Acosta Out at CNN, Terry Moran Out at ABC, Massive Layoffs (Washington Post logo), Chuck Todd Out at NBC, John Dickerson Out at CBS — each paired with a small headshot or network/company logo (PBS, NPR, Meta, Washington Post). A green "REFORMS" banner lists 12 items: Record Setting Interviews (60 Minutes logo), FCC Broadcast Accountability, Saved TikTok, Disney Ends Key DEI Practices, Truth Social Booming, Most Accessible POTUS Ever, New Ownership (CNN logo), Free Speech on X, 1st POTUS to join NFL Broadcast, $15 Million Settlement (ABC logo), News Bias Ombudsman (CBS logo), Equal Time on Broadcast Television (scales icon) — paired with corresponding logos (FCC, TikTok, Disney+, Truth Social "T" logo, CNN, X, NFL, ABC, CBS). An orange "WINNING" banner at the bottom shows collage images: a magazine cover reading "TRUMP'S WORLD" with Trump in a suit hands clasped, a torn-paper Guardian clipping reading "The Guardian: Trump is waging war against the media – and winning", a "3M Followers on TikTok @whitehouse" graphic with a photo of Trump, an illustrated image of Trump as a pit bull/dog handler holding a leash on a snarling pit-bull-headed figure, and a Hollywood Reporter clipping reading "Trump's Media Pitbull is Off the Leash" with partial text "Brendan Carr has already inspired fear (and loathing) among media elites".

Text in the image: "PRESIDENT TRUMP IS RESHAPING THE MEDIA GONE PBS Defunded Joy Reid Out at MSNBC Colbert Leaving CBS Big Decline in MSM Ratings NPR Defunded Lester Holt Out at NBC No More Biased 'Fact Checking' Jim Acosta Out at CNN Terry Moran Out at ABC Massive Layoffs Chuck Todd Out at NBC John Dickerson Out at CBS REFORMS Record Setting Interviews FCC Broadcast Accountability Saved TikTok Disney Ends Key DEI Practices Truth Social Booming Most Accessible POTUS Ever New Ownership Free Speech on X 1st POTUS to join NFL Broadcast $15 Million Settlement News Bias Ombudsman Equal Time on Broadcast Television WINNING TRUMP'S WORLD The Guardian Trump is waging war against the media – and winning 3M Followers on TikTok @whitehouse Hollywood Reporter Trump's Media Pitbull is Off the Leash Brendan Carr has already inspired fear (and loathing) among media elites"

## Media

- image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/116/228/129/787/076/435/original/53c2538ab9bff9af.jpg

## Engagement

- Likes: 27,466
- Reposts: 7,539
- Replies: 3,154
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-03-17T00:01:04.995Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-16T09:34:40.772Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

The graphic is a self-produced scorecard: twelve press figures and institutions filed under a red "GONE" banner, twelve regulatory and financial wins filed under green "REFORMS," and a bottom tier of magazine covers and headlines under "WINNING." Publishing it — rather than any caption — is the act to read. It converts named individuals (Reid, Colbert, Acosta, Moran, Holt, Todd, Dickerson) into trophies in a personal win column, alongside institutional pressure points (PBS and NPR defunding, a Meta "fact-checking" reversal, an ABC settlement, an FCC "accountability" item). The two-column, color-coded layout is splitting rendered as design: journalists and outlets sorted into wholly discredited or wholly conquered, no middle category.

The bottom tier borrows outside voices to do the self-flattery: a Guardian headline ("waging war against the media – and winning") and a Hollywood Reporter piece on FCC chair Brendan Carr as a "pitbull... off the leash," illustrated as Trump holding a snarling dog on a leash. That image casts the government's broadcast regulator as an attack animal under his personal control — a dominance display that folds regulatory power into a war metaphor rather than a governance one. Combined with "Most Accessible POTUS Ever" and "Record Setting Interviews," the graphic idealizes the self and devalues the press bloc within the same frame, drawing no distinction between a network's ratings decline and a named person losing a job.

No explicit threat accompanies the purge list, so this reads as institutional triumphalism — adversaries catalogued and defeated — rather than a call to act against anyone. The FCC-as-attack-dog imagery is worth noting for how regulatory power over broadcasters is being narrated, short of treating that narration as a safety concern in itself.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 35%)

### Indicators

- Posted 15:02 UTC, roughly 11:02am EDT for a New York/DC-area location in mid-March, business hours rather than his typical late-night window
- Multi-panel infographic with consistent typography, logo sourcing, and a three-tier color scheme consistent with campaign/comms production rather than an impulsive personal share
- No caption or text of his own accompanies the image, so there is no stylometric signal at all

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 70%
- Agreeableness: 25%
- Conscientiousness: 40%
- Neuroticism: 20%
- Openness: 30%

Strongest facet: assertiveness/self-promotion

**Motives:**
- Agency: 80%
- Communion: 15%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** conqueror who has reshaped a hostile institution
- **Arc:** redemption
- **Contrasting:** mainstream press figures and outlets named as defeated adversaries

**Identity Claims:**
- Most Accessible POTUS Ever
- Media Pitbull

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (routine self-promotional content rather than a specific criticism or setback)

Sentiment: +0.55

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 60%
- Antisocial: 15%
- Paranoid: 20%
- Sadism: 25%

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- borrowed third-party headlines (Guardian, Hollywood Reporter) used as external validation of a self-authored victory narrative
- named individual losses framed as entertainment-style scorecard items

## Tags

- media-conquest-narrative (80%)
- splitting (60%)
- grandiosity (60%)
- dominance-imagery (50%)

## That day

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

**Declares Iran's military one hundred percent destroyed, then in the same post lists the drones and mines it can still send**

Trump spent the day almost entirely on the Iran war, opening Friday evening with sixteen posts in about ninety minutes — awards coverage, favorable headlines, an endorsement, victory memes, and two of his own statements reposted twice — then sleeping a normal eight hours before returning to it. His war posts kept declaring Iran finished: totally obliterated, totally defeated, one hundred percent destroyed, completely decimated. In the same breath he described Iranian drones, mines and missiles still coming, and asked allied navies for warships to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. His angriest moment came mid-morning, after reports that an Iranian drone strike damaged five American warplanes at a Saudi air base: he disputed the damage assessment and accused the New York Times and Wall Street Journal of wanting the United States to lose the war. Nothing he posted all day mentioned the American missile that destroyed a girls' school in Minab, or the Isfahan strike that killed fifteen factory workers that morning.

Full digest for 2026-03-14: https://trump.fm/date/2026-03-14/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, March 14).  [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_116228130264134892
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 14 Mar. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116228130264134892. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, March 14, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116228130264134892.

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