# Post ts_116618496946919115

- Post ID: `ts_116618496946919115`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-05-22T13:37:25.699Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116618496946919115
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116618496946919115/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_116618496946919115.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Stephen Colbert’s firing from CBS was the “Beginning of the End” for untalented, nasty, highly overpaid, not funny, and very poorly rated Late Night Television Hosts. Others, of even less talent, to soon follow. May they all Rest in Peace! President DONALD J. TRUMP

## Engagement

- Likes: 26,423
- Reposts: 5,255
- Replies: 2,061
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-05-23T17:01:24.720Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-05-22T14:33:59.710Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

A grandiose victory-lap post celebrating Stephen Colbert's CBS departure and predicting the cascading demise of late-night hosts as a class. Trump's affective state is expansive and contemptuous rather than injured -- this is the triumphant pole of his narcissistic spectrum. The post layers categorical devaluation ('untalented, nasty, highly overpaid, not funny, and very poorly rated') with a sardonic funerary closer ('May they all Rest in Peace!') that converts a career setback into mock-funeral spectacle, consistent with ego-syntonic sadism in Kernberg's malignant narcissism framework. Primary defenses are devaluation and splitting; secondary self-idealization as the validated prophet. The post functions as supply consolidation following perceived vindication, with the prediction of further fallings serving to sustain narcissistic supply through anticipated future triumphs. Authorship attribution leans authentic Trump (high confidence): adjective stacking, idiosyncratic caps, sustained same-day preoccupation with Colbert across multiple posts, and morning timing within his active window all point to direct composition; the formal signature is a mild aide-leaning signal but insufficient to overturn the voice markers. Danger level is elevated rather than high -- 'Rest in Peace' applied to named-category living figures is plausibly metaphorical but lowers the rhetorical threshold for follower hostility toward late-night hosts. No cognitive markers of concern; coherence and syntax are within baseline.

## Analysis

This post is a victory-lap continuation of an earlier same-day attack on Stephen Colbert, expanded into a sweeping prediction about the demise of late-night television hosts as a class. The post pairs grandiose self-positioning (validated prophecy: 'Beginning of the End') with devaluation of an entire professional category. The closing phrase 'May they all Rest in Peace!' is rhetorically striking -- using funereal language for living rivals collapses career-death and bodily-death registers, a dehumanizing flourish characteristic of Trump's gloating mode.

**Trigger:** Not a narcissistic injury but a *triumph* -- supply consolidation following perceived vindication (Colbert's CBS exit). The post functions to extract maximal narcissistic supply from an out-group defeat, generalize the win, and threaten remaining members of the despised category.

**Defenses:** Devaluation is the dominant defense (immature level), with splitting evident in the absolute framing (Colbert and peers are *uniformly* untalented, nasty, overpaid, not funny, poorly rated -- no nuance). The grandiose state is fully expansive.

**Narrative identity:** Trump casts himself as the validated prophet whose enemies are systematically falling. This is a redemption-style victory sequence layered into a contamination narrative for the targets (their careers good -> bad).

**Danger:** Elevated. 'May they all Rest in Peace' applied to named-category public figures, while plausibly metaphorical, is the kind of phrasing that lowers the rhetorical threshold for follower aggression toward late-night hosts.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Stephen Colbert was fired from CBS" | **Mostly True** | CBS announced in July 2025 it would end The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in May 2026, framed by CBS as a financial decision tied to the end of the franchise rather than a 'firing' of Colbert personally. Trump's characterization conflates cancellation with firing. |
| "Late-night hosts are 'highly overpaid' and 'very poorly rated'" | **Half True** | Late-night ratings have declined substantially across the genre over the past decade, and host compensation (Colbert reportedly ~$15M/year) is high relative to declining ad revenue -- but characterizations like 'very poorly rated' and 'overpaid' are subjective valuations rather than verifiable facts. |

Overall Veracity: 65%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 85%)

### Indicators

- Petty, personal grievance content typical of Trump's voice
- Idiosyncratic capitalization ('Beginning of the End', 'Late Night Television Hosts', 'Rest in Peace')
- Pile-on adjective stacking ('untalented, nasty, highly overpaid, not funny, and very poorly rated') -- a signature Trumpian list construction
- Follow-up post to earlier same-day 'Colbert is finally finished' rant -- sustained personal preoccupation
- Signature 'President DONALD J. TRUMP' is occasionally used by Trump himself for emphasis, though more common in aide drafts

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 70%
- Agreeableness: 5%
- Conscientiousness: 35%
- Neuroticism: 65%
- Openness: 25%

Strongest facet: low agreeableness (antagonism, contempt)

**Motives:**
- Agency: 85%
- Communion: 5%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** vindicated victor watching enemies fall
- **Arc:** redemption
- **Contrasting:** Late night television hosts as a class -- Colbert as exemplar

**Identity Claims:**
- validated prophet whose predictions about enemies come true
- winner positioned above the falling losers

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Stephen Colbert's Late Show ending at CBS)

Sentiment: -0.60

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Sustained focus on single grievance/triumph across multiple same-day posts
- Sweeping generalizations and predictions of cascading downfall

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 85%
- Antisocial: 55%
- Paranoid: 25%
- Sadism: 70%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 40%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- shared contempt as in-group glue
- invitation to celebrate enemy downfall

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Funereal language ('Rest in Peace') applied to living public figures in a despised category
- Categorical dehumanization of late-night hosts as a class
- Implicit prediction/threat that 'others...soon follow'

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

## Fact Checks (2)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-05-22._

> Stephen Colbert was fired from CBS

**MOSTLY TRUE**

CBS announced in July 2025 it would end The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in May 2026, framed by CBS as a financial decision tied to the end of the franchise rather than a 'firing' of Colbert personally. Trump's characterization conflates cancellation with firing.

> Late-night hosts are 'highly overpaid' and 'very poorly rated'

**HALF TRUE**

Late-night ratings have declined substantially across the genre over the past decade, and host compensation (Colbert reportedly ~$15M/year) is high relative to declining ad revenue -- but characterizations like 'very poorly rated' and 'overpaid' are subjective valuations rather than verifiable facts.

Overall Veracity: 65%

## Tags

- colbert (95%)
- late-night-tv (90%)
- grandiose-narcissism (85%)
- devaluation (85%)
- sadistic-gloating (75%)
- victory-lap (80%)
- dehumanization-mild (55%)

## That day

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

**Trump skips Don Jr.'s wedding to "remain in Washington" on a day he twice celebrated the end of Colbert's show**

Trump posted 18 times, starting late the night before and running into the evening, all from Washington. The sharpest material was personal: two gloating posts about Stephen Colbert's CBS show ending, one calling him "like a dead person" and another wishing all late-night hosts "Rest in Peace," plus a morning broadside at retiring Senator Thom Tillis. Midday brought news in a much more formal, staff-sounding voice: he would miss his son Don Jr.'s wedding because of government business, and Tulsi Gabbard is leaving the administration to care for her husband, who has cancer. The evening was mostly pictures, including a golden missile-defense dome over the White House and a giant Trump head looming over a Greenland town, along with a tribute to NASCAR driver Kyle Busch.

Full digest for 2026-05-22: https://trump.fm/date/2026-05-22/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, May 22). Stephen Colbert’s firing from CBS was the... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_116618496946919115
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Stephen Colbert’s firing from CBS was the “Beginning of the..." Truth Social, 22 May. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116618496946919115. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Stephen Colbert’s firing from CBS was the “Beginning of the...," Truth Social, May 22, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116618496946919115.

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