# Post ts_109825069692439892

- Post ID: `ts_109825069692439892`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-02-07T19:19:32.213Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109825069692439892
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109825069692439892/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_109825069692439892.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/Magnanimous/statuses/109823367235416402 Wow, if I knew that I wouldn’t have Endorsed him (and he would have had to quit the race, down 35 points!).

## Engagement

- Likes: 11,012
- Reposts: 3,944
- Replies: 467
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.421Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T02:06:45.240Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Psychological Analysis: Post ts_109825069692439892

### Context
This is one in a series of retweets from the @Magnanimous account, all targeting Ron DeSantis. The previous RTs in the sequence ("That's not Ron, is it?" and "No way?") establish a pattern of building a case against DeSantis. This post adds Trump's own commentary: a retroactive threat that his 2018 gubernatorial endorsement was the sole reason for DeSantis's success, claiming DeSantis was "down 35 points" without the endorsement.

### Authorship Attribution
Posted at 2:19 PM ET (Trump likely at Mar-a-Lago, Feb 2023). Business hours, but the impulsive tone, lack of polish, and emotional content are consistent with authentic Trump posting. The rapid-fire RT series (multiple RTs from same account in short succession) is a characteristic Trump behavior pattern.

### Psychological Analysis
This post is driven by **narcissistic injury** from DeSantis's rising political profile as a potential 2024 rival. The core dynamic is a **transactional entitlement frame**: Trump views his endorsement as creating DeSantis, therefore DeSantis owes total loyalty and deference. Any independence is experienced as betrayal and ingratitude.

The phrase "if I knew that I wouldn't have Endorsed him" is a retroactive rewriting — Trump endorsed DeSantis strategically, and the parenthetical claim of "down 35 points" is characteristic grandiose inflation of his own causal role. DeSantis was competitive before the endorsement, though Trump's support was significant.

### Defense Mechanisms
- **Devaluation**: Reducing DeSantis to a creation entirely dependent on Trump
- **Denial/Distortion**: Inflating the polling deficit to magnify his own importance

### Rhetorical Techniques
The parenthetical aside functions as a dominance display — casually asserting total power over DeSantis's career while maintaining a tone of wounded surprise. The "Wow" opening (from the RT content bleeding into his text) adds performative shock.

### Longitudinal Note
This fits the same-day pattern of grievance-cycling: the Club for Growth post, the China post claiming priority, and now the DeSantis series all share the theme of **demanding credit and punishing insufficient deference**.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "DeSantis was down 35 points before Trump's endorsement in the 2018 GOP gubernatorial primary" | **Mostly False** | DeSantis was trailing Adam Putnam in early 2018 polls but typically by 15-20 points, not 35. Trump's endorsement was significant but the margin is inflated. |

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 80%)

### Indicators

- Business hours but emotionally reactive tone
- Rapid-fire RT series is characteristic authentic pattern
- Impulsive parenthetical aside
- Stream-of-consciousness quality

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Abandonment (Ron DeSantis's implicit 2024 challenge)

**Rage:** Intensity 40% targeting Ron DeSantis
- Proportionality: 30%

Sentiment: -0.50

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 80%
- Antisocial: 20%
- Paranoid: 30%
- Sadism: 30%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- devaluation (immature)
- distortion (pathological)

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Inviting audience to share his sense of betrayal
- Framing endorsement as gift that creates obligation

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._

> DeSantis was down 35 points before Trump's endorsement in the 2018 GOP gubernatorial primary

**MOSTLY FALSE**

DeSantis was trailing Adam Putnam in early 2018 polls but typically by 15-20 points, not 35. Trump's endorsement was significant but the margin is inflated.

Sources: 2018 Florida GOP primary polling data

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Tags

- DeSantis rivalry (90%)
- kingmaker narrative (80%)
- endorsement leverage (70%)
- devaluation defense (60%)

## That day

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

**Late-Night Legal Paranoia Gives Way to Grandiose Denial and Primary Rival Attacks**

Trump spent the first half of the day consumed by the Mark Pomerantz book and the Manhattan DA investigation, posting a string of increasingly agitated late-night responses that wove prosecutors, Clinton, and the Schumer family into a single conspiracy. After sleeping, he pivoted to flatly denying that Chinese spy balloons ever entered U.S. airspace during his presidency -- contradicting his own Pentagon officials -- then settled into an afternoon of sharing flattering articles about himself, taking shots at Ron DeSantis, and announcing a live counter-broadcast of Biden's State of the Union address. The mood shifted from genuine distress overnight to confident showmanship by the afternoon.

Full digest for 2023-02-07: https://trump.fm/date/2023-02-07/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, February 7). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/Magnanimous/stat... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109825069692439892
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/Magnanimous/statuses/10982..." Truth Social, 7 Feb. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109825069692439892. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/Magnanimous/statuses/10982...," Truth Social, February 7, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109825069692439892.

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