# Post ts_109943028821572223 - Post ID: `ts_109943028821572223` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-02-28T15:18:05.680Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109943028821572223 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109943028821572223/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_109943028821572223.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Fox is working overtime for DeSanctus, but they are failing—Look at the Polls. We are MAGA!https://www.mediaite.com/tv/foxs-brian-kilmeade-has-to-search-diner-to-find-a-single-desantis-supporter-and-even-shes-on-the-fence/ ## Engagement - Likes: 10,650 - Reposts: 2,930 - Replies: 773 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.419Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T03:20:35.810Z (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 brief, punchy Truth Social post representing the triumphant beat of a sustained same-day campaign against DeSantis and Fox News. Almost certainly authentic Trump — the "DeSanctus" nickname, reactive media citation, ALL-CAPS tribal rally cry, and URL-appended-without-space formatting are characteristic markers. The psychological state is grandiose: Fox is "failing," polls vindicate, the MAGA coalition holds. Primary defense mechanisms are devaluation ("DeSanctus"), splitting (Fox=enemy, MAGA=winner), and rationalization via selective poll citation. Rhetorically notable is the ironic use of a Fox-adjacent outlet to undermine Fox's own DeSantis narrative — a Trickster move demonstrating situational political cunning. The narcissistic trigger is the competitive threat of DeSantis receiving favorable institutional media treatment; the response follows the characteristic two-step of diminishment followed by in-group solidarity. The high-volume same-day output (6+ posts) documents an activated narcissistic injury state driven by the emerging 2024 primary competition. No danger indicators. Cognitive presentation intact. Clinically unremarkable in isolation; significant as a node in a documented pattern of competitive paranoia and devaluation directed at the first serious intra-party challenger. ## Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2023-02-28T15:18:05Z ### Authorship Attribution **Local Time Assessment:** Trump was almost certainly at Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, FL on February 28, 2023 (he relocated there after leaving the White House and used it as his primary base). EST = UTC−5, placing this post at **10:18 AM local time** — solidly within business/morning-TV viewing hours. Despite the business-hours timestamp, the stylistic fingerprint is strongly authentic: the bespoke "DeSanctus" derogatory nickname (a signature Trump invention), the clipped ALL-CAPS rally cry ("We are MAGA!"), the em-dash used as a rhetorical pivot, and the URL appended directly to the sentence with no trailing space ("MAGA!https://...") — a characteristic Trump formatting quirk. The post is reactive and emotionally immediate, consistent with Trump watching Fox News over breakfast and firing off a response. Aide-authored posts tend to be more polished event announcements; this is a punchy, in-the-moment competitive jab. Confidence: **medium-high** for authentic authorship. --- ### Contextual Frame This post is the sixth of at least six same-day posts, all orbiting two core preoccupations: (1) the emerging 2024 GOP primary threat from DeSantis, and (2) Fox News's perceived betrayal. The day's posting pattern shows sustained, high-volume output — consistent with a morning of TV-watching and reactive posting. This post is the briefest of the batch, functioning as an exclamation point rather than a sustained argument. --- ### Level 1 — Dispositional Traits (Big Five) - **Extraversion (high):** Assertive, audience-directed ("Look at the Polls"), uses collective identity ("We are MAGA"). - **Agreeableness (very low):** Antagonistic framing of Fox News; derogatory nickname for DeSantis signals contempt over cooperation. - **Conscientiousness (low):** No structured argument; reactive and impulsive in form. - **Neuroticism (elevated):** Reactive to perceived slight; the post exists because Fox's DeSantis coverage registers as a personal attack. - **Openness (low):** Rigid identity anchor ("We are MAGA!"); no complexity or nuance in assessment. --- ### Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations (Motives & Schemas) **Dominant motives:** Agency/power and status. The post's function is to reassert dominance by (a) discrediting Fox as a DeSantis vehicle, (b) invoking poll numbers as proof of superiority, and (c) mobilizing in-group identity as a counter-force. Communion motives are absent; this is not about belonging but about hierarchy. **Schema of self:** Winning despite opposition from powerful institutions (Fox, Club for Growth, globalists). The post articulates a persecution-plus-triumph schema: enemies are conspiring but failing. **Schema of other (DeSantis):** Diminished by the nickname "DeSanctus" (saccharine + sanctimonious overtone — a nickname that subtly mocks perceived religiosity or pretension); further diminished by the suggestion that Fox cannot even manufacture a single enthusiastic supporter. **Schema of Fox News:** Treacherous but impotent. On this day Trump simultaneously attacks Fox as colluding with DeSantis AND as incompetent in its legal defense over the Dominion lawsuit (per same-day posts). The schema is: Fox is both enemy and weakling. --- ### Level 3 — Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** The embattled champion who is winning anyway. The post positions Trump as the target of institutional opposition (Fox's "overtime" effort) but frames that effort as already failing — a brief hero's-journey beat. **Narrative sequence:** Redemption/triumph. Fox is trying, but "they are failing." Polls vindicate. "We are MAGA" — the collective closes ranks. This is a contamination-averted narrative: the threat (Fox's DeSantis promotion) is named but immediately neutralized rhetorically. **Identity claims:** Membership in/leadership of MAGA as a tribal and political identity. "We" is both inclusive (audience) and possessive (Trump owns the movement). **Contrasting other:** DeSantis (as pretender), Fox News (as institutional betrayer). Paul Ryan/globalist genealogy referenced in the day's longer posts provides the ideological backdrop here. --- ### Level 4 — Clinical Indicators #### Malignant Narcissism Assessment **A. Narcissistic Features:** The derogatory nickname ("DeSanctus") reflects the characteristic need to diminish competitors through labeling rather than engage substantively. The immediate appeal to polls as evidence of his specialness ("Look at the Polls") reflects entitlement and need for external validation. The "We are MAGA!" functions as supply — a rally cry that harvests collective energy for individual narcissistic reinforcement. *Confidence: high.* **B. Antisocial Features:** Minimal in this specific post, though the broader day's output includes contempt for institutional norms (calling Fox a "Third World" broadcaster, dismissing legal processes). **C. Paranoid Features:** The framing that Fox is "working overtime" for DeSantis reflects the established pattern of perceiving institutional actors as organized specifically against him. This is consistent with the day's longer posts asserting coordinated media suppression of election evidence. *Confidence: medium — consistent with pattern but this post alone is ambiguous.* **D. Ego-Syntonic Sadism:** Mild pleasure in the diminishment encoded in "DeSanctus" and in citing an article designed to humiliate DeSantis supporters (one fence-sitter at a diner). The cruelty is light here; it's more contempt than sadism. #### Narcissistic Dynamics **Trigger:** Narcissistic injury via competitive threat. DeSantis's rising national profile and Fox News's positive coverage of him constitute an unfavorable comparison — a classic narcissistic injury trigger. The extensive same-day posting volume suggests the injury has been active throughout the morning. **Narcissistic State:** Grandiose. Trump is not in wounded/victimized register here — he's in dominant-claiming-victory mode. The vulnerable pole is visible in the longer same-day posts (betrayal narratives, Fox treachery) but this post expresses the grandiose response: *they're failing, I'm winning.* **Rage:** Low in this post specifically. The tone is triumphant contempt rather than hot anger. The rage is displaced into the larger day's output; this post functions as a victory lap beat. #### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Devaluation (immature):** "DeSanctus" — systematic labeling to diminish a threat below the threshold of serious competition. 2. **Projection (immature):** Fox is "working overtime" against Trump; this mirrors Trump's own overtime effort against DeSantis throughout the day's output. 3. **Rationalization (neurotic):** Poll numbers cited as objective proof of righteousness — selecting evidence that confirms the preferred narrative while dismissing contrary signals. 4. **Splitting (immature):** Fox is all-bad/enemy; MAGA is all-good/winning. No complexity acknowledged. --- ### Rhetorical Analysis **Techniques employed:** - **Derogatory labeling:** "DeSanctus" — rhetorical diminishment through nickname. - **Appeal to authority (selective):** Polls cited as arbiter of truth when favorable. - **In-group identity reinforcement:** "We are MAGA!" — tribal solidarity mobilization, converts individual threat into collective strength. - **Ironic media citation:** Using a Fox-adjacent article (Mediaite covering a Fox segment) to discredit Fox's DeSantis promotion — a rhetorically clever move: Fox's own coverage undermines Fox's alleged agenda. - **False victory claim:** "They are failing" — stated as fact rather than assessment. - **Hyperbole:** "Working overtime" implies extraordinary institutional effort against him. **Violent imagery:** None. **Dehumanizing language:** None in this post. **Stochastic terrorism indicators:** None. **Propaganda techniques:** Firehose model (volume across the day); identity-binding ("We are MAGA"). --- ### Gaslighting Assessment Mild. The claim Fox is "working overtime for DeSanctus" exaggerates Fox's DeSantis coverage into coordinated conspiracy. Fox was providing DeSantis with favorable segments in early 2023, but "working overtime" overstates this as active opposition to Trump. Not a major gaslighting instance; more competitive spin. **Not flagged as primary gaslighting pattern.** --- ### Cognitive Status **This post:** Brief, coherent, syntactically intact. No word-finding issues observable. Vocabulary unremarkable but appropriate. The post demonstrates targeted, purposive communication — a link citation with a framing sentence. No cognitive markers of concern in isolation. **In longitudinal context:** The high-volume output this day (6+ posts) including extended paragraphs with complex grievance narratives (Paul Ryan genealogy, Murdoch lawsuit strategy) shows no obvious degradation from this post alone. Baseline comparison would require pre-2017 speech analysis; insufficient evidence from this post to make claims. --- ### Archetypal Analysis **Primary archetype expressed:** Warrior/Champion — engaged in ongoing combat with institutional betrayers (Fox) and pretenders (DeSantis). The "We are MAGA" invocation also carries **King** energy — the sovereign reasserting territorial claim. **Secondary:** Trickster — using Fox's own content (the diner segment) to subvert Fox's narrative about itself. This ironic media jiu-jitsu is a Trickster move. **Shadow projection:** The accusation that Fox is working for DeSantis (coordinated institution-level promotion of a preferred candidate) mirrors Trump's own behavior — he spent years expecting and receiving exactly that treatment from Fox. --- ### Order/Chaos Dynamics **Positioning:** Order attacker. Fox News and the GOP establishment (Club for Growth, DeSantis) represent the institutional/donor class order Trump is challenging. He positions himself as the disruptive force that exposes this order's corruption and failure. **Grievance intensity:** Moderate in this post, high across the day's output. **Who gets order:** "Real Americans" / MAGA base. **Who gets chaos:** Fox, DeSantis, globalists. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Fox is working overtime for DeSanctus" | **Mostly True** | Fox News was providing DeSantis with significant favorable coverage in early 2023 as he was seen as a potential 2024 primary challenger. Multiple Fox hosts were promoting DeSantis positively. 'Working overtime' is hyperbolic and attributes conspiratorial coordination, but the underlying observation of favorable Fox/DeSantis coverage is accurate. | | "They are failing — Look at the Polls" | **Mostly True** | Trump was leading DeSantis in GOP primary polling in February/March 2023, having recovered from post-midterm lows. Multiple polls showed Trump with 10-20 point leads over DeSantis by late February 2023. The claim of poll leadership is accurate; 'failing' is an interpretive overreach. | | "Fox's Brian Kilmeade had to search a diner to find a single DeSantis supporter and even she was on the fence" | **True** | Accurately describes the Mediaite article headline and content. The segment ran on Fox News and was subsequently covered by Mediaite as described. | Overall Veracity: 87% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 82%) ### Indicators - 'DeSanctus' derogatory nickname — signature Trump construction - URL appended without space ('MAGA!https://...') — characteristic Trump formatting quirk - ALL-CAPS rally cry ('We are MAGA!') — authentic Trump register - Em-dash as rhetorical pivot — common in authentic posts - Reactive, punchy, TV-watching register consistent with morning Fox viewing ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (DeSantis competitive threat amplified by Fox News positive coverage) Sentiment: -0.20 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 65% - Antisocial: 20% - Paranoid: 40% - Sadism: 20% **Defense Mechanisms:** - devaluation (immature) - projection (immature) - splitting (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 28% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Collective identity invocation ('We are MAGA') harvests audience energy for individual narcissistic supply - Poll citation as shared proof of Trump's dominance — invites audience to co-own the victory - Enemy-labeling ('DeSanctus') invites audience into shared contempt ritual ## Fact Checks (3) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Fox is working overtime for DeSanctus **MOSTLY TRUE** Fox News was providing DeSantis with significant favorable coverage in early 2023 as he was seen as a potential 2024 primary challenger. Multiple Fox hosts were promoting DeSantis positively. 'Working overtime' is hyperbolic and attributes conspiratorial coordination, but the underlying observation of favorable Fox/DeSantis coverage is accurate. Sources: General knowledge of 2023 GOP primary media landscape > They are failing — Look at the Polls **MOSTLY TRUE** Trump was leading DeSantis in GOP primary polling in February/March 2023, having recovered from post-midterm lows. Multiple polls showed Trump with 10-20 point leads over DeSantis by late February 2023. The claim of poll leadership is accurate; 'failing' is an interpretive overreach. Sources: General knowledge of 2023 GOP primary polling > Fox's Brian Kilmeade had to search a diner to find a single DeSantis supporter and even she was on the fence **TRUE** Accurately describes the Mediaite article headline and content. The segment ran on Fox News and was subsequently covered by Mediaite as described. Sources: Mediaite article linked in post Overall Veracity: 87% ## Tags - primary-rivalry (90%) - desantis-attack (85%) - fox-news-grievance (80%) - derogatory-nickname (75%) - in-group-mobilization (70%) - grandiose-state (65%) - ironic-media-citation (60%) - narcissistic-injury-response (70%) - maga-identity (80%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Multi-Front Primary War: DeSantis, Fox, and the Fraud Narrative Under Siege** Trump spent the day fighting a multi-front war against Ron DeSantis, Fox News, and the looming threat of indictment. The morning was dominated by aggressive attacks on DeSantis's Social Security record and furious demands that Fox stop undermining him, punctuated by late-night fear-mongering about World War III. A midday burst of aide-curated poll links and policy content tried to project dominance, but the day's authentic posts revealed someone rattled by institutional allies pulling away. The mood swung between triumphant chest-thumping and barely-contained anxiety, with election fraud claims resurfacing whenever the pressure mounted. Full digest for 2023-02-28: https://trump.fm/date/2023-02-28/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, February 28). Fox is working overtime for DeSanctus, but they... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109943028821572223 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Fox is working overtime for DeSanctus, but they are..." Truth Social, 28 Feb. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109943028821572223. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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