# Post ts_109979297548903452 - Post ID: `ts_109979297548903452` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-03-07T01:01:42.538Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109979297548903452 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_109979297548903452/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_109979297548903452.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Sorry to inform the Fake News Media, but this is the way it really is. Good luck Ron! https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/03/05/president-trump-crushes-ron-desantis-in-head-to-head-poll-67-vs-20-with-hispanic-voters/ ## Engagement - Likes: 15,020 - Reposts: 3,890 - Replies: 562 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.418Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T03:25:17.998Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Posted at ~8 PM Eastern (Mar-a-Lago, post-CPAC return), this brief post exhibits a preemptive dominance display triggered by DeSantis's rising 2024 profile following his State of the State address. The mechanism is characteristically efficient: delegitimize the information environment ("Fake News Media"), assert unilateral access to truth ("this is the way it really is"), then deliver a contemptuous valediction ("Good luck Ron!") that frames the primary competition as already concluded. The Conservative Treehouse link — a partisan blog, not a polling organization — is deployed as empirical grounding, a soft gaslighting move that collapses the distinction between advocacy and data. This post fits cleanly within Trump's established grandiose narcissistic functioning: stable, confident, no vulnerability markers. It represents supply-seeking through audience-flattering dominance display combined with preemptive neutralization of a rival before he formally enters the race. The mock-sympathy construction ("Sorry to inform," "Good luck") is a signature affectation — performing reluctant generosity while delivering contempt. Across the five posts from this 24-hour window, a mildly elevated output pattern is consistent with post-CPAC rally affect. No cognitive deviation from baseline. No danger indicators. The primary clinical note is the epistemic closure inherent in presenting partisan poll data as singular reality — a technique that functions to pre-inoculate the audience against contradictory evidence rather than to persuade skeptics. # Psychological Analysis: ts_109979297548903452 **Date:** 2023-03-07 | **Platform:** Truth Social | **Age:** 76 --- ## I. Authorship Attribution **Score: 0.75 (lean authentic) | Confidence: Medium** UTC 01:01:42 converts to **~20:01 EST** — Trump was almost certainly back at Mar-a-Lago by March 7, two days after his CPAC speech concluded March 4 in National Harbor, Maryland. An 8 PM Eastern post falls comfortably within his established personal posting window. The voice fingerprint strongly suggests direct authorship: the *"Sorry to inform"* opener is a recurrent Trump rhetorical tic — a pseudo-humble setup before a status assertion. The *"Good luck Ron!"* closing is too precisely calibrated in its contemptuous mock-warmth to read as aide composition. Aides tend toward informational completeness; authentic Trump favors the pointed, affectively loaded micro-sting. One hedge: The Conservative Treehouse link may have been surfaced by a digital aide or monitor who feeds Trump favorable content. The most likely scenario is aide-sourced URL, Trump-authored framing — a collaborative production that still registers as primarily authentic. --- ## II. Psychological State & Triggers **Primary trigger: Preemptive attack / unfavorable comparison threat** DeSantis had just delivered his "You ain't seen nothing yet" State of the State address (March 7), generating positive 2024 speculation and press coverage positioning him as a credible alternative to Trump. Trump does not wait for the threat to materialize — he strikes while the rival is still accruing momentum. **Narcissistic state: Stable grandiose** This is not a wounded or reactive post. There is no vulnerability language, no victimhood framing beyond the reflexive "Fake News Media" marker. The tone is expansive and assured — *the* dominant candidate acknowledging a lesser competitor's existence only to demonstrate the futility of that competition. **Supply mechanism:** Broadcasting poll evidence of numerical dominance serves dual purposes — it gratifies the poster's need to *see* the dominance reflected back, and it recruits followers into sharing the gratification, consolidating group identity around the fact of Trump's superiority. **Cross-post pattern (March 6–7):** Five posts in approximately 24 hours covering: CPAC victory lap, Hogan dismissal ("fun to practice on"), election fraud/prosecution narrative, ERIC/voting systems, DeSantis in NH, and this poll. The output volume and uniformly confident tone are consistent with mild post-rally hypomanic elevation — energized, expansive, running through the full grievance and dominance register without apparent fatigue. --- ## III. Multi-Level Personality Analysis ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits The post activates the **low agreeableness / high extraversion** axis with particular clarity. The dismissive opener and contemptuous farewell index *antagonism* (the aggressive pole of low agreeableness) and *assertiveness* (extraversion facet). Openness is low — the poll is treated as settling a question rather than opening inquiry. Conscientiousness markers are absent; this is impulsive self-gratification via data point amplification. ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant motive: Status / power (agency).** The post has zero communion content — no solidarity, no acknowledgment of shared goals, no warmth directed even at supporters. The singular focus is dominance assertion and rival diminishment. **Schema activation:** Self = dominant, inevitable, uniquely supported by Hispanic voters (a status-coded group given political salience). Other (DeSantis) = subordinate pretender. Media = corrupted information environment that must be bypassed to reach truth. ### Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** The inevitable winner who graciously acknowledges a lesser rival while dispatching him. **Narrative sequence:** The post fits a *redemption arc in miniature* — implicit setback (media narrative of DeSantis's rise) → Trump's truth intervention → restored proper order (poll confirms Trump's dominance). The *"Good luck Ron!"* is the narrative's closing beat: the magnanimous champion wishing well to the challenger he has already defeated in the only arena that matters (the data). **Identity claim:** "I am what the numbers show — 67% with Hispanic voters — regardless of what the media pretends." **Contrasting other:** DeSantis functions as the *foil who reveals Trump's magnitude by contrast*. The post does not need to attack DeSantis's character or policies here (that's handled in the NH poll post, where Social Security cuts are weaponized) — it simply holds up a numerical mirror. --- ## IV. Defense Mechanisms **Splitting (immature):** The binary is clean: Fake News Media (categorically wrong, corrupted, deceptive) vs. the poll (objective reality, "the way it really is"). There is no acknowledgment that polls vary, that sources have orientations, or that one data point is not a comprehensive picture. **Rationalization (neurotic):** The Conservative Treehouse is a partisan amplification blog, not a polling organization. Citing its coverage as empirical ground truth is a rationalization — providing a logical-seeming (empirical) justification for a fundamentally motivated (status-asserting) act. **Devaluation (immature):** "Good luck Ron!" performs contemptuous dismissal. DeSantis is reduced from a potential peer competitor to a figure requiring pity-sympathy — the affect of someone who already knows the outcome. --- ## V. Rhetorical Techniques **Structural architecture:** 1. *Delegitimize the information environment* → "Fake News Media" pre-inoculates against counter-evidence 2. *Assert privileged access to truth* → "this is the way it really is" — not "according to this poll" but absolute ontological claim 3. *Deliver contemptuous valediction* → "Good luck Ron!" — the primary rhetorical payload, performing magnanimity while communicating dominance **Propagandistic function:** The post enacts a soft RAND-model move — not through volume or contradiction here, but through *reality replacement*. A partisan blog post becomes "the way it really is." The mechanism: by the time a follower encounters contrary polling data, the cognitive anchor ("Fake News Media lies, Trump's poll shows the truth") is already set. **Pseudo-humility opener:** "Sorry to inform" performs reluctance — *I wouldn't bring this up if I didn't have to* — which is a dominance amplifier. It signals that the information is so devastating to the rival that Trump feels almost apologetic sharing it. --- ## VI. Fact Verification **Claim: Trump leads DeSantis 67% vs. 20% with Hispanic voters** **Verdict: Unverifiable** The Conservative Treehouse is an advocacy blog, not a polling organization. The underlying poll's methodology, sample size, commissioning organization, and field dates are not specified in the post. While Trump did hold advantages over DeSantis in some early 2024 polling, the specific numbers (67/20 with Hispanic voters specifically) cannot be independently verified from the post. The framing as definitive truth overstates any single poll's evidential weight by orders of magnitude. --- ## VII. Epistemic Closure & Gaslighting **Epistemic closure: Present.** The post constructs a closed information circuit: media is corrupt → media's data is false → Trump's data is real → followers who accept this framework are epistemically sealed from contradictory evidence. **Gaslighting (mild, directed at media/public rather than specific individuals):** "This is the way it really is" is a reality-replacement assertion. It does not argue; it asserts. The function is not persuasion of skeptics but consolidation of believers around a shared claim that the out-group (media, DeSantis supporters) is operating from corrupted data. --- ## VIII. Clinical Summary The post is within Trump's normal grandiose-narcissistic functioning range. No cognitive deviation from baseline. No danger indicators. Clinically, the most notable feature is the *efficiency* of the dominance display — three moves (delegitimize / assert / dismiss) in 22 words before the link, with zero wasted syllables. This is not a post written in agitation; it is written in confidence. The mildly elevated posting volume across the 24-hour window reflects post-CPAC rally energy rather than destabilization. The escalating pattern of DeSantis attacks across multiple posts (the "DeSanctus" nickname, the Social Security framing in the NH poll post, and this poll) suggests a systematic preemptive campaign to define DeSantis before he can define himself — a structurally rational political strategy executed through characteristically narcissistic means. ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Trump leads DeSantis 67% vs 20% with Hispanic voters in a head-to-head poll" | **Unverifiable** | The linked source is The Conservative Treehouse, a partisan pro-Trump blog. The underlying poll is not identified by a named, established polling organization in the post itself. While such polling numbers are within the range of plausibility for certain Trump-favorable internal or partisan polls from early 2023, the claim cannot be independently verified from the post alone. The framing as definitive truth ('this is the way it really is') overstates any single poll's evidential weight. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 75%) ### Indicators - 8:01 PM Eastern time — evening posting window consistent with authentic Trump activity - Dismissive 'Sorry to inform' opener is a characteristic Trump rhetorical tic - 'Good luck Ron!' mock-sympathetic farewell is consistent with Trump's contemptuous wit - Brief, punchy construction without polished elaboration - Sharing of a favorable partisan poll is a habitual authentic Trump behavior ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Preemptive Attack — Comparison (Ron DeSantis) Sentiment: +0.18 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Pattern across same-day posts shows elevated output volume (5 posts March 6–7, covering CPAC victory, rival attacks, election fraud, voting systems, and this poll) - Grandiose framing across all posts without apparent fatigue or hedging - Energy consistent with post-CPAC rally affect ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 72% - Antisocial: 18% - Paranoid: 28% - Sadism: 22% **Defense Mechanisms:** - splitting (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) - devaluation (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 32% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Direct address to media ('Sorry to inform') creates parasocial tension and positions followers as insiders who know the truth - Sharing poll data invites followers to share in the gratification of Trump's dominance - Condescending farewell to DeSantis invites audience laughter and bonding over shared contempt ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - 'This is the way it really is' positions a single partisan poll as comprehensive objective reality against any contradictory media reporting - Pre-emptive media delegitimization ('Fake News') inoculates followers against any fact-checking of the poll's provenance or methodology ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Trump leads DeSantis 67% vs 20% with Hispanic voters in a head-to-head poll **UNVERIFIABLE** The linked source is The Conservative Treehouse, a partisan pro-Trump blog. The underlying poll is not identified by a named, established polling organization in the post itself. While such polling numbers are within the range of plausibility for certain Trump-favorable internal or partisan polls from early 2023, the claim cannot be independently verified from the post alone. The framing as definitive truth ('this is the way it really is') overstates any single poll's evidential weight. Sources: The Conservative Treehouse blog post (partisan source, methodology unspecified) Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - anti-desantis (90%) - poll-amplification (85%) - media-delegitimization (75%) - preemptive-dominance (80%) - grandiose-narcissism (65%) - 2024-primary (90%) - hispanic-voters (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **CPAC Afterglow Meets J6 Fury: Trump Weaponizes Carlson Footage in Peak Grievance-Triumph Cycle** Trump spent the day riding the high of his CPAC triumph while seizing on Tucker Carlson's selective January 6th footage as total vindication. The loudest posts demanded the release of January 6th defendants and accused congressional investigators of treason, with the morning bringing the most intense burst of anger. He also kept hammering Ron DeSantis, dismissing Florida's success as just "sunshine and ocean" while warning he'd gut Social Security. The afternoon cooled into routine territory -- sharing favorable polls, endorsing allies' books, and celebrating Joe Rogan's stated preference for him over Biden. Full digest for 2023-03-07: https://trump.fm/date/2023-03-07/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, March 7). Sorry to inform the Fake News Media, but this is... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_109979297548903452 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Sorry to inform the Fake News Media, but this is the way it..." Truth Social, 7 Mar. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_109979297548903452. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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