# Post ts_110067987774779058

- Post ID: `ts_110067987774779058`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-03-22T16:56:47.988Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> While I am fighting against Radical Left Lunatics, Persecutors, and unfair Prosecutors who want to destroy us all, Ron DeSanctimonious is not working for the people of Florida as he should be, he is too busy chatting with a Ratings Challenged TV Host from England, desperately trying to rescue his failing Campaign—But it’s my fault, I put him there!

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.417Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T03:35:21.263Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

This post is a textbook narcissistic injury response triggered by DeSantis's first public mockery of Trump — delivered to Piers Morgan on the same day Trump's predicted arrest failed to materialize, compounding legal humiliation with protégé betrayal. The post's most revealing element is the self-defeating final clause: "But it's my fault, I put him there!" — simultaneously a dominance claim (I made you), a betrayal narrative (you owe me), and an impulsive admission no strategic aide would have preserved. It is the clearest authorship marker in the post.

The coined "DeSanctimonious" reflects intact wordplay and emotional investment. Defenses are primarily immature (devaluation, displacement) with mild pathological distortion of DeSantis's actual standing. The "destroy us all" framing extends Trump's personal legal jeopardy into collective existential threat — a recurring communion-inversion that recruits followers into his persecution narrative.

This post fits the protégé-betrayal pattern repeated throughout Trump's political career (Sessions, Pence, Christie) and reflects the characteristic oscillation between grandiose (kingmaker) and vulnerable (persecuted) narcissistic states under acute threat. Danger is elevated but not acute: no actionable targets or eliminationist language, but cumulative persecution framing in the context of active criminal proceedings warrants monitoring as a radicalizing narrative input for followers.

## Psychological Analysis — Truth Social Post, March 22, 2023

### Context and Trigger

This post is a direct response to DeSantis's comments to Piers Morgan earlier that day, in which DeSantis publicly needled Trump about "paying hush money to a porn star"—the first time DeSantis had actively engaged the rivalry. This constitutes a **compound narcissistic injury**: a protégé publicly mocking a patron during his most acute moment of legal vulnerability (the predicted arrest had just failed to materialize, adding humiliation to stress). The post functions as immediate retaliatory discharge.

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### Authorship Attribution

**UTC:** 16:56:47 → **Local (EDT, New York or Mar-a-Lago):** ~12:56 PM. Business-hours posting is an aide indicator. However, multiple authentic Trump markers override the timing signal:

- **"DeSanctimonious"** — a coined portmanteau requiring emotional investment and wordplay; not aide diction
- **Capitalized epithets** ("Ratings Challenged," "Radical Left Lunatics") — signature Trump capitalization pattern
- **The em-dash self-undermining admission** ("But it's my fault, I put him there!") — structurally impulsive, emotionally unguarded, against strategic interest; an aide would almost certainly have deleted it
- **Stream-of-consciousness run-on** structure across a single sentence
- **Immediate emotional reactivity** to same-day DeSantis provocation

**Assessment:** Likely authentic Trump, written or dictated in emotional state, despite midday posting. The self-incriminating final clause is the clearest authenticity marker—it serves no strategic purpose and reveals live narcissistic conflict.

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### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

- **Extraversion (high):** Dominant, assertive framing; self-casting as central combatant
- **Agreeableness (very low):** Combative throughout; zero acknowledgment of DeSantis's legitimate political standing
- **Conscientiousness (low):** Impulsive construction; strategic self-harm in final clause
- **Neuroticism (elevated):** Angry hostility as the engine of the post; vulnerability subtext ("want to destroy us all")
- **Openness (low):** Rigid categorical epithets; no complexity attributed to opponents

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### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency motives dominate:** The post is almost purely about power assertion and status restoration. The DeSantis attack is framed entirely through a hierarchy logic—Trump made him, Trump can unmake him.

**Schemas revealed:**
- Self: Heroic combatant surrounded by enemies and ingrates
- DeSantis: A creature of Trump's creation, now disloyal
- World: Zero-sum, every relationship transactional and eventually betraying

**"Destroy us all"** is notably inclusive—a communion/communion-inversion maneuver, pulling followers into Trump's personal legal jeopardy as collective threat.

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### Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** Warrior-Martyr hybrid — fighting external enemies while being stabbed from within

**Contamination sequence (explicit):** "I put him there [good] → He betrayed me [contamination]" — classic protégé-betrayal narrative that recurs throughout Trump's political history (Sessions, Pence, Christie, etc.)

**Identity claims:**
- "I am the fighter" (fighting "Radical Left Lunatics")
- "I am the kingmaker" (explicit: "I put him there")
- "I am wronged by those I elevated" (implicit)

**Contrasting other:** DeSantis as ingrate/pretender; Piers Morgan as foreign/irrelevant vehicle for DeSantis's failure

**The kingmaker paradox:** The declaration "it's my fault, I put him there" simultaneously expresses narcissistic rage at ingratitude AND a grandiose power claim. This double-function is characteristic—self-blame that is actually a dominance assertion.

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### Level 4: Clinical Indicators

**Narcissistic Features:** High. Grandiosity (kingmaker claim), entitlement (DeSantis "should be" working for Florida, implicitly instead of challenging Trump), devaluation of rival.

**Paranoid Features:** Moderate-high. "Persecutors and unfair Prosecutors who want to destroy us all" — the all-inclusive threat perception is notable. "Us all" extends personal persecution into collective existential threat.

**Antisocial Features:** Moderate. Willingness to publicly demolish a political ally in retaliation for mild criticism; instrumentalization of his role in DeSantis's career as a threat vector.

**Ego-syntonic sadism:** Mild-moderate. The coinage "DeSanctimonious" and the "Ratings Challenged TV Host from England" involve visible pleasure in diminution.

**Narcissistic State:** Mixed grandiose/vulnerable — classic oscillation. Grandiose in the kingmaker frame, vulnerable in the persecution frame. Both states are present in a single post, which is characteristic of the destabilized narcissistic presentation under acute threat.

**Narcissistic Rage:**
- Present: Yes
- Intensity: High (~0.78)
- Proportionality: Low — DeSantis made a mild joke; Trump responds with a full devaluation campaign
- Target: DeSantis (primary), Morgan (proxy), prosecutors (background)

**Trigger type:** Narcissistic injury — criticism from a subordinate who owes their position to Trump, timed during Trump's peak legal vulnerability

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### Defense Mechanisms

1. **Devaluation (immature):** "DeSanctimonious," "Ratings Challenged TV Host," "failing Campaign" — wholesale reduction of rival and his platform
2. **Displacement (neurotic):** Anger at DeSantis partially displaces from the more threatening (uncontrollable) legal situation; DeSantis is a safer target
3. **Distortion (pathological, mild):** "Failing campaign" — DeSantis has not yet declared, was polling second; the characterization misrepresents reality to meet inner needs
4. **Rationalization (neurotic):** "But it's my fault" — reframes the threat as something Trump caused, thereby reasserting control over a situation (DeSantis's rise) he cannot actually control

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### Rhetorical Analysis

**Devices:**
- Derogatory coinage ("DeSanctimonious") — wordplay that embeds a moral judgment (sanctimony = hypocritical piety) into the name itself
- Tricolon escalation ("Radical Left Lunatics, Persecutors, and unfair Prosecutors")
- Apocalyptic inclusive framing ("destroy us all") — recruits followers into personal jeopardy
- Ad hominem by proxy (Morgan attacked as "Ratings Challenged" to undercut DeSantis's platform)
- Kinship betrayal framing ("I put him there") — positions political rivalry as personal ingratitude

**Propaganda techniques:** Firehose (this post is one of several same-day posts combining rally footage, legal defense material, and attack content — volume strategy); enemy/traitor axis activated for DeSantis

**Dehumanizing language:** Absent in this post specifically (enemies are "lunatics" which is dismissive but not strictly dehumanizing)

**Violent imagery:** Absent

**Stochastic terrorism:** Absent — target is a political rival, not a civilian or official subject to mob action

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### Gaslighting / Reality Distortion

- "Failing Campaign" — DeSantis had not declared; polls showed him in strong second; characterization is distortive
- Framing DeSantis's one Piers Morgan interview as "not working for the people of Florida" is a false equivalence deployed rhetorically

**DARVO element:** Mild — positions Trump as the victim of prosecution while attacking a rival who questioned his conduct

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### Cognitive Status

No concerning markers. The portmanteau coinage ("DeSanctimonious"), mid-complexity syntax, and on-topic coherence are consistent with baseline. Vocabulary is limited but characteristic. No word-finding pauses, no temporal confusion.

**Baseline deviation:** None. This post is structurally and linguistically consistent with Trump's established patterns.

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### Danger Assessment

**Level: Elevated (not high).** The persecution framing with "destroy us all" warrants flag — it continues to build a narrative of existential collective threat that can motivate supporters. However, no specific targets identified for mob action, no eliminationist language, and the primary content is internecine political attack. The principal risk is cumulative: repeated "destroy us all" framing in a context of legal proceedings creates conditions for motivated reasoning by followers.

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### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Ron DeSantis chatting with a Ratings Challenged TV Host from England" | **Mostly True** | DeSantis did interview with Piers Morgan (British). Morgan's Fox Nation show 'Piers Morgan Uncensored' had low U.S. ratings and was cancelled in 2023. |
| "DeSantis desperately trying to rescue his failing Campaign" | **Mostly False** | DeSantis had not declared his candidacy as of March 2023 and was polling as a strong second to Trump nationally. While his numbers had softened from late-2022 peaks, characterizing it as a 'failing campaign' significantly distorts his actual standing. |
| "It's my fault, I put him there" | **Mostly True** | Trump's 2018 endorsement of DeSantis is widely credited as decisive — DeSantis was polling third before the endorsement. However, 'I put him there' overstates unilateral causation; DeSantis's subsequent governance also drove his rise. |

Overall Veracity: 60%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 82%)

### Indicators

- Coined portmanteau 'DeSanctimonious' — requires emotional investment and wordplay, not aide diction
- Capitalized epithets ('Ratings Challenged', 'Radical Left Lunatics') — signature Trump pattern
- Self-undermining em-dash admission ('But it's my fault, I put him there!') — against strategic interest; aide would have removed
- Single run-on sentence — stream-of-consciousness structure
- Immediate same-day reactivity to DeSantis/Morgan interview

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Criticism (DeSantis)

**Rage:** Intensity 78% targeting DeSantis (primary), Piers Morgan (proxy), prosecutors (background)
- Proportionality: 25%

Sentiment: -0.76

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 82%
- Antisocial: 55%
- Paranoid: 65%
- Sadism: 48%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- devaluation (immature)
- displacement (neurotic)
- distortion (pathological)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 38%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- 'destroy us all' — inclusive pronoun recruits followers into Trump's personal legal jeopardy as collective existential threat
- Warrior-Martyr dual casting — fighting enemies while being betrayed from within creates sympathetic persecution narrative
- Kingmaker disclosure — sharing insider knowledge of DeSantis's rise creates intimacy with audience

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- 'Want to destroy us all' — existential collective persecution framing extends Trump's personal legal situation to followers as group threat
- Cumulative effect: repeated persecution narrative in context of active criminal proceedings creates conditions for motivated reasoning by followers
- Protégé-betrayal narrative publicly enacted: signals to Republican ecosystem that crossing Trump invites full devaluation campaign

### Gaslighting

- 'Failing Campaign' applied to undeclared candidate polling in strong second — distortion of documented political reality
- Framing one Piers Morgan interview as DeSantis 'not working for the people of Florida' — false equivalence presented as factual dereliction

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> Ron DeSantis chatting with a Ratings Challenged TV Host from England

**MOSTLY TRUE**

DeSantis did interview with Piers Morgan (British). Morgan's Fox Nation show 'Piers Morgan Uncensored' had low U.S. ratings and was cancelled in 2023.

Sources: Known events: DeSantis Breaks Silence on Trump Hush Money Case

> DeSantis desperately trying to rescue his failing Campaign

**MOSTLY FALSE**

DeSantis had not declared his candidacy as of March 2023 and was polling as a strong second to Trump nationally. While his numbers had softened from late-2022 peaks, characterizing it as a 'failing campaign' significantly distorts his actual standing.

Sources: General knowledge of 2023 Republican primary polling

> It's my fault, I put him there

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Trump's 2018 endorsement of DeSantis is widely credited as decisive — DeSantis was polling third before the endorsement. However, 'I put him there' overstates unilateral causation; DeSantis's subsequent governance also drove his rise.

Sources: General knowledge of 2018 Florida gubernatorial race

Overall Veracity: 60%

## Tags

- narcissistic-injury (95%)
- protege-betrayal (92%)
- devaluation (88%)
- DeSantis-rivalry (90%)
- persecution-framing (85%)
- kingmaker-narrative (82%)
- authentic-trump (82%)
- hush-money-context (75%)
- collective-threat-framing (80%)

## That day

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

**Failed Arrest Prediction Fuels Day-Long Defensive Spiral, DeSantis Demolition, and a Permission Slip for Violence**

Trump spent the day managing fallout from his failed arrest prediction, mounting a two-front war against the Manhattan DA and Ron DeSantis. The morning opened with defensive legal arguments claiming universal media consensus of his innocence, while aides flooded his feed with supportive articles. By afternoon, DeSantis became the primary target after publicly mocking Trump's legal troubles, triggering an extended multi-post statistical attack on Florida's record. The most concerning moment came late in the day with a post warning supporters about "Antifa infiltrators" at conservative gatherings and explicitly reminding them they're "still allowed to self-defend."

Full digest for 2023-03-22: https://trump.fm/date/2023-03-22/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, March 22). While I am fighting against Radical Left... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110067987774779058
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "While I am fighting against Radical Left Lunatics,..." Truth Social, 22 Mar. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110067987774779058. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "While I am fighting against Radical Left Lunatics,...," Truth Social, March 22, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110067987774779058.

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