# Post ts_110073312878023766

- Post ID: `ts_110073312878023766`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-03-23T15:31:02.624Z (UTC)
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## Post text

> Ron DeSanctimonious thought he could run for President despite his less than average numbers on COVID, Crime, and Education. Florida was successful long before DeSanctis got there. You just can’t get away with voting to cut Social Security, raise the minimum age to 70, and then vote to obliterate Medicare—three times each. His Polls are crashing, and some of his biggest financial backers, Globalists all, are calling me now, but I don’t take their calls—No Interest!

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T03:00:27.528Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

On March 23, 2023, Trump attacks DeSantis in a calculated devaluation post triggered by DeSantis's first public jab over the hush money case — delivered at peak Trump vulnerability while facing imminent indictment. The post is clinically significant as a textbook narcissistic devaluation response to a subordinate's upward defection: immediate rebranding ('DeSanctimonious'), record contamination via third-rail policy attacks (Social Security, Medicare), and a dominance-display via donor-rejection boast. The grandiose narcissistic state predominates — in striking contrast to the same-day Bragg posts' vulnerable/persecuted mode — illustrating the subject's capacity to compartmentalize rival threats into distinct emotional registers. Defense mechanisms are immature-to-pathological: devaluation, projection, and distortion of DeSantis's congressional record. Fact-checking reveals the Social Security/Medicare claims are materially misleading: while DeSantis voted for RSC budget frameworks containing entitlement reforms, characterizing them as voting 'to obliterate Medicare three times' is false in ordinary-language construction. The 'Globalists' label for DeSantis donors carries antisemitic coding with plausible deniability. Authorship is assessed as hybrid — authentic Trump voice with aide-scaffolded policy research — consistent with business-hours posting time. No danger indicators are present. The most significant longitudinal signal is the affective dissociation: the same subject who invoked the Gestapo hours earlier now produces cold, organized political calculation — suggesting sophisticated threat-categorization rather than undifferentiated reactivity.

# Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post — March 23, 2023 (DeSantis Attack)

## Contextual Frame

This post appears at 11:31 AM EDT on a day of extraordinary psychological pressure: Trump's self-predicted arrest (March 21) failed to materialize, creating a credibility vacuum; DeSantis simultaneously broke his silence with a well-received public dig over the hush money case. The subject is therefore managing simultaneous threats — legal jeopardy and intra-party rivalry — and this post addresses the latter while the same-day Bragg posts (Gestapo imagery, ALL CAPS) address the former. The compartmentalization itself is notable.

## Level 1 — Dispositional Traits

**Dominant facets:** Aggressive hostility (Neuroticism), assertiveness and dominance-seeking (Extraversion-High), very low agreeableness (contempt, devaluation). The measured tone relative to same-day Bragg posts suggests frontal modulation — either self-regulated or aide-assisted.

## Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations

**Power motive** dominates: the post is structured entirely around reasserting dominance over a perceived rival. The donor-rejection anecdote is particularly revealing — it performs indifference to validation while simultaneously signaling that validation is available in abundance. This is a characteristic adaptation of the grandiose self: simulate sufficiency to maximize perceived supply.

**Schema of rivals:** DeSantis is rapidly recast from ally to ingrate. The language "thought he could run" implies presumption — a subordinate overreaching. This reflects a hierarchical schema in which Trump occupies a permanent apex position that others approach at their peril.

## Level 3 — Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** The Inevitable. Not the fighter here (contrast with Bragg posts) but the gravitational center — donors orbit Trump even as they flee DeSantis.

**Contamination sequence for DeSantis:** Constructed narrative arc is DeSantis ascending → hubris → exposure → collapse. Trump casts himself as the revealer, not the cause.

**Identity claims:** "I don't take their calls — No Interest!" — claims to be beyond corruption by money, above the fray, in surplus-demand position.

**Contrasting other:** DeSantis as dependent, indecisive, captured by elite money, and dangerous to entitlements — the anti-Trump.

## Level 4 — Clinical Indicators

### Malignant Narcissism Components

- **Narcissistic features (high, 0.82):** Grandiosity, entitlement, devaluation, absence of empathy for rival. The immediate devaluation response to DeSantis's comparatively mild jab is disproportionate.
- **Antisocial features (moderate, 0.45):** Willingness to deploy misleading policy characterizations to damage a rival; disregard for factual accuracy as a constraint.
- **Paranoid features (low-moderate, 0.35):** 'Globalists' framing implies conspiratorial donor networks. Less paranoid than the Bragg posts from the same day.
- **Ego-syntonic sadism (moderate, 0.42):** The pleasure in the "crashing polls" narrative is palpable; the post is not merely informational but savoring.

### Narcissistic Dynamics

**Trigger:** DeSantis's public mockery (narcissistic injury via subordinate comparison). DeSantis chose the moment of Trump's maximum vulnerability (pending indictment) to strike — maximizing the injury.

**Rage:** Present but modulated (0.55/1.0). Colder than the Bragg posts. This is calculated devaluation rather than hot rage — arguably more concerning as a sustained pattern.

**State:** Grandiose. No victimhood language here; pure dominance assertion.

### Defense Mechanisms

1. **Devaluation (immature):** "DeSanctimonious," "sinking ship," "less than average" — systematic demolition of rival's image.
2. **Projection (immature):** Attributes donor-capture and globalist alignment to DeSantis while Trump's own funding sources include major institutional donors.
3. **Rationalization (neurotic):** Florida success predates DeSantis — a convenient causal reattribution.
4. **Distortion (pathological):** Congressional budget votes recast as active plans to "obliterate Medicare" — reality reshaped to serve attack.

## Cognitive Status

Language production is coherent and within Trump's established baseline. The policy specificity (Social Security, Medicare, age 70) reflects opposition research integration rather than spontaneous recall, which is consistent with hybrid authorship. No markers of word-finding difficulty, paraphasia, or temporal confusion. **No cognitive deterioration signal** relative to baseline in this post; it is notably more organized than the same-day ALL CAPS posts, consistent with aide scaffolding.

## Authorship Attribution

**Score: 0.78 (leaning authentic with aide involvement).** The nickname "DeSanctimonious," the dismissive climax "No Interest!", and the 'Globalists' signaling are unmistakably authentic Trump. The structural organization and policy-record specificity suggest aide-provided research delivered through Trump's voice template. Posting time (11:31 AM EDT) is consistent with business-hours staff operation. Judgment: authentic voice, hybrid production.

## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis

The attack deploys a precise multi-stage template:

1. **Brand contamination via ridicule nickname** — "DeSanctimonious" merges sanctimony (hypocrisy) into the rival's name, a lasting phonemic association
2. **Record attack using vague criteria** — COVID, Crime, Education resist falsification while triggering base skepticism
3. **Third-rail activation** — Social Security and Medicare are the most politically toxic positions for Republican primary voters; attributing these to DeSantis with false specificity ("three times each") is calculated
4. **Social proof via defection narrative** — donors fleeing DeSantis for Trump signals momentum shift
5. **Dominance display via rejection** — "I don't take their calls" — performed sufficiency

**'Globalists'** carries documented antisemitic coding in far-right discourse, providing plausible deniability while activating that segment.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "DeSantis voted to cut Social Security" | **Half True** | DeSantis voted for RSC budget proposals in Congress (2013-2015) containing Social Security reform provisions; characterizing these as 'cuts' is misleading without full context of what the budgets contained |
| "DeSantis voted to raise minimum retirement age to 70" | **Mostly False** | RSC budgets DeSantis supported proposed very gradual retirement age increases toward 70 over decades, not the immediate statutory change implied; DeSantis voted for omnibus budgets, not standalone Social Security bills |
| "DeSantis voted to obliterate Medicare — three times each" | **Mostly False** | No Medicare-specific 'obliteration' vote exists; Trump conflates Republican budget framework votes with targeted Medicare elimination. 'Three times each' precision appears fabricated |
| "Florida was successful long before DeSantis got there" | **Mostly True** | Florida's population growth, economic output, and low-tax status predate DeSantis's January 2019 inauguration by decades; legitimate causal question remains about his policy contribution |
| "DeSantis poll numbers are crashing" | **Half True** | DeSantis's favorability and hypothetical primary polling had declined from post-November 2022 midterm peaks by early 2023, but 'crashing' overstates the trajectory as of March 23, 2023 specifically |

Overall Veracity: 44%

## Archetypal Analysis

**Primary archetype: King (claiming sovereignty).** This post does not invoke the Warrior or Trickster — it assumes dominance as given and punishes presumption. The "they call me" / "I decline" structure is pure King archetype: petitioners approach; the sovereign decides.

**Shadow projection:** What Trump projects onto DeSantis — donor-capture, globalist alignment, entitlement-threatening agenda — maps closely onto vulnerabilities in Trump's own record (he appointed Goldman Sachs executives, his tax cuts raised deficits threatening entitlements). Classic Jungian shadow displacement.

## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

Moderate gaslighting: the Medicare/Social Security framing attempts to rewrite DeSantis's congressional record in a way that, if accepted by followers, constitutes an alternative political reality. Not as aggressive as the Bragg DARVO posts from the same day.

**Epistemic closure:** Low in this post — does not demand followers reject external reality, only to accept Trump's characterization of a political rival.

## Order/Chaos Dynamics

**Order defender (Republican primary hierarchy).** Trump positions himself as the legitimate apex of the GOP order against a usurper. This is unusual — Trump more commonly attacks establishment order from outside; here he defends his incumbency in the hierarchy from a rival.

## Danger Assessment

**None.** This is intra-party political attack with no eliminationist language, no dehumanization, and no mobilization rhetoric. The 'Globalists' dog whistle is ideologically concerning at a societal level but does not constitute a proximate danger signal in this context.

## Longitudinal Note

Compared to same-day Bragg posts (Gestapo, GESTAPO, RUSSIA, ALL CAPS), this post demonstrates striking affect modulation. The subject operates in distinctly different emotional registers depending on which threat he addresses — legal jeopardy (hot rage, victim state) vs. political rival (cold calculation, grandiose state). This dissociation between emotional registers is consistent with the oscillation between vulnerable and grandiose narcissistic states documented across the longitudinal record.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 78%)

### Indicators

- 'DeSanctimonious' nickname is a hallmark authentic Trump coinage
- Mid-day post (11:31 AM EDT in Florida/Mar-a-Lago) suggests possible aide involvement or light editing
- 'No Interest!' terminal exclamation with capitalization is authentic Trump punctuation style
- More structured argument than typical stream-of-consciousness but lacks the ALL CAPS rage of same-day Bragg posts
- Policy specificity (Social Security, Medicare, age 70) suggests opposition research integration — possibly aide-fed talking points delivered in Trump's voice

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (Ron DeSantis)

**Rage:** Intensity 55% targeting Ron DeSantis
- Proportionality: 40%

Sentiment: -0.62

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 82%
- Antisocial: 45%
- Paranoid: 35%
- Sadism: 42%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 48%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- donor-rejection boast positions Trump as incorruptible against 'Globalists,' inviting admiration from base
- sharing insider intelligence ('they're calling me now') creates false intimacy with followers
- pre-emptive framing of DeSantis collapse as inevitable constructs a loyalty test — who do you believe, your eyes or Trump?

## Fact Checks (5)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._

> DeSantis voted to cut Social Security

**HALF TRUE**

DeSantis voted for RSC budget proposals in Congress (2013-2015) containing Social Security reform provisions; characterizing these as 'cuts' is misleading without full context of what the budgets contained

Sources: Congressional voting record, RSC Budget proposals 2013-2015

> DeSantis voted to raise minimum retirement age to 70

**MOSTLY FALSE**

RSC budgets DeSantis supported proposed very gradual retirement age increases toward 70 over decades, not the immediate statutory change implied; DeSantis voted for omnibus budgets, not standalone Social Security bills

Sources: RSC FY2014-2016 budget proposals

> DeSantis voted to obliterate Medicare — three times each

**MOSTLY FALSE**

No Medicare-specific 'obliteration' vote exists; Trump conflates Republican budget framework votes with targeted Medicare elimination. 'Three times each' precision appears fabricated

Sources: Congressional Record 113th-115th Congress

> Florida was successful long before DeSantis got there

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Florida's population growth, economic output, and low-tax status predate DeSantis's January 2019 inauguration by decades; legitimate causal question remains about his policy contribution

Sources: Florida Dept of Revenue historical data; U.S. Census Bureau population trends

> DeSantis poll numbers are crashing

**HALF TRUE**

DeSantis's favorability and hypothetical primary polling had declined from post-November 2022 midterm peaks by early 2023, but 'crashing' overstates the trajectory as of March 23, 2023 specifically

Sources: RealClearPolitics polling averages Q1 2023

Overall Veracity: 44%

## Tags

- narcissistic-devaluation (92%)
- intra-party-attack (88%)
- policy-misrepresentation (84%)
- desantis-rivalry (95%)
- globalists-dog-whistle (71%)
- grandiose-state (83%)
- hybrid-authorship (68%)
- donor-rejection-performance (77%)
- entitlement-third-rail (80%)
- affect-dissociation (73%)

## That day

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

**Dehumanization and Mobilization Signals Escalate as Manhattan Indictment Looms**

Trump spent the day in sustained agitation over the approaching Manhattan DA indictment, producing 35 posts — roughly double his normal output. The mood swung between furious all-caps attacks on prosecutors (calling DA Bragg an "animal" and opponents "human scum") and strategic political hits on Ron DeSantis, who had just publicly mocked him over the hush money case. A midday burst of seven article links in ten minutes betrayed frantic behind-the-scenes efforts to build a defense narrative. The most alarming moment came in the afternoon, when Trump combined dehumanizing language with the signal that his supporters "are not going to take it anymore" — echoing his pre-January 6th rhetoric. Throughout it all, he promoted his upcoming Waco rally, chosen as a symbolically loaded venue during the anniversary of the 1993 federal siege.

Full digest for 2023-03-23: https://trump.fm/date/2023-03-23/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, March 23). Ron DeSanctimonious thought he could run for... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110073312878023766
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Ron DeSanctimonious thought he could run for President..." Truth Social, 23 Mar. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110073312878023766. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Ron DeSanctimonious thought he could run for President...," Truth Social, March 23, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110073312878023766.

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