# Post ts_110290247656701743 - Post ID: `ts_110290247656701743` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-04-30T23:00:24.651Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110290247656701743 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110290247656701743/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110290247656701743.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > DeSanctimonious had a failed campaign when he was running for Governor - He was ready to drop out, was WAY behind. Then I Endorsed him and he went big league, but artificially, up. The real DeSanctus, however, is the guy we are all watching crash a burn - A really bad politician. Enjoy the trip, Ron! ## Engagement - Likes: 14,013 - Reposts: 3,475 - Replies: 583 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.413Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T04:37:19.715Z (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 deploys a narcissistic dominance template triggered by DeSantis's credible 2024 positioning — a classic unfavorable-comparison injury. The response colonizes DeSantis's biography: past success is recast as Trump-created and therefore hollow ("artificially, up"); present trajectory is declared collapse. The central historical claim — that DeSantis "was ready to drop out" before Trump's endorsement — constitutes pathological-level distortion; no contemporaneous evidence supports imminent withdrawal, though DeSantis did trail in polls pre-endorsement. The devaluation ("A really bad politician") applied to a governor who won reelection by 19 points reveals the structural necessity of distortion: accurate assessment of DeSantis's political ability would undermine the kingmaker schema. The taunt valediction ("Enjoy the trip, Ron!") signals ego-syntonic pleasure in the dominance display — sadistic affect in service of narcissistic regulation. Post is very likely authentic Trump (score: 0.92), consistent with multiple stylistic fingerprints including typo ("crash a burn"), signature phrase ("big league"), and mocking personal register absent in aide-written content. Cognitive markers are minor and below alarm threshold individually. The post's considerable effort to diminish a rival Trump publicly treats as beneath him paradoxically reveals the threat's magnitude: the narcissistic organization requires this degree of biographical rewriting precisely because the actual comparison is uncomfortable. Danger level: none. # Psychological Analysis: ts_110290247656701743 ## Overview This post is a targeted political dominance display aimed at Ron DeSantis, framed as retrospective historical verdict rather than present-moment rivalry. Published at 7:00 PM EDT on April 30, 2023 — during the week DeSantis was widely reported to be planning a formal 2024 presidential announcement — the timing suggests proactive threat-neutralization rather than reactive injury response. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits **Neuroticism (angry hostility facet):** Elevated. The post's ostensible calm ("Enjoy the trip, Ron!") is a performance of amused contempt, but the underlying construction — revisionist history deployed to diminish a rival — indicates hostility channeled through a grandiose register rather than expressed as raw anger. **Agreeableness (inverse):** Marked. No acknowledgment of DeSantis's genuine political accomplishments; pure devaluation. **Extraversion (assertiveness):** High. The post performs dominance, not calculation. **Conscientiousness:** Low. The typo "crash a burn" and the use of two different nicknames within one short post signal minimal editorial deliberation. --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motive (power/status):** Dominant. The entire post is an assertion that Trump holds veto power over DeSantis's political legitimacy — past, present, and future. **Schema (self):** Kingmaker. Trump casts himself not as a candidate competing with DeSantis but as the authority who made DeSantis possible and whose withdrawal of approval produces collapse. This elevates Trump to a qualitatively different tier than any rival. **Schema (others):** Tools or threats. DeSantis in this schema is a tool (created by Trump's endorsement) who has malfunctioned (attempted independent existence) and is now properly breaking down. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** Kingmaker/Sovereign — not a peer-competitor but a throne-granter who can bestow and revoke political existence. **Narrative sequence:** Contamination. DeSantis rose (good, due to Trump) → DeSantis asserted independence (bad) → DeSantis crashes (consequence; justice). The contamination agent is DeSantis's own ambition, not external circumstance. **Identity claims:** - "I am the reason DeSantis exists politically" - "My judgment has always been correct about him" - "I see through the artificial veneer to 'the real DeSanctus'" **Contrasting other:** DeSantis as the politically inept ingrate — defining Trump's legitimacy through contrast with manufactured-then-failing rival. --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators ### Malignant Narcissism Components **Narcissistic features (high):** Grandiosity is structural to the entire post — not incidental. The claim to have singlehandedly elevated DeSantis from near-dropout to governor is an assertion of unlimited political power. The devaluation is global ("A really bad politician") despite DeSantis winning Florida's 2022 gubernatorial race by 19.4 points. **Paranoid features (moderate):** The post anticipates and preemptively rebuts a DeSantis threat narrative before a formal campaign announcement. This defensive preemption suggests heightened vigilance about rivals rather than confident dismissal. **Sadistic features (present):** "Enjoy the trip, Ron!" functions as a taunt-as-valediction — performing pleasure at anticipated suffering. The rhetorical flourish would be unnecessary if the goal were purely informational; its presence signals enjoyment of the dominance display itself. **Antisocial features (low-moderate):** Deceitfulness present in the revisionist historical account; no concern for accuracy where accuracy conflicts with dominance narrative. ### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Distortion (pathological):** "He was ready to drop out, was WAY behind" — reshapes the historical record. Trump endorsed DeSantis in January 2018 when DeSantis was trailing Adam Putnam in primary polls, and the endorsement was transformative. But no contemporaneous reporting documents DeSantis considering withdrawal. The distortion serves to maximize the magnitude of Trump's intervention (the greater the rescue, the greater the rescuer). 2. **Devaluation (immature):** "A really bad politician" applied to an incumbent governor who won by a historic margin weeks before this post. The devaluation is strategically necessary — if DeSantis is genuinely talented, Trump's endorsement theory of his rise weakens. 3. **Rationalization (neurotic):** "Big league, but artificially, up" — any DeSantis success is explained away as dependent on external (Trump-supplied) support, insulating the schema against disconfirmation. ### Narcissistic Trigger and Rage The trigger is **unfavorable comparison** — DeSantis's growing national profile and 2024 positioning constitute an implicit claim that a post-Trump Republican Party is viable. This is among the most activating injury types for the narcissistic organization, as it threatens the foundational identity claim ("only I can do this"). Rage intensity is moderate (0.62) and **disproportionate to the stated trigger** (a rival running for president) — expressed not as overt fury but as contemptuous amusement, which is a more ego-syntonic and therefore more stable manifestation. --- ## Cognitive Status **Complexity score vs. baseline:** Slightly below baseline. The post is coherent but contains a notable production error ("crash a burn" for "crash and burn") and inconsistent nickname usage within the same post, suggesting reduced editorial monitoring. **Markers of note:** - "crash a burn" — missing conjunction, possible minor word-finding lapse or simply unedited haste - Dual-nickname inconsistency ("DeSanctimonious" / "DeSanctus") in 88 words These are insufficient individually to flag as significant deviation; both are plausibly attributable to authentic posting without staff review. Warranting longitudinal tracking, not current alarm. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Score: 0.92 (very likely authentic Trump)** Multiple converging authentic markers: established personal nickname, characteristic punctuation style (dashes, caps), signature phrase ("big league"), personal pronoun dominance ("I Endorsed"), production typo, and mocking register with taunt valediction. Timing (7 PM EDT if still US-based) is consistent with authentic posting window. --- ## Rhetorical and Propaganda Techniques The post deploys **retrospective reframing** as its core technique — colonizing DeSantis's biographical narrative before DeSantis can establish his own. By anchoring all of DeSantis's past success to Trump's endorsement, the post preemptively forecloses DeSantis's ability to claim independent political identity. Any future DeSantis success must now be argued against this frame. The **collective witness appeal** ("we are all watching") converts the post's audience into a jury rendering a verdict Trump has already written — a subtle epistemic closure technique that positions the DeSantis decline as publicly observed fact rather than contested prediction. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "DeSantis 'was ready to drop out' during his gubernatorial campaign" | **Mostly False** | DeSantis trailed Adam Putnam in 2018 primary polls before Trump's endorsement, but no contemporaneous reporting documents DeSantis considering withdrawal. The 'ready to drop out' claim is unsupported fabrication that magnifies Trump's intervention. | | "Trump endorsed DeSantis and he 'went big league'" | **Mostly True** | Trump's June 2018 endorsement of DeSantis is well-documented as dramatically altering the Florida Republican primary. DeSantis won the primary and the general election. The endorsement's transformative effect is historically supported. | | "DeSantis is currently 'crashing and burning' (April 2023)" | **Unverifiable** | As of April 30, 2023, DeSantis had not yet formally announced a 2024 presidential campaign. The claim is predictive opinion dressed as observed fact, not a verifiable present-tense claim. | | "DeSantis's rise was 'artificial'" | **Unverifiable** | Opinion/characterization framed as factual descriptor. Unverifiable as stated; the magnitude of Trump's endorsement effect is real, but labeling DeSantis's subsequent political career 'artificial' is not a falsifiable empirical claim. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Archetypes and Order/Chaos **Primary archetype: Sovereign/Tyrant.** Trump positions himself not as a warrior fighting DeSantis but as a feudal lord revoking a vassal's legitimacy. This is qualitatively distinct from peer-competitor framing. **Secondary archetype: Trickster.** The mocking nickname and taunt valediction carry Trickster energy — humiliating the aspirant through ridicule rather than direct combat. **Order/chaos positioning:** Trump here acts as **order-definer** — he determines which hierarchies are legitimate. DeSantis's error (in this narrative) is violating the established order of Trump supremacy, and his "crash and burn" is framed as the natural restoration of proper hierarchy. --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: None.** The post contains no eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no mobilization signals, and no violent imagery. It is an intraparty political dominance display with no safety implications. --- ## Summary This post represents a high-confidence authentic Trump post deploying a well-practiced narcissistic dominance template: retrospective biography colonization followed by devaluation and taunt valediction. The trigger is DeSantis's credible 2024 positioning — an unfavorable comparison injury — and the response serves dual functions: preemptive legitimacy denial and narcissistic supply generation through audience-witnessed contempt. The central distortion ("ready to drop out") is a pathological-level defense — reshaping historical fact to maximize the magnitude of Trump's prior intervention and, by extension, his current authority to declare DeSantis finished. Cognitive markers are minor (production typo, dual-nickname inconsistency) and below threshold for clinical concern individually, though consistent with monitoring for longitudinal pattern. The post's structure reveals the narcissistic organization's fundamental vulnerability to unfavorable comparison: a governor who won by 19 points requires this degree of preemptive biographical rewriting, suggesting the threat is experienced as more existential than the dismissive register implies. Danger level: none. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 92%) ### Indicators - 'DeSanctimonious' — established personal nickname coined by Trump - Typo: 'crash a burn' (missing 'and') — unedited stream of consciousness - Two distinct nicknames in same post ('DeSanctimonious' / 'DeSanctus') — disorganized authentic cadence - 'big league' — signature Trumpism - First-person credit-claiming ('Then I Endorsed him') — ego-driven authentic voice ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (Ron DeSantis emerging as credible 2024 Republican primary rival) **Rage:** Intensity 62% targeting Ron DeSantis - Proportionality: 30% Sentiment: -0.62 Baseline Deviation: slight **Mildly Hypomanic** - Pressured dismissiveness — multiple attacks compressed into brief post - Mocking valediction signals elevated affect rather than flat contempt - Dual-nickname usage within 88 words suggests reduced editorial self-monitoring ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 88% - Antisocial: 35% - Paranoid: 45% - Sadism: 50% **Defense Mechanisms:** - distortion (pathological) - devaluation (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 38% Cognitive Markers: - word finding difficulty - perseveration **Parasocial Techniques:** - Direct audience address ('we are all watching') — invites followers into shared schadenfreude - Mocking send-off ('Enjoy the trip, Ron!') — performs dominance for audience consumption - Credit-claiming narrative frames audience as witnesses to Trump's superior judgment ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - 'He was ready to drop out' — asserts undocumented historical fact about DeSantis's private mental state - 'big league, but artificially, up' — reframes DeSantis's objectively large 2022 victory as hollow and external - Framing predictive opinion ('crash a burn') as witnessed collective fact ('we are all watching') ## Fact Checks (4) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > DeSantis 'was ready to drop out' during his gubernatorial campaign **MOSTLY FALSE** DeSantis trailed Adam Putnam in 2018 primary polls before Trump's endorsement, but no contemporaneous reporting documents DeSantis considering withdrawal. The 'ready to drop out' claim is unsupported fabrication that magnifies Trump's intervention. Sources: 2018 Florida Republican primary polling records; Trump endorsement timeline June 2018 > Trump endorsed DeSantis and he 'went big league' **MOSTLY TRUE** Trump's June 2018 endorsement of DeSantis is well-documented as dramatically altering the Florida Republican primary. DeSantis won the primary and the general election. The endorsement's transformative effect is historically supported. Sources: 2018 Florida primary results; Pre/post endorsement polling comparison > DeSantis is currently 'crashing and burning' (April 2023) **UNVERIFIABLE** As of April 30, 2023, DeSantis had not yet formally announced a 2024 presidential campaign. The claim is predictive opinion dressed as observed fact, not a verifiable present-tense claim. > DeSantis's rise was 'artificial' **UNVERIFIABLE** Opinion/characterization framed as factual descriptor. Unverifiable as stated; the magnitude of Trump's endorsement effect is real, but labeling DeSantis's subsequent political career 'artificial' is not a falsifiable empirical claim. Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - DeSantis (95%) - kingmaker_narrative (88%) - narcissistic_injury_comparison (85%) - historical_revisionism (82%) - devaluation (78%) - 2024_primary (75%) - authentic_posting (92%) - sadistic_valediction (65%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Grandiose Supply Blitz Masks Legal Siege as DeSantis Rivalry Erupts in Evening Rage Cascade** A high-volume day of 40 posts dominated by self-congratulatory link sharing, with a massive midday dump of favorable articles about poll leads, GOP loyalty, and platform metrics. The morning included a notably distorted defense of the Georgia phone call, claiming it was "PERFECT" and misquoting its content. The mood was mostly upbeat and promotional, but the evening brought a sharp turn as DeSantis became the target of four escalating attacks, peaking with a lengthy screed rewriting DeSantis's political biography and claiming credit for his career. Throughout, the Carroll trial and multiple legal threats lurked as unspoken context behind the relentless positivity. Full digest for 2023-04-30: https://trump.fm/date/2023-04-30/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, April 30). DeSanctimonious had a failed campaign when he was... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110290247656701743 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "DeSanctimonious had a failed campaign when he was running..." Truth Social, 30 Apr. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110290247656701743. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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