# Post ts_110290342200322363

- Post ID: `ts_110290342200322363`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-04-30T23:24:27.309Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/110290339900975940 DeSanctimonious had nothing to do with Israel, or the moving of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. Never so much as mentioned it to me—It was the last thing on his mind. DeSanctus wasn’t even Governor yet (It was December 6, 2017), and I barely knew him—He has turned out to be a total flameout! This is the kind of disinformation I thought only the Democrats would put out. No wonder DeSanctus is dropping like a rock in the Polls. Terrible!

## Reposted post

Original: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110290339900975940 (2023-04-30T23:23:52.182Z (UTC))

> https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/04/27/collapsing-at-home-desantis-travels-to-israel-and-proclaims-he-moved-u-s-embassy-to-jerusalem-not-president-trump/

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T04:50:28.691Z (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 clinically significant narcissistic injury response triggered by DeSantis's alleged co-optation of Trump's Jerusalem embassy legacy during an Israel visit. The response follows the documented devaluation template: specific supply/legacy threat → complete reversal of idealization → retroactive biographical revisionism ('I barely knew him') → victim/persecution framing → peer-Democrat equivalence as terminal derogation. The most analytically significant feature is the pathological-level distortion directly contradicting documented public record, functioning simultaneously as gaslighting and loyalty test: accepting 'I barely knew him' requires the audience to discount what they witnessed. The dual-nickname artifact ('DeSanctimonious' / 'DeSanctus') within a single post is a minor idiosyncrasy consistent with Trump's nickname-proliferation pattern. This constitutes the fourth DeSantis attack post in a single day, forming a rage cascade proportionate to the perceived legacy threat. E. Jean Carroll trial was active this week and Biden announced reelection the same day — multiple simultaneous supply threats may have lowered Trump's injury threshold. No deviation from established DeSantis-attack baseline; pattern is well-precedented.

# Analysis: ts_110290342200322363 — April 30, 2023

## Authorship Attribution

**UTC:** 23:24:27 → **Local time (EDT, UTC−4): 7:24 PM.** Trump's same-day posts announce an imminent departure for Scotland and Ireland, placing him likely at Mar-a-Lago or on the East Coast. Evening hours are consistent with his organic posting pattern. Stylistic markers overwhelmingly indicate **authentic Trump authorship**: signature nicknaming ("DeSanctimonious"), parenthetical date precision ("(It was December 6, 2017)"), adversarial crescendo structure, and the terminal single-word verdict ("Terrible!") — all characteristic of his unmediated voice. The post also uses *two distinct nicknames* for the same target within the same short message ("DeSanctimonious" and "DeSanctus"), a quirk too idiosyncratic for aide drafting and consistent with habitual or mildly confused nickname proliferation.

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## Trigger and Psychological State

The immediately preceding linked post (Conservative Treehouse article from April 27) makes the trigger explicit: DeSantis, during an Israel trip, allegedly claimed credit for moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem — a signature Trump legacy achievement. This constitutes a **direct narcissistic injury**: a rival has usurped ownership of a crowning accomplishment, threatening Trump's supply narrative and historical legacy simultaneously.

The post oscillates between two narcissistic states. The **grandiose pole** dominates: Trump asserts exclusive ownership of the Jerusalem decision, positions himself as DeSantis's political kingmaker ("I Endorsed him and he went big league"), and dismisses DeSantis's competence entirely. The **vulnerable pole** briefly surfaces in the victimhood framing ("the kind of disinformation I thought only the Democrats would put out"), which converts the injury into persecution narrative.

This is the fourth DeSantis attack post on this single day, constituting a **rage cascade** — a cluster of escalating counter-strikes following a perceived humiliation. Rage intensity is elevated but proportionally consistent with Trump's documented response to supply-threat triggers; it does not represent a marked deviation from prior DeSantis-attack baseline.

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## Defense Mechanisms

**Retroactive devaluation** (immature): The idealization-devaluation cycle completes fully in this post. DeSantis, formerly Trump's chosen heir, is now a "total flameout" and "really bad politician." No acknowledgment of the prior partnership.

**Projection** (immature): Trump accuses DeSantis of spreading "disinformation" — the precise mechanism Trump himself is documented to employ. The accusation functions as preemptive immunization: by labeling the opponent's counter-narrative disinformation first, Trump forecloses objective adjudication.

**Distortion/Revisionism** (pathological): "I barely knew him" is a direct distortion of biographical reality. Trump actively promoted, endorsed, and publicly lionized DeSantis through 2022. This is not simple forgetting — it is a reshaping of the shared past to serve the current devaluation. This meets the threshold for pathological-level denial of documented external reality.

**Splitting** (immature): DeSantis is now unambiguously all-bad; equivalence with Democrats is established as the ultimate devaluation in Trump's moral universe.

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## Narrative Identity (McAdams Level 3)

- **Protagonist role:** Sovereign author of history; kingmaker who creates and destroys political careers; sole legitimate claimant to landmark foreign policy achievements.
- **Contamination sequence:** Trump elevated DeSantis → DeSantis repaid him with disinformation and stolen credit → DeSantis now crashes and burns (deserved consequence).
- **Contrasting other:** DeSantis as ungrateful pretender who is indistinguishable from Democrats — the ultimate othering within Trump's framework.
- **Identity claims:** "I moved the embassy. I made DeSantis. He was nothing without me. His downfall is just."
- **Redemptive subtext:** Trump's own ongoing persecution by the same forces (Carroll trial active this week, Biden reelection announcement) is implicitly contrasted with DeSantis's trivial, self-inflicted collapse.

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## Rhetorical Techniques

- **Ad hominem escalation:** "DeSanctimonious" → "DeSanctus" → "total flameout" → "really bad politician" — derogation intensifies across the post.
- **Hyperbole:** "dropping like a rock," "went big league" — magnitude inflation in both directions.
- **Pseudo-precision as authority claim:** "(It was December 6, 2017)" invokes specific date recall to assert historical ownership; the parenthetical mimics evidentiary citation.
- **False equivalence:** DeSantis equated with Democrats on disinformation — the most damning charge within Trump's audience.
- **Social proof via polls:** Polls as divine verdict on legitimacy.
- **Retroactive revisionism / gaslighting:** "I barely knew him" demands the audience accept a counterfactual biographical claim.

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## Cognitive Assessment

Vocabulary and syntactic structure are consistent with Trump's established Truth Social baseline — simple sentence construction, emotional intensifiers, minimal subordinate clauses. The double-nickname phenomenon ("DeSanctimonious" / "DeSanctus") is noteworthy but ambiguous: it may represent intentional rhetorical variation (two mockeries for two contexts), or it may reflect mild label conflation. It does not, in isolation, constitute a clinical-grade cognitive marker. No word-finding difficulty, temporal confusion, or confabulation is evident. Complexity score is low-to-moderate, consistent with baseline.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "DeSanctimonious had nothing to do with Israel, or the moving of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem" | **Mostly True** | The embassy move was a Trump executive decision signed December 6, 2017. DeSantis had no role in the policy. However, DeSantis was serving as a U.S. Congressman (FL-6) at the time, so characterizing his involvement as zero elides possible peripheral legislative advocacy. |
| "It was December 6, 2017" | **True** | Trump signed the Jerusalem recognition proclamation and announced the embassy relocation on December 6, 2017. |
| "DeSanctus wasn't even Governor yet" | **True** | DeSantis won the Florida gubernatorial election in November 2018 and was inaugurated January 2019, over a year after the December 2017 embassy announcement. |
| "I barely knew him" | **False** | Trump actively endorsed DeSantis in the 2018 Republican gubernatorial primary (July 2018) and general election, tweeted extensively about him, and publicly championed his candidacy. The claim is a documented retroactive distortion of their well-documented political relationship. |
| "DeSanctus is dropping like a rock in the Polls" | **Mostly True** | As of late April 2023, polling showed DeSantis's national Republican primary numbers declining notably from late 2022 peaks, particularly relative to Trump, following his anticipated-but-not-yet-declared presidential campaign buildup. |

Overall Veracity: 72%

## Danger Assessment

No eliminationist language, dehumanization, or violence-adjacent rhetoric. This is a competitive intra-party political attack. Danger level: **none.**

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## Summary

This post represents a **clinically significant narcissistic injury response** triggered by DeSantis's alleged co-optation of Trump's Jerusalem embassy legacy during an Israel visit. The response follows the documented pattern: specific trigger (supply/legacy threat) → rapid devaluation → retroactive biographical revisionism ("I barely knew him") → victim/persecution framing (disinformation accusation) → peer-Democrat equivalence as terminal derogation. The use of two distinct nicknames for the same target within a single short post is a minor idiosyncrasy consistent with Trump's nickname-proliferation pattern, not a clinical cognitive marker. The most analytically significant element is the **pathological-level distortion** ("I barely knew him"), which directly contradicts documented public record and functions as a loyalty test: accepting this claim requires the audience to discount what they themselves witnessed. This gaslighting mechanism — demanding that followers validate a counterfactual biographical account — is consistent with shared psychosis dynamics in the broader audience-maintenance function of Trump's Truth Social presence. No deviation from established DeSantis-attack baseline; intensity is elevated but proportionate to the supply-threat trigger.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 92%)

### Indicators

- 7:24 PM Eastern — evening hours consistent with authentic posting window
- Dual nicknames for same target ('DeSanctimonious' and 'DeSanctus') — too idiosyncratic for aide drafting
- Parenthetical date precision '(It was December 6, 2017)' — characteristic Trump rhetorical device
- Terminal single-word verdict 'Terrible!' — signature closing pattern
- Stream-of-consciousness escalation with em-dash pivots

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

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

**Rage:** Intensity 72% targeting Ron DeSantis
- Proportionality: 55%

Sentiment: -0.72

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Fourth DeSantis attack post in single day — elevated posting frequency
- Escalating nickname proliferation within single message
- Grandiose energy ('I Endorsed him and he went big league') combined with rapid devaluation cycling

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 82%
- Antisocial: 48%
- Paranoid: 42%
- Sadism: 32%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 32%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Validates audience's suspicions about DeSantis by framing his trip as disinformation campaign
- Positions followers as witnesses to deserved downfall ('Enjoy the trip, Ron!')
- Loyalty test: accepting 'I barely knew him' requires followers to discount their own prior observations

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- 'I barely knew him' — demands audience accept counterfactual account of well-documented political relationship
- Reframes documented political alliance as DeSantis being entirely self-made (erasing Trump's own credit-taking for DeSantis's rise)
- Deploys 'disinformation' accusation preemptively to inoculate against factual counter-narrative
- Rapid revisionism: same-day earlier post claimed 'I Endorsed him and he went big league' — now claims 'I barely knew him'

## Fact Checks (5)

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

> DeSanctimonious had nothing to do with Israel, or the moving of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem

**MOSTLY TRUE**

The embassy move was a Trump executive decision signed December 6, 2017. DeSantis had no role in the policy. However, DeSantis was serving as a U.S. Congressman (FL-6) at the time, so characterizing his involvement as zero elides possible peripheral legislative advocacy.

Sources: Trump Jerusalem proclamation, December 6, 2017; DeSantis congressional record 2013-2019

> It was December 6, 2017

**TRUE**

Trump signed the Jerusalem recognition proclamation and announced the embassy relocation on December 6, 2017.

Sources: White House proclamation, December 6, 2017

> DeSanctus wasn't even Governor yet

**TRUE**

DeSantis won the Florida gubernatorial election in November 2018 and was inaugurated January 2019, over a year after the December 2017 embassy announcement.

Sources: Florida election records 2018

> I barely knew him

**FALSE**

Trump actively endorsed DeSantis in the 2018 Republican gubernatorial primary (July 2018) and general election, tweeted extensively about him, and publicly championed his candidacy. The claim is a documented retroactive distortion of their well-documented political relationship.

Sources: Trump Twitter archive 2018; Trump endorsement tweet July 22, 2018

> DeSanctus is dropping like a rock in the Polls

**MOSTLY TRUE**

As of late April 2023, polling showed DeSantis's national Republican primary numbers declining notably from late 2022 peaks, particularly relative to Trump, following his anticipated-but-not-yet-declared presidential campaign buildup.

Sources: RealClearPolitics polling averages April 2023

Overall Veracity: 72%

## Tags

- DeSantis-attack (95%)
- narcissistic-injury (90%)
- retroactive-devaluation (88%)
- gaslighting (82%)
- legacy-defense (85%)
- rage-cascade (75%)
- projection (72%)
- intra-party-rivalry (90%)
- Israel-Jerusalem-embassy (80%)
- supply-seeking (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). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110290342200322363
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1..." Truth Social, 30 Apr. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110290342200322363. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1...," Truth Social, April 30, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110290342200322363.

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