# Post ts_110384241542774139

- Post ID: `ts_110384241542774139`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-05-17T13:24:17.530Z (UTC)
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## Post text

> Wow! In a big upset, the DeSanctimonious backed Republican candidate for Mayor of Jacksonville, Florida, LOST. This is a shocker. If they would have asked me to Endorse, he would have won, easily. Too proud to do so. Fools! This is a BIG LOSS for the Republican Party. Remember, “Rob” only won because of me!!!

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T04:46:23.361Z (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 exemplifies narcissistic supply-harvesting: the DeSantis-backed candidate's unexpected loss in the Jacksonville mayoral race is immediately converted into evidence of Trump's indispensability. The counterfactual omnipotence claim — "he would have won, easily" — is structurally unfalsifiable and maximally grandiose, insulating Trump from disconfirmation while positioning him as the sole engine of Republican electoral success. The contemptuous epithet "Fools!" and the deliberate name distortion "Rob" for Ron DeSantis constitute ego-syntonic sadism: cruelty deployed as dominance display at a rival's moment of political setback. Defense mechanisms include rationalization (the loss resulted from their failure to solicit his endorsement, not any deficiency on his part), projection ("too proud" attributed to the DeSantis camp while Trump's own post conspicuously enacts wounded pride), and splitting (Trump = winners; DeSantis operation = fools). The gleeful "Wow!" opener reveals that the primary affect is schadenfreude, not political concern. Framed within the broader May 17 posting session — which also includes all-caps FBI persecution claims, Roe v. Wade self-congratulation, and a Barr attack — this post represents the grandiose pole of same-day narcissistic state oscillation. The vulnerable/persecuted register visible in the FBI post gives way here to expansive triumphalism. Authentic Trump authorship is assessed at high confidence despite 9:24 AM EDT timing; stylistic markers decisively override. No danger indicators present. Post is clinically significant for concentrated kingmaker grandiosity and sadistic rival diminishment.

## Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post, May 17, 2023 (ts_110384241542774139)

### Overview

This post exploits the unexpected defeat of DeSantis-backed Republican Daniel Davis in the Jacksonville, FL mayoral race (lost to Democrat Donna Deegan) as raw material for a kingmaker grandiosity display. It is structurally a **supply-harvest masked as political commentary**: Trump frames a rival's political setback as evidence of his own indispensability, while the ostensible concern for the Republican Party reads as transparently performative.

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### Authorship Attribution

**Local time:** UTC 13:24 converts to **9:24 AM EDT** (Trump was likely in NYC or Mar-a-Lago in mid-May 2023). This falls at the early edge of business hours, which weakly points toward possible aide involvement — however, the stylistic fingerprint overwhelmingly overrides timing concerns:

- **"DeSanctimonious"** — Trump-coined nickname, used consistently across prior posts
- **"Wow!"** — signature reactive opener
- **"Fools!"** — impulsive, single-word emotional epithet, not aide register
- **ALL CAPS** ("BIG LOSS") — typical Trump emphasis
- **Scare quotes** around "Rob" — contemptuous name distortion for Ron DeSantis (Trump deliberately mangles the first name, a form of dominance display; "Rob" matches no recent Jacksonville elected official)
- **Stream-of-consciousness** — fragmented, emotionally reactive, non-linear
- **Multiple exclamation marks** throughout
- **Third-person self-reference** via "me" constructions — structurally identical to prior authenticated posts

**Assessment:** High confidence authentic Trump. The 9:24 AM timing may reflect early morning posting before aides were active, or reactive posting triggered by news of the election result overnight. The emotional texture is incompatible with aide authorship.

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### Multi-Level Personality Analysis

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

| Trait | Expression in Post | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| **Extraversion** | Assertive, dominant, emotionally expressive | High (0.85) |
| **Agreeableness** | Contemptuous epithet ("Fools!"), zero empathy for losing candidate | Very Low (0.05) |
| **Conscientiousness** | Impulsive, reactive, no deliberation visible | Low (0.20) |
| **Neuroticism** | Emotional reactivity, though modulated into gleeful contempt rather than overt distress | Moderate (0.65) |
| **Openness** | Rigid worldview, all outcomes reducible to Trump's centrality | Very Low (0.15) |

**Dominant facet:** Assertiveness (E) paired with angry hostility (N) expressed as schadenfreude.

#### Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations (Motives & Schemas)

**Agency motives dominate entirely** (score: 0.95). Communion motives are functionally absent. The post is driven by:
- **Power/Status preservation**: Asserting position as Republican kingmaker heading into 2024 primary against DeSantis
- **Control schema**: Electoral outcomes are depicted as Trump-dependent variables — a cognitive framework in which his endorsement is deterministic

**World view implicit in post:** The Republican Party is a feudal system in which Trump is the sovereign. Candidates who do not seek his blessing are committing an act of prideful insubordination, for which electoral defeat is appropriate punishment.

#### Level 3 — Narrative Identity

- **Protagonist role:** The Indispensable, Spurned Kingmaker — a figure of supreme power who was denied his due deference
- **Narrative sequence:** **Contamination** (DeSantis camp's decision to withhold fealty transforms what would have been victory into loss) *inverted into Redemption for Trump* (the loss vindicates his centrality)
- **Identity claims:** "I am the sole engine of Republican electoral success"; "Without me, Republicans lose"; "My endorsement converts certain defeat into easy victory"
- **Contrasting other:** DeSantis and his operation ("Fools," "too proud") — defined not by policy but by the act of failing to acknowledge Trump's supremacy
- **Scare-quote "Rob":** Deliberate first-name distortion of "Ron" DeSantis — a contempt micro-aggression establishing that DeSantis is not even worth naming correctly

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### Clinical Analysis

#### Malignant Narcissism (Kernberg)

**A. Narcissistic Features (high, 0.85):**
- Counterfactual omnipotence: "If they would have asked me to Endorse, he would have won, *easily*" — structurally unfalsifiable; forecloses disconfirmation
- Grandiosity as political theory: endorsement is treated as causally deterministic, not probabilistically influential
- Entitlement: expectation of being asked; the failure to ask is framed as the operative cause of defeat
- Self-aggrandizement in third-person construction: "only won because of me"

**B. Antisocial Features (low-moderate, 0.30):**
- Contempt for losing candidate and DeSantis operation ("Fools!")
- Exploitation: harvesting rival's political misfortune for personal supply
- No remorse or compassion for Republican loss despite ostensible framing

**C. Paranoid Features (low, 0.15):**
- Minimal in this specific post; no persecution framing (contrast with same-day all-caps FBI post, which scores 0.90+ on paranoid features)

**D. Ego-Syntonic Sadism (moderate, 0.45):**
- The derogatory "Rob" for "Ron" signals **deliberate cruelty as dominance display** — not a slip, but a calculated name-distortion
- Gleeful "Wow!" opener in response to DeSantis's political setback reveals enjoyment of the rival's failure
- "Too proud to do so. Fools!" — the exclamation mark on "Fools!" conveys satisfaction, not concern

#### Trigger Analysis

**Primary trigger:** Narcissistic injury via DeSantis camp's implicit rejection of Trump's endorsement authority (failure to solicit his blessing = failure to acknowledge his supremacy). This is also a **preemptive attack** in the context of the 2024 primary: the loss is weaponized to undermine DeSantis's viability narrative before it consolidates.

**Secondary context:** On this same day, Trump was posting about legal persecution (FBI/DOJ framing), Roe v. Wade self-congratulation, and Barr attacks. The Durham Report's release simultaneously validated his narrative about FBI misconduct. The combination of legal threat (Parlatore resignation, Jack Smith probe intensifying) and narrative vindication (Durham) creates heightened narcissistic activation across the entire posting session — this Jacksonville post is one node in a larger pattern.

#### Defense Mechanisms

| Mechanism | Level | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| **Rationalization** | Neurotic | "If they would have *asked* me" — the loss is logically attributed to their procedural failure, insulating Trump from responsibility |
| **Projection** | Immature | "Too proud to do so" — attributes pride to the DeSantis camp while Trump's own post is the more conspicuous display of injured pride |
| **Splitting** | Immature | Trump = winners; DeSantis operation = fools/losers — no gradation permitted |
| **Distortion** | Pathological | Endorsement presented as having near-certain causal power over electoral outcomes, reshaping political reality to meet grandiose needs |

#### Narcissistic State

**Grandiose** — expansive, dominant, savoring a rival's setback from a position of (claimed) elevation. This is not the wounded, persecuted register visible in the same-day FBI/DOJ post; here the state is triumphant, even gleeful. The oscillation between grandiose and vulnerable states across the single day's posts (compare this post to the all-caps persecution post) is consistent with the characteristic instability of narcissistic self-regulation under concurrent threat.

#### Narcissistic Rage

**Absent as explicit rage** — the affect here is contemptuous schadenfreude, not hot anger. Intensity: 0.2. Proportionality: difficult to assess (his political stakes in DeSantis's failure are genuine). Target: DeSantis political operation. The mild contempt is ego-syntonic and pleasurable, distinguishing it from the reactive rage pattern seen in posts responding to direct personal attack.

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### Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis

**Devices employed:**
- **Ad hominem** + **derogatory nickname**: "DeSanctimonious" — character attack substituting for substantive engagement
- **Counterfactual omnipotence claim**: "he would have won, *easily*" — unfalsifiable, maximally grandiose
- **False causation**: Single-variable attribution (lack of Trump endorsement = loss) ignores structural factors (candidate quality, local dynamics, national headwinds)
- **Hyperbole**: "easily," "BIG LOSS"
- **Scare quotes as contempt marker**: "Rob" — weaponized punctuation
- **Appeal to track record**: "Remember, 'Rob' only won because of me!!!" — revisionist kingmaker history
- **Exclamatory fragmentation**: Sentence fragments ("Fools!") creating emotional staccato effect

**Propaganda techniques:**
- **Rival diminishment**: DeSantis positioned as power-hungry fool who cannot win without Trump
- **Kingmaker narrative reinforcement**: Systematic construction of an electoral dependency narrative ahead of 2024 primary
- **Supply harvesting via pseudo-concern**: Frames gleeful rival-defeat as principled concern for Republican Party

**Violent imagery:** None  
**Dehumanizing language:** None (contemptuous but not dehumanizing)

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### Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

**Gaslighting present (mild):**
- Revisionist claim: "'Rob' only won because of me!!!" — presents Trump's endorsement as *the* causal factor in a prior Jacksonville Republican victory, erasing all other variables
- Counterfactual framing positions his non-endorsement as the *sole* cause of the loss — forecloses alternative explanations

**Reality distortions:**
- Endorsement presented as near-deterministic of electoral outcomes
- DeSantis camp's non-solicitation presented as *caused by* pride rather than alternative strategic calculation
- Republican Party loss framed as a DeSantis failure, not a Democratic win

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### Cognitive Status Assessment

No cognitive markers of concern in this post. The post is:
- Syntactically coherent (though fragmented by design)
- On-message and strategically purposeful
- Employs a coined nickname ("DeSanctimonious") requiring wordplay ability
- Temporal orientation intact
- No name confusion, tangentiality, or perseveration

**Complexity score:** 0.30 — deliberately simple register, consistent with Trump communication baseline for social media. **Baseline deviation: none.** The all-caps FBI/DOJ post the same day shows identical linguistic register.

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### Shared Psychosis / Epistemic Closure

**Epistemic closure present.** The post demands followers accept:
1. That Trump's endorsement is electorally deterministic
2. That the DeSantis camp's failure to seek endorsement (an act of political judgment) was instead a character flaw ("too proud")
3. That "Rob" (DeSantis) owes his prior wins entirely to Trump — a group membership test requiring historical revisionism

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### Archetypal Analysis

**Primary archetype activated: Tyrant-King** — asserting sovereign authority over the Republican political domain, exacting symbolic punishment (schadenfreude) on those who fail to render proper tribute.

**Secondary archetype: Trickster** — the derogatory "Rob" for "Ron" is a trickster move: subversive, rule-breaking, gleefully undermining the rival's dignity through casual disrespect.

**Shadow projection:** The "too proud" epithet applied to the DeSantis camp is the post's most psychologically revealing element. Trump, whose entire post is a display of wounded pride demanding acknowledgment, projects "too proud" outward — a textbook shadow dynamic in which the disowned quality (prideful entitlement) is attributed to the other.

**Mythological narrative:** The post invokes the *spurned sovereign* — the king who withholds his blessing because the vassal failed to prostrate himself, then watches the vassal fall and says "I told you so."

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### Order/Chaos Dynamics

**Position:** Order restorer with chaos agent characteristics.
- Presents himself as the necessary order-principle for Republican electoral success
- Introduces chaos into the DeSantis narrative at a critical 2024 primary juncture
- **Asymmetric application:** Order (victory) flows to those who pay Trump tribute; chaos (defeat) befalls those who don't
- **Grievance articulated:** DeSantis camp's refusal to acknowledge Trump's supremacy (moderate intensity)

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### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "DeSanctimonious backed Republican candidate for Mayor of Jacksonville, Florida, LOST" | **True** | Daniel Davis (R), backed by DeSantis, lost to Democrat Donna Deegan in the May 16, 2023 Jacksonville mayoral election — a notable upset in a historically Republican-leaning city |
| "If they would have asked me to Endorse, he would have won, easily" | **Unverifiable** | Counterfactual claim; Trump endorsement effects in Florida local races are empirically contested and cannot be assessed without controlled comparison |
| "This is a BIG LOSS for the Republican Party" | **Mostly True** | Jacksonville is Florida's largest city and had been Republican-held; losing the mayoralty to a Democrat is a meaningful political setback, though 'BIG' is evaluative hyperbole |
| "'Rob' only won because of me" | **Unverifiable** | Prior Jacksonville Republican wins likely benefited from Trump-era turnout and partisan alignment, but single-cause attribution is unsupported empirically. 'Rob' appears to be a contemptuous distortion of 'Ron' (DeSantis), making the referent itself unclear |

Overall Veracity: 70%

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- 'DeSanctimonious' is a Trump-coined nickname used consistently across authenticated posts
- Stream-of-consciousness fragmented structure incompatible with aide register
- Impulsive single-word epithet 'Fools!' — aides do not write this
- ALL CAPS emphasis ('BIG LOSS') — signature Trump pattern
- Scare quotes as contempt weapon ('Rob') — characteristic Trump usage

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (DeSantis camp's implicit rejection of Trump's endorsement authority by not soliciting it)

Sentiment: +0.15

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Multiple exclamation marks across a short post
- Rapid reactive posting (one of multiple posts within hours)
- Grandiose counterfactual claims delivered with certainty
- Gleeful, accelerated emotional quality — consistent with Trump baseline elevated affect

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 85%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 15%
- Sadism: 45%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 28%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct address to followers ('Remember...')
- Shared enemy construction (DeSantis camp as 'Fools' — follower community defined against them)
- Validation-seeking through shared vindication narrative
- Implicitly recruiting followers as witnesses to the spurned-kingmaker narrative

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Revisionist single-cause attribution: 'Rob only won because of me' — erases all other variables from prior Jacksonville Republican victory
- Counterfactual framing positions non-endorsement as the sole operative cause of loss, foreclosing all alternative explanations

## Fact Checks (4)

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

> DeSanctimonious backed Republican candidate for Mayor of Jacksonville, Florida, LOST

**TRUE**

Daniel Davis (R), backed by DeSantis, lost to Democrat Donna Deegan in the May 16, 2023 Jacksonville mayoral election — a notable upset in a historically Republican-leaning city

Sources: Known events — Jacksonville mayoral race result

> If they would have asked me to Endorse, he would have won, easily

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Counterfactual claim; Trump endorsement effects in Florida local races are empirically contested and cannot be assessed without controlled comparison

> This is a BIG LOSS for the Republican Party

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Jacksonville is Florida's largest city and had been Republican-held; losing the mayoralty to a Democrat is a meaningful political setback, though 'BIG' is evaluative hyperbole

> 'Rob' only won because of me

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Prior Jacksonville Republican wins likely benefited from Trump-era turnout and partisan alignment, but single-cause attribution is unsupported empirically. 'Rob' appears to be a contemptuous distortion of 'Ron' (DeSantis), making the referent itself unclear

Overall Veracity: 70%

## Tags

- DeSantis rivalry (92%)
- kingmaker grandiosity (88%)
- schadenfreude (82%)
- 2024 primary positioning (80%)
- counterfactual omnipotence (78%)
- ego-syntonic sadism (60%)
- name-distortion contempt (70%)
- supply harvesting (75%)

## That day

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

**Durham Report Vindication Soured by Legal Walls Closing In — DeSantis Becomes Punching Bag for Displaced Anxiety**

Trump's day split between two fixations: raging against the legal investigations tightening around him and gleefully savaging Ron DeSantis over a string of endorsement losses. The morning opened with an all-caps tirade about FBI framing, quickly followed by claiming sole credit for overturning Roe v. Wade and a bitter attack on former Attorney General Bill Barr. DeSantis dominated the rest of the day, with Trump returning to the rivalry at least five times to crow over lost races in Jacksonville and Kentucky. The evening brought a burst of curated link shares mixing legal defense talking points with anti-DeSantis media hits, suggesting a coordinated communications push running alongside the genuine emotional outbursts of the morning.

Full digest for 2023-05-17: https://trump.fm/date/2023-05-17/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, May 17). Wow! In a big upset, the DeSanctimonious backed... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110384241542774139
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Wow! In a big upset, the DeSanctimonious backed Republican..." Truth Social, 17 May. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110384241542774139. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Wow! In a big upset, the DeSanctimonious backed Republican...," Truth Social, May 17, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110384241542774139.

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