# Post ts_110384667403219809 - Post ID: `ts_110384667403219809` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-05-17T15:12:35.644Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110384667403219809 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110384667403219809/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110384667403219809.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > DeSanctimonious lost Jacksonville and Kentucky last night. Not good!!! ## Engagement - Likes: 15,103 - Reposts: 3,450 - Replies: 590 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.411Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T04:45:46.860Z (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 brief post is a compressed competitive dominance display, leveraging DeSantis's electoral setbacks to reinforce Trump's narrative of personal indispensability to Republican success. The "DeSanctimonious" nickname — the post's operative element — is a studied devaluation, reducing a credible primary rival to a caricature. The feigned concern of "Not good!!!" is reaction formation: the triple exclamation marks signal pleasure, not distress, and the companion post filed earlier the same day makes the actual triumphant affect explicit ("Fools!"). Psychologically, this is supply-seeking via rival diminishment rather than a narcissistic injury response; Trump is in a grandiose, expansive state. Authorship markers (personally coined nickname, telegraphic style, triple exclamation) point toward authentic Trump despite business-hours timing at 11:12 AM EDT. No cognitive anomalies are detectable in this brief sample. Danger level is none; this is intra-party competitive rhetoric without dehumanizing or eliminationist content. The post is clinically consistent with baseline patterns of competitive grandiosity and systematic devaluation of perceived rivals for status dominance. # Analysis: "DeSanctimonious lost Jacksonville and Kentucky last night. Not good!!!" **Truth Social | 2023-05-17 | UTC 15:12:35 | Age 76** --- ## Authorship Attribution The UTC timestamp of 15:12:35 converts to approximately 11:12 AM EDT (Trump's most likely timezone on May 17, 2023 — New York or Mar-a-Lago, both observing EDT/UTC-4). This falls squarely within business hours, which conventionally suggests aide authorship. However, several strong indicators point toward authentic Trump: - The pejorative nickname "DeSanctimonious" is a signature Trump construction — phonemic wordplay on "sanctimonious," personally coined and consistently deployed by Trump in this period - The telegraphic, two-sentence structure mirrors Trump's impulsive micro-posting habit - The triple exclamation mark ("Not good!!!") is a Trumpian stylistic fingerprint - This post is thematically continuous with the longer, more elaborate Jacksonville post earlier that same day, suggesting a stream-of-consciousness return to a satisfying topic - There is no polished professional formatting, no event announcement, no organizational content **Assessment:** Likely authentic Trump, posted mid-morning during a period of high competitive stimulation from the Jacksonville results. Confidence: **medium-high**. --- ## Psychological State & Triggers ### Trigger This post represents a **supply-seeking/competitive dominance** response. The trigger is not narcissistic injury but its inverse — an opportunity to document a rival's failure. DeSantis had emerged as Trump's most credible 2024 primary challenger, representing both a status threat and a persistent comparison that could wound Trump's sense of uniqueness. Electoral defeats attributed to DeSantis provide narcissistic supply of a particular quality: *rival diminishment*. Trump has already posted a longer version (the Jacksonville post) and returns here to compress both losses into a single dismissive statement — savoring the moment. ### Narcissistic State: Grandiose The post positions Trump as the implicit standard against which DeSantis is measured and found wanting. The earlier post makes the logic explicit ("If they would have asked me to Endorse, he would have won, easily"); this post is the short-form distillation of that argument. The author is not simply reporting losses — he is narrating a hierarchy in which he is the apex and DeSantis the fallen pretender. ### Performative Lamentation ("Not good!!!") This is a notable rhetorical construction. The expressed sentiment is concern for Republican electoral fortunes. The actual affect underlying the post is schadenfreude. This gap constitutes what might be clinically understood as **reaction formation** — surface emotion is the opposite of the felt emotion. The triple exclamation mark is inconsistent with genuine distress; it signals excitement, not regret. Trump has already expressed the actual sentiment in the earlier post ("Fools!"). This post is the performance of statesmanlike concern layered over undisguised competitive pleasure. --- ## Multi-Level Personality Analysis ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits - **Agreeableness (very low):** The derogatory nickname signals active contempt and interpersonal hostility toward a within-party rival - **Extraversion (moderate):** Assertive, declarative, economical — not expansive but dominant in register - **Neuroticism:** Masked; competitive anxiety is present (DeSantis represents genuine status threat) but routed through contempt rather than vulnerability - **Conscientiousness (low):** Impulsive return to a topic already covered; no strategic pause before re-engaging ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations - **Agency motives dominate entirely:** Power, status, competitive control. The post has zero communion content. - **Schema — rival as lesser:** DeSantis is not framed as a fellow Republican or even a worthy opponent; he is a subject of mockery whose failures confirm Trump's superiority. - **Schema — electability as personal attribute:** Losses are attributed to DeSantis personally; by implication, Trump's endorsement is the real variable determining Republican outcomes. ### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** Judge/Kingmaker — the arbiter of who wins and who loses in Republican politics - **Narrative sequence for DeSantis:** Contamination — a rising figure whose arc is now downward - **Contrasting other:** DeSantis ("DeSanctimonious") serves as the foil against which Trump's indispensability is proven - **Identity claim:** "I am the reason Republicans win. Without me, they lose." --- ## Defense Mechanisms 1. **Reaction formation (neurotic):** "Not good!!!" expresses false concern while the underlying affect is triumph 2. **Devaluation (immature):** The nickname reduces a credible rival to a caricature; by naming DeSantis "DeSanctimonious," Trump collapses his identity into a single negative trait 3. **Rationalization (neurotic, present in the companion post):** The losses are explained as DeSantis's personal failure to seek Trump's endorsement, preserving the grandiose self-concept --- ## Rhetorical Analysis - **Derogatory labeling:** "DeSanctimonious" — the post's entire emotional payload is carried by this single word. It functions as a brand, a dismissal, and a dominance display - **False concern:** "Not good!!!" creates plausible deniability — the speaker appears to lament Republican losses while in fact celebrating them - **Attribution framing:** Losses are attributed to DeSantis, not to Democratic candidates or structural factors. This is not analysis; it is blame assignment designed to undermine a rival's credibility - **Compression and telegraphing:** The brevity is itself rhetorical — treating DeSantis's political moment as barely worth elaborating on --- ## Cognitive Status The post is extremely short (12 words of substantive content), making meaningful cognitive assessment difficult. Within its scope: syntax is intact, the nickname is precisely deployed, and the rhetorical move (false concern) is executed with functional competence. No word-finding difficulty, perseveration, or temporal confusion is evident. Complexity is minimal but that is consistent with Trump's micro-posting baseline for competitive commentary. **No deviation from baseline detected.** --- ## Danger Assessment **None.** This post targets a political rival's electoral record, not a person or group as a threat. No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery, no stochastic terrorism indicators. The competitive animus is within the normal register of intra-party rivalry rhetoric. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "DeSanctimonious lost Jacksonville last night" | **True** | The DeSantis-aligned Republican candidate Daniel Davis lost the Jacksonville mayoral race to Democrat Donna Deegan on May 16, 2023. Confirmed by companion post and known events context. | | "DeSanctimonious lost Kentucky last night" | **Unverifiable** | Kentucky held 2023 primary elections on May 16, 2023. Trump implies DeSantis backed a losing candidate in Kentucky. The specific race and DeSantis endorsement are not confirmed in the provided event data. The claim is plausible — DeSantis was actively endorsing candidates in this period — but cannot be verified from available context. | Overall Veracity: 75% ## Summary This brief post is a compressed competitive dominance display, using DeSantis's electoral setbacks to reinforce Trump's narrative of personal indispensability to Republican success. The "DeSanctimonious" nickname — the post's operative element — is a studied devaluation, reducing a credible rival to a caricature. The feigned concern of "Not good!!!" is reaction formation: the triple exclamation marks signal pleasure, not distress, and the companion post posted earlier the same day makes the actual triumphant affect explicit. Psychologically, this is supply-seeking via rival diminishment rather than narcissistic injury response; Trump is in a grandiose, expansive state. The authorship markers (nickname, telegraphic style, triple exclamation) point toward authentic Trump despite business-hours timing. No cognitive anomalies are detectable in this brief sample. Danger level is none; this is intra-party competitive rhetoric without dehumanizing or eliminationist content. The post is clinically consistent with baseline patterns of competitive grandiosity and devaluation of perceived rivals. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 72%) ### Indicators - Pejorative nickname 'DeSanctimonious' is a Trump personal coinage consistently deployed in this period - Triple exclamation mark ('Not good!!!') is a recurring Trumpian stylistic marker - Two-sentence telegraphic structure consistent with impulsive micro-posting pattern - Thematically continuous with the longer Jacksonville post earlier the same day, suggesting a stream-of-consciousness return - Posted at 11:12 AM EDT — business hours — slightly reduces authenticity probability ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (DeSantis electoral losses providing rival-diminishment supply) Sentiment: -0.15 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 72% - Antisocial: 20% - Paranoid: 10% - Sadism: 35% **Defense Mechanisms:** - reaction formation (neurotic) - devaluation (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 20% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Implicit invitation to audience to share in rival's humiliation - Positioning audience as validators of Trump's superior electoral judgment - False statesmanship ('Not good!!!') creating shared in-group mockery ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > DeSanctimonious lost Jacksonville last night **TRUE** The DeSantis-aligned Republican candidate Daniel Davis lost the Jacksonville mayoral race to Democrat Donna Deegan on May 16, 2023. Confirmed by companion post and known events context. Sources: Known events: Jacksonville mayoral race outcome; Companion Truth Social post same date > DeSanctimonious lost Kentucky last night **UNVERIFIABLE** Kentucky held 2023 primary elections on May 16, 2023. Trump implies DeSantis backed a losing candidate in Kentucky. The specific race and DeSantis endorsement are not confirmed in the provided event data. The claim is plausible — DeSantis was actively endorsing candidates in this period — but cannot be verified from available context. Sources: Known events context (no Kentucky race mentioned); General knowledge of 2023 Kentucky primary schedule Overall Veracity: 75% ## Tags - DeSantis (100%) - intra-party rivalry (90%) - rival devaluation (85%) - reaction formation (75%) - supply seeking (70%) - competitive grandiosity (80%) - derogatory nickname (90%) - 2024 primary (70%) - electability narrative (65%) ## 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). DeSanctimonious lost Jacksonville and Kentucky... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110384667403219809 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "DeSanctimonious lost Jacksonville and Kentucky last night...." Truth Social, 17 May. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110384667403219809. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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