# Post ts_110395897199500981

- Post ID: `ts_110395897199500981`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-05-19T14:48:28.733Z (UTC)
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## Post text

> Sorry, but Ron DeSanctimonious is UNELECTABLE, and everyone knows why. I’m leading Biden by 11 Points. RAN TWICE, WON TWICE, AND DID MUCH BETTER THE SECOND TIME (ELECTION WAS RIGGED!). MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T04:47:26.907Z (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 represents a textbook narcissistic preemptive attack triggered by DeSantis's imminent entry into the 2024 Republican primary — the classic narcissistic injury of comparison. The most clinically significant feature is the pathological-level denial embedded in 'WON TWICE': the subject explicitly asserts, as biographical fact, that he won an election he documentably lost. This is not spin or framing — it is a reality distortion maintained consistently across years, now weaponized politically. The post follows a predictable four-beat structure: target diminishment → self-elevation via polling → credential inflation via revised history → tribal affirmation. The 'Sorry, but' opener, a recurrent Trump device, performs false reluctance while amplifying contempt — consistent with ego-syntonic sadism in dominance displays. Authorship is assessed as predominantly authentic (0.72) based on stylistic markers (established nickname, ALL CAPS emotional insertions, parenthetical asides), though the coordinated same-day anti-DeSantis posting pattern suggests aide orchestration of the broader campaign. Cognitive production is fully baseline-consistent — the simplicity is characterological. Danger level is elevated not from this post's content directly but from the election-denial framework it propagates, which longitudinal research links to continued institutional delegitimization. No violent or eliminationist language is present.

# Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post, May 19, 2023

## Situational Context

On May 19, 2023, Ron DeSantis was within days of formally announcing his 2024 presidential candidacy (he would announce May 24 via a Twitter Spaces event with Elon Musk). Trump was posting into a political environment already charged by the imminent primary threat, the Durham Report's release (which he would have perceived as vindicating), and mounting legal pressure from Jack Smith's classified documents investigation. The clustering of anti-DeSantis posts on this single day — original posts, coordinated retweets of critical DeSantis material, and this direct attack — suggests an organized response to the candidacy news cycle.

## Level 1: Dispositional Traits

The post saturates several Big Five dimensions simultaneously. **Extraversion** is near-ceiling: assertiveness is maximally expressed, no hedging, no qualifications on the bold claims. **Agreeableness** is negligible: the opener feigns politeness ("Sorry, but") before immediately attacking; modesty is structurally absent. **Neuroticism/angry hostility** is elevated: the ALL CAPS passages and the exclamatory parenthetical signal emotional arousal. **Openness** is low: the claims are asserted as self-evident truths requiring no argument. **Conscientiousness** in its accuracy dimension is also low: the post makes a factually false claim ("WON TWICE") without apparent concern.

## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Dominant motive: Power/Agency (0.93).** The post is almost purely an exercise in status assertion and threat neutralization. There is no communion content — no in-group solidarity expression beyond the closing slogan. The psychological goal is dominance restoration in response to a rival's rising status.

**Schema revealed:** The world is a zero-sum competition where one is either a winner or a loser, and being second is equivalent to being nothing. DeSantis's electoral success (a 19-point 2022 Florida win) must be reframed as "average" or "unelectable" because its existence challenges the subject's monopoly on winning identity.

## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** The undefeated champion temporarily denied his crown by a corrupt system. The subject casts himself not merely as a former president but as the actual current legitimate winner of two consecutive elections — an extraordinary identity claim that requires sustained reality distortion to maintain.

**Contamination sequence present:** The implied narrative is: *I won twice (good) → the second win was stolen (bad/corrupt) → but I'm still winning in polls and will win again (redemptive arc pending)*. This narrative structure requires the election-denial claim as a load-bearing pillar — without it, the subject is a one-term president who lost re-election, which is incompatible with the winner identity.

**Contrasting Other:** DeSantis is positioned as the pretender — unelectable, second-tier, a governor who "shut down even his beaches." The contrast is explicit: subject = two-time winner, frontrunner; DeSantis = unelectable loser.

## Level 4: Clinical Analysis

### Malignant Narcissism Components

**Narcissistic features (0.82/high):** Grandiosity ("WON TWICE"), entitlement (the 2020 presidency is implicitly still owed), lack of remorse for the false claim, belief in specialness as the only viable Republican candidate.

**Paranoid features (0.55/moderate):** The election-rigging claim is the defining paranoid element — a belief that enemies conspired to steal a rightful victory, maintained against all evidentiary contradiction. This is consistent with the broader documented pattern across hundreds of prior posts.

**Antisocial features (0.38/mild-moderate):** Disregard for documented factual record, contempt for the legal and institutional processes that certified the election.

**Sadism (0.32/mild):** The "DeSanctimonious" nickname has an edge of cruelty-as-performance; the "Sorry, but" feigned politeness amplifies the condescension.

### Narcissistic Dynamics

**Trigger:** Classic narcissistic injury via unfavorable comparison. A rival is threatening the subject's claim to be the inevitable 2024 Republican nominee. The response is immediate, emotionally elevated, and follows the established preemptive attack template.

**Narcissistic state: Grandiose.** The post does not display the vulnerable/persecuted pole (victim posturing), though the election-denial parenthetical gestures toward it. The dominant register is expansive self-assertion.

**Rage:** Present at moderate intensity (0.62). The affect is contemptuous and dismissive rather than incandescent — appropriate to a preemptive attack on a not-yet-declared rival. The subject is not yet threatened enough for full rage activation.

### Defense Mechanisms

**Denial (pathological):** "WON TWICE" is a straightforward denial of external reality. The 2020 election outcome is documented, certified, and legally adjudicated. The subject refuses to accept it.

**Distortion (pathological):** "DID MUCH BETTER THE SECOND TIME" grossly reshapes reality. While raw vote totals were higher in 2020, losing is not "doing better." The claim is constructed to preserve the winner identity while technically gesturing at a real datum (vote count).

**Projection (immature):** The "UNELECTABLE" label is applied to a rival whose electability is, objectively, better documented (DeSantis's 2022 landslide) than the subject's own (who lost the national popular vote in both 2016 and 2020). The subject's own electability anxiety is projected outward.

**Rationalization (neurotic):** The election-rigging narrative provides a logical framework that preserves the grandiose self-narrative while accommodating the factual loss. It is internally consistent within its own premises.

## Rhetorical Analysis

The post demonstrates Trump's characteristic four-beat rhetorical structure:
1. **Target diminishment** via nickname and assertion of defect ("UNELECTABLE")
2. **Self-elevation** via quantified claim ("11 Points") — lending false precision to a cherry-picked figure
3. **Credential inflation** via historical revisionism ("WON TWICE")
4. **Tribal closure** via slogan ("MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN")

The "Sorry, but" opener deserves specific attention. This is a feigned reluctance device — it performs the speaker as a reluctant truth-teller rather than an aggressive attacker. It signals to the audience that what follows is established, regrettable fact rather than motivated political attack. This rhetorical move recurs across Trump's corpus and is a marker of practiced rather than impulsive communication.

The parenthetical "(ELECTION WAS RIGGED!)" is particularly sophisticated as a propaganda technique. By inserting the claim as a parenthetical rather than a main clause, it is syntactically subordinated — presented as an aside, a clarification, something the audience already knows — rather than as the extraordinary claim it represents. This normalizes the reality distortion through structural minimization.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Ron DeSantis is UNELECTABLE" | **Unverifiable** | A political opinion, not a falsifiable factual claim. DeSantis had won two Florida gubernatorial races, including a 19-point landslide in 2022. |
| "I'm leading Biden by 11 Points" | **Mostly False** | In May 2023 polling, Trump-Biden matchups were close to tied or showed small Biden leads in most credible national polls. An 11-point Trump lead would represent a significant outlier; the figure appears to cherry-pick from a favorable single poll rather than represent polling consensus. |
| "RAN TWICE, WON TWICE" | **False** | Trump won the 2016 presidential election but lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden by 306-232 electoral votes and approximately 7 million popular votes. Over 60 courts, including judges Trump appointed, rejected challenges to the 2020 result. |
| "DID MUCH BETTER THE SECOND TIME" | **Half True** | Trump received approximately 11 million more raw votes in 2020 (74.2M) than 2016 (62.9M), which is technically 'better' in popular vote totals — but he also received fewer electoral votes (232 vs. 306 for opponent Biden) and lost, whereas he won in 2016. Improvement in raw votes during a loss with higher turnout is a selective framing. |
| "ELECTION WAS RIGGED" | **False** | No credible evidence of systematic fraud sufficient to alter the outcome has been found. The Department of Justice, DHS CISA, state election officials of both parties, and over 60 judicial rulings (including by Trump-appointed judges and the Supreme Court) found no basis for the claim. |

Overall Veracity: 24%

## Authorship Attribution

Assessed as **predominantly authentic (0.72)** based on: established nickname deployment (DeSanctimonious first coined October 2022), ALL CAPS emotional insertions, parenthetical reality-distortion, MAGA slogan closer, and "Sorry, but" opener — all documented authentic markers. The 10:48 AM EDT local posting time is within business hours, and the coordinated same-day anti-DeSantis posting pattern (multiple RTs of anti-DeSantis content) suggests aide orchestration of the broader campaign. However, the raw emotional content and specific rhetorical fingerprints are assessed as Trump's own.

## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

Gaslighting is present and operates on two tracks: (1) the demand that followers accept "WON TWICE" as biographical fact functions as a loyalty test, and (2) the casual parenthetical insertion of election-rigging normalizes the distortion as shared in-group knowledge. The epistemic closure this creates — in-group "truth" vs. out-group "fake news" — is a documented feature of the broader MAGA information ecosystem.

## Danger Assessment: ELEVATED

No violent imagery or eliminationist language is present in this specific post. The elevated rating reflects the **election-denial framework** ("ELECTION WAS RIGGED!") which, across hundreds of documented posts and public statements from 2020 to present, functions as the ideological substrate that legitimizes political violence in the minds of susceptible audience members. The post is not stochastic terrorism by itself; it is maintenance of the conditions that make stochastic terrorism possible.

## Cognitive Status

**Fully baseline-consistent.** Language production is coherent, sequential, and structurally intact. No word-finding difficulty, paraphasia, tangentiality, perseveration, or temporal confusion is detected. The post's simplicity (6th-8th grade complexity) is characterological and matches the decades-long documented baseline. No cognitive decline indicators are present.

## Archetypal Dimensions

The post embodies the **Trickster/King hybrid** that characterizes Trump's political persona. As Trickster: he disrupts the established Republican primary order, names and mocks rivals with contemptuous nicknames, refuses conventional political decorum. As King: he asserts divine right to the presidency, claims his crown was stolen, and positions himself as the legitimate order that must be restored. The **Hero/Savior** archetype is implicit in the MAGA closer — the return narrative ("Make America Great *Again*") positions the subject as the returning King who will restore proper order after the contamination period (Biden administration).

The **Shadow** projection is notable: the subject projects "UNELECTABLE" onto a rival while his own electability is the live political question. The disowned anxiety about his own electability is externalized and assigned to the rival.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 72%)

### Indicators

- Signature nickname 'DeSanctimonious' is an authentic Trump coinage used repeatedly since October 2022
- ALL CAPS emotional passages and parenthetical '(ELECTION WAS RIGGED!)' are classic authentic markers
- Stream-of-consciousness structure: attack → self-aggrandizement → election denial → slogan
- 'Sorry, but' opener is a recurrent authentic Trump rhetorical tic
- UTC 14:48 = ~10:48 AM EDT (Mar-a-Lago/New York) — late morning, borderline business hours suggesting possible aide coordination given the clustered anti-DeSantis posting pattern that day

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

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

**Rage:** Intensity 62% targeting Ron DeSantis
- Proportionality: 30%

Sentiment: -0.28

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Rapid posting cadence on May 19 (multiple posts, multiple retweets in short window)
- Grandiose self-assertion without apparent anxiety about contradictions
- Energized attack mode against a not-yet-declared rival suggests anticipatory agitation

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 82%
- Antisocial: 38%
- Paranoid: 55%
- Sadism: 32%

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct address to followers ('everyone knows why') creating in-group certainty
- Polling figure deployed to reassure supporters of winner identity
- MAGA closer functions as tribal affirmation signal
- Implied martyrdom via election-rigging parenthetical solicits sympathy/validation

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Sustained election-denial framework ('ELECTION WAS RIGGED!') contributes to ongoing delegitimization of democratic institutions, documented by social scientists as a precursor condition for political violence
- No direct violent imagery or eliminationist language in this specific post
- The preemptive 'UNELECTABLE' attack, combined with same-day coordinated multi-post campaign, signals an escalating primary-season rhetorical posture that will intensify

### Gaslighting

- 'WON TWICE' requires followers to accept a demonstrably false factual claim as group membership condition
- Election-rigging parenthetical normalizes the distortion through repeated casual insertion
- 'Everyone knows why' constructs false consensus to suppress doubt among the audience
- The framing demands followers simultaneously hold that Trump is the inevitable 2024 winner AND was cheated in 2020 — two claims that reinforce each other while both resist falsification

## Fact Checks (5)

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

> Ron DeSantis is UNELECTABLE

**UNVERIFIABLE**

A political opinion, not a falsifiable factual claim. DeSantis had won two Florida gubernatorial races, including a 19-point landslide in 2022.

Sources: Florida 2022 gubernatorial election results

> I'm leading Biden by 11 Points

**MOSTLY FALSE**

In May 2023 polling, Trump-Biden matchups were close to tied or showed small Biden leads in most credible national polls. An 11-point Trump lead would represent a significant outlier; the figure appears to cherry-pick from a favorable single poll rather than represent polling consensus.

Sources: FiveThirtyEight polling averages May 2023; RealClearPolitics averages May 2023

> RAN TWICE, WON TWICE

**FALSE**

Trump won the 2016 presidential election but lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden by 306-232 electoral votes and approximately 7 million popular votes. Over 60 courts, including judges Trump appointed, rejected challenges to the 2020 result.

Sources: 2020 U.S. presidential election certified results; National Archives Electoral College record

> DID MUCH BETTER THE SECOND TIME

**HALF TRUE**

Trump received approximately 11 million more raw votes in 2020 (74.2M) than 2016 (62.9M), which is technically 'better' in popular vote totals — but he also received fewer electoral votes (232 vs. 306 for opponent Biden) and lost, whereas he won in 2016. Improvement in raw votes during a loss with higher turnout is a selective framing.

Sources: 2016 and 2020 FEC certified election results

> ELECTION WAS RIGGED

**FALSE**

No credible evidence of systematic fraud sufficient to alter the outcome has been found. The Department of Justice, DHS CISA, state election officials of both parties, and over 60 judicial rulings (including by Trump-appointed judges and the Supreme Court) found no basis for the claim.

Sources: CISA 'most secure election' statement Nov 2020; DOJ Barr statement Dec 2020; Sidney Powell/Dominion settlement

Overall Veracity: 24%

## Tags

- election-denial (95%)
- DeSantis-attack (90%)
- narcissistic-preemptive-attack (88%)
- reality-distortion (85%)
- grandiosity (82%)
- primary-rivalry (80%)
- nickname-attack (75%)
- polling-cherry-pick (70%)
- tribal-affirmation (65%)

## That day

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

**Durham "Vindication" Fuels All-Day Grandiose Campaign Against DeSantis, FBI, and Political Reality**

Trump spent the day in a sustained offensive posture, using the Durham Report as a springboard to claim vindication while launching repeated attacks on Ron DeSantis ahead of his expected campaign announcement. The mood was predominantly combative and self-aggrandizing, with DeSantis branded "unelectable" across four separate posts and the FBI cast as a corrupt political weapon. A notable slip saw Trump claim an 11-point lead over Biden in one post, then quietly downgrade it to 7 points two hours later. The day's output was elevated but controlled -- more calculated campaign blitz than emotional spiral.

Full digest for 2023-05-19: https://trump.fm/date/2023-05-19/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, May 19). Sorry, but Ron DeSanctimonious is UNELECTABLE,... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110395897199500981
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Sorry, but Ron DeSanctimonious is UNELECTABLE, and everyone..." Truth Social, 19 May. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110395897199500981. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Sorry, but Ron DeSanctimonious is UNELECTABLE, and everyone...," Truth Social, May 19, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110395897199500981.

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