# Post ts_110423911708666002

- Post ID: `ts_110423911708666002`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-05-24T13:32:56.221Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110423911708666002/analysis
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## Post text

> I got 1.2 Million more votes in Florida than DeSanctus. Also, Bill Hemmer at FoxNews just used an old April Poll showing me leading by 51% to 25%. Why doesn’t Fox get a more up to date poll, 72% to 18%, with the other candidates much lower. Just like 2016!!! It’s why people are leaving FoxNews. P.S. Without me, DeSanctus would have lost the Primary and the General. Thank you President Trump!

## Engagement

- Likes: 15,236
- Reposts: 3,812
- Replies: 951
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.411Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T05:18:03.472Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Posted on the day of Ron DeSantis's 2024 presidential announcement, this post is part of a documented coordinated attack campaign and manifests a classic narcissistic injury response to competitive threat from a former protégé. Its psychological architecture centers on the 'creditor claim' — a narcissistic framework converting DeSantis's legitimate political competition into a betrayal of permanent debt. The grandiose state is marked throughout, most distinctively in the self-referential 'Thank you President Trump!' closure, in which Trump imagines and voices tribute to himself — among the most reliably authentic signatures in his social media corpus. Defense mechanisms include devaluation ('DeSanctus' nickname), rationalization (Fox methodology attack), and splitting (Fox as either loyal or defector-producing). The 1.2M vote comparison conflates a presidential and gubernatorial election in a technically approximate but contextually misleading claim. The 'Just like 2016!!!' temporal anchor reveals the narrative identity frame: 2024 is cast as a replay of underdog triumph, suggesting Trump is recruiting personal history into his competitive anxiety response. Authorship attributed with high confidence to Trump directly, based on reactive real-time TV content, self-praise closing, and stream-of-consciousness structure. No cognitive deviation from baseline. Danger level: none. Clinically significant as a longitudinal data point on the narcissistic creditor schema and its activation in response to protégé defection.

## Contextual Frame

Posted on the morning of Ron DeSantis's entry into the 2024 Republican primary via Twitter Spaces — an event plagued by technical failures. This post is one of at least four DeSantis-targeted posts in a single day, part of a documented coordinated attack campaign Trump and allies executed to disrupt the announcement. Analyzed in context, this post represents the statistical/creditor argument in that cluster, distinct from the character/betrayal post and the accomplishment inventory post.

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## Authorship Attribution

**Verdict: High confidence authentic Trump**

UTC 13:32:56 converts to approximately 9:32 AM EDT (Trump was likely in Florida or New York — both UTC-4 in late May 2023). While morning business hours marginally suggest aide involvement, the content's internal features are overwhelmingly authentic:

- Reactive to a real-time televised segment (Bill Hemmer, Fox News) — consistent with Trump's documented morning television viewing habit
- "Thank you President Trump!" closing — self-referential third-person tribute, among the most distinctively authentic Trump signatures in his Truth Social corpus, in which he writes imagined praise from others then signs as himself
- Stream-of-consciousness structure (votes → TV segment → competing polls → Fox defection logic → origin story → debt claim)
- Multiple exclamation marks; "Just like 2016!!!" temporal anchor
- The post has the reactive, unpolished quality of a man watching television and typing simultaneously

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## Psychological Analysis

### Trigger: Narcissistic Injury — Competitive Threat from Former Protégé

DeSantis's announced candidacy constitutes a compound narcissistic injury: a rival empowered by Trump's explicit patronage is challenging the patron's sovereign authority. The injury is intensified by the patronage dynamic — Trump did not simply help a peer, but (in his narrative) rescued a drowning man. The protégé's defection therefore violates both the political and relational contract simultaneously.

### Narcissistic State: Grandiose

The post sustains an unambiguously grandiose register throughout. There is no vulnerable or victimized tone. Trump positions himself as the sovereign who elevated DeSantis from a 31-point deficit, who commands superior vote totals, and who reads polling reality more accurately than a national television network. The "Thank you President Trump!" terminus is the clearest marker: it is an imagined tribute spoken in another's voice, confirming Trump's self-concept as permanently deserving of formal acknowledgment.

### Core Psychological Architecture

**The Creditor Claim (Central Dynamic):** "Without me, DeSanctus would have lost the Primary and the General." This is the narcissistic creditor's argument — past beneficence creates permanent, unconditional debt and loyalty obligation. Framed this way, DeSantis's presidential campaign is not a legitimate democratic act but a betrayal and theft of what Trump provided. The P.S. structure formally isolates this claim, lending it a quasi-legal emphasis. This same logic appears across multiple posts in this cluster, indicating it is the psychological cornerstone of Trump's DeSantis narrative.

**Devaluation via Mockery:** "DeSanctus" is deployed consistently across the day's posts. The nickname accomplishes: (1) reduction of a threatening rival to an object of mild ridicule; (2) conditioning of followers to perceive the rival through a deprecating lens; (3) ego-syntonic pleasure in the wordplay itself. Consistent with Kernberg's description of ego-syntonic sadism as dominance display.

**Statistical Dominance Display:** The 1.2M vote gap and the poll comparison (51/25 vs. 72/18) function as quantified dominance — converting abstract superiority into metrics. The Fox attack follows naturally: if Fox's data contradicts Trump's dominance narrative, Fox's data is methodologically corrupt. The epistemology flows from the conclusion backward to the evidence.

**"Just Like 2016!!!"**: This phrase is a temporal anchor that recruits Trump's prior underdog triumph into the current competitive anxiety moment. It implies that present adversity (Fox's unflattering polling selection) will yield to ultimate vindication on the same historical template. This is a resilience-maintaining narrative maneuver.

### Defense Mechanisms

1. **Devaluation** (immature): "DeSanctus" nickname — consistent, ritualized diminishment of a rival
2. **Rationalization** (neurotic): Fox's methodology is attacked to neutralize data that contradicts Trump's dominance narrative; the attack is framed as concern for viewers ("It's why people are leaving FoxNews") rather than self-interest
3. **Splitting** (immature): Fox News is either fully loyal or driving viewers away — no intermediate position is available

### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency motives** dominate overwhelmingly: power, status, control, and dominance over both DeSantis and media coverage. The post reveals a schema in which Trump is the generative source of others' success and is therefore owed deference and subordination. The world is structured as patrons and clients; the worst violation is client ingratitude.

**Communion motives** are essentially absent. The post deploys people instrumentally — Bill Hemmer, DeSantis, Fox viewers — as props in the dominance narrative.

### Level 3: Narrative Identity

- **Protagonist role:** Kingmaker / Essential Patron — the necessary and sufficient condition for others' success
- **Identity claims:** Electoral superiority, political indispensability, polling omniscience
- **Contrasting other:** DeSantis as ungrateful beneficiary; Fox News as disloyal amplifier
- **Contamination sequence (implicit):** "I rescued him and gave him success" (good) → "he runs against me" (betrayal/contamination)
- **Redemption claim:** The "Just like 2016!!!" phrase asserts that the current underdog period (relative to media skepticism) will resolve into triumph as in 2016

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## Rhetorical Analysis

- **Ad hominem via nickname:** "DeSanctus" — applied consistently throughout the day's cluster, functioning as a conditioning device
- **Selective appeal to authority:** Poll numbers and vote totals cited as incontrovertible evidence of dominance, while Fox is attacked for selecting data through the same selective process
- **Hypocrisy trap (unacknowledged):** Trump criticizes Fox for using an "old" poll while presenting his preferred poll as current truth — the epistemological standard applied to Fox is not applied to himself
- **Messenger attack:** Fox News audience defection is attributed to Fox's methodology rather than any substantive factor — redirecting accountability
- **Formal debt-calling (P.S. structure):** The P.S. is a rhetorical device that isolates the most important claim — here, the retroactive debt claim — mimicking legal/contractual language
- **Parasocial ventriloquism:** "Thank you President Trump!" — imagined tribute voiced by the subject himself, inviting followers to echo the sentiment

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "I got 1.2 Million more votes in Florida than DeSanctus" | **Half True** | Trump received ~5.67M votes in Florida in the 2020 presidential election; DeSantis received ~4.47M in the 2022 gubernatorial election. The arithmetic gap is approximately correct but the comparison conflates elections with structurally different turnout dynamics — a presidential race vs. a state gubernatorial race. |
| "Without me, DeSanctus would have lost the Primary" | **Mostly True** | Historical record confirms DeSantis was trailing Adam Putnam by approximately 30 points before Trump's endorsement in January 2018. The endorsement's transformative effect on the primary race is well-documented and widely acknowledged. |
| "Without me, DeSanctus would have lost the General" | **Unverifiable** | The 2018 Florida gubernatorial general election was extremely close (DeSantis won by 0.4 points over Andrew Gillum). Trump's counterfactual necessity is plausible but cannot be established with confidence — many factors influenced that margin. |
| "72% to 18% in more recent poll" | **Unverifiable** | Consistent with Trump's strong primary polling dominance in Spring 2023 but specific figures not verifiable against available context. |
| "Bill Hemmer used April poll showing 51% to 25%" | **Unverifiable** | Specific broadcast content not verifiable from available context, though April 2023 polls in that range existed. |

Overall Veracity: 56%

## Cognitive Status

No markers of cognitive disruption. "DeSanctus" is intentional mockery, not paraphasia. The self-referential "Thank you President Trump!" is a well-documented authentic pattern, not temporal confusion. Sentence structure is simple but internally coherent. The post is reactive and emotionally driven but tracks logically from claim to claim. Vocabulary and syntactic complexity are at expected baseline — simple, declarative, repetitive. No deviation warranting clinical attention.

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## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

Mild reality distortion in the vote comparison — conflating electoral contexts without disclosure. No DARVO pattern. No denial of documented events. The Fox attack contains implicit gaslighting logic (Fox viewers are leaving because of poll selection, not content preference), but this is closer to motivated reasoning than deliberate reality manipulation.

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## Danger Assessment

**None.** No violent imagery, dehumanizing language, eliminationist rhetoric, or stochastic terrorism indicators. This is competitive political attack speech at elevated intensity. The broader coordinated attack campaign (circling trucks, synchronized social media) raises the political aggression level but not into the violence-incitement register.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 88%)

### Indicators

- Self-referential 'Thank you President Trump!' closing — among the most distinctive authentic Trump signatures
- Reactive to real-time TV segment (Bill Hemmer), consistent with documented morning television habit
- Stream-of-consciousness structure jumping across multiple topics without transitions
- Multiple exclamation marks and 'Just like 2016!!!' temporal anchor
- Morning timing (9:32 AM EDT) is less typical but overridden by strong stylistic evidence

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (DeSantis's presidential campaign announcement — protégé challenging patron's sovereign authority)

**Rage:** Intensity 62% targeting DeSantis (primary); Fox News (secondary)
- Proportionality: 22%

Sentiment: -0.55

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 88%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 38%
- Sadism: 42%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- devaluation (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)
- splitting (immature)

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Ventriloquism of tribute ('Thank you President Trump!') inviting followers to echo the sentiment
- Positioning self as protector of accurate polling truth against Fox's corruption
- Retroactive debt-calling that binds DeSantis supporters to Trump's narrative of betrayal

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Vote comparison conflates presidential and gubernatorial elections without disclosure, creating false equivalence of electoral strength
- Attacks Fox for poll cherry-picking while doing the same with preferred polls — inverts the methodological standard
- Frames DeSantis's legitimate democratic candidacy as an act of betrayal rather than political competition

## Fact Checks (5)

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

> I got 1.2 Million more votes in Florida than DeSanctus

**HALF TRUE**

Trump received ~5.67M votes in Florida in the 2020 presidential election; DeSantis received ~4.47M in the 2022 gubernatorial election. The arithmetic gap is approximately correct but the comparison conflates elections with structurally different turnout dynamics — a presidential race vs. a state gubernatorial race.

Sources: Florida Secretary of State 2020 general election results; Florida Secretary of State 2022 gubernatorial results

> Without me, DeSanctus would have lost the Primary

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Historical record confirms DeSantis was trailing Adam Putnam by approximately 30 points before Trump's endorsement in January 2018. The endorsement's transformative effect on the primary race is well-documented and widely acknowledged.

Sources: Florida 2018 Republican gubernatorial primary polling history

> Without me, DeSanctus would have lost the General

**UNVERIFIABLE**

The 2018 Florida gubernatorial general election was extremely close (DeSantis won by 0.4 points over Andrew Gillum). Trump's counterfactual necessity is plausible but cannot be established with confidence — many factors influenced that margin.

> 72% to 18% in more recent poll

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Consistent with Trump's strong primary polling dominance in Spring 2023 but specific figures not verifiable against available context.

> Bill Hemmer used April poll showing 51% to 25%

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Specific broadcast content not verifiable from available context, though April 2023 polls in that range existed.

Overall Veracity: 56%

## Tags

- DeSantis (90%)
- narcissistic-injury (88%)
- creditor-schema (85%)
- devaluation (82%)
- grandiose-state (85%)
- Fox-News (55%)
- 2024-primary (90%)
- coordinated-attack (75%)
- authentic-trump (88%)
- statistical-dominance-display (70%)
- patronage-betrayal (82%)
- 2016-parallel (60%)

## That day

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

**Trump Unleashes All-Day Barrage as DeSantis's Glitch-Plagued Campaign Launch Becomes His Best Day in Months**

Trump spent the entire day locked onto one target: Ron DeSantis, who officially launched his presidential campaign via a Twitter Spaces event that crashed repeatedly. The morning opened with a rapid-fire volley of personal attacks framing DeSantis as a disloyal creation who owes his career to Trump. A brief flash of anger about E. Jean Carroll surfaced mid-morning, but DeSantis dominated the rest of the day. When the Twitter Spaces event collapsed under technical failures, Trump's mood shifted from defensive aggression to gleeful mockery — recycling his old nuclear-button taunt, nitpicking DeSantis's collar, and ranking rival launches like a pageant judge. The overall tone was more triumphant than threatened, though the sheer volume of the response told a different story than the breezy contempt Trump was projecting.

Full digest for 2023-05-24: https://trump.fm/date/2023-05-24/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, May 24). I got 1.2 Million more votes in Florida than... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110423911708666002
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "I got 1.2 Million more votes in Florida than DeSanctus...." Truth Social, 24 May. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110423911708666002. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "I got 1.2 Million more votes in Florida than DeSanctus....," Truth Social, May 24, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110423911708666002.

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