# Post ts_110475739750083097 - Post ID: `ts_110475739750083097` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-06-02T17:13:29.449Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110475739750083097 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110475739750083097/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110475739750083097.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > This is because of the terrible changes that Ron DeSanctimonious made against Florida homeowners in the legislation just passed and signed by him. —> https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/01/business/florida-homeowner-insurance-rates/index.html ## Media - image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/475/739/681/459/720/original/3ec7e921026d5496.jpg ## Engagement - Likes: 6,150 - Reposts: 1,968 - Replies: 259 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.410Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T05:27:26.943Z (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 targeted competitive suppression operation against Ron DeSantis, executed within days of his formal 2024 presidential candidacy announcement. Psychologically, it represents a textbook response to narcissistic injury from a competitive threat: immediate devaluation ("DeSanctimonious"), displacement of the threat into a policy-domain attack (insurance rates), and false causal attribution presented as established fact. The most clinically notable feature is the opportunistic use of CNN — normally Trump's archetypally-designated enemy media — as a citation source when the article serves his agenda. This demonstrates that the "fake news" label is an instrumentalized weapon rather than a sincere epistemological stance: credibility is assigned based on utility to the self, not independent evaluation. The post reflects the grandiose rather than vulnerable narcissistic state — Trump is attacking from a position of contemptuous superiority, not wounded defense. The rhetoric deploys the classic devaluation-nickname brand ("DeSanctimonious") to condition the base to associate DeSantis with hypocrisy before substantive policy debate can form. Cognitive markers are unremarkable; this is consistent with Trump's established attack-posting baseline. No danger indicators are present. ## Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2023-06-02T17:13:29Z ### Authorship Attribution **Local Time Conversion:** Trump was almost certainly in the New York/New Jersey area in early June 2023, likely rotating between Trump Tower and Bedminster (his NJ golf club). UTC 17:13 converts to **1:13 PM EDT** — solidly within business hours. Despite the business-hours timing, several markers strongly suggest *authentic* Trump authorship: - "DeSanctimonious" is Trump's self-coined, registered brand attack — aides do not invent or deploy novel epithets - The post structure is brief and reactive, not formatted for an event announcement - The arrow symbol ("—>") is a casual, low-formality directional, consistent with impulsive posting - The strategic weaponization of CNN — normally his archetypal "enemy media" — against a primary rival shows Trump's tactical flexibility; an aide would more likely link to a friendlier outlet - The sentence structure is clipped and declarative without polish **Verdict:** High confidence authentic Trump, daytime posting during an active primary-attack campaign cycle. --- ### Contextual Frame Ron DeSantis had *just* formally entered the 2024 presidential race (announced May 24, 2023, via Twitter Space with Elon Musk). By June 2, Trump was in full-throttle primary suppression mode. This post is one node in a systematic, multi-day effort to damage DeSantis's brand before he could consolidate support. The timing — days after DeSantis's announcement — is not coincidental. --- ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits **Most Salient Facets:** - **Low Agreeableness / High Antagonism**: Immediate ad hominem via nickname ("DeSanctimonious"), zero acknowledgment of any merit in DeSantis's governance - **High Extraversion / Assertiveness**: Punching outward, using negative media to define the opposition narrative - **Low Conscientiousness / Deliberation**: No nuanced analysis of the insurance market; blunt causal attribution - **Moderate Neuroticism / Angry Hostility**: Reactive deployment within days of a competitive threat; affect-laden ("terrible changes") --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency Motives:** Dominant. The primary motive is **power/status defense** — DeSantis's entry is a direct status challenge. This post functions as a dominance display: "I will define your record before you can." **Schemas:** - Self: Savvy observer, populist champion of "Florida homeowners" (framing himself as their defender against DeSantis) - DeSantis: Incompetent, sanctimonious, harmful to ordinary people - World: Political arena where rivals must be destroyed before they gain footing **Cognitive Schema — Opportunistic Enemy Framing:** The most psychologically revealing feature is the *deliberate use of CNN*, normally pilloried as "fake news," when the article serves his agenda. This reveals that the "fake news" epithet is instrumentally deployed rather than reflecting any consistent epistemological stance. Media credibility is a weapon, not a belief. --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist Role:** Populist truth-teller, protector of ordinary Floridians - **Contrasting Other:** Ron DeSantis, framed as an elite technocrat making "terrible changes" against homeowners - **Narrative Sequence:** Contamination — a (presumably) good state (Florida) has been harmed by DeSantis's legislation; Trump implicitly offers the corrective - **Identity Claim:** "I know what DeSantis is really doing; I will expose it" --- ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Narcissistic Trigger:** Classic narcissistic injury response. DeSantis's official candidacy announcement is a **direct competitive threat** — the exact type of "unfavorable comparison" (who will voters choose?) that reliably triggers this pattern. **Narcissistic State:** Grandiose — Trump is positioned above DeSantis, defining him from a height. No vulnerability visible in this post; the attack posture is confident and contemptuous. **Narcissistic Rage:** Present at *low-to-moderate* intensity. The hostility is controlled and tactical rather than erupting (compare to posts responding to legal threats, which show higher dysregulation). The nickname deploys contempt rather than raw rage. **Defense Mechanisms:** - **Devaluation (Immature):** "DeSanctimonious" reduces a credible rival to a caricature; the name itself performs devaluation in a single word - **Displacement:** Redirecting the competitive threat into a policy-domain attack (insurance rates) rather than engaging DeSantis's appeal directly - **Rationalization (Neurotic):** Using CNN's article as "evidence" while ignoring that the Florida insurance crisis is multi-causal and predates DeSantis's reforms; the logic is mobilized selectively **Malignant Narcissism Sub-components:** - Narcissistic features (high): Entitlement to dominate the field, devaluation of rival - Antisocial features (low-moderate): Willingness to use misleading causal attribution to damage a rival - Paranoid features (low in this post): No persecution narrative here — this is an attacking, not defending, posture - Ego-syntonic sadism (mild): The nickname carries pleasure in diminishment --- ### Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis **Devices Employed:** 1. **Pejorative Nickname ("DeSanctimonious"):** Ad hominem and diminishment collapsed into a single lexical unit. Clinically significant as a *brand* — repeated use across the base conditions followers to associate DeSantis with hypocrisy/sanctimony before any policy evaluation 2. **False/Overreaching Causal Attribution:** Florida homeowner insurance rates have been rising for years due to hurricane exposure, litigation abuse, reinsurance market tightening, and insurer exits. Attributing this entirely to "terrible changes" in recently passed legislation is a classic **post hoc ergo propter hoc** fallacy deployed rhetorically 3. **Weaponized Enemy Source:** Using CNN as a citation device while routinely calling CNN "fake news" is textbook **selective credibility** — a manipulation technique that exploits confirmation bias in the audience 4. **Arrow Symbol as Rhetorical Gesture ("—>")**: Performs urgency and direction; a visual command to follow the chain of blame 5. **"Against Florida homeowners"**: Populist framing positioning DeSantis as an adversary of ordinary people, not a policy disagreement between politicians **Propaganda Category:** **Wedge/Division** — attempting to pry Florida voters (a DeSantis home-base) away from him using a tangible pocketbook concern **Dehumanizing Language:** Not present in this post (the nickname is mocking/contemptuous but not dehumanizing in the eliminationist sense) **Violent Imagery:** Absent --- ### Gaslighting / Reality Distortion **Present (Mild):** The causal claim ("*because of* the terrible changes Ron DeSantis made") is presented as established fact when it is a contested political interpretation. The CNN article (Florida homeowner insurance rates rising) almost certainly covers a multi-year, multi-causal crisis. Attributing it to a single piece of legislation is a reality distortion, though not in the severe gaslighting category. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "The rise in Florida homeowner insurance rates is because of 'the terrible changes that Ron DeSantis made' in recently passed legislation" | **Mostly False** | Florida's homeowner insurance crisis is multi-causal and predates DeSantis's reforms: hurricane exposure, reinsurance market hardening, widespread litigation/fraud, and insurer exits. DeSantis's 2022-2023 insurance reform legislation (SB 2A and follow-on bills) was specifically designed to address the crisis by limiting litigation and attorney fee multipliers. Attributing rising rates to his reforms inverts their stated purpose. Rates continued rising primarily due to structural market forces that the reforms aimed (with disputed success) to correct. | Overall Veracity: 20% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 78%) ### Indicators - Signature self-coined nickname 'DeSanctimonious' — aides do not invent novel attack epithets - Brief, reactive, single-sentence structure consistent with impulsive posting - Arrow symbol ('—>') is casual and low-formality - Strategic weaponization of CNN (normally 'enemy media') against a rival — shows Trump's tactical flexibility - Business hours timing (1:13 PM EDT) slightly suggests aide involvement but is outweighed by stylistic markers ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (Ron DeSantis's formal entry into the 2024 presidential race on May 24, 2023) **Rage:** Intensity 35% targeting Ron DeSantis - Proportionality: 50% Sentiment: -0.62 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 72% - Antisocial: 35% - Paranoid: 10% - Sadism: 30% **Defense Mechanisms:** - devaluation (immature) - displacement (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 28% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Nickname branding conditions followers to associate rival with hypocrisy before evaluation - Populist framing ('Florida homeowners') positions Trump as their defender - Directive arrow symbol ('—>') commands audience attention and blame attribution ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > The rise in Florida homeowner insurance rates is because of 'the terrible changes that Ron DeSantis made' in recently passed legislation **MOSTLY FALSE** Florida's homeowner insurance crisis is multi-causal and predates DeSantis's reforms: hurricane exposure, reinsurance market hardening, widespread litigation/fraud, and insurer exits. DeSantis's 2022-2023 insurance reform legislation (SB 2A and follow-on bills) was specifically designed to address the crisis by limiting litigation and attorney fee multipliers. Attributing rising rates to his reforms inverts their stated purpose. Rates continued rising primarily due to structural market forces that the reforms aimed (with disputed success) to correct. Sources: Florida insurance market structural analysis; SB 2A (December 2022 special session); CNN article linked in post (June 1, 2023) Overall Veracity: 20% ## Tags - primary-attack (95%) - DeSantis (95%) - devaluation-nickname (90%) - opportunistic-media-citation (85%) - competitive-suppression (90%) - causal-distortion (75%) - grandiose-state (70%) - populist-framing (65%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Legal Siege and Rival Warfare: Trump Wages Multi-Front Campaign as Jack Smith Probe Tightens** Trump spent the day waging a multi-front campaign against Ron DeSantis, Fox News, the New York Post, and incoming Republican challengers, all while the Jack Smith classified documents investigation loomed over every post. The mood swung between confident, mocking attacks on rivals and agitated defenses against legal pressure, with two sharp spikes of anger -- one accusing the DOJ and FBI of running the Democrats' campaign, and another lashing Fox News for backing the wrong horse. A notable creative burst produced "MAGADONIANS," a new tribal label accompanied by a directive for followers to get their news exclusively from Truth Social. The day ended on a defensive note, with Trump pushing back against a conservative legal analyst's unfavorable comparison of his document-handling cooperation to Biden's and Pence's. Full digest for 2023-06-02: https://trump.fm/date/2023-06-02/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, June 2). This is because of the terrible changes that Ron... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110475739750083097 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "This is because of the terrible changes that Ron..." 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