# Post ts_110589366512638822 - Post ID: `ts_110589366512638822` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-06-22T18:50:16.170Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110589366512638822 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110589366512638822/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110589366512638822.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > People forget that Ron DeSanctimonious was a BIG LOCKDOWN MAN early on as Governor… ## Media - image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/589/366/476/752/327/original/a3bece83ada66fe4.qt ## Engagement - Likes: 10,735 - Reposts: 2,928 - Replies: 399 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.408Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T05:57:05.784Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Brief but psychologically dense attack on primary rival Ron DeSantis. Post operates in grandiose narcissistic register, contrasting with the same-day vulnerable/paranoid register visible in the DOJ witch-hunt posts — a within-day oscillation consistent with Trump's documented baseline. The central defense mechanism is projection: Trump's own early-pandemic record (which included praise for shutdowns and social distancing) is displaced onto DeSantis and returned as accusation. The 'DeSanctimonious' nickname performs devaluation, collapsing a rival's identity into a single pejorative trait. The 'people forget' framing is a mild gaslighting move, positioning the speaker as uniquely reliable narrator while preemptively framing disagreement as memory failure. Factual basis for the lockdown claim is real but deliberately truncated — DeSantis did implement early restrictions but became nationally prominent for the opposite posture. Overall intensity is moderate; this reads as a calculated dominance display rather than acute rage. No dehumanizing language, violent imagery, or danger indicators. Companion post 'Sometimes you have to put them in their place!' likely serves as self-congratulatory coda to this attack sequence. Consistent with established baseline; no clinical escalation from prior observed patterns. # Analysis: Trump Truth Social Post — June 22, 2023 ## Post > "People forget that Ron DeSanctimonious was a BIG LOCKDOWN MAN early on as Governor…" *(with video attachment)* --- ## Authorship Attribution **Local Time:** UTC 18:50 = 2:50 PM EDT. In late June 2023, Trump was splitting time between Bedminster, NJ and New York City. Mid-afternoon EDT falls squarely in business hours — a mild indicator toward aide coordination. However, several strong stylometric signals override the timing concern: (1) the established "DeSanctimonious" brand nickname is Trump's own coinage used consistently across months; (2) ALL CAPS for "BIG LOCKDOWN MAN" is authentic Trump emphasis pattern; (3) the trailing ellipsis is characteristic Trump rhetorical suspension, inviting the audience to fill in implications. (4) The verb phrase "People forget" is a signature Trump framing device. The video attachment *does* suggest aide-level production support — someone curated the clip. Most probable reading: Trump authored the text, aide managed the media attachment and timing. Confidence: medium-high. --- ## Psychological State and Triggers **Trigger type:** Narcissistic injury via primary-election competition. Ron DeSantis had officially entered the 2024 Republican primary on May 24, 2023, positioning himself as the principal challenger. DeSantis's entry constituted a direct challenge to Trump's claim of dominance within his own coalition — a prototypical narcissistic injury through comparison (Kohut, 1972). The response is a preemptive attack designed to reframe DeSantis's identity before it solidifies. **Narcissistic State:** Grandiose. Trump attacks from a posture of superior truth-telling ("people *forget*"), casting himself as the arbiter of historical record. This is not the vulnerable/persecuted register visible in the same-day all-caps posts about DOJ witch hunts; here the affect is dominance and contempt. **Rage:** Present but low-intensity. This post reads as controlled mockery rather than acute rage, closer to sadistic pleasure in the diminution of a competitor than to dysregulated fury. The ellipsis performs a kind of rhetorical shrug — the contempt is so complete it doesn't even need completing. --- ## Defense Mechanisms 1. **Projection (immature):** Trump himself praised lockdowns and social distancing early in the pandemic (March–April 2020), encouraging mask use and supporting initial shutdown guidance. Attributing lockdown enthusiasm exclusively to DeSantis displaces Trump's own early-pandemic record onto a convenient target. 2. **Devaluation (immature):** "DeSanctimonious" is a pure devaluation move — the nickname collapses DeSantis's political identity into a single trait (hypocritical moralism) and denies him a neutral name. This is a splitting operation: DeSantis had previously been idealized by some Trump allies; now he is wholly bad. 3. **Distortion (pathological-adjacent):** The claim truncates DeSantis's actual record to its earliest, most unflattering phase, omitting the subsequent record that made DeSantis nationally prominent as an anti-lockdown governor. Reality is reshaped to meet aggressive need. --- ## Rhetoric and Propaganda Techniques - **Branding/labeling:** "DeSanctimonious" — Trump's most deployed tool against primary rivals. Functionally identical to "Crooked Hillary," "Sleepy Joe." Designed for meme propagation. - **Appeal to collective amnesia:** "People forget" — positions Trump as uniquely remembering, subtly flattering the audience as participants in a shared revelation. - **ALL CAPS emphasis:** "BIG LOCKDOWN MAN" — transforms a policy description into an identity insult. The capital letters perform disgust. - **Trailing ellipsis:** Creates open-ended implication more powerful than explicit statement; lets audience complete the condemnation. - **Ad hominem via historical revisionism:** Attacks person's character through selective historical framing rather than engaging current policy. - **Hyperbole:** "BIG" as intensifier is characteristic superlative inflation. No dehumanizing language. No violent imagery. No stochastic terrorism elements. --- ## Personality Framework (McAdams & Pals) **Level 1 — Dispositional Traits (Big Five):** - Extraversion: high (assertive, dominant affect) - Agreeableness: very low (antagonistic, contemptuous, no trust) - Conscientiousness: low (impulsive, undeliberate) - Neuroticism: moderate (hostile facet active, but controlled) - Openness: low (rigid, categorical, values-enforcement) **Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations:** - Power/agency motive: dominant. Goal is hierarchical positioning — DeSantis must be subordinated. - Achievement motive: secondary. Trump is reasserting the claim of being the only viable candidate. - Communion motive: absent. - Schema: world as zero-sum dominance contest; rivals are threats requiring early neutralization. **Level 3 — Narrative Identity:** - Protagonist role: Truth-teller / Revealer. ("People forget" positions Trump as keeper of inconvenient historical memory.) - Contrasting other: DeSantis as hypocrite — someone who benefited from appearing anti-lockdown while having a prior lockdown record. - Narrative sequence: Contamination — DeSantis's current populist identity is retroactively contaminated by early-pandemic behavior. - Identity claim: implicit — Trump is the authentic, consistent actor vs. the opportunistic rival. --- ## Malignant Narcissism Assessment - **Narcissistic features:** Grandiosity in framing (high), entitlement (high), devaluation (high), lack of empathy (consistent) - **Antisocial features:** Deceitfulness via selective framing (moderate) - **Paranoid features:** Not prominent in this specific post (more salient in same-day DOJ posts) - **Ego-syntonic sadism:** Mild but present — the nickname carries evident pleasure in diminution; the ellipsis performs a smirk --- ## Cognitive Status Post is too brief for reliable cognitive assessment. Ellipsis could represent trailing thought or deliberate rhetorical technique — indeterminate. Vocabulary is elementary but consistent with baseline Trump register. No word-finding difficulties, no paraphasia, no temporal confusion visible. No deviation from baseline. Complexity: low, but baseline-consistent. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Ron DeSantis was a 'BIG LOCKDOWN MAN early on as Governor'" | **Mostly False** | DeSantis did issue a limited statewide stay-at-home order in April 2020 and implemented early COVID restrictions. However, he lifted these within approximately one month and became nationally prominent for aggressive anti-lockdown posture, keeping Florida open far earlier than most states and clashing repeatedly with federal health authorities. The framing 'BIG LOCKDOWN MAN' accurately references a narrow early window but deliberately inverts DeSantis's overall pandemic record. | Overall Veracity: 20% ## Gaslighting and Reality Distortion The "People forget" construction is a mild gaslighting frame — it preemptively positions any disagreement as a failure of memory rather than a failure of accuracy. The reality distortion (truncating DeSantis's record to its earliest phase) is manipulative but low-intensity relative to Trump's baseline gaslighting operations. --- ## Order/Chaos Dynamics This post functions as **hierarchy restructuring** within the Republican primary. Trump is defending his dominant position by attacking an order-challenger (DeSantis). The post appeals to a perceived authentic populist order (anti-lockdown MAGA identity) and frames DeSantis as a violator of that order's purity. The audience is invited to see DeSantis as an impostor who doesn't belong at the top. --- ## Archetypal Analysis **Primary archetype: Trickster/Revealer.** Trump surfaces a "suppressed truth" about his rival, positioning himself as the one who sees through the facade. Secondary **Warrior** archetype — the attack is a combat move in a dominance contest. **Shadow projection:** DeSantis receives Trump's own early-pandemic record as projected shadow material. What Trump cannot own about himself (early lockdown support) is attributed to the rival. --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: None.** Standard competitive political rhetoric targeting a primary rival. No dehumanization, no violence signals, no eliminationist language. Attack is calibrated and mockery-based. --- ## Longitudinal Context The same-day posts reveal two simultaneous psychological registers operating in parallel: (1) paranoid/victimized (DOJ witch hunt ALL CAPS posts) and (2) grandiose/contemptuous (this DeSantis attack). This oscillation between vulnerable and grandiose narcissistic states within a single day is a consistent pattern in Trump's public communications and represents baseline behavior rather than deviation. The companion post "Sometimes you have to put them in their place!" almost certainly pairs with this attack, providing an explicit self-congratulatory coda. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 75%) ### Indicators - 'DeSanctimonious' is Trump's own established nickname — strong authenticity signal - ALL CAPS 'BIG LOCKDOWN MAN' matches Trump's habitual emphasis pattern - Trailing ellipsis is a characteristic Trump rhetorical suspension device - 'People forget' is a recurring Trump framing phrase - 2:50 PM EDT is business hours — mild aide-timing indicator ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (Ron DeSantis 2024 primary challenge) **Rage:** Intensity 35% targeting Ron DeSantis - Proportionality: 60% Sentiment: -0.55 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 75% - Antisocial: 35% - Paranoid: 15% - Sadism: 40% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - devaluation (immature) - distortion (pathological) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 25% **Parasocial Techniques:** - 'People forget' positions Trump as keeper of shared but suppressed memory, flattering audience as co-discoverers - Ellipsis invites audience to complete the condemnation, creating participatory contempt ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - 'People forget' construction preemptively frames any disagreement as memory failure rather than factual dispute - Selective truncation of DeSantis's pandemic record to earliest, least favorable phase while omitting the subsequent record that defines his reputation ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Ron DeSantis was a 'BIG LOCKDOWN MAN early on as Governor' **MOSTLY FALSE** DeSantis did issue a limited statewide stay-at-home order in April 2020 and implemented early COVID restrictions. However, he lifted these within approximately one month and became nationally prominent for aggressive anti-lockdown posture, keeping Florida open far earlier than most states and clashing repeatedly with federal health authorities. The framing 'BIG LOCKDOWN MAN' accurately references a narrow early window but deliberately inverts DeSantis's overall pandemic record. Sources: General knowledge of DeSantis pandemic governance record, 2020-2022 Overall Veracity: 20% ## Tags - primary-rivalry (90%) - devaluation (85%) - projection (80%) - DeSantis (95%) - branding-attack (85%) - grandiose-state (75%) - selective-history (75%) - gaslighting-mild (45%) - 2024-primary (90%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Post-Indictment Siege Mentality: Twenty Posts Map a Day of Legal Wound Management and Rival Destruction** Trump spent the day consumed by his federal indictment from two weeks earlier, posting a steady stream of grievances about a "two-tiered justice system" — fueled by comparison to Hunter Biden's lighter plea deal. The morning brought an intense burst of rage, including an all-caps demand that Congress investigate and "STOP" the DOJ, representing the day's emotional peak. He also mounted a coordinated attack on Ron DeSantis over COVID lockdowns, projecting his own pandemic record onto his primary rival. Notably absent from 20 posts: any mention of the Titan submersible tragedy, the biggest news story of the day, underscoring how completely his legal situation dominated his attention. Full digest for 2023-06-22: https://trump.fm/date/2023-06-22/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, June 22). People forget that Ron DeSanctimonious was a BIG... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110589366512638822 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "People forget that Ron DeSanctimonious was a BIG LOCKDOWN..." Truth Social, 22 Jun. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110589366512638822. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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