# Post ts_110589445396025414 - Post ID: `ts_110589445396025414` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-06-22T19:10:19.837Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110589445396025414 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110589445396025414/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110589445396025414.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/110589366512638822 Lockdowns. Armed Checkpoints. School Shutdowns. Beach and Business Closures.In 2020, Ron DeSanctimonious issued some of the most draconian Covid restrictions of anywhere in the United States. -Forbes ## Reposted post Original: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110589366512638822 (2023-06-22T18:50:16.170Z (UTC)) > People forget that Ron DeSanctimonious was a BIG LOCKDOWN MAN early on as Governor… - image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/589/366/476/752/327/original/a3bece83ada66fe4.qt ## Media - image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/589/445/249/177/331/original/5dd2d6448f30edfb.qt ## Engagement - Likes: 10,285 - Reposts: 3,477 - Replies: 393 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.408Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T06:02:17.312Z (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 coordinated identity-stripping attack on Ron DeSantis, Trump's closest 2024 primary rival. Timed at 3:10 PM EDT and exhibiting editorial polish, it shows signs of aide assistance in packaging a Trump-originated attack concept. The core psychological mechanism is projection: Trump — who, as president, presided over the federal COVID response including initial lockdown advocacy — attributes the "lockdown authoritarian" identity to DeSantis, whose actual political brand was built on anti-lockdown resistance. This projection functions to launder Trump's own COVID record while neutralizing DeSantis's primary brand differentiation. The factual claim (Florida had "the most draconian" restrictions) is mostly false: Florida's spring 2020 measures lasted approximately five weeks and were less extensive than those in New York, California, and Michigan. The rhetorical technique of identity inversion is strategically sophisticated — attacking a rival's strongest asset forces defensive resource expenditure. The narcissistic state is grandiose rather than vulnerable; this is calculated competitive aggression, not reactive rage. No danger indicators present. Clinically, the post illustrates the projection defense operating at scale as a political strategy, consistent with the broader malignant narcissism profile in which rivals' identities are distorted to serve self-aggrandizement. # Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post, June 22, 2023 ## Overview This post is one of multiple same-day attacks on Ron DeSantis and functions as a coordinated piece of an identity-stripping campaign against Trump's closest 2024 primary rival. It is a retruth of Trump's own earlier post with added structural polish, suggesting aide-assisted amplification of an authentically Trump-originated attack. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Confidence: Medium | Score: 0.55 (leaning aide-assisted)** Posted at 3:10 PM EDT (Bedminster, NJ — Trump's likely summer residence), this falls squarely within business hours. The staccato fragment structure ("Lockdowns. Armed Checkpoints. School Shutdowns.") has editorial polish inconsistent with Trump's impulsive posting style, and the clean "−Forbes" attribution reflects staff-level curation. However, the "DeSanctimonious" coinage is indisputably Trump's own invention, and the attack strategy matches his known obsessions. The most plausible reconstruction: Trump generated the attack concept and nickname (evidenced by the companion organic post: "People forget that Ron DeSanctimonious was a BIG LOCKDOWN MAN early on…"); an aide then produced this more structured version with sourcing for amplification. The contrast with the same-day ALL CAPS post ("CONGRESS, PLEASE INVESTIGATE THE POLITICAL WITCH HUNTS…") is diagnostically useful — the two registers (raw Trump fury vs. structured political attack) illustrate the division between authentic and staff-mediated output. --- ## Multi-Level Personality Analysis ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits The post is dominated by low **agreeableness** (antagonism, rivalry, contempt), high **extraversion** (assertive, dominant), and low **conscientiousness** in its disregard for factual accuracy. The strategic calculation underlying the attack reflects moderate **neuroticism** (threat-response mode) rather than pure impulsivity. ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motives** overwhelmingly dominate. The post is a power-maintenance operation: DeSantis represents the specific threat of being supplanted as the dominant figure in the Republican primary by someone with a competing (and largely compatible) ideological brand. The attack targets DeSantis's most valuable asset — his anti-lockdown identity — in a clear effort to eliminate brand differentiation. ### Level 3: Narrative Identity Trump casts himself implicitly as the *authentic* anti-lockdown champion by positioning DeSantis as the fraud. The narrative is a **contamination sequence**: what appeared to be a MAGA ally is revealed (via this "exposure") as a closet authoritarian. Trump positions himself as the truth-teller who remembers what others have forgotten. --- ## Psychological Dynamics ### Trigger: Preemptive Attack This is not a response to a specific provocation but a **preemptive attack** aimed at neutralizing a rival's political capital before it compounds. DeSantis was at this point actively campaigning and closing in polling. ### Narcissistic State: Grandiose The post reflects a **grandiose** narcissistic state rather than a vulnerable one. Trump is confident enough to attack rather than defend. There is no evident rage here — the aggression is cold and calculated rather than hot. ### Defense Mechanisms **Projection (immature):** The most clinically significant feature. Trump — who, as president, presided over the federal COVID response including initial lockdown advocacy — attributes the "lockdown authoritarian" identity to DeSantis, whose actual political brand was built on anti-lockdown resistance. **Splitting (immature):** DeSantis is rendered as pure authoritarian villain with zero complexity. **Rationalization (neurotic):** The "−Forbes" citation provides an epistemically laundered surface for what is a selective and distorted narrative. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Ron DeSanctimonious issued some of the most draconian Covid restrictions of anywhere in the United States in 2020" | **Mostly False** | DeSantis did implement COVID restrictions in spring 2020: statewide stay-at-home order (April 1-May 4, 2020), closed beaches and non-essential businesses, and shut schools. However, Florida's restrictions were shorter-lived and less extensive than those in California, New York, Illinois, Michigan, and many other states. DeSantis began reopening in early May 2020 — among the first governors to do so — and became nationally prominent precisely as an anti-lockdown executive. Characterizing Florida's 5-6 week partial shutdown as 'the most draconian... of anywhere in the United States' is a significant factual distortion. | | "DeSantis ordered armed checkpoints" | **Half True** | Florida did implement travel checkpoints in April 2020 to screen travelers from COVID-hotspot states. These were highway checkpoints with law enforcement presence. The 'Armed Checkpoints' framing exaggerates the nature of these public health screening stops, though they did involve law enforcement. | Overall Veracity: 35% ## Danger Assessment: **None** Standard competitive political attack. No dehumanizing language, no eliminationist rhetoric, no stochastic terrorism indicators. ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 55%) ### Indicators - UTC 19:10 converts to ~3:10 PM EDT (Bedminster, NJ likely summer residence), placing this in business hours suggesting aide involvement - Structured fragment list ('Lockdowns. Armed Checkpoints. School Shutdowns.') has polished rhetorical quality atypical of raw Trump - Clean attribution format '-Forbes' is more editorial than Trump's typical stream-of-consciousness - 'DeSanctimonious' is Trump's own coinage and consistent across his posts that day - This is a retruth of his own earlier post creating an amplification loop suggesting coordination ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Preemptive Attack — Comparison (Ron DeSantis (primary rival)) Sentiment: -0.68 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 72% - Antisocial: 45% - Paranoid: 25% - Sadism: 30% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - splitting (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 42% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Recruiting audience as witnesses to rival's 'betrayal' of shared anti-lockdown identity - Using pejorative nickname to bond audience in shared contempt - Invoking collective 2020 grievance memory to activate emotional recall ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - Reality inversion: DeSantis's defining political brand (anti-lockdown governance) is reframed as its opposite with selective use of a brief early-pandemic window - False framing via citation authority: using 'Forbes' to imply objective verification of a misleading superlative claim - Collective memory manipulation: companion post 'People forget that...' positions audience as having been deceived and Trump as restorer of suppressed truth ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Ron DeSanctimonious issued some of the most draconian Covid restrictions of anywhere in the United States in 2020 **MOSTLY FALSE** DeSantis did implement COVID restrictions in spring 2020: statewide stay-at-home order (April 1-May 4, 2020), closed beaches and non-essential businesses, and shut schools. However, Florida's restrictions were shorter-lived and less extensive than those in California, New York, Illinois, Michigan, and many other states. DeSantis began reopening in early May 2020 — among the first governors to do so — and became nationally prominent precisely as an anti-lockdown executive. Characterizing Florida's 5-6 week partial shutdown as 'the most draconian... of anywhere in the United States' is a significant factual distortion. Sources: Florida Executive Order 20-91 (April 1, 2020); Forbes COVID coverage 2020-2021; Florida Department of Health reopening timeline > DeSantis ordered armed checkpoints **HALF TRUE** Florida did implement travel checkpoints in April 2020 to screen travelers from COVID-hotspot states. These were highway checkpoints with law enforcement presence. The 'Armed Checkpoints' framing exaggerates the nature of these public health screening stops, though they did involve law enforcement. Sources: Florida Executive Orders 2020; Florida Highway Patrol checkpoint records Overall Veracity: 35% ## Tags - primary_rivalry (95%) - projection (88%) - identity_attack (85%) - DeSantis (95%) - COVID_revisionism (82%) - aide_assisted (65%) - preemptive_attack (87%) - brand_assassination (80%) - factual_distortion (78%) ## 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). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110589445396025414 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1..." Truth Social, 22 Jun. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110589445396025414. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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