# Post ts_110673291425125014 - Post ID: `ts_110673291425125014` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-07-07T14:33:28.703Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110673291425125014 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110673291425125014/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110673291425125014.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Mark Simone on Ron DeSanctimonious…“Talk about failure to launch, he’s just sinking!” ## What the media says **Video transcript** (1:13), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Iran de-sanctimonious is getting absolutely demolished for yesterday's performance in New Hampshire. No crowds, no enthusiasm, no interest. His campaign is in total disarray. He's hurting himself very badly for 2028. See, loyalty does matter with patriots. That's tough stuff. Mark Samon, I want to go to you on this. We talked about this at dinner last night. It's tough stuff, but it may be accurate stuff. And in your judgment, with the polls shifting, I mean, Vivek Ramaswamy is now 10% closing in on DeSantis. DeSantis keeps falling. Is DeSantis going to be out of the race? What's your view? Serious view, serious question. Listen, we like the guy. We got to do an intervention. We got to tell him you're 44 years old. You're way too early. Wait 10 years when you're in your fifties and do it. He doesn't have the campaign skills. Talk about failure to launch. He's just sinking. And you're right. Vivek will pass him pretty soon. And I don't think he has to drop out. He's just going to fade out and wither and die on the vine there. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/673/291/345/267/445/original/85087114862aded8.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 6,270 - Reposts: 1,806 - Replies: 293 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.406Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T06:11:52.880Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: Truth Social Post — July 7, 2023 ## Authorship Attribution **Estimated local time:** 10:33 AM EDT (Trump likely at Bedminster, NJ, his summer residence). Daytime post timing is *aide-consistent*, but the idiosyncratic nickname "DeSanctimonious" is too characteristic to have originated with staff. Most probable scenario: Trump personally approved or dictated the framing; staff handled the posting. The video clip attachment suggests curation by Scavino or similar. Attribution confidence is *medium*, with the nickname pulling toward authenticity. --- ## Multi-Level Personality Analysis ### Level 1 — Dispositional Traits (Big Five) The post's most salient facet is **dominance-assertiveness** (high Extraversion) combined with very **low Agreeableness** — specifically the antagonism and contemptuousness facets. Neuroticism is *notably low* for this post: there is no rage, defensiveness, or injury-response quality. This is controlled, cold competitive satisfaction rather than reactive aggression. Conscientiousness is moderate (the post is brief but purposeful). Openness is low — the rigid political nickname reflects in-group schema maintenance. ### Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant motive: Agency/Status.** The post functions as a status-maintenance operation. Trump is not threatened by DeSantis here; he is positioning himself as the secure incumbent watching a challenger dissolve. The proxy mechanism (quoting Simone) reveals a schema: *my superiority requires no personal statement — even the media agrees*. Agency motive is operating near ceiling; communion is essentially absent. **Goal schema visible:** Eliminate DeSantis as a viable rival by accelerating the public perception of failure. The timing — when DeSantis's polling was collapsing — makes this a pile-on rather than a preemptive strike. ### Level 3 — Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** Dominant incumbent surveying a failed challenger from a position of established superiority. Trump need not even speak in first person here — the narrative casts him implicitly as the alternative to someone "sinking." - **Narrative sequence:** *Contamination* applied to DeSantis — a promising rival whose trajectory has been permanently corrupted by failure. - **Contrasting other:** DeSantis is the structural foil. "DeSanctimonious" attacks not just his campaign performance but his identity: the nickname implies his religiosity is performative, inauthentic, sanctimonious — a character assault bundled into a single coinage. - **Identity claims:** *I am so dominant that my rivals' failure speaks for itself. I need only quote others' observations.* ### Level 4 — Clinical Indicators **Narcissistic Dynamics:** State is clearly **grandiose** — expansive, comfortable, lightly contemptuous. No vulnerability markers present. The trigger is *supply-seeking / dominance maintenance*: Trump is amplifying evidence of a rival's failure to harvest validation from his base and reinforce his own inevitability narrative. **Narcissistic rage:** Essentially absent. The post has a quality of cool satisfaction — ego-syntonic enjoyment of a rival's difficulties — closer to *sadism as dominance display* than rage. Intensity is low relative to Trump's baseline attack posts. **Malignant narcissism profile:** Narcissistic features moderate (devaluation, contempt, superiority); antisocial features low; paranoid features absent; ego-syntonic sadism mild-to-moderate (the schadenfreude is present but restrained). --- ## Defense Mechanisms **1. Devaluation (Immature):** "DeSanctimonious" is the core mechanism — a reductive neologism that collapses DeSantis's entire identity into a character defect. The nickname has been used persistently, indicating an ongoing devaluation campaign rather than a reactive epithet. **2. Displacement / Proxy (Neurotic):** The Simone quote allows the attack to arrive via third-party, insulating Trump from the appearance of personal animus while delivering identical rhetorical damage. This is more sophisticated than Trump's typical direct attack mode and may indicate deliberate strategy rather than impulsive posting. --- ## Rhetorical Techniques - **Third-party laundering:** Presenting personal attacks as media consensus observation removes Trump's visible fingerprints while achieving the same devaluation goal. - **Neologistic branding:** "DeSanctimonious" achieves sustained damage across multiple posts — each use reinforces the frame without requiring new arguments. - **Nautical failure metaphor:** "Sinking" implies irreversibility and trajectory — not a stumble but structural collapse. Paired with "failure to launch," this constructs a complete arc: DeSantis never achieved lift-off and is now going underwater. - **Brevity as confidence signal:** The short format implies the matter requires no elaboration. A confident dominant figure does not need paragraphs. --- ## Comparative Context (Same-Day Posts) The Jack Smith post from the same day (July 6-7 period) shows markedly higher arousal: "PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT," "Grand Jury Abuse," "ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!!" — all-caps, exclamation marks, legal paranoia. The DeSantis post is the behavioral inverse: cool, brief, mediated through a proxy. This contrast suggests Trump compartmentalizes differently depending on whether the trigger is *threat* (Smith = narcissistic injury → rage) versus *rival decline* (DeSantis = supply opportunity → controlled contempt). Stable compartmentalization of affect is a baseline-consistent pattern. --- ## Archetypal & Order/Chaos Dynamics The post embodies the **King** archetype in its grandiose configuration: the established sovereign dismisses the pretender without needing to engage in direct combat. The Simone quote is the court herald announcing the challenger's retreat. DeSantis is positioned as a failed **Hero/Savior** whose quest collapsed before it began. No chaos-agent energy present here — this is order *assertion*, not order disruption. --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: None.** No eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no stochastic terrorism indicators. This is intra-elite competitive devaluation within normal political attack parameters. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "DeSantis is 'sinking' / 'failure to launch'" | **Mostly True** | DeSantis's 2024 polling had declined significantly from a February 2023 high. His May 2023 Twitter Spaces campaign launch suffered widely-publicized technical failures. By July 2023, multiple polls showed him trailing Trump by 30+ points. 'Failure to launch' and 'sinking' accurately reflect the punditry consensus of the period, though his campaign remained formally active. | Overall Veracity: 80% ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 55%) ### Indicators - Signature 'DeSanctimonious' nickname strongly suggests Trump's personal involvement - Ellipsis-quote format matches Trump's media amplification pattern - 10:33 AM EDT timestamp falls within business hours — aide-consistent - Clean, minimal original text could indicate Scavino-assisted composition - Video clip attachment is consistent with staff curation ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Ron DeSantis's declining campaign poll numbers) Sentiment: -0.45 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 55% - Antisocial: 15% - Paranoid: 5% - Sadism: 35% **Defense Mechanisms:** - devaluation (immature) - displacement (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 30% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Proxy validation — 'even media figures agree DeSantis is sinking' - In-group signaling through nickname that only followers will recognize ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > DeSantis is 'sinking' / 'failure to launch' **MOSTLY TRUE** DeSantis's 2024 polling had declined significantly from a February 2023 high. His May 2023 Twitter Spaces campaign launch suffered widely-publicized technical failures. By July 2023, multiple polls showed him trailing Trump by 30+ points. 'Failure to launch' and 'sinking' accurately reflect the punditry consensus of the period, though his campaign remained formally active. Sources: General knowledge of 2023 Republican primary polling trends Overall Veracity: 80% ## Tags - intra-party rivalry (90%) - devaluation (80%) - proxy attack (80%) - grandiose narcissism (50%) - DeSantis (95%) - schadenfreude (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Campaign Rally Day in Iowa Ends With Prosecutorial Grievance as Jack Smith Spending Disclosure Pierces Grandiose Bubble** Trump spent the day in Iowa for a campaign rally in Council Bluffs, posting a mix of polling boasts, event promotions, and post-rally victory laps. The mood was mostly upbeat and self-congratulatory, with a burst of rapid-fire link shares from favorable coverage after the event. Two sharper posts broke the pattern: a morning claim of election fraud and a longer evening tirade against Special Counsel Jack Smith over prosecution costs, which closed the day on a bitter note. Nothing unusual for a rally day -- routine campaigning with predictable flashes of grievance. Full digest for 2023-07-07: https://trump.fm/date/2023-07-07/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, July 7). Mark Simone on Ron DeSanctimonious…“Talk about... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110673291425125014 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Mark Simone on Ron DeSanctimonious…“Talk about failure to..." Truth Social, 7 Jul. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110673291425125014. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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