# Post ts_110679800833882957 - Post ID: `ts_110679800833882957` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-07-08T18:08:54.404Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110679800833882957 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110679800833882957/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110679800833882957.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Ron DeSanctimonious is desperately trying to get out of the Presidential race, while at the same time saving face for 2028, where he has been greatly damaged. Jeff Roe, Ron’s boss despite having a terrible record of winning, is spending money like a wild man gone bad. Much of the money being used was raised for his Gubernatorial race, and transferred over (illegally?) because his Presidential donors have largely fled do to his terrible, and still falling, poll numbers. Ron is just wasting time! ## Engagement - Likes: 16,349 - Reposts: 4,307 - Replies: 878 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.406Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T06:11:34.456Z (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 exemplifies Trump in a grandiose narcissistic state, executing a dominance display against a weakened primary rival. The psychological function is threefold: supply-seeking (reinforcing frontrunner status), preemptive reality-framing (narrating DeSantis's withdrawal before it occurs, colonizing future interpretation), and competitive devaluation (reducing both DeSantis and his campaign infrastructure to incompetence). The post is notable for its intra-day contrast with the same-day Jack Smith RT, which showed paranoid-vulnerable narcissism — oscillation between grandiose and vulnerable configurations within hours is consistent with borderline-narcissistic personality organization. The "(illegally?)" parenthetical is the post's most clinically interesting feature: a precision innuendo device that plants a serious accusation while maintaining hedged deniability, consistent with antisocial features in the malignant narcissism constellation. Cognitive markers remain within baseline; the "do to" typo is a recurrent Trump error pattern rather than a new deviation. Authorship assessment favors authentic Trump despite mid-afternoon timing, based on high-fidelity stylistic evidence. No danger indicators present. Overall, this is a textbook primary-competition dominance post — clinically significant primarily for the grandiose-vulnerable oscillation when read alongside same-day posts. # Psychological & Rhetorical Analysis — Truth Social, 2023-07-08 ## Authorship Attribution **Local Time:** UTC 18:08 converts to approximately 2:08 PM EDT. In July 2023, Trump was almost certainly at his Bedminster, NJ golf club (his customary summer residence), placing this firmly in mid-afternoon business hours. This timing pattern is *slightly* more consistent with aide-assisted posting. However, the internal evidence strongly tips toward authentic Trump: - The established nickname "DeSanctimonious" (a recurring Trump coinage) - Typo: "do to" for "due to" — a persistent Trump error pattern - The parenthetical innuendo "(illegally?)" — quintessentially Trump: float the accusation, hedge the commitment - Stream-of-consciousness structure with abrupt subject shifts (DeSantis → Roe → fundraising → donors → polls) - The dismissive final sentence as a rhetorical curtain drop: "Ron is just wasting time!" - Absence of formal event-announcement structure **Assessment:** Likely authentic Trump composition, possibly with minimal review. The business hours timing introduces uncertainty, but the stylistic fingerprint is high-fidelity. --- ## Psychological Trigger Analysis The trigger here is **competitive threat maintenance** rather than a fresh narcissistic injury. By early July 2023, DeSantis's polling had been declining for weeks and Trump was consolidating his primary lead. This post reflects a **supply-seeking and dominance-display** dynamic: Trump attacks from a position of perceived strength, not wounded vulnerability. The function is less to respond to a specific attack than to accelerate a rival's collapse by narrating it as already accomplished — a self-fulfilling prophecy technique. This is textbook **preemptive reality-framing**: by publicly declaring DeSantis is "trying to get out," Trump colonizes the interpretation of DeSantis's future moves. Any subsequent DeSantis withdrawal or pivot becomes evidence Trump was right; any continuation becomes denial of inevitable defeat. --- ## Narcissistic State: Grandiose This post reflects a **grandiose narcissistic state** rather than a vulnerable one. There is no defensive crouch, no victimhood framing, and no mention of personal persecution. Trump positions himself as the uncontested frontrunner who generously takes time to autopsy a doomed rival's campaign. This is dominance from elevation, not counterattack from wound. Notably, this is in contrast to the same day's earlier post (RT about "cardboard cutout" and Jack Smith), which shows a **rapid oscillation**: the Jack Smith post reflects paranoid-vulnerable narcissism (persecution, "Election Interference," "WE WILL STOP THEM!!!"), while this DeSantis post is grandiose and contemptuous. Intra-day oscillation between vulnerable and grandiose states is a documented feature of narcissistic personality organization. --- ## Defense Mechanisms 1. **Devaluation** (immature): Both DeSantis ("desperately trying to get out," "greatly damaged") and his campaign manager Jeff Roe ("terrible record of winning," "spending money like a wild man gone bad") are subject to comprehensive devaluation. Neither is credited with any competence. 2. **Projection** (immature): The accusation that DeSantis is "wasting time" likely reflects Trump's own characterization of challenges to his authority as illegitimate by definition. Rivals don't campaign; they *waste time*. 3. **Rationalization** (neurotic): The "(illegally?)" parenthetical is simultaneously a rationalization device — it lets Trump accuse without asserting, maintain plausible deniability while implanting the accusation, and frame any subsequent rebuttal as suspicious. 4. **Acting out** (immature): Public mockery of a rival's financial management and legal standing is direct expression of competitive aggression without sublimation. --- ## Rhetorical Techniques - **Nickname as dehumanization lite:** "DeSanctimonious" does not rise to the level of dehumanizing language but performs a demeaning function — reducing a political rival to a caricature label, making serious engagement with him feel absurd. - **Innuendo with parenthetical hedge:** "(illegally?)" is a masterclass in accusation-without-accountability. The question mark provides legal cover while the content does the dirty work. - **Certainty about the opponent's internal state:** "desperately trying to get out" is presented as known fact, not inference. Trump routinely claims omniscience about rivals' inner lives. - **Credibility attack by proxy:** By targeting Jeff Roe (campaign manager) rather than only DeSantis, Trump undermines the entire support structure — "even the professionals around him are failures." - **Statistical authority invoked loosely:** "still falling poll numbers" references real-world data but without specifics, using vague verifiability as rhetorical ballast. - **Dismissive closure:** "Ron is just wasting time!" — the rhetorical equivalent of brushing lint off a jacket. The target is rendered beneath serious engagement. --- ## Cognitive Status Markers - **"do to"** instead of "due to": A recurrent Trump spelling pattern, possibly phonemic or simply habitual. Not diagnostically significant in isolation. - **"wild man gone bad"**: An unusual idiom ("wild man" is comprehensible; "gone bad" as a modifier is slightly odd construction). Within normal variation for Trump's idiosyncratic phrasing. - **Syntactic complexity**: Sentences are compound but not complex; clauses are additive rather than subordinated. Consistent with Trump's established baseline. - **Coherence**: The logical thread (DeSantis failing → Roe spending irresponsibly → donors fled → polls collapsing → conclusion: wasting time) is followable, though compressed. No tangentiality. - **No markers of significant cognitive deviation from established baseline** in this post. --- ## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion The "(illegally?)" construction functions as mild gaslighting: it introduces a reality claim — that campaign finance law was violated — without evidence, in a parenthetical that signals casualness. Readers who accept the frame absorb a legal accusation; readers who push back are arguing against a question mark. This is a low-grade version of the reality distortion pattern visible in other posts, and notably less aggressive than the same-day Jack Smith post, which features full DARVO dynamics. --- ## Danger Assessment No violent imagery, no dehumanizing language, no eliminationist framing, no mobilization call. This is standard primary-competition attack rhetoric. The "(illegally?)" introduces a reputational harm vector but not a physical danger indicator. **Danger level: None.** --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "DeSantis poll numbers 'terrible, and still falling'" | **Mostly True** | By July 2023, DeSantis had fallen significantly from his peak polling — trailing Trump by 30+ points nationally in several surveys, down from near-competitive gaps in early 2023. Declining trajectory is documented. | | "Jeff Roe has 'a terrible record of winning'" | **Mostly False** | Roe (Axiom Strategies) had substantial wins including Ted Cruz's Senate campaigns and other successful races. His 2016 Cruz presidential run was unsuccessful but characterizing his overall record as 'terrible' is misleading. | | "Money raised for Gubernatorial race transferred to presidential campaign '(illegally?)'" | **Unverifiable** | Campaign finance transfers between state and federal committees are regulated and sometimes permissible. No specific evidence of illegality was provided by Trump or, to available knowledge, subsequently established by FEC. | | "Presidential donors 'have largely fled'" | **Mostly True** | DeSantis's Q2 2023 fundraising was widely reported as disappointing relative to expectations; donor enthusiasm had visibly cooled from the early 2023 peak. | Overall Veracity: 57% ## Narrative Identity Trump casts himself as the **unassailable incumbent frontrunner** narrating a rival's collapse in real time — not a combatant, but a commentator above the fray. The protagonist role here is closest to the **King observing** a pretender's failed challenge: he does not need to fight; the pretender is already falling. The narrative sequence is a **contamination arc attributed to DeSantis** (DeSantis rose → was damaged → is now collapsing) while Trump's own arc remains implicitly redemptive. --- ## Archetypal Analysis The dominant archetype in this post is the **King/Tyrant** — specifically the King reasserting dominance over a challenger to the throne. The contemptuous dismissal ("just wasting time") is the sovereign's prerogative: the challenger's efforts are rendered meaningless by royal decree. The **Shadow** element projected onto DeSantis is financial irresponsibility and inauthenticity (feigned campaign, hidden intention to exit) — traits that, in the primary context, raise implicit comparison points. --- ## Summary This post exemplifies Trump in a grandiose narcissistic state, executing a dominance display against a weakened primary rival. The psychological function is threefold: supply-seeking (reinforcing his frontrunner status for followers), preemptive reality-framing (narrating DeSantis's withdrawal before it occurs, colonizing future interpretation), and competitive devaluation (reducing both DeSantis and his campaign infrastructure to incompetence). The post is notable for its intra-day contrast with the same-day Jack Smith RT, which showed a paranoid-vulnerable state — the oscillation between grandiose and vulnerable narcissistic configurations within hours is consistent with borderline-narcissistic personality organization. The "(illegally?)" parenthetical is the post's most clinically interesting feature: a precision innuendo tool that plants a serious accusation while maintaining hedged deniability, a rhetorical device consistent with antisocial features within the malignant narcissism constellation. Cognitive markers are within baseline. No danger indicators are present. Authorship assessment favors authentic Trump despite mid-afternoon timing, based on high-fidelity stylistic evidence including typo, nickname, and parenthetical innuendo structure. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 78%) ### Indicators - Established nickname 'DeSanctimonious' used consistently - Typo 'do to' instead of 'due to' — recurrent Trump error pattern - Parenthetical innuendo '(illegally?)' — signature Trump accusation hedge - Stream-of-consciousness structure with abrupt topic shifts - Dismissive curtain-drop finale 'Ron is just wasting time!' ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (DeSantis primary campaign continuing) Sentiment: -0.72 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Elevated dismissive confidence about rival's failure - Rapid topic traversal (DeSantis → Roe → fundraising → donors → polls → conclusion) - Compressed certainty with no hedging on opponent's internal state ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 80% - Antisocial: 45% - Paranoid: 35% - Sadism: 40% **Defense Mechanisms:** - devaluation (immature) - projection (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) - acting out (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 32% Cognitive Markers: - semantic paraphasia **Parasocial Techniques:** - Invites followers to share certainty about rival's internal state ('desperately trying to get out') - Positions followers as insiders to campaign intelligence - Uses 'we already know this' framing to build in-group consensus ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - '(illegally?)' introduces legal accusation without evidence using punctuation as deniability shield - Presents subjective inference about DeSantis's intentions ('desperately trying to get out') as factual reporting - Pre-frames rival's future actions to colonize interpretation regardless of outcome ## Fact Checks (4) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > DeSantis poll numbers 'terrible, and still falling' **MOSTLY TRUE** By July 2023, DeSantis had fallen significantly from his peak polling — trailing Trump by 30+ points nationally in several surveys, down from near-competitive gaps in early 2023. Declining trajectory is documented. Sources: General knowledge of 2023 GOP primary polling > Jeff Roe has 'a terrible record of winning' **MOSTLY FALSE** Roe (Axiom Strategies) had substantial wins including Ted Cruz's Senate campaigns and other successful races. His 2016 Cruz presidential run was unsuccessful but characterizing his overall record as 'terrible' is misleading. Sources: General knowledge of political consulting history > Money raised for Gubernatorial race transferred to presidential campaign '(illegally?)' **UNVERIFIABLE** Campaign finance transfers between state and federal committees are regulated and sometimes permissible. No specific evidence of illegality was provided by Trump or, to available knowledge, subsequently established by FEC. > Presidential donors 'have largely fled' **MOSTLY TRUE** DeSantis's Q2 2023 fundraising was widely reported as disappointing relative to expectations; donor enthusiasm had visibly cooled from the early 2023 peak. Sources: General knowledge of 2023 GOP primary fundraising reporting Overall Veracity: 57% ## Tags - primary-attack (95%) - devaluation (90%) - desantis (95%) - nickname-use (85%) - parenthetical-innuendo (88%) - grandiose-state (82%) - supply-seeking (75%) - preemptive-framing (80%) - malignant-narcissism (70%) - intra-day-oscillation (72%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Saturday afternoon burst frames DeSantis dominance with Jack Smith persecution bookends** Trump posted five times in a single hour from Bedminster on Saturday afternoon, splitting his attention between two targets. Three posts reveled in Ron DeSantis's weakening primary campaign, mining a defecting strategist's praise for maximum self-flattery. But the session opened and closed with angrier posts attacking Special Counsel Jack Smith and the federal indictment, calling prosecutors "Deranged" and "Thugs" while pushing a debunked legal defense. The mood was confident on the DeSantis front but bitter and conspiratorial on the legal front -- a day defined by the tension between dominance and victimhood. Full digest for 2023-07-08: https://trump.fm/date/2023-07-08/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, July 8). Ron DeSanctimonious is desperately trying to get... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110679800833882957 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Ron DeSanctimonious is desperately trying to get out of the..." Truth Social, 8 Jul. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110679800833882957. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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