# Post ts_110696942484990427 - Post ID: `ts_110696942484990427` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-07-11T18:48:15.323Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110696942484990427 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110696942484990427/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110696942484990427.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > If they don’t like Ron DeSanctimonious now, they won’t like him any better 6 months from now with the start of “Primary Season.” The more people get to know him, the lower go his polls. He is now in the mid-teens, and falling fast! ## Engagement - Likes: 10,858 - Reposts: 2,497 - Replies: 418 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.406Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T06:14:18.761Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Post presents Trump in stable grandiose narcissistic mode, attacking primary rival DeSantis from a position of perceived dominance rather than wounded anxiety. The 'DeSanctimonious' nickname functions as a devaluation mechanism — reducing a polling competitor to a caricature before engaging poll data. Psychologically, the trigger is competitive threat, but the response is contemptuous amusement rather than narcissistic rage, suggesting Trump perceives his lead as sufficiently commanding to mock from above. Ego-syntonic sadism is mildly present in the evident relish of 'falling fast!' Projection is the most clinically interesting defense: 'the more people know him, the less they like him' is precisely the argument applied to Trump by his critics, here redirected outward. Rhetorical construction is efficient: prophecy, pseudo-empirical poll data, and affective verdict in three compact moves. Authorship likely authentic (medium confidence): 'DeSanctimonious' is Trump's own coinage, poll-fixation is documented, and the slightly inverted syntax ('the lower go his polls') reflects spoken cadence. Business-hours timing is the sole counter-indicator. No cognitive markers, no danger indicators, no dehumanizing language. Factual claim about mid-teens polling is broadly accurate for the low end of contemporary surveys. Archetypally, Trump performs the King archetype — the incumbent sovereign narrating a challenger's failure — with a flash of Trickster wordplay as signature. # Psychological Analysis: ts_110696942484990427 **Date:** 2023-07-11 | **Platform:** Truth Social | **Subject Age:** 77 --- ## Executive Summary A compact, confident devaluation of primary rival Ron DeSantis, delivered from a grandiose narcissistic position rather than a wounded one. No rage present; affect is closer to contemptuous amusement. Psychologically consistent with a subject who perceives himself as commanding and his rival as negligible. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) | Trait | Expression | |-------|-----------| | **Extraversion** | High assertiveness; dominant social positioning | | **Agreeableness** | Very low; contemptuous dismissal, zero collegial affect | | **Conscientiousness** | Low deliberation; impulsive, reactive | | **Neuroticism** | Low in this instance — controlled, not anxious | | **Openness** | Wordplay ('DeSanctimonious') shows lexical creativity; values rigidity elsewhere | The dominant facet here is **assertiveness** (extraversion) paired with **low agreeableness**. The post is architecturally simple: assert dominance, cite numbers, dismiss. No hedging, no complexity. --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motives** are primary: status, power, control of narrative. The post is not about policy; it is about rank ordering — Trump above DeSantis, with polling as the objective arbiter of worth. **Schemas revealed:** - *Self*: Inevitable frontrunner; occupies position above the fray - *Other (DeSantis)*: Pretender; fundamentally unlikeable; time will prove his inadequacy - *World*: Poll numbers are moral judgments; public rejection is deserved The motive is not intimacy or communion — this post is pure status management. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** Dominant incumbent; the man whose lead is insurmountable. **Narrative sequence:** Mild redemption structure — DeSantis was briefly threatening; now he's collapsing; the natural order (Trump on top) is being restored. **Identity claims:** - "I am the standard by which others are measured and found lacking" - "I can read political futures; I am prescient" - "Popularity is mine by default — his is manufactured and fragile" **Contrasting other:** DeSantis as the sanctimonious, poll-collapsing, increasingly irrelevant challenger. --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators ### Malignant Narcissism Components **Narcissistic features (moderate-high):** Grandiosity is implicit but unmistakable — Trump positions himself as the gravitational center against which DeSantis is measured and found wanting. The entitlement to predict rivals' failure, and to do so publicly and gleefully, reflects the assumption that such behavior is natural and appropriate. **Ego-syntonic sadism (mild-moderate):** The exclamation in "falling fast!" carries emotional coloring beyond political reporting. There is affect here — pleasure in decline. This is not a neutral observation; it is relished. **Antisocial features (low):** No rule-breaking or deception evident in this post. **Paranoid features (very low):** No persecution narrative; confidence, not threat-sensing. --- ## Defense Mechanisms **Devaluation (immature):** 'DeSanctimonious' is the mechanism made word. The nickname performs psychological devaluation — it preemptively shrinks the rival into a caricature. **Rationalization (neurotic):** "The more people get to know him, the lower go his polls" constructs post-hoc logical scaffolding for what is essentially a dominance display. The claim is circular: polls go down *because* people know him, which is unfalsifiable. **Projection (immature):** The specific claim — familiarity breeds rejection — is the precise critique routinely applied to Trump himself. The projection defense redirects this anxiety outward onto a safer target. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Assessment: Likely authentic Trump (medium confidence)** The 14:48 EDT timestamp (Bedminster, NJ summer base) falls in business hours — an aide indicator. However, the content signature is decisive: 'DeSanctimonious' is a Trump original, not an aide coinage; the poll-fixation is a documented Trump characteristic; the syntax is slightly inverted ("the lower go his polls" rather than standard "the lower his polls go") in a manner consistent with spoken cadence transcribed directly. No scheduling, event announcement, or polished structure. The overwhelmingly authentic content signature outweighs the timing ambiguity. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis The post demonstrates compact rhetorical efficiency. Three moves: 1. **Dismissive prophecy** — "won't like him better 6 months from now" 2. **Pseudo-empirical evidence** — poll numbers as objective proof 3. **Verdict with affect** — "falling fast!" as emotional punctuation The scare quotes around "Primary Season" subtly mock the very concept of DeSantis as a primary threat worthy of the term. The nickname does the heavy lifting — by the time a reader reaches the polling data, DeSantis has already been semantically diminished. No violent imagery, no dehumanizing language. This is competitive political rhetoric, not eliminationist discourse. --- ## Cognitive Status No markers of concern. Sentence construction is coherent, wordplay is functional, logical flow is intact. The slight syntactic inversion ("the lower go his polls") reads as stylistic/colloquial rather than pathological. No word-finding difficulty, perseveration, or temporal confusion observed. Baseline comparison: consistent with Trump's established attack-tweet register. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "DeSantis is in the mid-teens in polls" | **Mostly True** | Multiple national Republican primary polls from late June–July 2023 placed DeSantis in the 14–22% range, with some lower-end polls hitting the mid-teens. His peak was ~30–38% in early 2023. | | "His polls are falling fast" | **Mostly True** | DeSantis experienced a documented significant downward trajectory from his early 2023 peak. 'Fast' overstates momentum at this specific moment but the directional trend was correct. | Overall Veracity: 80% ## Danger Assessment **Level: None.** Pure political rivalry rhetoric. No targets identified for third-party action, no eliminationist language, no mobilization framing. --- ## Order/Chaos Dynamics **Position: Order restorer.** Trump positions himself as the natural hierarchy — primary frontrunner — being affirmed by voters as DeSantis fades. He is not disrupting; he is narrating the re-establishment of the correct order (himself at top). --- ## Archetypal Analysis **Primary archetype: King** — specifically the incumbent sovereign whose legitimacy is being (unsuccessfully) challenged. The tone is not warrior (embattled) but regal (above the fray). DeSantis is cast as an upstart court challenger, already failing. **Secondary: Trickster** — the 'DeSanctimonious' wordplay signals the Trickster's presence; Trump enjoys the jester's privilege of naming and mocking, which is both a power assertion and an entertainer's move. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 75%) ### Indicators - 'DeSanctimonious' nickname is a signature Trump coinage, highly unlikely from an aide - Poll-fixation language ('mid-teens, and falling fast!') matches authentic Trump obsession with numbers as dominance metrics - Quoted 'Primary Season' with scare quotes — a Trump rhetorical habit - Timing is 2:48 PM EDT (Bedminster, NJ summer residence) — business hours cuts against authenticity, but content quality overrides - Stream-of-consciousness sentence structure, no event announcement or scheduling content ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (DeSantis's continued existence as a primary rival) Sentiment: -0.45 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 70% - Antisocial: 20% - Paranoid: 10% - Sadism: 40% **Defense Mechanisms:** - devaluation (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) - projection (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 38% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Invites audience into shared contempt ('they won't like him') - Uses collective 'they' to create in-group consensus against DeSantis - Positions himself as the inevitable, poll-proven choice without stating it directly ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > DeSantis is in the mid-teens in polls **MOSTLY TRUE** Multiple national Republican primary polls from late June–July 2023 placed DeSantis in the 14–22% range, with some lower-end polls hitting the mid-teens. His peak was ~30–38% in early 2023. Sources: General polling knowledge from training data; no WebSearch conducted > His polls are falling fast **MOSTLY TRUE** DeSantis experienced a documented significant downward trajectory from his early 2023 peak. 'Fast' overstates momentum at this specific moment but the directional trend was correct. Sources: General polling knowledge from training data Overall Veracity: 80% ## Tags - devaluation (90%) - primary_rivalry (95%) - DeSantis (100%) - grandiose_narcissism (80%) - ego_syntonic_sadism (45%) - poll_fixation (85%) - nickname_ad_hominem (90%) - projection (60%) - authentic_authorship_likely (75%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Campaign Discipline Fractures as Legal Rage Erupts in Two-Word Compressions and Prosecutorial Double Standards** Trump spent the day alternating between standard campaign promotion and sharp bursts of anger over his legal situation. The morning started with friendly supporter retweets before a sudden all-caps outburst about "election interference." After a six-hour midday silence, the afternoon opened with his most heated post of the day -- a furious attack on the prosecutor handling the Hunter Biden case, calling him a "coward" for being too lenient. The rest of the afternoon mixed routine campaign content with a closing broadside against Special Counsel Jack Smith that included calling Hunter Biden a "crackhead." Throughout, Trump demanded maximum legal consequences for his opponents while dismissing investigations into himself as illegitimate. Full digest for 2023-07-11: https://trump.fm/date/2023-07-11/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, July 11). If they don’t like Ron DeSanctimonious now, they... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110696942484990427 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "If they don’t like Ron DeSanctimonious now, they won’t like..." 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