# Post ts_110752559542558750 - Post ID: `ts_110752559542558750` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-07-21T14:32:24.274Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110752559542558750 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110752559542558750/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110752559542558750.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Fox is down 58%, at least, all because they don’t treat “TRUMP” and “MAGA” well. They are focused on someone who can’t win, Ron DeSanctimonious, who will never be able to bring it home. The only reason DeSanctus won in Florida is because I Endorsed him, and Campaigned for him—He would have lost by 40 points. The sadder part is, he TOTALLY forgot! He also forgot he wanted to close down Social Security, Ethanol, and obliterate Medicare… ## Engagement - Likes: 16,329 - Reposts: 4,718 - Replies: 1,302 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.405Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T06:35:56.936Z (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 ts_110752559542558750 exemplifies the narcissistic patronage-to-contempt cycle in high-fidelity form. Trump explicitly claims sole credit for DeSantis's electoral success, deploys the fabricated counterfactual of a 40-point loss to retroactively zero out DeSantis's agency, and pivots to policy distortion ('obliterate Medicare') to manufacture new grievance. The structural logic is that of the kingmaker asserting that the king can be unmade. Defense mechanisms are primarily immature (splitting, devaluation, projection), consistent with baseline. No cognitive deterioration markers are present; this is characteristic Trump primary-competition discourse. The dual nickname forms ('DeSanctimonious' and 'DeSanctus') in one post confirm authentic real-time composition. The psychological trigger is multi-sourced: DeSantis's rise constitutes a narcissistic injury via unfavorable comparison, while Fox's perceived supply withdrawal activates grievance. The Jan. 6 target letter context likely elevates ambient threat state, amplifying dominance-display intensity. The post sits within a same-day cluster of at least four DeSantis/Fox attacks — a volume-saturation strategy to flood the information environment with a single narrative frame. Danger level: none. No violent imagery, dehumanizing language, or stochastic terrorism indicators present. # Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2023-07-21 (ts_110752559542558750) ## Authorship Attribution **Local Time:** UTC 14:32 converts to 10:32 AM EDT. In summer 2023 Trump was typically at Bedminster, NJ (EDT, UTC−4), placing this at mid-morning — business hours territory. However, the stylistic fingerprints are overwhelming: self-referential third-person ("TRUMP"), invented nicknames used inconsistently within a single post ("DeSanctimonious" and "DeSanctus" in the same breath), mid-sentence capitalizations, ALL CAPS emotional emphasis ("TOTALLY forgot"), stream-of-consciousness pivot from Fox ratings to endorsement credit-claiming to policy attack, and the trailing ellipsis indicating an unfinished thought carried over into another post. The adjacent same-day posts form a thematic cluster attacking DeSantis and Fox, all in the same unpolished idiom. **Assessment: Authentic Trump.** The daytime timestamp alone cannot override the weight of stylistic evidence. --- ## Multi-Level Personality Analysis ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) The post is dominated by **low Agreeableness** (contempt, devaluation, zero empathy toward a former ally), **high Extraversion** (assertive dominance, self-promotion), elevated **Neuroticism** (angry hostility, grievance arousal), and low **Conscientiousness** (impulsive, unedited, self-contradicting). **Openness** remains low; the ideational range is narrow — ratings, endorsements, electoral mathematics, policy attack points — all framed as instruments of interpersonal dominance. The dominant facet is **angry hostility** (Neuroticism N2), fused with **assertiveness** (E3). The combination is characteristic of reactive aggression triggered by perceived betrayal. ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations — Motives and Schemas **Agency dominates absolutely.** The operative motive throughout is power/status maintenance: Fox must submit ("ALL TRUMP ALL THE TIME"), DeSantis must be repositioned as a dependent, and the primary electorate must be reminded of the hierarchy. There is zero communion signaling — no warmth, no belonging, no care expressed even for the MAGA audience. They appear as an instrument ("our people have had it") rather than as valued recipients. **Schema for self:** The indispensable patriarch. Without Trump's act of grace, nothing exists — not DeSantis's governorship, not Fox's audience, not Florida's electoral map. This is a zero-sum schema where all value flows from him. **Schema for others:** Objects of utility who either properly credit him (earning continued favor) or forget/betray him (earning destruction). DeSantis has crossed from the first category to the second. **Schema for world:** Hierarchical and ungrateful. The natural order requires subordinates to acknowledge the source of their power. Deviation from this order is treated as moral offense, not merely competitive behavior. ### Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** The King-Maker. Trump does not merely defeat rivals — he *created* them, and can uncreate them. "The only reason DeSanctimonious won in Florida is because I Endorsed him" is the narrative thesis: DeSantis is an artifact of Trump's patronage, not an autonomous political actor. **Contamination sequence:** A classic "I gave, he forgot" contamination arc. The implicit story: Trump elevated DeSantis from obscurity → DeSantis won because of Trump → DeSantis became ungrateful → now DeSantis must be destroyed. This is the archetypal betrayal narrative of malignant narcissism: benefaction met with ingratitude justifies annihilation. **Identity claims:** *"I'm up 44 points!!!"* (from same-day cluster). The numerical superiority claim anchors his identity as the dominant figure in the field. The endorsement history claim further anchors identity as *the* Republican kingmaker. **Contrasting other:** DeSantis as ingrate subordinate. Notably Trump uses two slightly different nickname forms — "DeSanctimonious" (established) and "DeSanctus" — in the same post. This is consistent with real-time nickname improvisation rather than aide-scripted content, and also reflects dehumanizing name-play: reducing a rival to a mocking diminutive. --- ## Clinical Indicators ### Malignant Narcissism (Kernberg) **A. Narcissistic Features (high, ~0.85):** Grandiosity is the structural spine of the post. The claim that DeSantis "would have lost by 40 points" without the endorsement is a textbook grandiose confabulation — a counterfactual stated as fact, unmoored from any evidentiary basis. Entitlement is expressed as a demand: Fox must cover Trump, DeSantis must acknowledge his patron. Interpersonal exploitation: both Fox and DeSantis are instrumentalized as vehicles for Trump's status maintenance. **B. Antisocial Features (moderate, ~0.40):** Habitual exaggeration that functions as systematic deception ("40 points," "58%"), disregard for the dignity of a prior ally, and contempt for the norms of political collegiality. No explicit lawbreaking signaled in this post. **C. Paranoid Features (moderate, ~0.50):** Fox's ratings decline is attributed entirely to their failure to pay proper tribute — not to any structural market forces, the Dominion settlement fallout, or Tucker Carlson's departure. The interpretive schema is one of betrayal and conspiratorial grievance. **D. Ego-Syntonic Sadism (moderate, ~0.45):** There is evident pleasure in the humiliation of DeSantis — the mocking nicknames, the reductive "40 points" claim, the "TOTALLY forgot" flourish. These are not instrumental attacks; they contain an affective charge of dominance enjoyment that exceeds mere competitive messaging. ### Narcissistic Dynamics **Trigger:** Dual-source. Primary: **narcissistic injury from competition** — DeSantis's emergence as a credible primary rival constitutes a direct challenge to Trump's status as the natural and inevitable Republican nominee. Secondary context: the Jan. 6 target letter received around this period would amplify any ambient threat state, heightening the need to project dominance. Fox's perceived disloyalty constitutes a **supply withdrawal** (previously reliable admiration-machine now covering a rival). **Narcissistic State:** Predominantly **grandiose** with a thin underlayer of vulnerability. The compensatory inflation ("I Endorsed him," "44 points up") is most parsimoniously read as a response to felt threat rather than pure secure confidence. The intensity of the attack is disproportionate to the trigger, which is itself a signature of narcissistic injury driving the response. **Narcissistic Rage:** Present at moderate-high intensity (0.65). Target is split between DeSantis (ingrate) and Fox (disloyal). Proportionality is low — the response (multi-post coordinated demolition campaign) exceeds the competitive provocation. ### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Splitting (Immature):** Fox is entirely bad now; Trump is entirely good. DeSantis has flipped from protégé to enemy. No ambivalence tolerated. 2. **Devaluation (Immature):** Active reduction of DeSantis's electoral achievement to a gift that can be revoked. The 40-point claim functions to retroactively zero out DeSantis's own agency. 3. **Projection (Immature):** "He TOTALLY forgot" — attributing ingratitude to DeSantis rather than acknowledging that Trump is attempting to reassert dominance over a now-autonomous rival. 4. **Rationalization (Neurotic):** Fox's ratings collapse is rationalized as direct consequence of their Trump coverage decisions, avoiding any acknowledgment of the structural/legal crises (Dominion suit, Carlson departure) driving the actual decline. ### Cognitive Status No significant deviation from established baseline. The stream-of-consciousness structure, nickname improvisation, mid-sentence topic jumps, and hyperbolic quantification are all consistent with Trump's documented 2015–present communication style. Vocabulary remains within his typical range (short declarative sentences, everyday diction, emotionally charged intensifiers). The dual nickname ("DeSanctimonious"/"DeSanctus") in a single post is consistent with real-time improvisation, not a cognitive error per se. **Complexity score:** 0.35 — below average for a formal communication, consistent with baseline. --- ## Rhetorical and Propaganda Analysis **Primary devices:** - *Hyperbole:* "58%," "40 points," "obliterate Medicare" — quantitative inflation for rhetorical effect - *Ad hominem:* Nickname-based dehumanization ("DeSanctimonious," "DeSanctus") targets the person rather than the argument - *False causation:* DeSantis's 2022 win is attributed wholly to Trump's endorsement, erasing DeSantis's own political capital, the favorable Florida electorate, and his incumbency advantage - *Appeal to loyalty:* Fox is framed as owing Trump coverage, framing viewership as political debt to be repaid - *Whataboutism (partial):* DeSantis's prior positions on Social Security, ethanol, and Medicare are deployed to undercut his current campaign positioning **Dehumanizing language:** Present but mild — nickname mockery rather than species-level dehumanization. **Violent imagery:** Absent. **Stochastic terrorism:** Absent. **Propaganda technique (RAND Firehose element):** The same-day cluster of posts (at least 4–5 covering this theme) represents volume saturation — flooding the information environment with a single narrative frame to crowd out competing interpretations. --- ## Gaslighting and Reality Distortion The "40 points" counterfactual is a soft gaslighting move directed at the Republican primary electorate: it asks voters to accept a history that was not recorded, cannot be verified, and positions Trump as the indispensable variable in a victory that his rival achieved largely through his own governance record. The DeSantis policy attack ("wanted to close down Social Security") distorts prior positions to manufacture new grievance, testing whether the audience will accept the revision. --- ## Archetypal Analysis **Primary archetype active:** King-Maker / Patriarch. The post does not cast Trump as a peer competitor to DeSantis — it casts him as the *source* from which DeSantis's legitimacy flows. The implicit mythology: the patron's grace can be extended or withdrawn, and the ingrate who forgets his debts must be destroyed. **Secondary archetype:** Trickster (mild). The nickname construction and the absurdist "40 points" claim have a disruptive, rule-breaking quality that signals contempt for conventional political decorum. **Shadow projection:** Trump attributes "forgetting" to DeSantis. The psychological mirror: Trump is himself re-writing history (the endorsement credit claim), yet projects the distorted memory onto his rival. --- ## Order/Chaos Dynamics This post operates as an **order-restoration** move within Trump's personal hierarchy. Fox and DeSantis have deviated from their proper subordinate positions. The post seeks to reestablish hierarchy: Fox must return to full Trump coverage, DeSantis must be exposed as a dependent creation. The audience is positioned as the constituency of this restored order — they "want and deserve support." The chaos being attacked is the chaos of a primary field where Trump does not hold absolute authority. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Fox is down 58%" | **Half True** | Fox News did experience significant ratings declines in 2023 following the Tucker Carlson termination (April 2023) and Dominion Voting Systems settlement. Specific 58% figure lacks citation and likely reflects a favorable daypart or demographic cut rather than overall decline. | | "The only reason DeSanctimonious won in Florida is because I Endorsed him" | **Mostly False** | Trump's 2018 primary endorsement of DeSantis was consequential when DeSantis was relatively unknown nationally. However, DeSantis's 2022 general election win by ~19 points reflected incumbency advantage, his governance record, and Florida's broad rightward demographic shift. 'Only reason' erases all other causal factors. | | "He would have lost by 40 points" | **Unverifiable** | Counterfactual with no evidentiary basis. The 40-point figure is fabricated precision applied to an inherently unverifiable hypothetical. | | "He also forgot he wanted to close down Social Security, Ethanol, and obliterate Medicare" | **Mostly False** | DeSantis voted for Republican Study Committee budget proposals that included Social Security/Medicare reform provisions (raising retirement age, structural modifications). His ethanol record involved opposition to the Renewable Fuel Standard. However, 'close down' and 'obliterate' are severe distortions of reform/modification positions. | Overall Veracity: 35% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 88%) ### Indicators - Third-person self-reference ('TRUMP') consistent with authentic pattern - Dual nickname forms in single post ('DeSanctimonious' and 'DeSanctus') — real-time improvisation signature - ALL CAPS emphasis ('TOTALLY forgot') — emotional register marker - Trailing ellipsis suggesting multi-post stream continuation - Stream-of-consciousness pivot: Fox ratings → endorsement credit → policy attack — unscripted associative flow ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (DeSantis emergence as primary rival; Fox perceived supply withdrawal) **Rage:** Intensity 65% targeting DeSantis (ingrate subordinate) and Fox News (disloyal patron) - Proportionality: 25% Sentiment: -0.62 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Multi-post same-day blitz (at least 4-5 posts in single thematic cluster) - Elevated assertion intensity ('TOTALLY forgot', 'I'm up 44 points!!!') - Grandiose counterfactual claims stated with confident precision - Rapid topic-switching within single post (Fox ratings → endorsement → policy attack) ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 85% - Antisocial: 40% - Paranoid: 50% - Sadism: 45% **Defense Mechanisms:** - splitting (immature) - devaluation (immature) - projection (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 35% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Audience positioned as aggrieved constituents owed loyalty ('our people have had it') - Numerical dominance claims ('I'm up 44 points') used to reassure base of hierarchy stability - Policy attack on DeSantis activates base's entitlement concerns (Social Security, Medicare) ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - '40 points' counterfactual stated as established fact — audience asked to accept unverifiable historical revision - DeSantis policy positions distorted ('close down Social Security', 'obliterate Medicare') — revisionism designed to manufacture grievance - Fox ratings decline causally attributed solely to Trump coverage — erases actual structural causes (Dominion settlement, Carlson departure) ## Fact Checks (4) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Fox is down 58% **HALF TRUE** Fox News did experience significant ratings declines in 2023 following the Tucker Carlson termination (April 2023) and Dominion Voting Systems settlement. Specific 58% figure lacks citation and likely reflects a favorable daypart or demographic cut rather than overall decline. Sources: Breitbart article linked in same-day post cluster; General knowledge of Fox News 2023 ratings trajectory > The only reason DeSanctimonious won in Florida is because I Endorsed him **MOSTLY FALSE** Trump's 2018 primary endorsement of DeSantis was consequential when DeSantis was relatively unknown nationally. However, DeSantis's 2022 general election win by ~19 points reflected incumbency advantage, his governance record, and Florida's broad rightward demographic shift. 'Only reason' erases all other causal factors. Sources: General knowledge of 2018 and 2022 Florida electoral history > He would have lost by 40 points **UNVERIFIABLE** Counterfactual with no evidentiary basis. The 40-point figure is fabricated precision applied to an inherently unverifiable hypothetical. > He also forgot he wanted to close down Social Security, Ethanol, and obliterate Medicare **MOSTLY FALSE** DeSantis voted for Republican Study Committee budget proposals that included Social Security/Medicare reform provisions (raising retirement age, structural modifications). His ethanol record involved opposition to the Renewable Fuel Standard. However, 'close down' and 'obliterate' are severe distortions of reform/modification positions. Sources: General knowledge of DeSantis's Congressional voting record and Iowa ethanol politics Overall Veracity: 35% ## Tags - DeSantis attack (90%) - Fox News grievance (75%) - endorsement credit-claiming (85%) - narcissistic patronage cycle (88%) - counterfactual fabrication (80%) - primary competition (85%) - supply withdrawal response (70%) - volume saturation campaign (65%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Under Legal Siege, Trump Attacks Everything But the Target Letter** Trump spent the day deflecting from a major legal blow — his target letter from the January 6 special counsel — by attacking political rivals, grieving Fox News's alleged disloyalty, and firing off election fraud claims. A late-night cluster of posts mocked DeSantis, Christie, and Hutchinson while boasting about poll numbers, followed by a morning broadside against Fox. The afternoon brought a burst of retruths hitting election integrity themes, sandwiched between a polite Tony Bennett tribute and a cheerful arrival in North Carolina. The mood was combative and scattered, with the legal threat hovering over everything but never once directly acknowledged. Full digest for 2023-07-21: https://trump.fm/date/2023-07-21/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, July 21). Fox is down 58%, at least, all because they don’t... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110752559542558750 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Fox is down 58%, at least, all because they don’t treat..." Truth Social, 21 Jul. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110752559542558750. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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