# Post ts_110758494846779169 - Post ID: `ts_110758494846779169` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-07-22T15:41:49.743Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110758494846779169 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110758494846779169/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110758494846779169.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > The more people get to know Ron DeSanctimonious, the lower his polls are going… ## What the media says **Video transcript** (0:34), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > If they don't like Ronda Sanctimonious now, they won't like him any better six months from now with the start of primary season. The more people get to know him, the lower his polls are going. He's now in the mid-teens and falling fast. He will soon not be number two. Looks like it won't happen much longer, but he deserves it because you're a very disloyal person. Make America great again. Thank you very much. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/758/494/554/204/443/original/fe223939eae267e2.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 16,950 - Reposts: 3,965 - Replies: 689 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.405Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T06:33:56.956Z (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 represents a textbook displacement sequence within an acute threat context. On a day when Trump was processing a Jan. 6 target letter (typically preceding indictment) and a judicial defeat in his hush money case, he produced at least four posts attacking DeSantis rather than addressing the legal environment. The nickname "DeSanctimonious" — now routinized as a thought-terminating epithet — collapses a political rival's identity into a dismissive label, serving the devaluation function characteristic of narcissistic competitive dynamics. The grandiose state is maintained at the surface: no vulnerability, no legal acknowledgment, instead a casual assertion of dominance framed as inevitable voter wisdom. The minor grammatical production error ("the lower his polls are going") and trailing ellipsis are consistent with authentic authorship. At the multi-level personality frame: Level 1 shows dominant assertiveness and low agreeableness; Level 2 reveals pure agency motivation with status-protection as the central goal; Level 3 presents a narrative in which the subject is the already-known and validated champion, contrasting the newly-scrutinized and failing rival. Clinically, displacement and devaluation are working in concert. Danger level is none — this is intra-party competitive humiliation, not threat or mobilization language. The post is not remarkable in isolation; its significance is longitudinal, as part of a sustained devaluation campaign that parallels documented prior patterns with other named rivals. ## Psychological Analysis: ts_110758494846779169 (2023-07-22) ### Overview This brief post — "The more people get to know Ron DeSanctimonious, the lower his polls are going…" — is one of at least four DeSantis-targeting posts on this single day, forming a coordinated devaluation burst. Though individually unremarkable, its clustering with other same-day posts and its synchronization with acute legal pressure (the Jan. 6 target letter, hush money court defeat) reveals meaningful displacement dynamics. --- ### Authorship Attribution **Post time:** 15:41 UTC → approximately **11:41 AM EDT** (Trump was almost certainly at Bedminster, NJ — his customary summer residence — in late July 2023). This falls squarely within business hours, a mild Scavino indicator. However, several features point to authentic authorship: - The nickname "DeSanctimonious" is a Trump original, used in a spontaneous, lowercase-integrated way - Trailing ellipsis — characteristic stream-of-consciousness suspension - The minor grammatical irregularity: "the lower his polls are going" (standard construction would be "the lower his polls go") — a naturalistic production error consistent with authentic Trump speech - The day's posting pattern (four anti-DeSantis truths, plus witch hunt screeds) suggests an agitated, sustained personal focus rather than a scheduled aide calendar The attached MP4 may be aide-curated, but the caption reads as authentic. **Confidence: medium-high for authentic authorship.** --- ### Multi-Level Personality Analysis #### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) - **Low Agreeableness** (dominant facet): Mockery of rival, devaluation through nickname - **High Extraversion / Assertiveness**: Declarative dominance framing; no hedging - **Low Conscientiousness**: Casual, impulsive, grammatically loose - **Neuroticism suppressed (grandiose mask)**: Despite active legal crisis, no vulnerability signaling — presenting as confident victor #### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations - **Agency motive dominant**: Status protection, power maintenance — DeSantis as existential status threat must be diminished - **Communion absent**: No warmth, no in-group bonding language here — purely competitive - **Schema**: Zero-sum world where one rival's fall is the subject's rise; polls as proxy dominance metric #### Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role**: The inevitable champion; the one the public naturally gravitates toward - **Contrasting other**: DeSantis — the pretender whose true nature (sanctimony) is being revealed over time - **Identity claim**: I am the authentic one; the more people look closely, the more they choose me - **Narrative sequence**: Subtle contamination narrative for DeSantis (rising → exposed → falling), with implied redemption for self - **Structural metaphor**: Time as revealer of truth — "the more people get to know" positions the speaker as already known and validated, DeSantis as newly scrutinized and failing --- ### Clinical Analysis #### Narcissistic Dynamics **Trigger**: Compound narcissistic pressure. The Jan. 6 target letter (received days earlier, typically preceding indictment) represents severe narcissistic injury — existential legal threat to status and freedom. The hush money jurisdictional defeat adds to the wound. DeSantis, polling second and framed as a viable alternative, represents a comparison injury. **Response pattern**: Classic displacement. Rather than post about the Jan. 6 letter (which would acknowledge its reality and power over him), the subject produces a volley of DeSantis devaluation content. The real persecutors (Jack Smith, Judge Hellerstein) are safer avoided; the rival is a lower-stakes target where dominance can be asserted without legal consequence. **Narcissistic state**: Grandiose — presenting from a position of superiority, no vulnerability admission despite acute legal pressure. **Narcissistic rage**: Absent in this specific post; controlled disdain/contempt instead. The ellipsis signals withholding rather than explosion — a more calculated affect. #### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Displacement** (neurotic): Legal anxieties redirected onto political rival 2. **Devaluation** (immature): "DeSanctimonious" collapses DeSantis's identity into a single dismissive epithet, making him psychologically manageable 3. **Rationalization** (neurotic): Poll decline framed as rational voter enlightenment, not partisan attack 4. **Projection** (immature): "Sanctimonious" — a quality the subject might attract himself given his own moral claims — attributed entirely to the rival #### Malignant Narcissism Components - **Narcissistic features** (high): Grandiosity, entitlement, interpersonal devaluation — all present - **Antisocial features** (mild): Contempt for norms of political collegiality; no remorse for sustained personal attacks on a party member - **Paranoid features** (low/absent in this post): No explicit persecution framing - **Ego-syntonic sadism** (mild): The trailing ellipsis, the casual dismissiveness — there is pleasure in the diminishment, delivered coolly rather than with rage #### Cognitive Status - **Syntactic complexity**: Below baseline — single sentence, simple clause structure - **Production error**: "the lower his polls are going" (vs. "the lower his polls go") — minor but naturalistic; consistent with spoken-to-typed transcription style - **No significant markers**: No name confusion, temporal confusion, or frank paraphasia - **Baseline deviation**: Slight — simpler than median, but within normal range for short-form posts --- ### Rhetorical Analysis - **Personalized nickname**: "DeSanctimonious" — functions as an epithet that requires no argument; the label does the work - **False premise embedded in syntax**: "The more people get to know" assumes DeSantis's decline is caused by character revelation rather than strategic attack or other factors — causality asserted without evidence - **Appeal to polls as authority**: Frames electoral mathematics as objective verdict rather than volatile snapshot - **Trailing ellipsis**: Rhetorical suspension — implies there is more to say, invites audience completion, creates ongoing anticipation - **No dehumanizing language**: Contemptuous but not violent or eliminationist; this is status competition, not threat --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "The more people get to know DeSantis, the lower his polls go" | **Half True** | DeSantis did experience measurable poll decline from his post-announcement peak in May 2023 through July 2023 in Republican primary polling. However, attributing this to voters 'getting to know him' is a self-serving causal framing — the decline coincided with relentless Trump attack campaigns including this very post. The directional claim is accurate; the causation is contested and self-exculpatory. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Authorship Analysis **Uncertain** (score: 70%) ### Indicators - Trailing ellipsis — hallmark of authentic stream-of-consciousness posts - Grammatical irregularity: 'the lower his polls are going' vs standard 'the lower his polls go' - Nickname 'DeSanctimonious' used in casual integrated style, not as formal label - Post time 11:41 AM EDT is business hours (mild Scavino indicator) - Attached MP4 suggests some aide coordination for media content ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (DeSantis poll competition + compound legal pressure (Jan. 6 target letter, hush money court defeat)) Sentiment: -0.45 Baseline Deviation: slight **Mildly Hypomanic** - Four DeSantis-targeting posts in a single day suggests elevated, sustained focus - High-output posting day across multiple topics (DeSantis, Biden documents, witch hunt) - Energized agitation consistent with threat-response activation ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 75% - Antisocial: 30% - Paranoid: 10% - Sadism: 30% **Defense Mechanisms:** - displacement (neurotic) - devaluation (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) - projection (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 20% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Ellipsis inviting audience completion and ongoing engagement - Poll framing as shared objective verdict against common rival - Implied shared knowledge — 'as people get to know him' positions audience as fellow discoverers ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > The more people get to know DeSantis, the lower his polls go **HALF TRUE** DeSantis did experience measurable poll decline from his post-announcement peak in May 2023 through July 2023 in Republican primary polling. However, attributing this to voters 'getting to know him' is a self-serving causal framing — the decline coincided with relentless Trump attack campaigns including this very post. The directional claim is accurate; the causation is contested and self-exculpatory. Sources: RealClearPolitics 2023 Republican primary averages; FiveThirtyEight primary tracking Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - DeSantis-devaluation (90%) - displacement (85%) - nickname-epithet (90%) - grandiose-state (75%) - legal-pressure-deflection (80%) - intra-party-competition (85%) - authentic-authorship (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Legal Storm Brewing, But Trump Plays the Frontrunner Card All Day Long** Trump spent the day projecting dominance despite the shadow of a Jan. 6 target letter from Special Counsel Jack Smith. A late-night link-dumping session gave way to a focused morning burst attacking Ron DeSantis's polling collapse, punctuated by a brief but intense eruption about the "greatest witch hunt of all time." He leaned heavily on favorable poll numbers and rally adoration to paper over the legal threat, only letting the mask slip in a few deflection posts about Biden's documents case. One post singled out a transgender athlete by name alongside two large male former pros, drawing elevated concern for targeted exposure. Full digest for 2023-07-22: https://trump.fm/date/2023-07-22/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, July 22). The more people get to know Ron DeSanctimonious,... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110758494846779169 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The more people get to know Ron DeSanctimonious, the lower..." Truth Social, 22 Jul. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110758494846779169. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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