# Post ts_110815831746534459 - Post ID: `ts_110815831746534459` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-08-01T18:43:21.404Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110815831746534459 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110815831746534459/analysis ## Post text > https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/06/21/flashback-desantis-admits-slower-covid-reopening-than-trump-white-house-suggested/ ## Engagement - Likes: 8,098 - Reposts: 2,460 - Replies: 148 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.403Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T06:58:26.822Z (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 bare-URL post is an aide-curated citation drop within a coordinated multi-post attack on DeSantis's COVID record, published at 14:43 EDT (business hours). The absence of any Trump text is diagnostically significant: his near-universal compulsion to editorialize makes a naked URL his least likely artifact. Staff retrieved a 6-week-old article from The National Pulse — a reliably pro-Trump outlet — to provide pseudo-documentary support for the day's DeSantis campaign. The psychological substrate is displacement: August 1, 2023 was a moment of peak legal exposure (Jan 6 indictment imminent; superseding classified documents charges filed), yet posting energy is entirely redirected toward a primary rival where dominance remains achievable. The companion posts display authentic Trump voice (nickname "DeSanctimonious," ALL CAPS, stream-of-consciousness grievance); this post functions as their evidentiary footnote. The DeSantis-as-hypocrite campaign weaponizes COVID — historically a Trump vulnerability — by reframing it as DeSantis's failure of loyalty and courage. Fact-check: DeSantis's Fauci praise is documented (true); "Florida 3rd worst in COVID deaths" is not supported by standard metrics (mostly false). No clinical deviation from Trump's baseline competitive-attack pattern is observable. No danger indicators. # Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2023-08-01T18:43 UTC (14:43 EDT) ## Post Summary A bare URL to a June 21, 2023 article in *The National Pulse* claiming DeSantis admitted to reopening Florida more slowly than the Trump White House suggested. No accompanying text. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Assessment: Aide-written (high confidence, score: 0.2)** The 14:43 EDT timestamp falls within business hours, but the decisive indicator is structural: **Trump almost never posts a bare URL without editorial commentary.** His compulsive need to editorialize — to frame, label, and dominate the narrative — is among his most consistent stylometric signatures. A naked link is functionally invisible without his voice attached. This reads as a staff citation drop: opposition research surfaced and queued as documentary support for a coordinated same-day attack sequence on DeSantis's COVID record. The article's age (six weeks) reinforces deliberate retrieval over reactive impulse. --- ## Psychological Context ### Trigger & Displacement August 1, 2023 sits at a legal apex: a Jan 6 federal indictment was imminent, and a superseding classified documents indictment had just added charges. The complete redirection of posting energy toward DeSantis — across multiple posts — is consistent with **displacement**: when the primary threat (legal annihilation) cannot be countered effectively, aggression is redirected toward an available target where dominance can be asserted and won. ### Competitive Narcissistic Threat DeSantis represents a specific narcissistic wound — a protégé figure who might surpass the patron. The multi-post campaign transforms DeSantis into a hypocrite and fraud, restoring Trump's superiority on COVID (historically a vulnerability, now being weaponized offensively). --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits Inferrable only from campaign context, not this post in isolation: - **Disagreeableness**: maximal — oppositional campaign framing - **Conscientiousness**: absent at individual post level; high at campaign planning level (suggesting aide coordination) --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motives dominant**: Power/dominance through destruction of a rival's credibility. The motive is zero-sum: DeSantis must be made lesser so Trump remains supreme. Achievement motive is implicit (Trump reopened faster; Trump was the hero). --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity Within the day's broader posting, the narrative arc is: - **Protagonist role**: Vindicated truth-teller vs. revisionist hypocrite - **Contrasting other**: DeSantis as Fauci-praising, beach-closing fraud who now denies his own record - **Redemption/contamination**: DeSantis narrative cast as contamination — apparent COVID hero (2020) revealed as hypocrite and coward --- ## Defense Mechanisms 1. **Displacement** (immature): Legal existential anxiety redirected into primary-campaign aggression 2. **Projection** (immature): Accusing DeSantis of "remaking history" while simultaneously revising Trump's own COVID record favorably 3. **Devaluation** (immature): Systematic demolition of DeSantis's competence and integrity --- ## Rhetorical Analysis **Evidence accumulation theater**: Multiple posts create the impression of an overwhelming documentary case. The bare URL functions as a footnote in this pseudo-prosecutorial structure. **Friendly media laundering**: *The National Pulse* (Raheem Kassam) is a strongly pro-Trump outlet; using it as a citation creates false appearance of independent corroboration. The temporal gap (article from 6 weeks prior, deployed as if newly relevant) undermines authenticity. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "DeSantis admitted Florida reopened more slowly than Trump White House suggested" | **Mostly True** | Contemporaneous reporting and DeSantis statements document tension with Trump WH officials over reopening pace; DeSantis did express deference to federal guidance in 2020. | | "Florida was 3rd worst in COVID deaths" | **Mostly False** | Florida's COVID death ranking varied significantly by methodology. Standard CDC confirmed-death rankings placed Florida in the middle tier. Excess mortality analyses placed it somewhat higher but not 3rd worst nationally. The claim appears to conflate different metrics or use selectively unfavorable data cut. | | "DeSantis praised Anthony Fauci during spring 2020" | **True** | Documented in contemporaneous video/audio and confirmed by CNN K-File reporting cited in companion post on same date. | Overall Veracity: 67% ## Danger Assessment: **None** No eliminationist language, no mobilization calls, no stochastic terrorism indicators. This is competitive electoral attack communication. --- ## Order/Chaos Dynamics Functions as **order attacker**: attacking the emerging establishment challenger (DeSantis with Fox News backing) while positioning Trump as chaos agent who disrupts the coronation of a new GOP orthodoxy. The trickster archetype is implicit — Trump breaks the "agreed upon" Republican COVID narrative to expose its contradictions. --- ## Clinical Significance Clinically unremarkable as an isolated artifact. Significant only as evidence of the displacement pattern — legal crisis energy converted into rival-destruction energy — and as a specimen of aide-mediated campaign infrastructure supporting Trump's authentic voice on companion posts. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 20%) ### Indicators - 18:43 UTC = 14:43 EDT (afternoon business hours) - Bare URL with zero text commentary — atypical of Trump who nearly always editorializes - Functions as a supporting citation drop in a coordinated multi-post attack campaign, suggesting editorial curation by staff - The National Pulse (Raheem Kassam) is a known Trump-aligned outlet frequently surfaced by Scavino-tier operations - Article is 6 weeks old (published June 21), suggesting deliberate retrieval not reactive sharing ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (DeSantis as primary rival threatening status as dominant Republican) Sentiment: -0.50 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 85% - Antisocial: 50% - Paranoid: 40% - Sadism: 30% **Defense Mechanisms:** - displacement (immature) - projection (immature) - devaluation (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 10% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Evidence accumulation theater (multiple posts creating impression of overwhelming documentary case) - Friendly media laundering (The National Pulse as credibility proxy) - Repetition across posts to normalize the DeSantis-as-hypocrite frame ## Fact Checks (3) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > DeSantis admitted Florida reopened more slowly than Trump White House suggested **MOSTLY TRUE** Contemporaneous reporting and DeSantis statements document tension with Trump WH officials over reopening pace; DeSantis did express deference to federal guidance in 2020. Sources: The National Pulse (June 21, 2023); Contemporaneous 2020 reporting on FL-WH reopening coordination > Florida was 3rd worst in COVID deaths **MOSTLY FALSE** Florida's COVID death ranking varied significantly by methodology. Standard CDC confirmed-death rankings placed Florida in the middle tier. Excess mortality analyses placed it somewhat higher but not 3rd worst nationally. The claim appears to conflate different metrics or use selectively unfavorable data cut. Sources: CDC COVID Data Tracker; Excess mortality analyses from The Economist and NYT > DeSantis praised Anthony Fauci during spring 2020 **TRUE** Documented in contemporaneous video/audio and confirmed by CNN K-File reporting cited in companion post on same date. Sources: CNN K-File (June 1, 2023) Overall Veracity: 67% ## Tags - aide-authored (90%) - displacement (85%) - desantis-attack (100%) - covid-revisionism (80%) - friendly-media-laundering (75%) - coordinated-campaign (90%) - bare-url (100%) - primary-rivalry (90%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Indictment Eve: A 16-Post Displacement Storm as Trump's Most Serious Legal Reckoning Arrives** Trump spent the day deflecting from his historic federal indictment for January 6 election interference by flooding his feed with attacks on Ron DeSantis, Fox News, and former AG Bill Barr. A late-night posting session stretched past 1 AM, followed by an intense afternoon barrage that peaked with an all-caps denial of evidence in the Jack Smith case. DeSantis dominated the day's output -- seven of sixteen posts targeted his rival -- while the actual indictment received only grudging, dismissive acknowledgment. The mood swung from grandiose self-assurance to wounded persecution as the legal reality closed in. Full digest for 2023-08-01: https://trump.fm/date/2023-08-01/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, August 1). https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/06/21/flashback-... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110815831746534459 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/06/21/flashback-desantis-a..." Truth Social, 1 Aug. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110815831746534459. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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