# Post ts_110867147169551783 - Post ID: `ts_110867147169551783` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-08-10T20:13:32.618Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110867147169551783 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110867147169551783/analysis ## Post text > https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/08/10/poll-dive-desantis-at-10-points-now-in-3rd-place-behind-vivek/ ## Engagement - Likes: 12,911 - Reposts: 3,219 - Replies: 698 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.402Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T07:07:16.431Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2023-08-10T20:13:32Z ## Overview This post consists solely of a URL to The National Pulse, an outlet favorable to Trump, with the headline implying DeSantis has fallen to 10% and third place behind Vivek Ramaswamy. No text is added. The post's entire communicative payload is delivered by the article's title embedded in the URL slug: `poll-dive-desantis-at-10-points-now-in-3rd-place-behind-vivek`. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Likely Location:** Trump spent August 2023 at Bedminster Golf Club, New Jersey. Bedminster is EDT (UTC−4). **Local Time:** 20:13 UTC = **4:13 PM EDT** — mid-afternoon, solidly within business hours. **Signal Profile:** - No accompanying text — no emotional charge, no capitalization, no impulsive commentary - Clean, complete URL share — technically well-formed - Daytime posting window - The article is from a known pro-Trump outlet (The National Pulse), suggesting curation by a campaign staffer or social media aide (Scavino or equivalent) **Assessment:** The absence of any added text is uncharacteristic of authentic Trump posts, which almost invariably include at least some reactive commentary ("Fake News!" "MAGA!" "Beautiful!" etc.). A URL-only post during business hours is the modal signature of aide-authored content. Trump may well have *directed* the share ("put this up"), but the execution is aide-driven. Confidence: **medium**. --- ## Psychological Analysis ### Trigger & Motive Despite its minimalism, the post reveals a clear psychological function: **competitive monitoring and vicarious supply**. DeSantis was the primary perceived threat to Trump's 2024 path throughout early-to-mid 2023. By mid-August, that threat was visibly deflating. Sharing evidence of a rival's decline without comment is a studied form of schadenfreude — allowing the audience to draw the obvious conclusion ("Trump is winning, DeSantis is collapsing") while maintaining a posture of detached informational sharing. This serves as **narcissistic supply-seeking through proxy** — rather than directly self-aggrandizing, Trump imports flattery via an external source. The choice of The National Pulse (a reliably favorable outlet) is consistent with this pattern. **Trigger classification:** Supply-seeking / maintenance — no acute narcissistic injury evident. The post reflects a *grandiose* rather than *vulnerable* narcissistic state, consistent with a subject whose primary rival appears to be self-destructing without requiring direct attack. ### Narcissistic Dynamics The post embodies **passive dominance display** — a characteristically high-status behavior. Rather than attacking DeSantis (which would implicitly acknowledge him as a threat), the post simply observes his decline. This reflects the same interpersonal dynamic as conspicuous indifference: the dominant animal doesn't chase; it waits. **Narcissistic state:** Grandiose (mild). No vulnerability markers, no reactive aggression. ### Defense Mechanisms - **Displacement / Acting Out (mild):** Indirect expression of competitive aggression toward DeSantis, routed through a favorable news source rather than direct attack - **Rationalization (implicit):** Framed as "sharing news" — a socially acceptable vehicle for competitive gloating ### Personality (Level 1–3) **Level 1 – Traits:** The post suppresses most dispositional signal. Minimal extraversion expression; no agreeableness cues. The choice of *this* article, from *this* outlet, on *this* day reflects an underlying high neuroticism/hostile vigilance toward rivals — even in a minimal post. **Level 2 – Motives:** Power and status motives dominate. The post implicitly communicates: "The field is collapsing around me." Achievement motive served by not having to engage the rival directly. **Level 3 – Narrative Identity:** Even in silence, the narrative is legible. Trump as the undisturbed front-runner; DeSantis as the pretender whose moment has passed; Vivek as a useful chaos agent. The protagonist role is **King/dominant heir** — surveying a contested landscape from a position of security. --- ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis The post outsources all rhetoric to the article headline, creating plausible informational neutrality ("I'm just sharing news") while delivering a targeted competitive message. This is a form of **laundered messaging** — the persuasive work is done by a third-party headline while the poster maintains apparent restraint. The URL slug itself functions as the rhetorical device: - "Poll Dive" — dramatic decline framing - "DeSantis at 10 Points" — quantified humiliation - "3rd Place Behind Vivek" — dual insult (not just losing; losing to a lesser rival) No violent imagery, no dehumanizing language, no eliminationist content. --- ## Cognitive Assessment Insufficient textual material for cognitive analysis. No language production to evaluate for word-finding, syntactic complexity, or coherence. This is a structural limitation of URL-only posts; no cognitive inference is warranted. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "DeSantis polling at approximately 10% and in third place behind Vivek Ramaswamy in the 2024 Republican primary (as implied by URL slug)" | **Mostly True** | August 2023 polling data consistently showed DeSantis declining from ~30% peaks in early 2023 to the 10-14% range, with Ramaswamy rising. Some specific poll snapshots placed DeSantis in third place. The trend was real, though 'third place' was not universal across all aggregates at this moment. | Overall Veracity: 80% ## Danger Assessment **Level: None.** No threatening language, no targets identified, no mobilization cues. Standard competitive political signaling. --- ## Summary A URL-only share of a favorable poll article, likely aide-executed during business hours at Bedminster. Psychologically, this is a low-intensity grandiose supply post — the primary satisfaction derived from observing DeSantis's decline rather than attacking it directly. The silence is the message: a dominant competitor doesn't need to gloat. The post is not clinically significant in isolation but fits the longitudinal pattern of vigilant primary monitoring and competitive supply-seeking. No cognitive signal extractable from a URL-only post. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 20%) ### Indicators - 4:13 PM EDT - solidly within business hours at Bedminster NJ - No accompanying text whatsoever - uncharacteristic of authentic Trump posts - Clean URL-only share - technically well-formed with no typos or emotional charge - The National Pulse is a known pro-Trump outlet suggesting curated aide selection - URL-only posts are the modal signature of aide-generated content ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (DeSantis poll decline / competitive primary landscape) Sentiment: +0.30 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 40% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 20% **Defense Mechanisms:** - displacement (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Vicarious supply — audience draws the intended conclusion without explicit statement - Laundered messaging via third-party headline ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > DeSantis polling at approximately 10% and in third place behind Vivek Ramaswamy in the 2024 Republican primary (as implied by URL slug) **MOSTLY TRUE** August 2023 polling data consistently showed DeSantis declining from ~30% peaks in early 2023 to the 10-14% range, with Ramaswamy rising. Some specific poll snapshots placed DeSantis in third place. The trend was real, though 'third place' was not universal across all aggregates at this moment. Sources: National polling averages from August 2023 (RealClearPolitics, FiveThirtyEight) Overall Veracity: 80% ## Tags - primary_competition (90%) - desantis_decline (80%) - aide_authored (70%) - supply_seeking (60%) - passive_dominance (60%) - url_only (90%) - favorable_outlet_curation (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Legal Siege Day: Dual-Track Defense Pairs Raw Rage with Coordinated Media Blitz** Trump spent the day consumed by his federal indictment, opening with furious morning attacks on Biden's intelligence and sanity before his team flooded the feed with a rapid-fire dump of 15 supportive news articles in under five minutes. He returned in the late afternoon with personal, high-intensity posts targeting Jack Smith over a proposed January trial date and attacking Mike Pence with documented falsehoods about their January 6 interactions. The sharpest contrast of the day was between his own raw, emotional outbursts and the carefully managed media operation running alongside them. Notably absent from the 27-post day: any mention of the Maui wildfires that killed over 100 people. Full digest for 2023-08-10: https://trump.fm/date/2023-08-10/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, August 10). https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/08/10/poll-dive-... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110867147169551783 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/08/10/poll-dive-desantis-a..." Truth Social, 10 Aug. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110867147169551783. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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