# Post ts_110900576592206450

- Post ID: `ts_110900576592206450`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-08-16T17:55:05.129Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
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## Post text

> NEW POLL JUST OUT: TRUMP-60%, DESANCTUS-8%. It’s over for Ron DeSanctimonious, now in 3rd place. Ramaswamy now in 2nd. RMG Research. Go home to Florida, Ron, and work on Insurance costs, the highest in the Nation!

## Engagement

- Likes: 15,830
- Reposts: 4,490
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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.402Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T07:14:02.331Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Posted two days after his fourth criminal indictment — the Georgia RICO case — this post represents a characteristic narcissistic maneuver: pivot from acute injury to competitive dominance display. The day's earlier posts share persecution-framing articles about the indictment; this post breaks pattern by deploying a favorable poll as psychic counterweight to legal catastrophe. Defense mechanisms include displacement (redirecting aggression from legal threat onto primary rival), denial (proceeding as if no indictment occurred), and distortion (declaring a 15-month primary over based on a single poll). Authorship is authentically Trump, evidenced by the signature 'DeSanctimonious' coinage, ALL CAPS triumphalism, mock-compressed labeling ('DESANCTUS'), and command-register dismissal ('Go home to Florida'). The ego-syntonic sadism is mild-moderate: creative pleasure in diminishment is evident but does not reach eliminationist register. Narcissistic state is grandiose; paranoid register visible in morning posts has been suppressed. Fact claims about poll numbers and Florida insurance rates are broadly supportable. No danger indicators. Cognitively consistent with established baseline — punchy, fragmented, impulsive, but coherent. The post is clinically significant primarily as longitudinal data point illustrating the author's characteristic response to narcissistic injury: rapid pivot to supply-seeking through competitive hierarchy display, with legal reality denied through triumphalist performance.

# Analysis: Truth Social Post — August 16, 2023 (17:55 UTC)

## Authorship Attribution

**Verdict: Authentic Trump (high confidence)**

UTC 17:55 converts to 13:55 EDT. In August 2023, Trump was residing at Bedminster, NJ (his summer club). While 1:55 PM falls within business hours — a mild aide-indicator — every other stylometric marker points decisively to authentic authorship: ALL CAPS declaration ("NEW POLL JUST OUT"), the signature pejorative nickname "DeSanctimonious" (a portmanteau he had been deploying for months), the compressed mock-identifier "DESANCTUS," punchy declarative sentence fragments, competitive triumphalism, and the concluding dismissal "Go home to Florida." No aide would spontaneously generate "DESANCTUS-8%" as a label. The impulsive, playground-taunting quality is unmistakably characteristic.

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## Contextual Framing

This post arrives two days after Trump's fourth criminal indictment of 2023 — the Georgia RICO case, historically the most legally threatening charge, carrying conspiracy and racketeering counts. The preceding posts on the same day are a wall of shared Breitbart/Gateway Pundit/Federalist articles framing the indictment as Stalinist persecution. This poll post breaks that pattern and pivots sharply to competitive dominance display. The juxtaposition is analytically significant: the author appears to use primary polling supremacy as a psychic counterweight to legal catastrophe.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

- **Extraversion (very high):** Assertive declarations, public triumphalism, competitive excitement ("It's over!")
- **Agreeableness (very low):** Contempt for rival, mockery, dismissal; zero acknowledgment of DeSantis as a legitimate actor
- **Conscientiousness (low):** Impulsive, no deliberation evident; facts deployed as weapons rather than evidence
- **Neuroticism (masked high):** Surface-level grandiosity likely functioning as suppression of acute anxiety from the indictment; the speed of the pivot suggests emotional urgency
- **Openness (low):** Rigid, closed self-narrative; the world is a zero-sum contest where his dominance is self-evident

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Agency motives dominate.** The post is entirely organized around status, power, and hierarchy maintenance. The poll numbers are not cited to persuade — they are cited to humiliate and dismiss. The instruction "Go home to Florida" is a command, not a suggestion — a dominance assertion from perceived superior to inferior.

**Communion motives: absent.** No acknowledgment of the Republican electorate as partners; they exist as validation objects.

**Schema revealed:** Self = indestructible, unchallengeable winner. DeSantis = pretender to be publicly degraded. The legal peril is conspicuously unmentioned — a schema protecting the grandiose self-image from cognitive integration of threat.

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

- **Protagonist role:** The Unassailable Champion — not merely leading but making rivals irrelevant
- **Redemption arc:** Subterranean in this post; the explicit narrative is pure triumph, but contextually it reads as: *I have just been indicted and yet I lead by 52 points* — persecution → vindication through popular will
- **Contamination sequence:** DeSantis framed as a once-promising figure now exposed as a fraud ("now in 3rd place")
- **Identity claims:** "I am so dominant that this race is already over"
- **Contrasting other:** DeSantis serves as the primary foil — elevated enough once to threaten, now crushed, making the victory sweeter

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Malignant Narcissism Assessment

**A. Narcissistic Features (high):** Grandiosity explicit throughout. The 60% figure is immediately weaponized for dominance rather than strategic analysis. "It's over" — unilateral declaration of rival's end. Sense of entitlement to the nomination as settled fact.

**B. Antisocial Features (moderate):** Contempt for DeSantis's legitimate candidacy; devaluation without remorse. The nickname is designed to demean. No rule-breaking evident in this specific post, but the pleasure in public humiliation is conspicuous.

**C. Paranoid Features (low in this post):** Notably absent here — this post is in grandiose register, not the persecuted register visible in the day's earlier shares. The indictment anxiety has been dissociated from this communication.

**D. Ego-Syntonic Sadism (mild-moderate):** "DeSanctimonious" and "DESANCTUS" are not neutral labels — they are crafted instruments of ridicule. The command "Go home" carries a dismissive pleasure. This is diminishment as entertainment.

### Narcissistic Dynamics

**Trigger:** Narcissistic injury (Georgia RICO indictment as exposure/defeat) + supply-seeking to restore grandiose equilibrium. The trigger is not DeSantis — DeSantis is the vehicle. The actual driver is the need to reassert dominance after a catastrophic injury event.

**Narcissistic state: Grandiose.** No vulnerability register visible. The vulnerable state evident in the persecution-framing of the earlier shared articles has been suppressed; this post performs invulnerability.

**Rage:** Low in this post. What is present is contemptuous amusement rather than hot rage — the sadism of the winner dismissing the loser, not the rage of the threatened.

### Defense Mechanisms

1. **Displacement (immature):** The Georgia indictment is the day's dominant stressor; DeSantis becomes the target onto which competitive aggression is redirected. The underlying anxiety is expressed through dominance display against a safer target.

2. **Denial (pathological):** The post proceeds as though no indictment occurred. Poll numbers are deployed as a complete reality-replacement for the legal crisis.

3. **Distortion (pathological):** "It's over for Ron DeSanctimonious" — a primary with 15+ months remaining declared finished based on a single poll. Reality is reshaped to confirm the grandiose narrative.

4. **Devaluation (immature):** DeSantis reduced from major rival to a 3rd-place also-ran in need of parental dismissal.

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## Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques

- **Hyperbole/superlative:** "highest in the Nation," "It's over"
- **Ad hominem:** "DeSanctimonious" — attacks character, not policy positions
- **False certainty:** Declaring a multi-candidate primary race over based on one poll
- **Imperative dismissal:** "Go home to Florida" — performs dominance through command register
- **Reframing/misdirection:** Poll numbers deployed to redirect narrative from legal crisis
- **Mock-labeling:** "DESANCTUS" compresses DeSantis's name with diminutive quality, stripping dignity through abbreviated treatment
- **Selective precision:** Specific poll numbers cited to project empirical authority; source (RMG Research) mentioned for credibility signaling

No dehumanizing language, violent imagery, or stochastic terrorism indicators.

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## Cognitive Status

Language production is coherent, punchy, and stylistically consistent with established Trump baseline. No word-finding difficulty, tangentiality, or confabulation markers. "DESANCTUS" reads as deliberate creative mockery rather than phonemic error. Syntactic complexity is characteristically low but consistent with his long-established register. No deviation from baseline warranting cognitive flag.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "TRUMP-60%, DESANCTUS-8% per RMG Research" | **Mostly True** | RMG Research polls from August 2023 showed Trump with commanding leads; 60%/8% splits were consistent with public polling during DeSantis's summer decline. The specific figures are plausible and sourced. |
| "Ramaswamy now in 2nd place" | **Mostly True** | Vivek Ramaswamy experienced a notable polling surge in July-August 2023 and surpassed DeSantis in several polls during this period, consistent with the claim. |
| "Florida has the highest insurance costs in the Nation" | **Mostly True** | Florida homeowners' insurance was in acute crisis in 2023, with major insurers withdrawing due to hurricane risk and litigation costs, driving premiums to among the highest nationally. This is broadly accurate though 'highest' depends on metric and insurance type. |

Overall Veracity: 80%

## Archetypal Analysis

**Primary archetype: King/Tyrant hybrid.** The post enacts the King dispensing verdict and dismissing a pretender. "Go home" is a royal command. However, the pleasure in humiliation tips toward the Tyrant register.

**Secondary archetype: Warrior** — not in active combat mode here, but the framing of the race as won-before-it's-over reflects the warrior's declaration of the field cleared.

**Shadow projection:** DeSantis is cast as inauthentic ("Sanctimonious" — fake piety, hollow ambition), which projects onto the rival the quality of performative legitimacy that characterizes the poster's own legal positioning.

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## Order/Chaos Dynamics

**Order restorer/enforcer within Republican hierarchy.** The post asserts that the proper order — Trump at the top — is being confirmed. DeSantis's challenge is framed as an aberration now corrected. This is not chaos-agent mode; it is hierarchy enforcement.

**Grievance:** Mild, aimed at DeSantis (insufficient loyalty, wasted ambition). Florida insurance crisis mentioned not out of policy concern but as a rhetorical weapon — "you have real problems at home, stop bothering me."

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## Shared Psychosis / Epistemic Closure Indicators

Mild. The poll citation is used to establish an "obvious" fact that followers should internalize. The finality of "It's over" invites followers to accept a conclusion rather than deliberate on evidence. Contributes to collective certainty-building that precedes epistemic closure, but this post is relatively contained in its manipulation scope.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 85%)

### Indicators

- Signature pejorative nickname 'DeSanctimonious' — Trump's own coinage
- ALL CAPS declaration 'NEW POLL JUST OUT'
- Mock-compressed label 'DESANCTUS' — authentic impulsive creativity
- Command register dismissal 'Go home to Florida'
- Punchy declarative fragments with exclamation mark

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Georgia RICO indictment (August 14, 2023))

Sentiment: +0.65

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Elevated competitive triumphalism ('It's OVER')
- Rapid dismissal of rival with compressed certainty
- Energized punchy cadence inconsistent with processing four criminal indictments in one year

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 82%
- Antisocial: 45%
- Paranoid: 10%
- Sadism: 45%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- displacement (immature)
- denial (pathological)
- distortion (pathological)
- devaluation (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 22%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Poll numbers as collective shared victory for followers
- Finality declaration ('It's over') inviting followers to adopt pre-formed conclusion
- Dismissal of DeSantis performs in-group bonding through shared contempt

## Fact Checks (3)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._

> TRUMP-60%, DESANCTUS-8% per RMG Research

**MOSTLY TRUE**

RMG Research polls from August 2023 showed Trump with commanding leads; 60%/8% splits were consistent with public polling during DeSantis's summer decline. The specific figures are plausible and sourced.

Sources: RMG Research (cited in post); August 2023 Republican primary polling averages

> Ramaswamy now in 2nd place

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Vivek Ramaswamy experienced a notable polling surge in July-August 2023 and surpassed DeSantis in several polls during this period, consistent with the claim.

Sources: FiveThirtyEight/RealClearPolitics polling averages August 2023

> Florida has the highest insurance costs in the Nation

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Florida homeowners' insurance was in acute crisis in 2023, with major insurers withdrawing due to hurricane risk and litigation costs, driving premiums to among the highest nationally. This is broadly accurate though 'highest' depends on metric and insurance type.

Sources: Insurance Information Institute 2023 data; Multiple insurer withdrawal reports 2022-2023

Overall Veracity: 80%

## Tags

- primary-rivalry (90%)
- narcissistic-supply-seeking (88%)
- displacement-defense (82%)
- grandiose-register (85%)
- injury-response (87%)
- ego-syntonic-sadism (55%)
- DeSantis-devaluation (90%)
- authentic-authorship (85%)
- poll-weaponization (78%)
- post-indictment-pivot (92%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**Indictment Metabolized: 41 RICO Counts Dissolved Into a Flood of Favorable Links and Poll Triumphalism**

The day after his fourth criminal indictment -- a 41-count Georgia RICO case -- Trump's account responded with a two-phase strategy. Late the night before, he personally posted a retaliatory prosecution article and a distorted claim about Mike Pence validating the fake electors scheme. By early afternoon, the account pivoted to an aggressive flood of nearly 20 links and posts, mixing Fox News attacks, favorable polls, DeSantis mockery, and flattering media clips. The overall mood shifted from wounded defensiveness to performative dominance, with the indictment itself barely acknowledged directly. The most concerning pattern was the repeated amplification of Gateway Pundit -- a site actively involved in doxxing grand jurors -- during a period when judges and jurors were receiving death threats.

Full digest for 2023-08-16: https://trump.fm/date/2023-08-16/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, August 16). NEW POLL JUST OUT: TRUMP-60%, DESANCTUS-8%. It’s... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110900576592206450
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "NEW POLL JUST OUT: TRUMP-60%, DESANCTUS-8%. It’s over for..." Truth Social, 16 Aug. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110900576592206450. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "NEW POLL JUST OUT: TRUMP-60%, DESANCTUS-8%. It’s over for...," Truth Social, August 16, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110900576592206450.

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