# Post ts_110906751853408885 - Post ID: `ts_110906751853408885` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-08-17T20:05:32.141Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110906751853408885 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110906751853408885/analysis ## Post text > https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/brutal-video-gov-desantis-walks-through-crowd-as/ ## Engagement - Likes: 5,023 - Reposts: 1,292 - Replies: 107 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.402Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T07:37:54.789Z (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 URL-only post shares a Gateway Pundit article documenting DeSantis's humiliation at the 2023 Iowa State Fair, where Trump's campaign plane circled overhead while the crowd chanted for Trump during DeSantis's event. Clinical significance lies not in authored language — there is none — but in content selection and timing. Posted four days after the Georgia RICO indictment (Trump's fourth criminal indictment of 2023), the post exemplifies displacement: redirecting audience attention from acute legal vulnerability toward a rival's public failure. The Iowa State Fair incident was partly orchestrated — Trump's team deliberately sent a plane to dominate DeSantis's event — making this post the completion of a sadistic loop: engineer the humiliation, then broadcast it. Authorship attribution strongly favors aide-posting (4:05 PM EDT, URL-only format, batched with similar URL posts same day). Content selection nonetheless reveals deliberate competitor devaluation consistent with Trump's documented primary strategy: render DeSantis pathetic rather than dangerous. The "BRUTAL" framing and crowd-loyalty imagery serve supply-seeking functions, offering followers proof of Trump's dominance at a moment of maximum legal jeopardy. Gateway Pundit functions as proxy aggressor — performing the cruelty while Trump amplifies without direct authorship. The pattern is consistent with ego-syntonic sadism (Kernberg): pleasure in a rival's public suffering, delivered as entertainment for base consumption during a period of severe personal legal crisis. ## Post Analysis: ts_110906751853408885 **August 17, 2023 | Truth Social | Age 77** --- ### Overview This post consists entirely of a URL to a Gateway Pundit article: *"BRUTAL VIDEO: Gov. DeSantis Walks Through Crowd as They Chant 'We Love Trump' and 'We Want Trump'"* — documenting an Iowa State Fair incident where DeSantis was publicly upstaged by Trump's campaign plane circling the fairgrounds, drawing the crowd's attention away from DeSantis while they chanted for Trump. A banner plane added "Be Likeable, Ron!" No original text accompanies the link. The complete absence of authored language limits direct psychological assessment, but content *selection* is itself analytically significant and the fetched article confirms the nature of the humiliation depicted. --- ### Authorship Attribution UTC 20:05:32 converts to **4:05 PM EDT**. Trump's likely location in mid-August 2023 was **Bedminster, NJ** (his established summer residence). Business-hours timing, combined with URL-only format and zero personal commentary, strongly matches aide-curation (Scavino pattern). Three additional URL-only posts appear the same day (Breitbart entertainment story, Townhall op-ed on Georgia), suggesting a **batched content-curation session** rather than reactive personal posting. Confidence: **high** that aide-posted. --- ### Psychological State & Triggers Despite aide mediation, content selection reveals deliberate competitor-humiliation strategy. Critically, the Iowa State Fair incident was **partly engineered**: Trump's campaign dispatched a plane to physically dominate DeSantis's event. Sharing the resulting footage completes the loop — orchestrate the humiliation, then broadcast it to the base for consumption and supply extraction. **Trigger classification:** Primary competition + supply-seeking. DeSantis had been polling at 31% in late March 2023, representing the most credible Republican challenger; systematic devaluation was a documented campaign strategy throughout the summer. **Narcissistic state:** Grandiose. The implicit message positions Trump as omnipresent and inevitable — his plane literally circled DeSantis's event, the crowd loyalty serves as public proof of superior status, and DeSantis is rendered a bystander at his own campaign event. --- ### Displacement Context This post appears **four days after the Georgia RICO indictment** (August 14 filing, surrender deadline set August 25) — the fourth criminal indictment of 2023. The pivot to content mocking a primary rival rather than addressing catastrophic legal exposure exemplifies *displacement*: redirecting audience attention and internal focus from acute vulnerability toward dominance performance. The timing is not incidental. --- ### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Devaluation** (immature): Systematic amplification of rival's public failures and humiliations; DeSantis rendered pathetic rather than dangerous 2. **Displacement** (neurotic): Legal threat (Georgia RICO) redirected toward competitor dynamics as dominant narrative 3. **Proxy aggression via media selection**: Gateway Pundit voices the cruelty; Trump distributes without direct authorship (plausible deniability, reduced personal exposure) --- ### Narcissistic Dynamics The Iowa State Fair plane flyover constitutes **premeditated ego-syntonic sadism**: deriving satisfaction from publicly humiliating a rival during his own campaign event. Sharing the aftermath for follower consumption completes a dominance ritual. The article's "BRUTAL" framing — selected deliberately for amplification — signals delight in the rival's suffering consistent with Kernberg's ego-syntonic sadism construct. Crowd loyalty functions as **narcissistic supply by proxy**: Trump didn't need to attend; his absence was more powerful than his presence. --- ### Rhetorical Techniques - **Proxy attack**: Gateway Pundit voices the cruelty; Trump distributes - **Social proof weaponized**: Crowd chanting Trump's name at rival's event as validation of indispensability - **Competitive devaluation**: DeSantis rendered an object of ridicule rather than a credible rival - **Implied superlative**: No text needed — the spectacle speaks to Trump's omnipresence - **Batched content strategy**: Multiple URL-only posts suggest coordinated, managed narrative across multiple topics (legal framing via Townhall, entertainment culture war via Breitbart, DeSantis humiliation via Gateway Pundit) --- ### Narrative Identity (Level 3) Trump is cast as the **inevitable, omnipresent dominant leader** — present even when absent, controlling even rival events. DeSantis serves as the *contrasting other*: the pretender whose public inadequacy validates Trump's uniqueness. The narrative arc is implicitly **redemptive**: despite four criminal indictments, the crowd's loyalty affirms Trump remains the unchallengeable choice. The real audience for this post is the MAGA base, whose own identity investment in Trump's dominance is validated. --- ### Cognitive Assessment No original language available for assessment. URL-only posts cannot contribute to longitudinal cognitive tracking. Baseline comparison not applicable. --- ### Danger Assessment No violence indicators. This is standard competitor-devaluation content within a primary campaign context. The target (DeSantis) is a political rival receiving humiliation-framing, not threat-framing. Danger level: **none**. ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "DeSantis support dropped from 31% to 15% nationally by August 2023" | **Mostly True** | DeSantis did poll around 30-31% in early 2023 and experienced significant decline by mid-summer 2023; 15% is within range of polls from this period though individual polls varied | | "Crowds at Iowa State Fair chanted 'We Love Trump' and 'We Want Trump' while DeSantis was present" | **True** | The Iowa State Fair incident on or around August 12, 2023 was widely documented; Trump's plane circled the fairgrounds during DeSantis's appearance and crowd attention was drawn away | | "A banner-towing plane flew 'Be Likeable, Ron!' overhead" | **True** | This banner plane incident at the Iowa State Fair was confirmed by multiple press accounts during the August 2023 Iowa campaign swing | Overall Veracity: 93% ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 15%) ### Indicators - 4:05 PM EDT posting time (business hours, Bedminster NJ) - URL-only format with zero original text or commentary - Three additional URL-only posts same day suggest batched curation session - No typos, capitalizations, or emotional reactivity - Clean professional link formatting consistent with Scavino/aide pattern ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Comparison (DeSantis primary competition; Georgia indictment legal pressure) Sentiment: -0.40 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 75% - Antisocial: 40% - Paranoid: 10% - Sadism: 65% **Defense Mechanisms:** - devaluation (immature) - displacement (neurotic) - passive aggression (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Supply extraction via crowd loyalty as proof of dominance - Base validation through rival's humiliation - Shared contempt as bonding mechanism ## Fact Checks (3) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._ > DeSantis support dropped from 31% to 15% nationally by August 2023 **MOSTLY TRUE** DeSantis did poll around 30-31% in early 2023 and experienced significant decline by mid-summer 2023; 15% is within range of polls from this period though individual polls varied Sources: Multiple national primary polls, spring–summer 2023 > Crowds at Iowa State Fair chanted 'We Love Trump' and 'We Want Trump' while DeSantis was present **TRUE** The Iowa State Fair incident on or around August 12, 2023 was widely documented; Trump's plane circled the fairgrounds during DeSantis's appearance and crowd attention was drawn away Sources: Multiple news outlets covered Iowa State Fair August 2023 primary events > A banner-towing plane flew 'Be Likeable, Ron!' overhead **TRUE** This banner plane incident at the Iowa State Fair was confirmed by multiple press accounts during the August 2023 Iowa campaign swing Sources: Iowa State Fair 2023 press coverage Overall Veracity: 93% ## Tags - DeSantis devaluation (95%) - competitor humiliation (90%) - displacement (legal → rival) (85%) - Iowa State Fair (80%) - aide-posted (90%) - proxy aggression (85%) - ego-syntonic sadism (70%) - Georgia indictment context (75%) - supply-seeking (80%) - Gateway Pundit amplification (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Four Indictments Deep: A 40-Post Siege of Rage, Deflection, and DARVO** Trump spent the entire day reacting to his Georgia RICO indictment three days earlier, firing off 40 posts from Bedminster in a marathon of rage, deflection, and narrative damage control. The morning opened with raw fury — including one two-word all-caps scream — before shifting into a sustained barrage of shared articles designed to delegitimize the prosecution and boost his image through poll numbers and crowd photos. He lashed out at former AG Bill Barr, Ron DeSantis, Fox News, Joe Biden, and the January 6th Committee, cycling through targets like a man fighting on five fronts simultaneously. The mood oscillated constantly between wounded victimhood and swaggering dominance, never settling into anything stable. Full digest for 2023-08-17: https://trump.fm/date/2023-08-17/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, August 17). https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/brutal-vi... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110906751853408885 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/brutal-video-gov-de..." Truth Social, 17 Aug. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110906751853408885. 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