# Post ts_110945311304884988 - Post ID: `ts_110945311304884988` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-08-24T15:31:42.726Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110945311304884988 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110945311304884988/analysis ## Post text > https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/06/21/flashback-desantis-admits-slower-covid-reopening-than-trump-white-house-suggested/ ## Engagement - Likes: 6,122 - Reposts: 1,700 - Replies: 108 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.401Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T07:48:58.457Z (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 — 2023-08-24T15:31:42Z ## Overview This post consists solely of a URL to a two-month-old article in *The National Pulse* alleging that Ron DeSantis privately admitted his COVID reopening pace was slower than the Trump White House preferred. There is no accompanying text. The post is one of approximately six Truth Social shares on this date, the others being legal defense materials and a pastoral endorsement — suggesting a coordinated single-day communications strategy rather than organic, reactive posting. --- ## Context: The Day of the Mugshot August 24, 2023 is historically significant: Trump surrendered at Fulton County Jail, becoming the first former U.S. president to have a mugshot taken. The day's posting pattern — heavy on legal-defense framing, interspersed with primary-rival attacks — is consistent with a professional comms operation attempting to control the narrative around an unprecedented and reputationally damaging event. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits Observable in content selection rather than original language: - **Low Agreeableness**: The article selection is oppositional, targeting a primary rival - **High Extraversion (Assertiveness)**: Competitive positioning even on a day of personal legal crisis — no retreat posture - **Low Neuroticism** (in this post): The calculated, low-temperature nature of a bare link share (vs. emotional eruption) suggests either professional mediation or deliberate restraint management --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motive — dominance**: The COVID reopening narrative recasts Trump as the bold, decisive leader held back by a cautious subordinate (DeSantis). This is a status hierarchy claim: Trump > DeSantis on the defining crisis of the 2020 term. **Schema — rival as defector**: DeSantis is framed not merely as a political opponent but as someone who failed to execute Trump's vision when he had the chance. The "admits" framing in the headline converts DeSantis from rival into confessing subordinate. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role**: Vindicated visionary — Trump's COVID policy instincts are retroactively proven correct - **Contamination sequence invoked about DeSantis**: The implicit narrative is that DeSantis inherited Trump's mandate but betrayed it through timidity - **Redemption sequence for Trump**: The article functions as historical vindication — 'I was right then, I am right now' - **Contrasting Other**: DeSantis as cautious bureaucrat vs. Trump as bold executive --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Grandiose narcissistic state**: Even on the day of criminal booking, the content apparatus projects superiority over a political rival. No vulnerability posture is visible in this post. **Defense mechanisms**: - *Displacement*: Redirecting audience attention from criminal surrender to DeSantis's alleged policy timidity - *Rationalization*: Constructing a post-hoc logical case for the primary attack using a sympathetic outlet **Malignant narcissism sub-components**: At low baseline levels for this post — it is too thin in content to activate the full constellation. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Verdict: Aide-written (high confidence)** - UTC 15:31 = 11:31 AM Eastern time - Trump was physically engaged in Fulton County surrender proceedings at or around this time - No text, no typos, no emotional register — bare URL format - Part of a structured daily content batch covering three narrative tracks: legal defense, pastoral endorsement, primary rival attack - The National Pulse is a known pro-Trump outlet used frequently as a surrogate attack vehicle --- ## Cognitive Status Insufficient data to assess. No original language produced. No deviation from baseline assessable. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis The rhetorical labor is fully outsourced to the article headline. The word *"admits"* does the aggressive framing — implying confession, weakness, and inconsistency on DeSantis's part. Source laundering through a friendly outlet provides distance from direct attack. Counter-programming against mugshot coverage is the likely strategic intent. --- ## Danger Assessment **None.** No targeting, no dehumanization, no eliminationist language. This is conventional primary campaign opposition research. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "DeSantis admitted his COVID reopening was slower than what the Trump White House suggested" | **Unverifiable** | Historical record documents friction between the White House and DeSantis over reopening timelines in 2020, but the specific framing of personal 'admission' requires the article's primary sourcing to assess accurately. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Summary *Not generated — post does not meet threshold for clinical significance. Content is minimally informative, aide-authored, and functions as instrumental primary campaign counter-programming.* ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 10%) ### Indicators - Post is a bare URL with zero accompanying text — a format strongly associated with aide curation, not Trump's stream-of-consciousness style - UTC 15:31 = 11:31 AM Eastern; Trump was in Atlanta surrendering at Fulton County Jail — business-hours posting consistent with Scavino or communications staff managing feed remotely - No typos, no ALL CAPS, no emotional punctuation — antithetical to Trump's authentic posting style - Appears part of a curated daily batch: legal-defense links + Jeffress endorsement + this DeSantis attack piece, suggesting a coordinated comms strategy, not impulsive self-posting ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Preemptive Attack — Comparison (Ron DeSantis / GOP primary competition) Sentiment: -0.30 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 50% - Antisocial: 10% - Paranoid: 10% - Sadism: 10% **Defense Mechanisms:** - rationalization (neurotic) - displacement (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Implicit invitation to followers to share/amplify without requiring Trump to personally articulate an attack — plausible deniability via link-sharing ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > DeSantis admitted his COVID reopening was slower than what the Trump White House suggested **UNVERIFIABLE** Historical record documents friction between the White House and DeSantis over reopening timelines in 2020, but the specific framing of personal 'admission' requires the article's primary sourcing to assess accurately. Sources: The National Pulse (2023-06-21) — article not fetched; headline framing only Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - aide-authored (95%) - desantis-attack (85%) - covid-policy (80%) - source-laundering (75%) - mugshot-day-counter-programming (85%) - bare-url-post (90%) - the-national-pulse (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Mugshot Day: 63 Posts, Zero Acknowledgment — Trump Converts Historic Humiliation Into Triumphalist Counter-Narrative** On the day he became the first former president to have a mugshot taken at Fulton County Jail, Trump flooded social media with over 60 posts — none acknowledging the historic booking itself. The evening before, he live-commented the GOP debate he skipped while boasting about his counter-programming Tucker Carlson interview approaching 100 million views. By afternoon, as the surrender approached, the tone sharpened with direct attacks on prosecutor Fani Willis and Atlanta's crime rate. The entire day was structured as a triumph narrative: arrest reframed as persecution, mugshot converted into merchandise, and over seven million dollars raised from the spectacle. Full digest for 2023-08-24: https://trump.fm/date/2023-08-24/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, August 24). https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/06/21/flashback-... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110945311304884988 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/06/21/flashback-desantis-a..." Truth Social, 24 Aug. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110945311304884988. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/06/21/flashback-desantis-a...," Truth Social, August 24, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110945311304884988. ## For agents - Site overview: https://trump.fm/llms.txt - API specification: https://trump.fm/openapi.json - MCP server: https://trump.fm/mcp (search and fetch tools, no auth) - This post as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/posts/ts_110945311304884988 - Analysis as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/analysis/ts_110945311304884988 - All citation formats: https://trump.fm/api/cite/ts_110945311304884988 - Same day: https://trump.fm/date/2023-08-24 - The record alone, without the analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110945311304884988.md?analysis=false _Markdown view of a trump.fm page. Post, analysis, date, feed, contradictions, search and about pages answer in markdown at their URL with `.md` appended (`/index.md` for the home page), or when sent `Accept: text/markdown`._