# Post ts_110951010849804265 - Post ID: `ts_110951010849804265` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-08-25T15:41:10.826Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110951010849804265 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110951010849804265/analysis ## Post text > https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/07/17/exc-desantis-wouldnt-fire-floridas-own-fauci-during-covid-dr-alonso/ ## Engagement - Likes: 12,109 - Reposts: 3,508 - Replies: 740 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.401Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T07:49:12.814Z (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 — 2023-08-25T15:41:10Z (ts_110951010849804265) ### Overview This post consists entirely of a URL with no accompanying text. The linked article, from *The National Pulse* (a partisan pro-Trump outlet), is dated July 17, 2023, and carries the headline: **"EXCLUSIVE: DeSantis Wouldn't Fire Florida's Own Fauci During COVID: Dr. Alonso."** The post's entire communicative content is therefore the article's framing: Ron DeSantis is being rhetorically equated with Anthony Fauci, the most potent villain-symbol in Trump's MAGA base, via a guilt-by-association link to a Florida health official DeSantis allegedly retained during COVID. --- ### Authorship Attribution **Local time**: UTC 15:41 = **11:41 AM Eastern**. On August 25, 2023 — the day after Trump's historic Fulton County surrender and mugshot — Trump was most likely at Bedminster, NJ or in transit back to Mar-a-Lago. Either way, this posting falls squarely within **business hours**, a strong aide-written indicator. Additional signals: no personal text, no emotional affect, no typos, pure URL curation. The overall pattern on this date — multiple URL posts defending Trump legally (impeachment, Georgia) and attacking DeSantis (Laura Loomer substack, this article) — is consistent with a coordinated Scavino-style content-push rather than authentic late-night reactivity. **Assessment**: High-confidence aide attribution. Score: 0.10. --- ### Psychological Analysis **Trigger**: The posting occurs the day after Trump's Fulton County booking, a massive narcissistic injury (mugshot, public humiliation, inmate number P01135809). Rather than expressing the injury directly, the campaign redirects narrative energy outward — a classic displacement and counterattack sequence. The mugshot was already being monetized (fundraising, merchandise), transforming contamination into supply. This post is part of that broader deflection infrastructure. **Narcissistic state**: The URL-only format signals maintenance/preemptive-attack mode rather than vulnerable wounded-state posting. The attack on DeSantis is cold and strategic, not emotionally raw — consistent with aide-mediated content rather than direct narcissistic discharge. **Defense mechanisms**: - **Displacement**: Hostility stemming from legal jeopardy deflected toward primary rival DeSantis. - **Projection**: Framing DeSantis as insufficiently anti-establishment/anti-Fauci — projecting RINO-adjacent qualities onto him to neutralize his base appeal. - **Rationalization**: Implicit — "I'm the real anti-Fauci candidate; DeSantis is a fraud." --- ### Multi-Level Personality Framework **Level 1 (Traits)**: No direct linguistic data. The *selection* of this article over others signals low agreeableness (competitive, undermining a rival), high dominance-assertiveness, and moderate disagreeableness toward in-group challengers. These are trait-consistent with baseline. **Level 2 (Motives)**: Power/agency motive dominant. The post seeks to diminish a status rival in the eyes of the shared primary electorate. No communion signals present. **Level 3 (Narrative Identity)**: The implicit narrative: *Trump is the authentic COVID disruptor; DeSantis is a counterfeit.* The "Fauci" label is the most powerful delegitimizing brand in this ideological ecosystem — attaching it to DeSantis attacks his core identity claim as a COVID freedom fighter. Trump's protagonist role: the original, the real thing; DeSantis as contaminated pretender. **Level 4 (Clinical)**: Insufficient direct linguistic content for meaningful clinical inference. The *pattern* across today's posts (legal defense, rival attacks, pro-Trump op-eds) is consistent with managed narcissistic injury response — organized, strategic, outsourced to staff — rather than raw primary-process expression. --- ### Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques - **Guilt by association**: "DeSantis's own Fauci" — the most damaging association available to a Republican primary audience. - **Delegitimization via in-group values**: Weaponizes MAGA's core COVID narrative against a rival using that same narrative as his brand. - **Laundry tag sourcing**: The National Pulse is a reliably pro-Trump outlet; article selection signals editorial coordination, not independent curation. - **Deniability**: No Trump text = no direct attack Trump can be held accountable for. Pure signal via link. No dehumanizing language. No violent imagery. No stochastic terrorism indicators. --- ### Gaslighting / Reality Distortion Minimal in this isolated post. The broader campaign context (day after mugshot, fundraising off it) involves reality-reframing (mugshot as badge of honor, persecution as proof of virtue) but that is not directly evidenced in this post's content. --- ### Cognitive Status Impossible to assess from a URL-only post. No speech sample, no linguistic production data. No deviation from baseline observable here. --- ### Danger Assessment **None**. Link to a political opposition-research article. No mobilization language, no target articulation, no eliminationist framing. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "DeSantis would not fire Florida's own Fauci (Dr. Alonso) during COVID" | **Half True** | DeSantis did retain Florida's Surgeon General Scott Rivkees and other public health officials through significant portions of the COVID period before pivoting hard anti-restriction and eventually installing Dr. Joseph Ladapo in late 2021. The underlying factual premise (retention of COVID-era health leadership) has partial grounding. However, 'Florida's own Fauci' is maximally tendentious partisan framing rather than factual characterization. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 10%) ### Indicators - URL-only post with no personal text or emotional affect - Posted at 11:41 AM Eastern — squarely within business hours - Part of coordinated multi-post content day covering legal defense and rival attacks - No typos, misspellings, or stream-of-consciousness style - Article from known pro-Trump outlet suggesting editorial coordination ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Preemptive Attack — Comparison (Ron DeSantis (primary rival)) Sentiment: -0.40 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 40% - Antisocial: 20% - Paranoid: 10% - Sadism: 10% **Defense Mechanisms:** - displacement (immature) - projection (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Implicit identity reinforcement for base — 'your values, not his' - Delegitimization of rival using shared ideological vocabulary ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > DeSantis would not fire Florida's own Fauci (Dr. Alonso) during COVID **HALF TRUE** DeSantis did retain Florida's Surgeon General Scott Rivkees and other public health officials through significant portions of the COVID period before pivoting hard anti-restriction and eventually installing Dr. Joseph Ladapo in late 2021. The underlying factual premise (retention of COVID-era health leadership) has partial grounding. However, 'Florida's own Fauci' is maximally tendentious partisan framing rather than factual characterization. Sources: General knowledge of Florida COVID-era health policy; Ladapo appointment late 2021 Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - aide-written (90%) - desantis-attack (95%) - fauci-association (90%) - primary-rivalry (85%) - post-mugshot-deflection (75%) - url-only (100%) - guilt-by-association (90%) - coordinated-content-day (80%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **The Mugshot Alchemist: Trump Converts Maximum Humiliation Into Maximum Triumph in 24 Hours** The day after his historic booking at Fulton County Jail, Trump's feed was dominated by a coordinated effort to reframe the mugshot from humiliation into martyrdom. The morning was quiet after a late-night burst of defensive article-sharing, but the afternoon brought a steady drumbeat of aide-curated links attacking the prosecution, glorifying the mugshot, and even celebrating his booking weight as "NFL-caliber." By evening, Trump himself took over with authentic posts dismissing the GOP debate as a ratings flop, claiming his Tucker Carlson interview was the most-watched in history, and framing all four indictments as Biden-directed political persecution. The mood shifted from defensive vulnerability to full grandiose rebound over the course of the day. Full digest for 2023-08-25: https://trump.fm/date/2023-08-25/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, August 25). https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/07/17/exc-desant... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110951010849804265 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/07/17/exc-desantis-wouldnt..." 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