# Post ts_110984093096209122

- Post ID: `ts_110984093096209122`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-08-31T11:54:25.935Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> So now it is learned that Governor Ron DeSanctimonious unnecessarily approved a 20% hike in Florida Electricity Rates, the largest in history (by far!), after taking a 9.5 Million Dollar Campaign Contribution from “money machine” Florida Power and Light, and subsidiaries. Next up to check out is the Insurance Industry, where DeSanctus gave up the store. His campaign and poll numbers have “CRASHED” to a point where it doesn’t much matter anymore, but what a shame for Florida!

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.400Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T08:05:57.410Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

Post dated August 31, 2023 targets DeSantis with a corruption narrative (FPL rate hike / $9.5M contribution) delivered from an unambiguously grandiose narcissistic state — not defensive or embattled. Likely authentic Trump authorship (7:54 AM Bedminster local time; dual nicknames; signature verbal tics). The ego-syntonic sadism component is clinically notable: "what a shame for Florida!" functions as a savoring coda, not genuine sympathy. Defense mechanisms include projection (corruption accusation mirrors Trump's own legal jeopardy), devaluation (DeSantis declared irrelevant — completion of the split cycle), and rationalization (framing attacks as investigative journalism). Rhetorical toolkit is fully deployed: mocking epithets, passive revelation construction, superlative hyperbole, and poll death announcement as voter suppression. Factual core of the post is mostly substantiated — FPL contributions and rate increases are documented — but the causal/corrupt link between them is asserted by innuendo. No danger indicators. Post is consistent with Trump's established pattern of attacking rivals at the moment of their visible decline rather than their peak threat — a dominance timing strategy consistent with high agency motives and low tolerance for peer competitors.

# Psychological Analysis: Trump Truth Social Post — 2023-08-31

## Contextual Frame

This post arrives during a period of acute legal pressure (Fulton County booking, Chutkan trial date set) and simultaneous primary consolidation. Trump had just raised $7.1M off his mugshot and held a commanding Iowa lead. DeSantis's campaign had visibly faltered. The post thus reflects a moment of dual dynamics: external legal threat being metabolized as political fuel, and internal primary threat being extinguished. The psychological register is accordingly *grandiose rather than embattled* — Trump attacks from above, not from fear.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

| Trait | Expression | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| **Extraversion** | Very high | Assertive dominance display, public humiliation of rival |
| **Agreeableness** | Very low | Contemptuous mockery, zero empathy for target |
| **Conscientiousness** | Low-moderate | Structured attack but impulsive nickname variation |
| **Neuroticism** | Moderate | Controlled anger, no panic or vulnerability markers |
| **Openness** | Very low | Rigid schema: rivals are corrupt, Trump is exposer-of-truth |

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Dominant motive: Power/Status**

The post is not primarily about informing Florida voters about electricity rates — it is a dominance ritual. The corruption allegation (FPL → rate hike) functions as a weapon against a rival rather than a genuine policy critique. The "Next up to check out is the Insurance Industry" construction is particularly revealing: it positions Trump as a continuing authority over DeSantis's entire governorship, suggesting ownership of the investigative narrative.

**Schema activation:** Classic in-group/out-group schema. DeSantis is recast from potential ally to corrupt establishment figure — the same move Trump has applied to Pence, Barr, Sessions, and others. Once a figure moves from rival to enemy, the schema applies fully: they become corrupt, incompetent, and disloyal.

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** *Corruption-exposer / King surveying fallen challengers*

Trump casts himself implicitly as the honest outsider who sees through the corrupt transactional politics of career politicians. The word "learned" is passive-voice, positioning him as the conduit through which truth flows to the public — not as the source of an attack.

**Narrative sequence:** Contamination → Dismissal. DeSantis went from promising (briefly idealized) to corrupt (fully devalued). The contamination is complete; the narrative is now the dismissal.

**Contrasting other:** DeSantis as the establishment politician who takes money from utilities and betrays constituents — a corruption frame that implicitly flatters Trump's self-image as incorruptible.

**Identity claims:**
- "I see corruption where others don't"
- "I told you so" (implicit — the decline was predicted)
- "Florida deserved better" (performative civic concern)

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Malignant Narcissism Assessment

**A. Narcissistic Features (high, ~0.75):**
- Grandiosity: Post exudes dominance from a position of assumed superiority
- No empathy: DeSantis's collapse is narrated with undisguised pleasure
- Entitlement: Assumes his investigative framing has public authority
- Envy-adjacent: The rate hike corruption framing implies DeSantis gained wealth/power unfairly

**B. Antisocial Features (moderate, ~0.35):**
- Willing to destroy a rival with factually contested claims
- No remorse framing whatsoever — "doesn't much matter anymore" is coldly dismissive

**C. Paranoid Features (low, ~0.25):**
- Minimal in this post; Trump is not defensive here, he is offensive
- The attack is prosecutorial, not persecuted

**D. Ego-Syntonic Sadism (elevated, ~0.65):**
- "What a shame for Florida!" is the textbook sadistic coda — performative sympathy that is actually a savor of the rival's destruction
- The phrase "it doesn't much matter anymore" is a cruelty: DeSantis is dismissed as irrelevant at the moment of maximum public visibility

### Narcissistic Dynamics

**Trigger:** Competitive threat + opportunity (DeSantis visibly collapsing in polls)

This post is not triggered by injury — Trump is not wounded here. It is triggered by *opportunity*: the target is down and this is the moment to deliver the rhetorical kill shot. This is characteristic of the **grandiose state**: the subject attacks confidently from perceived strength.

**Narcissistic rage:** Present but modulated (~0.55 intensity). The rage is structured and controlled — more contempt than eruption. The proportionality is low (~0.4) relative to any genuine policy concern, but calibrated as political rivalry.

**Narcissistic state:** Unambiguously **grandiose**. Compare to embattled/vulnerable posts from legal threat periods — this post has none of that defensive quality.

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## Defense Mechanisms

**1. Projection (immature):**
The corruption frame — politician takes money, delivers policy favor — is Trump's own most consistent accusation against himself across multiple investigations. The behavioral template being deployed against DeSantis maps precisely onto allegations Trump faces. This is not necessarily deliberate; projection operates unconsciously. But the selection of *this particular attack vector* is psychologically legible.

**2. Devaluation (immature):**
The pivot from sustained rival to "doesn't much matter anymore" is the completion of the split. DeSantis was briefly idealized as a political talent, then threatened Trump's grandiosity, triggering the devaluation process. The public declaration of irrelevance marks the final devaluation phase — DeSantis is now fully consigned to the "worthless" half of the split.

**3. Rationalization (neurotic):**
"Next up to check out is the Insurance Industry" — framing ongoing political attacks as investigative journalism, providing logical cover for what is a dominance campaign against a governor.

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## Authorship Assessment

**Score: 0.82 (likely authentic)**

UTC 11:54 = 7:54 AM Eastern. Trump was almost certainly at Bedminster, NJ (his late-summer residence). The early morning timing, dual nickname variants within a single post ("DeSanctimonious" and "DeSanctus"), the "by far!" verbal tic, the ALL CAPS single word ("CRASHED"), and the stream-of-consciousness pivot to the insurance industry — all point to authentic composition. An aide-drafted post would not use two different mockery names in the same 150 words, nor would it include the cruel performative sympathy of the closing line.

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## Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques

1. **Mocking epithets as identity destabilization:** "DeSanctimonious" / "DeSanctus" — stripping the target of consistent identity through ridicule
2. **Passive revelation construction:** "So now it is learned..." — positions speaker as conduit of truth, not source of attack
3. **Superlative hyperbole:** "largest in history (by far!)" — signature amplification device
4. **Scare-quoted authority attribution:** "'money machine'" — asserts frame while appearing to quote external characterization
5. **Forward investigative threat:** "Next up to check out..." — extends authority claim over rival's entire record
6. **Poll death announcement as voter suppression:** Declaring DeSantis's numbers "CRASHED" signals to potential supporters that backing him is futile
7. **Performative civic concern:** "What a shame for Florida!" — weaponized sympathy that is actually a taunt

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## Cognitive Status

No significant deviation from Trump baseline. The post is coherent, intentional, and strategically structured. The dual nickname may reflect impulsive composition or deliberate escalation, but it is within the range of established Trump idiosyncrasy rather than a cognitive marker. Vocabulary and syntactic complexity are typical for Trump.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "DeSantis approved a 20% hike in Florida electricity rates, the largest in history" | **Mostly True** | FPL (Florida Power & Light) received regulatory approval for significant rate increases during DeSantis's governorship. The 20% figure was in wide political circulation and is substantively accurate; 'largest in history' is contested hyperbole. |
| "DeSantis took a $9.5 million campaign contribution from Florida Power and Light and subsidiaries" | **Mostly True** | NextEra Energy (FPL's parent company) and its affiliates were among DeSantis's largest cumulative donors. The $9.5M figure reflects bundled contributions across entities and was reported in Florida investigative media. |
| "DeSantis poll numbers have CRASHED" | **True** | By August 2023, DeSantis had declined from roughly 30%+ in early 2023 Republican primary polling to the mid-teens, representing a significant collapse from his peak threat to Trump. |
| "Rate hike was unnecessary and linked corruptly to the campaign contribution" | **Unverifiable** | The correlation between contributions and the rate approval is documented. The causal corruption claim — that the approval was granted because of the contribution — is an innuendo assertion without direct evidentiary support presented in the post. |

Overall Veracity: 78%

## Danger Assessment

**Level: None**

This post is standard political attack rhetoric with no eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no mobilization cues, and no stochastic terrorism indicators. The target is a political rival being attacked through conventional corruption-narrative framing.

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## Longitudinal Notes

Compare to posts from periods of legal threat vulnerability (e.g., Fulton County booking days): this post shows notably *less* defensive anxiety and *more* grandiose confidence. The booking event appears to have been successfully metabolized as political capital (per fundraising data in events context), freeing psychological bandwidth for offensive political maneuver. This is consistent with the pattern observed across the 2023 indictment cycle: each legal blow was followed by supply-seeking (fundraising, rally) that restored narcissistic equilibrium and enabled a return to grandiose mode.

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 82%)

### Indicators

- Dual nickname variants for same target ('DeSanctimonious' and 'DeSanctus') — authentic Trump tends to cycle through monikers mid-post
- Parenthetical 'by far!' construction is a signature verbal tic
- ALL CAPS 'CRASHED' for emotional emphasis
- Performative closing sympathy ('what a shame for Florida!') — classic sadistic coda Trump deploys when a rival is down
- 7:54 AM Eastern (Bedminster, NJ likely location in late August) — early morning timing consistent with authentic posting window

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (Ron DeSantis)

**Rage:** Intensity 55% targeting Ron DeSantis
- Proportionality: 40%

Sentiment: -0.65

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 75%
- Antisocial: 35%
- Paranoid: 25%
- Sadism: 65%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)
- devaluation (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 42%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Invites audience into investigative framing ('So now it is learned...') — passive voice construction positions Trump as conduit of revelation rather than attacker
- Manufactured pathos for Florida voters ('what a shame for Florida!') while simultaneously savoring rival's collapse — parasocial bonding through shared civic concern

## Fact Checks (4)

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

> DeSantis approved a 20% hike in Florida electricity rates, the largest in history

**MOSTLY TRUE**

FPL (Florida Power & Light) received regulatory approval for significant rate increases during DeSantis's governorship. The 20% figure was in wide political circulation and is substantively accurate; 'largest in history' is contested hyperbole.

Sources: Florida Public Service Commission rate proceedings 2021-2023; Florida political reporting on FPL rate increases

> DeSantis took a $9.5 million campaign contribution from Florida Power and Light and subsidiaries

**MOSTLY TRUE**

NextEra Energy (FPL's parent company) and its affiliates were among DeSantis's largest cumulative donors. The $9.5M figure reflects bundled contributions across entities and was reported in Florida investigative media.

Sources: Florida campaign finance records; Documented NextEra/DeSantis donor relationship reporting

> DeSantis poll numbers have CRASHED

**TRUE**

By August 2023, DeSantis had declined from roughly 30%+ in early 2023 Republican primary polling to the mid-teens, representing a significant collapse from his peak threat to Trump.

Sources: RealClearPolitics Republican primary polling averages, August 2023

> Rate hike was unnecessary and linked corruptly to the campaign contribution

**UNVERIFIABLE**

The correlation between contributions and the rate approval is documented. The causal corruption claim — that the approval was granted because of the contribution — is an innuendo assertion without direct evidentiary support presented in the post.

Overall Veracity: 78%

## Tags

- primary-rivalry (95%)
- DeSantis-attack (95%)
- corruption-narrative (85%)
- devaluation-cycle (80%)
- grandiose-state (85%)
- ego-syntonic-sadism (65%)
- projection (70%)
- authentic-authorship (82%)
- FPL-rate-hike (75%)
- poll-death-announcement (70%)

## That day

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

**25-Post Blitz Buries Historic Legal Crisis Under DeSantis Attacks and Campaign Bravado**

Trump spent most of the day attacking Ron DeSantis from every angle -- his polling collapse, his donors fleeing, his electricity rate hikes -- while barely acknowledging the historic legal storm closing in around him. A brief flash of anger at Fox News for hosting Chris Christie and Bill Barr gave way to a sustained afternoon content blitz of over two dozen posts, many just shared links amplifying favorable coverage. The Fulton County mugshot, taken just days earlier, was acknowledged exactly once and immediately turned into a fundraising pitch. Notably absent from the entire day: any mention of Hurricane Idalia, which made landfall in Florida as a Category 3 storm, or the racially motivated mass shooting in Jacksonville. The overall mood was aggressively upbeat -- a performance of dominance and normalcy that seemed designed to drown out the legal reality.

Full digest for 2023-08-31: https://trump.fm/date/2023-08-31/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, August 31). So now it is learned that Governor Ron... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110984093096209122
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "So now it is learned that Governor Ron DeSanctimonious..." Truth Social, 31 Aug. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110984093096209122. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "So now it is learned that Governor Ron DeSanctimonious...," Truth Social, August 31, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110984093096209122.

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