# Post ts_110985946421765946

- Post ID: `ts_110985946421765946`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-08-31T19:45:45.361Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110985946421765946
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110985946421765946/analysis

## Post text

> https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/08/30/donald_trump_rupert_murdoch_is_a_globalist_his_candidate_desanctimonious_fallen_like_a_badly_injured_baby_bird.html

## Engagement

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

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T08:08:08.358Z (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 at 3:45 PM EDT from what was almost certainly Bedminster, NJ, this URL-only Truth Social post amplifies Trump's recorded contempt for two simultaneous targets: Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch, labeled a "globalist," and Ron DeSantis, described as having "fallen like a badly injured baby bird." The post's clinical interest lies primarily in two features. First, the sadistic specificity of the avian metaphor: baby birds are helpless, infantile, and typically die when they fall — Trump's choice to specify "badly injured" rather than simply "fallen" suggests lingering on the severity of the wound, consistent with Kernberg's ego-syntonic sadism and delight in an enemy's suffering as a dominance display. Second, the application of "globalist" to Murdoch carries documented antisemitic valence in far-right discourse, intersecting with Murdoch's partial Jewish heritage in ways that elevate the danger signal to "elevated" even absent direct incitement. The post is embedded in a 31-video, four-hour posting flurry — a rate elevated above Trump's typical baseline, consistent with mild hypomanic output. Narcissistic state is grandiose, triggered by DeSantis's $50M super PAC collapse, which Trump reads as vindicating proof of his dominance. Authorship attribution is mixed: business-hours timing and URL-only format suggest aide facilitation of the mechanical posting, but the content selection and surrounding session volume indicate active Trump curation and direction. Danger level: elevated.

## Post Analysis: ts_110985946421765946

**Platform:** Truth Social | **Date:** 2023-08-31 | **UTC:** 19:45:45 | **Age:** 77

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### Overview

This post consists entirely of a URL to a RealClearPolitics video. No text accompanies the link. However, the URL slug functions as a verbatim précis of Trump's quoted remarks: he labeled Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch a **"globalist"** and described Ron DeSantis as having **"fallen like a badly injured baby bird."** The post is one of 31 Truth Social posts documented in a four-hour window on this date, and must be read within that high-intensity posting context.

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### Authorship Attribution

**Location:** Trump was almost certainly at Bedminster, NJ in late August 2023 — his established summer residence. EDT = UTC−4, placing this post at **3:45 PM local time** — squarely within business hours, the conventional aide-posting window.

**Signals for aide involvement:**
- Business-hours timestamp
- URL-only format with no accompanying commentary (atypical of pure Trump posts)
- Clean, unadorned link presentation

**Signals for Trump direction:**
- Just the News contemporaneously documented 31 posts in four hours — an active, Trump-driven session
- Surrounding posts carry unmistakably authentic Trump voice ("RINO John Roberts," "DeSanctimonious")
- Content features Trump's own coined nicknames and imagery — the selection is clearly self-referential
- The video being amplified features Trump's own remarks

**Assessment:** Aide-assisted URL drop within a Trump-directed media blitz. Trump selected and directed the content; mechanical posting likely facilitated by staff. **Authenticity score: 0.38. Confidence: medium.**

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### Narcissistic Dynamics

**State:** Grandiose. DeSantis's $50M super PAC had just publicly collapsed — an objective organizational defeat for Trump's primary rival. This post is a victory-lap amplification of Trump's own contemptuous commentary on that collapse.

**Trigger:** Victory consolidation / supply-seeking. Trump is not defending against a threat here; he is savoring a demonstrated defeat. The post functions as a call to collective triumph — inviting followers to co-experience the contempt and share in the dominance display.

**Ego-syntonic sadism (Kernberg):** The "badly injured baby bird" simile is the clinically salient feature of this post. Its components:
- *Baby*: Infantilizes DeSantis; strips political gravitas
- *Injured*: Emphasizes vulnerability and damage
- *Badly*: The qualifier is analytically significant — Trump did not say "fallen like a bird" or even "fallen like an injured bird." He specified *badly* injured. This lingering on the severity of the wound is consistent with ego-syntonic sadism: pleasure in the enemy's suffering as a dominance display, cruelty experienced as gratifying rather than defensive. The specificity suggests this metaphor was constructed with care and relish.
- *Baby bird falling from a nest*: Baby birds that fall typically die. The image implies DeSantis's downfall is not a setback but a terminal event.

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### "Globalist" — Rhetorical and Danger Analysis

The application of "globalist" to Rupert Murdoch is the most significant danger signal in this post. In far-right and nationalist discourse, "globalist" functions as a documented antisemitic dog whistle, implying that the target's loyalties transcend national borders in service of a transnational — implicitly Jewish — financial or media elite. Murdoch's partial Jewish heritage (via his mother, Dame Elisabeth Murdoch née Greene) creates an intersect that elevates the valence of the term beyond generic "internationalist" usage.

Whether Trump deploys "globalist" with full awareness of its antisemitic resonance in far-right communities, or uses it as a generic synonym for "establishment power-broker," is unverifiable from this post. The effect in far-right discourse is functionally the same: the term activates tribal signals that frame Murdoch as a foreign-loyalist enemy of the nationalist in-group. This represents the most dangerous rhetorical element in the post.

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### Defense Mechanisms

| Mechanism | Level | Evidence |
|-----------|-------|----------|
| Splitting | Immature | Murdoch = globalist enemy; Trump = nationalist champion. DeSantis = helpless failure; Trump = dominant winner. |
| Devaluation | Immature | Murdoch reduced to ideological label; DeSantis reduced to a dying creature. Neither is granted human complexity or dignity. |

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### Narrative Identity (McAdams)

- **Protagonist role:** Triumphant King declaring the pretender's fall from the field. The King surveys the battlefield; the pretender (DeSantis) lies broken.
- **Contrasting others:** Dual targets serve dual narrative functions — Murdoch represents the corrupt establishment (globalist media power) while DeSantis represents the failed challenger (incompetent pretender).
- **Narrative sequence:** Redemption structure — DeSantis's briefly threatening rise (contamination of Trump's dominance) is now reversed; the natural order of Trump's supremacy is restored.
- **Archetypes:** King/Tyrant (asserting legitimate authority, dismissing the pretender) + Warrior (in constant dominance combat). The "badly injured baby bird" casts DeSantis as prey, invoking a predator/prey archetypal dynamic that positions Trump as apex predator.

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### Rhetorical Techniques

- **Zoomorphic diminishment:** Reducing DeSantis to a helpless dying creature strips both human dignity and political legitimacy simultaneously.
- **Embedded nickname:** "DeSanctimonious" compresses a character attack (self-righteous hypocrisy) into an identity label, so every reference performs the devaluation.
- **Dog-whistle labeling:** "Globalist" activates far-right tribal signals while maintaining deniability in mainstream discourse.
- **Victory amplification:** Sharing one's own contemptuous remarks about a rival's downfall as content — a recursive loop of dominance display.
- **Ad hominem (dual):** Both targets attacked personally, not on policy grounds.

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### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "DeSantis super PAC closed with donors backing out" | **True** | Confirmed by surrounding posts on same date and known events: '$50 Million Super PAC closing as donors have backed out' |
| "DeSantis is Trump's candidate (Murdoch's)" | **Mostly True** | Fox News and Murdoch media properties gave DeSantis significant favorable coverage in early 2023 when DeSantis was a credible alternative to Trump; characterizing DeSantis as 'Murdoch's candidate' overstates editorial coordination but captures a real dynamic |
| "Murdoch is a 'globalist'" | **Unverifiable** | Characterization/label, not a factual claim. Functions as ideological branding. |

Overall Veracity: 77%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 38%)

### Indicators

- 3:45 PM EDT local time — solidly business hours, conventional aide-posting window
- URL-only format with no accompanying text is atypical of pure Trump authorship
- Post embedded in a verified 31-video, 4-hour posting flurry suggesting active Trump direction
- Surrounding posts on same day carry unmistakably authentic Trump voice and nicknames
- Video content features Trump's own words — curation likely Trump-directed, mechanical posting possibly aide-facilitated

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (DeSantis organizational collapse / rival's visible downfall)

Sentiment: -0.52

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- 31 posts in a four-hour window on this date — elevated output rate above typical baseline
- Triumphalist, expansive affect across multiple same-day posts
- Racing quality to posting cadence (multiple URLs, quotes, retweets in rapid succession)

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 85%
- Antisocial: 45%
- Paranoid: 55%
- Sadism: 82%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- devaluation (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 0%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Sharing own recorded contempt invites audience to co-experience triumph and mock the rival
- Vivid animal metaphor gives followers a memorable, repeatable attack image to propagate

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- 'Globalist' applied to media owner with Jewish heritage — documented antisemitic dog whistle in far-right discourse, laundered through casual political vocabulary
- Dehumanizing animal metaphor for political rival (zoomorphic diminishment) normalizes contempt rhetoric
- Pattern of labeling media figures as enemies of the national community

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> DeSantis super PAC closed with donors backing out

**TRUE**

Confirmed by surrounding posts on same date and known events: '$50 Million Super PAC closing as donors have backed out'

Sources: Daily Mail reporting cited in Trump's own surrounding posts; Known events briefing

> DeSantis is Trump's candidate (Murdoch's)

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Fox News and Murdoch media properties gave DeSantis significant favorable coverage in early 2023 when DeSantis was a credible alternative to Trump; characterizing DeSantis as 'Murdoch's candidate' overstates editorial coordination but captures a real dynamic

Sources: General knowledge, media coverage patterns 2023

> Murdoch is a 'globalist'

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Characterization/label, not a factual claim. Functions as ideological branding.

Overall Veracity: 77%

## Tags

- DeSantis rivalry (90%)
- sadistic mockery (85%)
- globalist dog whistle (80%)
- dehumanizing language (78%)
- triumphalism (75%)
- media antagonism (72%)
- hypomanic output rate (60%)
- aide-assisted posting (62%)
- zoomorphic diminishment (82%)

## 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). https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/08/30... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110985946421765946
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/08/30/donald_tr..." Truth Social, 31 Aug. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110985946421765946. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/08/30/donald_tr...," Truth Social, August 31, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_110985946421765946.

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