# Post ts_110986331141195973 - Post ID: `ts_110986331141195973` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-08-31T21:23:35.760Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110986331141195973 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_110986331141195973/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_110986331141195973.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Ron DeSanctimonious is always talking about the number of votes he got in Florida. He doesn’t say that I got a record 1.1 Million more votes than him! ## What the media says **Video transcript** (1:12), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Ron Desanctimonious is always talking about the number of votes he got in Florida. He doesn't say that I got a record 1.1 million more votes than him. He must have forgotten. I endorsed him. Without my endorsement, he would have come in last. He was not even thinking about winning that race. I endorsed him. He went up like a rocket ship and then he forgot about it. And that's okay. But just remember this. Ron talks about the votes he got. I got 1.1 million more votes than he did. I love Florida and Florida is going to be treated very special because right now Florida is going through some times that it shouldn't be. Your insurance costs are too high. A lot of things are not really working in Florida because all he's doing is campaigning. People elected him to be the governor, not to be a campaign horse. And here's the bottom line. His campaign is failing. In fact, very soon he's going to be in third place and then fourth place because to really win you have to have personality and Ron doesn't have that. But most importantly, he doesn't have loyalty and I believe that's why he's losing. Thank you very much. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/110/986/330/180/807/826/original/1c32309647d6154a.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 14,346 - Reposts: 3,447 - Replies: 474 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.400Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T08:09:34.879Z (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 post represents a compact but high-fidelity example of territorial narcissistic defense. DeSantis's routine citation of his own Florida vote totals — an entirely normal act of political self-promotion — is processed as an encroachment on Trump's domain identity, triggering an immediate grandiose counter-claim. The "DeSanctimonious" nickname performs public degradation with evident relish, consistent with ego-syntonic sadism. The statistical comparison is misleading by construction: the ~1.1M raw differential conflates a presidential election with a midterm gubernatorial race with systematically different turnout. Yet the post accuses DeSantis of selective honesty while performing the identical operation — a mild DARVO structure. Defense mechanisms include devaluation, distortion, and projection. Paranoid sensitivity is notable: a rival's standard self-promotion is construed as requiring immediate statistical rebuttal. Most clinically significant is the behavioral context: on the same day a white supremacist shot three Black Floridians in a racially motivated attack in Trump's adopted home state, no affiliative or political response was posted — competitive vote-count dominance display was the day's priority, consistent with markedly diminished communal concern. Authorship assessed as authentic Trump with high confidence despite business-hours timing, based on signature stylistic markers. ## Psychological Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2023-08-31T21:23:35Z ### Authorship Attribution Trump was most likely at Bedminster, NJ (his late-summer residence) on August 31, 2023. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) is UTC−4, placing this post at **5:23 PM EDT** — within business hours, which ordinarily suggests aide involvement. However, the stylistic fingerprint is unmistakably authentic Trump: deployment of the "DeSanctimonious" nickname (a signature coinage), the combative vote-count boast, the exclamation-point close on a competitive self-aggrandizement, and the absence of any policy content or event announcement. The surrounding post sequence confirms the pattern: earlier posts on Nevada energy policy and homeschooling families read as aide-drafted campaign content, while this post and the "REALLY BAD POLLING FOR RON DESANCTIMONIOUS!" post show the reactive, personal, territorial quality of authentic Trump output. **Confidence: high** for authentic authorship despite the timing. --- ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) **Dominant facets:** - **Low Agreeableness** (0.10): Contemptuous derogation via nickname; no acknowledgment of DeSantis's legitimate electoral achievement; framed explicitly to diminish. - **High Extraversion / Assertiveness** (0.80): Declarative, competitive, attention-commanding framing. The post is a performative dominance display. - **Elevated Neuroticism / Angry Hostility** (0.72): DeSantis's ordinary discussion of his own vote totals is experienced as a personal affront requiring immediate correction and one-upmanship. - **Low Conscientiousness** (0.38): The statistical comparison conflates two different electoral contests (presidential vs. gubernatorial), different cycles, and different turnout environments — a deliberate or impulsive slippage. - **Low Openness** (0.18): Rigidly hierarchical worldview; the only relevant variable is comparative vote totals as a dominance metric. --- ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations — Goals, Motives, Schemas **Dominant motive: Power / Status / Agency** The post is not substantively about electoral strategy. It is a territorial staking operation. Florida is constructed as *Trump's domain*, and DeSantis's self-promotion using Florida vote totals is processed as an unauthorized appropriation of property that belongs to Trump. **Schema — Self:** The greatest vote-getter in Florida history; the standard against which all others are measured. **Schema — DeSantis:** A lesser figure who inflates his own significance by omitting the superior context (Trump's numbers); guilty of implicitly fraudulent self-presentation. **Schema — World:** Hierarchical and zero-sum. Political success is a scoreboard with one winner; DeSantis's rise necessarily diminishes Trump's standing unless actively countered. --- ### Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** Undisputed champion defending title from an upstart challenger. **Narrative sequence:** Contamination → Correction. DeSantis has been polluting public perception with incomplete data (contamination); Trump restores proper hierarchy by supplying the superior number. **Identity claim:** *"I am the record-holder. Florida is mine."* The implicit claim is that DeSantis's Florida identity is derivative — it exists in Trump's shadow and is only intelligible relative to Trump's prior achievement. **Contrasting other:** DeSantis is cast as the small man who cherry-picks favorable statistics while concealing the bigger truth that dwarfs him. --- ### Level 4: Clinical Indicators #### Malignant Narcissism Assessment (Kernberg) **A. Narcissistic Features (high):** - Grandiosity: "record 1.1 Million more votes" — the superlative framing converts a raw vote differential into a historic achievement. - Entitlement: DeSantis's mere mention of his own vote totals is treated as a violation, as though those numbers are Trump's intellectual property. - Devaluation: "DeSanctimonious" (sanctimonious + DeSantis) permanently attaches self-righteous hypocrisy to the target. - Envy (projected): The post implies DeSantis is obscuring his inferiority through selective citation. **B. Antisocial Features (mild-moderate):** - The statistical comparison is misleading by construction: presidential election turnout systematically exceeds gubernatorial midterm turnout by wide margins. Presenting the raw differential without this context is manipulative, not inadvertent. **C. Paranoid Features (moderate):** - DeSantis's citing of his own vote totals — a routine act of political self-promotion — is construed as an implicit attack requiring rebuttal. Threat-detection threshold is extremely low; neutral competitor behavior is interpreted as hostile provocation. **D. Ego-Syntonic Sadism (moderate):** - "DeSanctimonious" signals pleasure in degradation. It is not merely a label; it is deployed to reduce DeSantis to a posture of hypocrisy — a form of public humiliation performed for an audience. #### Narcissistic Dynamics **Trigger:** Narcissistic injury from unfavorable comparison. DeSantis's Florida vote totals represent a rival staking claim to Trump's territorial identity. The injury is not that DeSantis is succeeding; it is that DeSantis is *using Florida* to compete — which Trump experiences as theft of a personal brand. **Narcissistic state:** **Grandiose** — the response is not wounded withdrawal but aggressive re-establishment of supremacy. "I got a record 1.1 Million more votes" is expansive, dominant, and self-referential. **Rage:** Present at low-to-moderate intensity (0.45). The post lacks the ALL CAPS fury or grammatical breakdown of a high-rage post; this is more contemptuous dismissal than acute rage. Proportionality is markedly low: a rival's routine self-promotion warrants a comprehensive statistical counter-attack. #### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Devaluation (immature):** "DeSanctimonious" — permanent derogatory label attached to rival. 2. **Distortion (pathological):** Presenting presidential vs. gubernatorial vote differential as equivalent performance comparison. Reality is reshaped to serve dominance needs. 3. **Projection (immature):** Attributing selective dishonesty to DeSantis ("he doesn't say that...") while performing the same selective framing. 4. **Rationalization (neurotic):** The "record" qualifier provides pseudo-objective cover for what is a competitive emotional reaction. --- ### Cognitive Status No clinically significant markers. Language production is clear, targeted, and syntactically simple but coherent. "DeSanctimonious" demonstrates intact wordplay capacity. No word-finding difficulties, tangentiality, or perseveration. The misleading statistical comparison appears deliberate rather than confabulatory — the post is strategically constructed. Complexity is low but consistent with baseline Trump social media output. **No deviation flagged.** --- ### Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques 1. **Ad hominem via derogatory nickname** ("DeSanctimonious") — attacks character rather than argument. 2. **Selective statistics** — raw vote differential without electoral-cycle context. 3. **Superlative amplification** — "record" elevates an ordinary comparative fact into historic achievement. 4. **Implied accusation** — "He doesn't say that..." positions DeSantis as deliberately concealing information. 5. **Territorial claim** — Florida framed as Trump's domain; DeSantis's use of it as a credential is framed as overreach. --- ### Gaslighting & Reality Distortion Mild gaslighting present: Trump accuses DeSantis of selective dishonesty (by omitting Trump's superior numbers) while Trump's own comparison omits the essential context of different election cycles — a minor DARVO structure in which the poster performs the distortion he attributes to his rival. --- ### Contextual Flag Noteworthy: on the same day as this post, the Jacksonville Dollar General shooting — a racially motivated white supremacist attack killing three Black Floridians — occurred in Trump's adopted home state. Trump posted nothing about this event. The absence of any affiliative response to a major Florida tragedy, while posting competitive vote-count attacks on a Florida rival, is a behavioral data point consistent with markedly diminished affiliative concern. --- ### Danger Assessment **Level: None.** No violent imagery, no dehumanizing language, no eliminationist rhetoric. This is competitive political derogation within conventional parameters. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "I got a record 1.1 Million more votes than him [DeSantis, in Florida]" | **Half True** | Trump received approximately 5.67M Florida votes in the 2020 presidential election; DeSantis received approximately 4.57M in the 2022 gubernatorial election. The raw differential of ~1.1M is approximately accurate. However, presidential elections systematically produce far higher turnout than midterm gubernatorial elections, making this a structurally misleading comparison of electoral strength. The 'record' framing is unsubstantiated. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 82%) ### Indicators - Signature 'DeSanctimonious' nickname — a Trump-coined term deployed consistently across campaign - Competitive vote-count boast with no policy or event content - Reactive framing targeting a primary rival's routine self-promotion - Exclamation point closing a personal dominance claim - No polished grammar or scheduling/event structure typical of aide posts ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (Ron DeSantis) **Rage:** Intensity 45% targeting Ron DeSantis - Proportionality: 15% Sentiment: -0.45 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Part of a high-volume same-day posting sequence (5+ posts within the day) - Elevated competitive energy; grandiose self-comparison - Reactive, impulsive engagement with rival's routine behavior as though it constitutes provocation ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 82% - Antisocial: 32% - Paranoid: 45% - Sadism: 52% **Defense Mechanisms:** - devaluation (immature) - distortion (pathological) - projection (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 32% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Invites audience into competitive frame — followers positioned as witnesses to Trump's superiority over DeSantis - Shared contempt for DeSantis builds in-group cohesion around dismissal of rival - Vote-count framing gives followers a simple, repeatable talking point for primary season ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - DARVO micro-structure: Trump performs the same selective framing he attributes to DeSantis — accusing rival of the distortion Trump himself deploys - Implied accusation of dishonesty against target for behavior identical to the poster's own selective citation ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > I got a record 1.1 Million more votes than him [DeSantis, in Florida] **HALF TRUE** Trump received approximately 5.67M Florida votes in the 2020 presidential election; DeSantis received approximately 4.57M in the 2022 gubernatorial election. The raw differential of ~1.1M is approximately accurate. However, presidential elections systematically produce far higher turnout than midterm gubernatorial elections, making this a structurally misleading comparison of electoral strength. The 'record' framing is unsubstantiated. Sources: 2020 Florida presidential election certified results; 2022 Florida gubernatorial election certified results Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - rival-attack (95%) - territorial-narcissism (88%) - DeSantis (95%) - statistical-distortion (75%) - derogatory-nickname (90%) - primary-campaign (85%) - grandiose-state (80%) ## 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). Ron DeSanctimonious is always talking about the... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_110986331141195973 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Ron DeSanctimonious is always talking about the number of..." 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