# Post ts_111003718138921663

- Post ID: `ts_111003718138921663`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-09-03T23:05:20.238Z (UTC)
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## Post text

> Wow! Ron DeSanctimonious has seen a Polling CRASH like no other. People have gotten to know him. Also, really bad Social Security votes, and would decimate Medicare. That doesn’t play well in America!

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T08:09:04.842Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

A compact, grandiose-state dominance display targeting primary rival Ron DeSantis as his polling declined through summer 2023. Trump operates from confident triumph rather than reactive rage — the predominant affect is schadenfreude, signaled by the "Wow!" opener and the relished superlative ("CRASH like no other"). The signature nickname "DeSanctimonious" serves as permanent brand damage, attaching moral disqualification to every future mention. Policy attacks on Social Security and Medicare are tactically deployed against a senior-heavy primary electorate, weaponizing DeSantis's Congressional voting record (RSC budget proposals) without attribution — a compressed smear that plants suspicion while resisting specific rebuttal. Defense mechanisms are mild (splitting, rationalization) and within baseline. No narcissistic injury or acute rage is evident. Authorship is highly authentic based on forensic linguistic markers. No cognitive anomalies detected; complexity consistent with established baseline. No danger indicators. The post is psychologically unremarkable relative to Trump's documented behavioral range — a routine primary-season dominance assertion from a front-runner whose lead was consolidating. Clinical significance: low.

## Psychological Analysis: Trump Truth Social Post — 2023-09-03T23:05:20Z

### Authorship Attribution

**Local time conversion:** September 2023 places Trump almost certainly at Mar-a-Lago (Palm Beach, FL) or Trump Tower (New York). EDT = UTC−4. Post time converts to **7:05 PM EDT** — early evening on Labor Day Sunday. Not a late-night authentic marker, but also not a business-hours-only window. Style overwhelmingly signals authentic authorship: the signature nickname construction "DeSanctimonious" (first coined by Trump, a blend of "DeSantis" + "sanctimonious"), the exclamatory opener "Wow!", ALL CAPS on "CRASH," short staccato sentence rhythm, and the colloquial closing "That doesn't play well in America!" are all forensic markers of Trump's idiosyncratic register. No aide would independently generate "DeSanctimonious." **Confidence: high** that this is authentic.

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### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

The post is a brief but textured competitive attack on a primary rival. Salient facets:

- **Low Agreeableness** (antagonism, competitiveness): The nickaming and gleeful reportage of a rival's collapse are consistent with chronic low agreeableness — trust is absent, modesty is absent, and the affect is combative.
- **High Extraversion / Assertiveness**: "Wow!" as an opener signals positive-affect enthusiasm — not sadness at a rival's decline but *pleasure*. This is assertive, socially dominant speech.
- **Low Conscientiousness / Deliberation**: The post makes policy claims ("really bad Social Security votes," "would decimate Medicare") without attribution, dates, or specifics. Rhetorical effectiveness is prioritized over factual precision.
- **Moderate Neuroticism / Angry Hostility**: The hostility is controlled — this is a triumphant rather than enraged post — but the underlying adversarial orientation is consistent with chronic angry-hostility facet elevation.

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### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations — Motives and Schemas

**Dominant motive: Power/Status maintenance.** The post has two structural components:
1. *Dominance assertion via rival diminishment* — DeSantis's polling drop is presented as confirmation of Trump's superior evaluative judgment ("People have gotten to know him" — implying Trump knew this all along).
2. *Policy weaponization* — Social Security and Medicare attacks are instrumentalized not out of policy concern (Trump has no record of Medicare/SS advocacy) but as crowd-tested electoral cudgels, particularly effective with older voters who constitute a large share of Trump's primary base.

**Agency schema:** World = competitive hierarchy; self = apex position; others = potential challengers to be neutralized. DeSantis is not engaged on the merits — he is categorized as rising threat now being disposed of.

**Communion motive: Absent.** No warmth, care, or connection is expressed. The implicit appeal to shared fear (seniors losing benefits) is instrumental rather than empathic.

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### Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** *Dominant evaluator / oracle.* Trump implicitly positions himself as the one who saw DeSantis clearly before others did. "People have gotten to know him" is a condescending attribution of delayed public awakening — Trump *always* knew.

**Narrative sequence:** Redemption-adjacent. The subtext is: DeSantis threatened the throne; the people have now returned to proper assessment; order is restored. No contamination arc here — this is a triumphant "I was right all along" beat.

**Identity claims (implicit):**
- "I know people better than they know themselves"
- "My instincts about rivals are infallible"
- "I defend entitlements" (ironic given his own budget history, but claimed here)

**Contrasting other:** DeSantis — recast not as a legitimate peer but as a temporarily inflated pretender now correctly deflating. The nickname "DeSanctimonious" carries moral charge: the rival is not merely losing but was always fraudulent — self-righteous, phony, unworthy.

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### Level 4: Clinical Indicators

**Narcissistic Dynamics:**

*Trigger:* Primarily **supply-seeking** (triumphal dominance display) combined with **preemptive neutralization** of the most viable primary threat. DeSantis represented the most sustained polling challenge to Trump throughout 2022–2023. As that challenge deflates, Trump's post performs schadenfreude as dominance confirmation.

*Narcissistic state:* **Grandiose** — expansive, self-assured, almost playful. No vulnerability markers. The "Wow!" opener signals delight, not distress.

*Narcissistic rage:* **Absent in acute form.** Hostility is present but calibrated — this is the cold pleasure of watching a rival fail, not the hot rage of a perceived wound. Ego-syntonic satisfaction rather than dysregulated outburst.

**Malignant Narcissism Component Assessment:**

- *Narcissistic features (high):* Grandiosity via rival diminishment; belief in superior judgment; entitlement to dominate the field.
- *Antisocial features (moderate):* Weaponized nickname; willingness to distort/simplify policy records for electoral advantage; absence of fair dealing.
- *Paranoid features (low in this post):* Not present here — the post is confident, not defensive.
- *Ego-syntonic sadism (moderate):* "Has seen a Polling CRASH like no other" — the superlative is savored. There is evident pleasure in an adversary's collapse that exceeds political calculation.

**Defense Mechanisms:**

1. **Splitting (immature):** DeSantis is simply "bad" — on policy, on character, on competence. No nuance, no acknowledgment of shared party or prior relationship.
2. **Rationalization (neurotic):** "People have gotten to know him" converts DeSantis's polling decline from a complex political phenomenon into a simple morality tale validating Trump's prior contempt.
3. **Projection potential (low in this specific post):** The Medicare/SS attack is somewhat ironic given Trump's own budget record, but the projection is mild and typical of political attacks rather than clinically notable.

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### Cognitive Status

**Complexity score:** Low-moderate — consistent with Trump's established baseline of short punchy sentences, heavy nominalization, and absence of subordinate clause nesting. No deviation from baseline detected.

**Language production markers:** None. The post is coherent, purposeful, and grammatically intact (for Trump's register).

**Baseline deviation:** None. This is squarely within the established Trump rhetorical envelope.

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### Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques

1. **Pejorative nickname ("DeSanctimonious"):** Ad hominem through branding — attaches moral charge (sanctimony/phoniness) directly to the name, making neutral reference impossible. This is Trump's most distinctive rhetorical signature.
2. **Hyperbole / Superlative:** "like no other" — maximizes the rival's failure beyond any measurable claim.
3. **Appeal to fear (seniors):** Social Security and Medicare invocations target the largest, most reliable bloc of Republican primary voters — retirees who are existentially dependent on these programs. The claim bypasses evidence to activate direct threat response.
4. **Implicit social proof:** "That doesn't play well in America" — Trump speaks as the authoritative voice of the American electorate, preemptively rendering judgment on DeSantis's viability.
5. **Compressed smear:** "really bad Social Security votes" — the vagueness is rhetorical armor. No specific vote is named, making rebuttal difficult while the negative impression is planted.

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### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Ron DeSantis has seen a polling crash like no other" | **Mostly True** | DeSantis's polling did decline substantially through 2023 from post-midterm highs where some surveys showed him competitive with Trump. By September 2023 Trump led by 40+ points in most national Republican primary polls. The decline was real; 'like no other' is hyperbolic. |
| "DeSantis had really bad Social Security votes" | **Mostly True** | As a Congressman (2013-2018), DeSantis voted for Republican Study Committee budget proposals that included raising the Social Security retirement age to 70 and converting Medicare to a premium support model. The voting record is factual; 'really bad' is editorializing. |
| "DeSantis would decimate Medicare" | **Half True** | Extrapolates from decade-old Congressional budget votes to prospective presidential policy. DeSantis's stated 2024 campaign positions at this time did not include explicit Medicare cuts. The attack weaponizes Congressional votes against current candidate context; 'decimate' overstates the policy impact even of the original votes. |

Overall Veracity: 70%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 88%)

### Indicators

- Signature nickname 'DeSanctimonious' — a Trump original coinage no aide would generate
- Exclamatory opener 'Wow!' — characteristic Trump enthusiasm marker
- ALL CAPS on 'CRASH' for emphasis — consistent Trump orthographic pattern
- Short punchy declarative sentences with no subordinate clause nesting
- Colloquial closing 'That doesn't play well in America!' — idiosyncratic Trump register

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (DeSantis polling decline)

Sentiment: -0.35

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- 'Wow!' opener signals elevated positive affect and excitement
- Superlative escalation ('like no other') consistent with mildly elevated mood state
- Post is one of five on the same day — elevated output volume

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 72%
- Antisocial: 45%
- Paranoid: 10%
- Sadism: 50%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 28%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Speaking as authoritative voice of American electorate ('That doesn't play well in America')
- Activating senior voter threat response via Medicare/SS invocation
- Preemptive framing of rival as morally fraudulent via nickname

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> Ron DeSantis has seen a polling crash like no other

**MOSTLY TRUE**

DeSantis's polling did decline substantially through 2023 from post-midterm highs where some surveys showed him competitive with Trump. By September 2023 Trump led by 40+ points in most national Republican primary polls. The decline was real; 'like no other' is hyperbolic.

Sources: RealClearPolitics 2024 Republican primary polling averages, 2022-2023

> DeSantis had really bad Social Security votes

**MOSTLY TRUE**

As a Congressman (2013-2018), DeSantis voted for Republican Study Committee budget proposals that included raising the Social Security retirement age to 70 and converting Medicare to a premium support model. The voting record is factual; 'really bad' is editorializing.

Sources: RSC Budget proposals 2013-2014; DeSantis Congressional voting record

> DeSantis would decimate Medicare

**HALF TRUE**

Extrapolates from decade-old Congressional budget votes to prospective presidential policy. DeSantis's stated 2024 campaign positions at this time did not include explicit Medicare cuts. The attack weaponizes Congressional votes against current candidate context; 'decimate' overstates the policy impact even of the original votes.

Sources: DeSantis 2024 campaign platform statements through September 2023

Overall Veracity: 70%

## Tags

- primary_attack (90%)
- DeSantis (95%)
- schadenfreude (80%)
- nickname_branding (85%)
- Medicare_Social_Security (75%)
- grandiose_state (70%)
- authentic_authorship (88%)
- senior_voter_appeal (70%)

## That day

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

**Labor Day Legal Siege: Poll-Fueled Confidence Collapses Into Evening Rage Spiral Targeting Fani Willis**

Trump spent Labor Day Sunday at Bedminster oscillating between campaign confidence and legal grievance. The morning opened with upbeat posts touting favorable poll numbers and echoing Reagan's classic "are you better off" pitch. By evening, the mood shifted sharply as he unleashed a rapid burst of posts attacking prosecutors, calling indictments "fake," and singling out Fulton County DA Fani Willis by name with language that invited harassment. The most alarming post suggested Republican DAs should adopt "eye for an eye" retaliatory prosecutions. He closed the night by pivoting to mock Ron DeSantis's polling decline — a familiar self-soothing move after sustained legal anger.

Full digest for 2023-09-03: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-03/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 3). Wow! Ron DeSanctimonious has seen a Polling CRASH... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111003718138921663
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Wow! Ron DeSanctimonious has seen a Polling CRASH like no..." Truth Social, 3 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111003718138921663. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Wow! Ron DeSanctimonious has seen a Polling CRASH like no...," Truth Social, September 3, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111003718138921663.

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