# Post ts_111140698717914920 - Post ID: `ts_111140698717914920` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-09-28T03:41:18.000Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111140698717914920 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111140698717914920/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111140698717914920.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > “Donald Trump had obviously the WALL…and guess what happened, THE BORDER WAS UNDER CONTROL!”Thank you again, Ron DeSanctimonious! ## What the media says **Video transcript** (0:15), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > It obviously is a disastrous change in policy, Judge. If you look, Donald Trump had obviously the wall, which we all supported, but also safe third-party agreements, as well as remain in Mexico. And guess what happened? The border was under control. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/140/698/603/718/856/original/dba8f3efa51afa27.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 11,204 - Reposts: 2,727 - Replies: 230 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.396Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T09:15:18.815Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary On the night of September 27–28, 2023 — hours after an appellate court denied his request to delay the New York civil fraud trial (set to begin October 2) and two days after Judge Engoron found him liable for fraud — Trump generated a multi-post cluster attacking DeSantis and Christie while entirely avoiding the legal crisis. This post weaponizes an apparent DeSantis video acknowledgment of Trump's border wall, pairing it with the sardonic "DeSanctimonious" label to perform dominance-via-rival-tribute. The psychological function is displacement: catastrophic legal shame energy is rechanneled into competitive devaluation of Republican primary opponents. Late-night timing (11:41 PM EDT), ALL CAPS, sardonic register, and intra-cluster self-reference confirm authentic authorship at high confidence. The narcissistic state is grandiose on the surface with vulnerability undercurrents — the sheer volume of the attack cluster is inconsistent with secure grandiosity and more consistent with defensive supply-seeking under acute stress. No danger indicators are present. Border claims embedded in the broader cluster are partially to mostly false, conflating Title 42's confounding role with wall construction efficacy, and obscuring the replacement-vs.-new-barrier distinction. # Analysis: ts_111140698717914920 — 2023-09-28 ## Overview This post is structurally a two-part rhetorical unit: (1) a quoted video clip in which an unspecified speaker attributes border-control success to Trump's wall, and (2) a sardonic three-word tag — "Thank you again, Ron DeSanctimonious!" — weaponizing the acknowledgment against a primary rival. The attached MP4 almost certainly contains DeSantis footage, likely from debate prep materials or a clip from the September 27 GOP debate at the Reagan Library (which Trump skipped). The post's functional purpose is competitive dominance signaling during a period of severe legal stress. --- ## Authorship **UTC 03:41:18 → EDT 23:41 (11:41 PM), September 27, 2023.** Trump was most likely traveling back from or had recently returned from Clinton Township, Michigan (counter-rally during the GOP debate). Eastern Daylight Time applies. 11:41 PM local time falls squarely in the authentic Trump nocturnal posting window (10 PM–4 AM). Additional markers: compressed phrasing, ALL CAPS emotional emphasis on "THE BORDER WAS UNDER CONTROL," sardonic nickname, minimal punctuation discipline. The "again" in "Thank you *again*" suggests this is part of a running exchange or a second use of the phrase within the posting cluster (confirmed by the standalone post "Thank you, Ron DeSanctimonious!" appearing in the same cluster). This internal self-reference is a hallmark of authentic Trump drafting. No aide would introduce cross-referencing sarcasm of this type. **High confidence: authentic Trump.** --- ## Contextual Backdrop and Trigger Analysis The psychological pressure context on this date is maximal: - **September 26:** Judge Engoron issued summary judgment finding Trump liable for fraud — a devastating legal blow. - **September 28:** Appellate court denied the request to delay the civil fraud trial, which was set to begin October 2. - **September 27:** GOP debate proceeded without Trump; rivals received national airtime. - **Biden's picket-line appearance:** Generated favorable press coverage for Trump's opponent. This is a multi-vector narcissistic stress event: legal exposure (shame/exposure injury), rival visibility (comparative status injury), and opponent's positive press cycle. The posting cluster response — attacking DeSantis twice, attacking Christie once, and posting a Newsweek article about DeSantis's insurance failures — represents a textbook supply-seeking and preemptive attack composite. The subject is not processing the fraud ruling directly in any of the visible cluster posts; instead, the entire posting session is a displacement maneuver. The legal catastrophe is managed by flooding the zone with competitor devaluation. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) - **Extraversion (high):** Public boasting via third-person quoted praise; sardonic public mockery; attention-commanding ALL CAPS. - **Agreeableness (very low):** Derisive nickname, zero acknowledgment of rival's own platform, purely instrumental use of DeSantis's words. - **Conscientiousness (low facet: deliberation):** Impulsive reactive structure; no apparent strategic consideration of whether calling attention to DeSantis's acknowledgment serves long-term competitive interests. - **Neuroticism (elevated: angry hostility, impulsiveness):** Late-night posting cluster across multiple rivals; the sardonic "again" reveals sustained activation. - **Openness (low: values rigidity):** Border wall as absolute symbol; zero nuance on policy complexity. --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations (Motives and Schemas) **Dominant motive: Power/Status (agency)** The post's functional logic is entirely agentic: extract an enemy's concession, reframe it as tribute, then mock the enemy for having been forced into concession. This is not persuasion; it is dominance theater. **Schema activation:** Zero-sum competitive hierarchy. DeSantis conceding a point is not a shared truth — it is a submission event to be displayed as a trophy. The "Thank you" framing ritualizes this: the rival is made to appear as a supplicant expressing gratitude to a superior. **Communion motives: absent.** No in-group warmth, no supporter-directed affect. The post generates crowd entertainment through enemy humiliation rather than shared belonging. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** The righteous and vindicated builder — whose work spoke for itself and which rivals are now *forced* to acknowledge. - **Redemption sequence:** Implicit: the wall was built; critics and rivals denied its effectiveness; now even rivals admit the border was under control. Arc = vindication through enemy testimony. - **Identity claim:** "I solved the border problem; everyone knows it, even my enemies." - **Contrasting other:** Ron DeSantis — positioned as a lesser figure whose only relevant function here is to validate Trump. - **Contamination sequence (implicit):** The current border situation (under Biden) = contamination of Trump's prior success. --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators ### Narcissistic Dynamics **Trigger:** Mixed — legal exposure (shame/narcissistic injury) driving displacement onto rival devaluation, combined with rival visibility (supply-competitive injury from the GOP debate occurring without Trump). The "again" is a tell: this is the second deployment of the "DeSanctimonious" label within hours, suggesting sustained activation rather than a one-off reaction. **Narcissistic state:** Grandiose-dominant surface with underlying vulnerability signaling. The cluster's frenzied multi-target quality (DeSantis twice, Christie once, insurance article as supplementary attack) is inconsistent with stable grandiosity — stable grandiosity doesn't require this volume. The clustering pattern is more consistent with grandiosity deployed *defensively* against vulnerability. **Narcissistic rage:** Present at low intensity. The "DeSanctimonious" nickname carries contemptuous energy, but this post is more schadenfreude than rage — pleasure at the rival being maneuvered into implicit acknowledgment. **Ego-syntonic sadism (mild):** The "Thank you *again*" formulation suggests enjoyment of the performance of having a rival pay tribute. There is delight in the structural humiliation even without explicit cruelty. ### Malignant Narcissism Sub-components - **Narcissistic features (high):** Grandiosity via third-person quoted praise; sense of having uniquely solved the border problem; interpersonal exploitation (using rival's words as weapons). - **Antisocial features (low-moderate in this post):** Contempt for rivals; no remorse for mockery. - **Paranoid features (low in this post):** Not primary driver here; the cluster overall suggests reactive activation but this specific post is attack-dominant rather than persecution-dominant. - **Sadism (mild):** Pleasurable display of rival's forced acknowledgment. ### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Displacement (neurotic):** Legal vulnerability → redirected aggression onto rivals. The fraud ruling is never addressed; rival attacks absorb the activation energy. 2. **Distortion (pathological):** "Safest and best Border in U.S. History" — reality is reshaped to meet grandiose self-narrative requirements. 3. **Rationalization (neurotic):** The border success claim is used to reframe the entire primary contest as illegitimate — why compete when the result is already proven? 4. **Devaluation (immature):** "DeSanctimonious" strips the rival of dignity; the sardonic register performs contempt as a dominance display. --- ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques - **Enemy-as-witness:** Most powerful propagandistically. When a credible opponent is forced to validate your claim, the claim acquires higher-than-normal authority. Quoting a rival's apparent concession bypasses the usual credibility discount applied to self-promotion. - **Mockery via derisive nickname:** Simultaneously attacks and diminishes; signals to the in-group that the subject has so thoroughly dominated the rival that even respectful engagement is unwarranted. - **Superlative inflation:** "THE BORDER WAS UNDER CONTROL" — present as absolute, established fact. - **ALL CAPS:** Functions as vocal emphasis, emotional register shift, and crowd-energy signal. - **Ironic "thank you":** Inverts the tribute dynamic; transforms DeSantis from rival into unwitting campaign surrogate. No dehumanizing language. No violent imagery. No stochastic terrorism indicators. --- ## Cognitive Status Language in this post is compressed but coherent. The structure is tight: quoted claim → sardonic response. No word-finding difficulty, no tangentiality, no temporal confusion. The "again" demonstrates intra-cluster memory. **No cognitive deviation from baseline in this post.** Short-form sardonic posts are among Trump's most cognitively stable outputs; they require minimal syntactic load and maximum emotional efficiency. Complexity score relative to baseline: within normal range for late-night short-form posts. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "THE BORDER WAS UNDER CONTROL under Trump" | **Half True** | Southwest border encounters did decline sharply in 2020, but the primary driver was Title 42 COVID-era restrictions (March 2020 onward) and reduced migration pressure. Pre-COVID 2019 saw record apprehensions exceeding 850,000 under Trump. Attributing the 2020 reduction primarily to the wall omits the dominant confounding variable. | | "Almost 500 miles of Wall built (from same-night cluster context)" | **Mostly False** | CBP data confirms approximately 452 miles of barrier constructed under Trump, but approximately 80% was replacement or reinforcement of existing structures, not new wall on previously unbarricaded terrain. The net new primary barrier figure is substantially lower. '500' is inflated and the framing obscures the replacement-vs.-new distinction. | Overall Veracity: 35% ## Gaslighting Indicators Minimal in this specific post. The use of a video clip to "prove" a claim via rival testimony is persuasive framing but not gaslighting per se. No denial of documented events, no DARVO in this specific post. --- ## Danger Assessment **None.** No eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no mobilization signals, no targets. Political mockery within normal competitive register. --- ## Summary On the night of September 27–28, 2023, hours after an appellate court denied his request to delay the New York civil fraud trial (set to begin October 2) and two days after Judge Engoron found him liable for fraud, Trump generated a multi-post cluster attacking Ron DeSantis and Chris Christie while entirely avoiding any direct engagement with the legal crisis. This post weaponizes an apparent DeSantis video acknowledgment of Trump's border wall, pairing it with the sardonic "DeSanctimonious" label to perform dominance-via-rival-tribute. The psychological function is displacement: catastrophic legal shame energy is rechanneled into competitive devaluation of Republican primary opponents. The late-night timing (11:41 PM EDT), ALL CAPS, sardonic register, and cross-reference to an earlier same-night post all confirm authentic authorship. The narcissistic state is grandiose on the surface with vulnerability undercurrents — the sheer volume of the night's attack posting is inconsistent with secure grandiosity and more consistent with defensive supply-seeking under acute stress. No danger indicators are present; this is competitive political theater, not incitement. The border claims embedded in the cluster are partially to mostly false, relying on Title 42's confounding role and the replacement-vs.-new-wall conflation. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 92%) ### Indicators - Late-night posting: 11:41 PM EDT, within authentic Trump nocturnal window - ALL CAPS emotional emphasis: 'THE BORDER WAS UNDER CONTROL' - Sardonic nickname ('DeSanctimonious') — signature Trump verbal brand - Self-referential 'again' cross-referencing a prior same-night post — authentic intra-session continuity - Compressed, unpolished quote-plus-reaction structure ## Psychological Profile ### State **Mixed State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Exposure (Multiple simultaneous triggers: appellate denial of fraud trial delay (legal exposure/shame), GOP debate providing rival visibility, Biden's favorable UAW press cycle) **Rage:** Intensity 35% targeting Ron DeSantis (primary); Chris Christie (parallel cluster post) - Proportionality: 30% Sentiment: -0.25 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Multi-post late-night cluster attacking multiple targets in rapid succession - Elevated competitive energy despite (or because of) acute legal stress - Cross-post self-referencing ('again') suggesting sustained session activation ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 78% - Antisocial: 38% - Paranoid: 22% - Sadism: 35% **Defense Mechanisms:** - displacement (neurotic) - distortion (pathological) - rationalization (neurotic) - devaluation (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 38% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Enemy-as-witness: rival's concession used as crowd entertainment and proof-of-dominance - Sardonic irony as in-group bonding — the base shares the contemptuous 'thank you' register - Nickname branding that signals the rival is beneath serious engagement ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._ > THE BORDER WAS UNDER CONTROL under Trump **HALF TRUE** Southwest border encounters did decline sharply in 2020, but the primary driver was Title 42 COVID-era restrictions (March 2020 onward) and reduced migration pressure. Pre-COVID 2019 saw record apprehensions exceeding 850,000 under Trump. Attributing the 2020 reduction primarily to the wall omits the dominant confounding variable. Sources: CBP historical encounter statistics; Title 42 implementation timeline > Almost 500 miles of Wall built (from same-night cluster context) **MOSTLY FALSE** CBP data confirms approximately 452 miles of barrier constructed under Trump, but approximately 80% was replacement or reinforcement of existing structures, not new wall on previously unbarricaded terrain. The net new primary barrier figure is substantially lower. '500' is inflated and the framing obscures the replacement-vs.-new distinction. Sources: CBP barrier construction tracker; USACE construction data Overall Veracity: 35% ## Tags - displacement (85%) - devaluation (75%) - desanctimonious (90%) - border_wall (80%) - late_night_authentic (92%) - supply_seeking (70%) - legal_stress_deflection (88%) - enemy_as_witness (85%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Legal Walls Close In, But Trump Builds Walls of Denial — A Night of Displacement After Rally and Debate** Trump spent the evening riding high off his Michigan counter-rally, flooding social media with gratitude posts, rival attacks, and fundraising links while completely ignoring the day's biggest story: his appeal to delay the New York civil fraud trial was denied. Instead of addressing his legal crisis, he launched a sustained late-night attack campaign against DeSantis and Christie following the GOP debate he skipped. The mood was forcibly upbeat and combative, with the sheer volume of posts and their pointed avoidance of legal reality suggesting a deliberate psychological redirect rather than genuine confidence. Full digest for 2023-09-28: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-28/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 28). “Donald Trump had obviously the WALL…and guess... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111140698717914920 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“Donald Trump had obviously the WALL…and guess what..." Truth Social, 28 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111140698717914920. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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