# Post ts_111140899470074678 - Post ID: `ts_111140899470074678` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-09-28T04:32:21.226Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111140899470074678 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111140899470074678/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111140899470074678.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Ron DeSanctimonious: “But let me tell you about the President (Trump)…” ## What the media says **Video transcript** (2:07), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > But let me tell you about the president, when we had a hurricane hit northwest Florida, a lot of people had forgotten about that. Those folks were really, really in dire straits. I went up to the Oval Office, and even though a lot of people told him don't do anything, just let it go, he was right there standing behind the people of northwest Florida. He has helped rejuvenate that area. He saved Tyndall Air Force Base, it's going to come back bigger than ever. Very important for our military. When we were trying to get Floridians access to cheaper prescription drugs, we had an avenue to let people buy them in Canada, because it's about a third of the price a lot of times. And everyone said, "No, you can't do it, you can't do it." I went up and met with the president, and he said, "No, no, no, we're doing it." And so they're in the process of putting that through right now. President Trump has stood with our communities in south Florida, Cuban Americans, Venezuelan Americans, to stand for freedom in this hemisphere, and stand against the dictatorship in places like Caracas and Havana. And the president has stood. We're one of the most military and veteran-friendly states in the country. He has stood by our veterans, and he has stood by our military. And so our success in Florida, obviously we've got a lot of great people in this state, but we have a president who not only understands Florida, he supports what we're doing here. I got to bug him now about maybe locating the space command in Florida at some point. I know the Air Force doesn't want it, but he makes his own decisions, as we've seen. So thank you, Mr. President, for being a good friend of Florida, and God bless you, God bless Florida, and God bless the United States of America. Thank you, guys. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/140/899/287/327/897/original/42160d89d64235c8.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 14,604 - Reposts: 3,962 - Replies: 553 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.396Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T09:27:08.311Z (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 brief post is a compact example of Trump's rival-management repertoire: the deployment of a pre-coined derogatory epithet ('DeSanctimonious') to frame a political rival's statement before the audience can process it independently. Posted at 12:32 AM EDT after Trump's Michigan counter-rally during the second GOP debate, the timing reflects characteristic late-night reactive monitoring of a competitor he publicly declined to acknowledge. The surrounding post cluster reveals the full ritual: contemptuous labeling → rival's quote → sarcastic 'Thank you' → fundraising CTAs. This sequence converts competitive threat into narcissistic supply and transactional revenue in three steps. The trigger is the ongoing primary rivalry with DeSantis, sharpened by the debate Trump skipped — an event that structurally positions him as still-dominant (by absence) while generating evident competitive anxiety visible in his midnight social media activity. Psychologically, the maneuver is consistent with the grandiose narcissistic state: the rival cannot truly be ignored (monitoring is evident) but must be preemptively devalued. The nickname encodes a specific character critique — sanctimony — suggesting Trump's underlying irritant is DeSantis's moralistic framing. No cognitive markers, danger indicators, or gaslighting patterns are present. This post is unremarkable individually but significant as a data point in Trump's documented pattern of rival devaluation and supply extraction. # Psychological Analysis: ts_111140899470074678 **Platform:** Truth Social | **Date:** 2023-09-28 | **UTC:** 04:32:21 | **Local (EDT):** 12:32 AM --- ## Authorship Attribution **Score: 0.85 — High confidence: Authentic Trump** UTC 04:32 converts to 12:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time. Trump was almost certainly in or returning from Clinton Township, Michigan, where he held his counter-rally at Drake Enterprises during the second GOP debate. This post falls squarely within his documented late-night posting window. Stylometric markers strongly favor authenticity: - **'DeSanctimonious'** is Trump's personally coined portmanteau — combining DeSantis with 'sanctimonious.' This epithet is a fingerprint; no aide would introduce it independently. - The post is embedded in a rapid-fire cluster of posts (multiple CTAs, sarcastic 'Thank you,' this quote-framing post) consistent with stream-of-consciousness late-night activity. - Terse, reactive, non-explanatory format. Aides write announcements; Trump writes provocations. --- ## Situational Context The second GOP primary debate (September 27, Simi Valley) proceeded without Trump for the second consecutive time. Trump's Michigan counter-rally was a dominance display — holding a competing event and capturing blue-collar/UAW media attention. However, monitoring and reacting to debate content at midnight reveals that the rival he publicly dismissed retains psychological salience. This is the grandiose-vulnerable oscillation made behavioral. Compounding pressures in the same week: Judge Engoron's summary judgment ruling on NY fraud (September 26), appellate denial of his delay motion (September 28), and trial commencement October 2. These legal pressures provide background stress that may amplify competitive sensitivity. --- ## Multi-Level Personality Analysis ### Level 1: Dispositional Traits **Dominant facet: Extraversion/Assertiveness (very high)** The post performs confident contempt — it does not defend, explain, or argue. It simply labels and presents, assuming the audience will follow. This is assertiveness as social dominance. **Agreeableness (very low)** 'DeSanctimonious' encodes contempt and devaluation as the default relational stance toward a rival. No charitable framing; the label predetermines how the video is received. **Openness (low)** Rigid nickname-based categorization. DeSantis is 'DeSanctimonious' — a fixed, closed schema applied regardless of what the rival actually says. ### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Dominant motive: Power/Dominance (very high)** The post exists to establish hierarchical superiority. DeSantis references Trump → Trump reframes the reference as tribute via sarcastic 'Thank you' → Trump collects supply. Every element serves dominance maintenance. **Communion (near-absent)** No warmth, solidarity, or care signals. The audience is activated as a contempt-sharing collective rather than engaged as community. **Schema:** The world is a dominance hierarchy. Rivals define themselves against Trump, confirming his centrality. Sarcasm is the appropriate register for acknowledging inferiors. ### Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** The indispensable reference point — the figure rivals cannot stop talking about even when trying to defeat him. Trump casts himself not as a fighter here but as a gravitational center. **Narrative sequence:** Redemption. The debate (potential contamination: rivals gaining ground without him) is converted into confirmation of Trump's centrality. **Identity claim:** 'The President' — the parenthetical '(Trump)' in the quote signals Trump's insistence on this title as present reality, not historical reference. **Contrasting other:** DeSantis, coded as sanctimonious (self-righteous, moralistic). The specific critique embedded in the nickname suggests Trump's particular irritant is DeSantis's evangelical/moralistic political framing, which Trump finds performative. --- ## Clinical Analysis ### Narcissistic Dynamics **State:** Grandiose **Trigger:** Unfavorable comparison / competitive threat (DeSantis at GOP debate) **Mechanism:** Preemptive devaluation. By labeling DeSantis before presenting his words, Trump preempts independent audience evaluation. **Rage:** Absent in this post. The tone is contemptuous amusement — consistent with grandiose (not wounded) narcissistic state. Trump performs confidence, not defense. ### Defense Mechanisms **Devaluation (immature):** 'DeSanctimonious' renders DeSantis's statement less worthy of serious consideration before it is heard. The mechanism is pre-cognitive — it operates on the audience's interpretive frame. **Rationalization (neurotic):** The companion 'Thank you, Ron DeSanctimonious!' converts whatever DeSantis said into apparent validation. If DeSantis praised Trump, it confirms Trump's greatness; if DeSantis criticized Trump, it confirms Trump's centrality. The frame is unfalsifiable — a rationalization structure protecting the grandiose self-image from any informational threat. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis **Epithet/labeling:** 'DeSanctimonious' as framing device — preemptively encodes how subsequent content should be received. Attacks character (sanctimony = false piety) rather than argument, sustained ad hominem. **Irony/sarcasm:** The 'Thank you' post deploys sarcasm to reverse the valence of DeSantis's statement. Rhetorically efficient: requires no engagement with content. **Parasocial in-group signaling:** The nickname assumes audience recognition, rewarding loyal followers who 'get it' and implicitly testing newcomers. **Supply chain conversion:** The post cluster immediately channels emotional activation (contempt at DeSantis, amusement at the 'Thank you' joke) into fundraising CTAs. Architecture: engage contempt → harvest energy → convert to dollars. --- ## Cognitive Status Insufficient linguistic data in this single-line post for meaningful cognitive assessment. No markers of word-finding difficulty, paraphasia, tangentiality, or confabulation present. Post brevity is consistent with intentional rhetorical economy. **No deviation from baseline.** --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: None** Intra-party political rivalry rhetoric. No eliminationist language, dehumanization, violent imagery, or stochastic terrorism indicators present. Contempt is directed at a political peer in an electoral competition. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "DeSantis made a statement referencing Trump beginning 'But let me tell you about the President (Trump)...'" | **Unverifiable** | The quoted text introduces a video clip whose full content is inaccessible. The parenthetical '(Trump)' may be Trump's own editorial clarification inserted to identify the referent. Without the video, the full context — whether critical, complimentary, or mixed — cannot be assessed. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 85%) ### Indicators - UTC 04:32 = 12:32 AM EDT — late night/early morning in Eastern timezone, strongly consistent with authentic Trump posting pattern - Use of 'DeSanctimonious' — Trump's own coined derogatory nickname, not aide vernacular - Terse, punchy format with embedded video clip — characteristic of Trump's reactive posting style - Part of a rapid-fire series of posts (rally fundraising CTAs, sarcastic 'Thank you') suggesting stream-of-consciousness session - No polished event-announcement formatting; feels reactive to real-time media consumption ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (Ron DeSantis / second GOP debate) Sentiment: -0.25 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 75% - Antisocial: 20% - Paranoid: 20% - Sadism: 30% **Defense Mechanisms:** - devaluation (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 20% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Invites audience into a shared contempt ritual via nickname recognition - Deploys rival's own words as a prop — positions followers as in-group who 'get the joke' - Fundraising CTAs in companion posts convert emotional activation into transactional engagement ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > DeSantis made a statement referencing Trump beginning 'But let me tell you about the President (Trump)...' **UNVERIFIABLE** The quoted text introduces a video clip whose full content is inaccessible. The parenthetical '(Trump)' may be Trump's own editorial clarification inserted to identify the referent. Without the video, the full context — whether critical, complimentary, or mixed — cannot be assessed. Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - DeSantis rivalry (90%) - nickname deployment (85%) - devaluation defense (80%) - late-night posting (75%) - supply extraction (75%) - counter-rally (65%) - fundraising conversion (60%) - grandiose state (70%) ## 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). Ron DeSanctimonious: “But let me tell you about... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111140899470074678 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Ron DeSanctimonious: “But let me tell you about the..." Truth Social, 28 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111140899470074678. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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