# Post ts_111180064801317609 - Post ID: `ts_111180064801317609` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-10-05T02:32:36.753Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111180064801317609 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111180064801317609/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111180064801317609.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > DeSanctimonious Repeatedly Praised Fauci Before His Relentless Bashing Began… ## What the media says **Video transcript** (0:42), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > and you have a lot of people there who are working very very hard and they're not getting a lot of sleep and they're really focusing on a big country that we have and and from from Dr. Birx to Dr. Fauci to the vice president who's worked very hard the Surgeon General they're really doing a good job and great I mean you call you know we've talked to Dr. Fauci number of times talked to you know Surgeon US Surgeon General number of times VP you know they've been really really good and really really helpful I would defer to people like Dr. Fauci I think Dr. Fauci said nationwide you're looking at six to eight weeks of where we're really going to be having to dig in here ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/180/064/648/526/247/original/887fc4f0f5666d06.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 5,482 - Reposts: 1,687 - Replies: 241 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.395Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T10:10:59.731Z (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 10:32 PM local time (New York, during the civil fraud trial period), this is a high-confidence authentic Trump attack on DeSantis framing him as a hypocrite on Fauci. The post's primary clinical feature is textbook projection: Trump's own Fauci arc (praised in 2020, attacked later) is nearly identical to the one he weaponizes against DeSantis. By attacking this inconsistency in his rival, he displaces his own disowned narrative inconsistency outward. The "DeSanctimonious" nickname — deployed with evident relish — functions simultaneously as mockery, identity theft, and devaluation mechanism. Triggered by DeSantis polling data (prior post links a poll comparison article), this is a grandiose-state supply-restoration maneuver: competitive anxiety converted into dominance display. The adjacent posts this evening — defending his vaccine record while attacking DeSantis for Fauci positioning — reveal logically contradictory claims held simultaneously without acknowledgment, consistent with splitting. The trailing ellipsis is characteristic, the timing authentic, and the rhetorical structure competent. No cognitive deviation from baseline; no danger indicators. Hypomanic posting volume (five-plus posts in a single evening session) is mild and consistent with trial-period stress plus primary competition anxiety. Factual basis of the attack is mostly accurate; the hypocrisy is real but applies symmetrically to the attacker. # Analysis: ts_111180064801317609 — "DeSanctimonious Repeatedly Praised Fauci…" (2023-10-05) ## Authorship Attribution **Local time:** UTC 02:32 → EDT (UTC−4) = **10:32 PM on October 4, 2023**. Late-evening timing is squarely within authentic Trump's nocturnal posting window. Context: Trump was in New York for his civil fraud trial (walked out mid-afternoon October 4, per known events). The post uses his self-coined "DeSanctimonious" nickname — a signature Trump rhetorical invention — and features his characteristic trailing ellipsis. Punchy, adversarial, emotionally reactive content. **High confidence: authentic Trump.** --- ## Level 1 — Dispositional Traits (Big Five) - **Extraversion (high):** Assertive, combative, dominant framing. Frontal attack posture. - **Agreeableness (very low):** Zero deference to a fellow Republican primary opponent. Pure competitive devaluation. - **Conscientiousness (low):** Impulsive, reactive; no nuance, no policy substance — just a character hit. - **Neuroticism (elevated):** Hostile affect channeled against a rival threatening his primary standing. The adjacent posts (DeSantis polling articles, Speaker speculation) confirm sustained competitive anxiety this evening. - **Openness (low):** Binary framing — hypocrite vs. authentic. No complexity entertained. --- ## Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motives dominate:** - **Power/dominance:** Reasserting alpha status in the Republican primary field. - **Status protection:** The poll links in prior posts signal threat awareness. This post is a direct status-suppression maneuver targeting the nearest rival. - **Control:** By defining DeSantis through hypocrisy, Trump seizes narrative control over DeSantis's Fauci record. **Communion motives:** Absent. No warmth, in-group bonding, or audience intimacy. Purely competitive. **Schemas revealed:** - *Self:* Consistent, authentic, the original — implicit contrast to DeSantis's alleged flip-flopping. - *Other (DeSantis):* Opportunistic, inauthentic, derivative. - *World:* A dominance contest where inconsistency = weakness = disqualification. --- ## Level 3 — Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** The authentic one — implicitly steady and consistent (even if factually contestable; see below). - **Contrasting other:** DeSantis framed as a sanctimonious hypocrite — praised Fauci when convenient, bashed him for political gain later. - **Contamination narrative projected onto DeSantis:** Pure → corrupted. Started good (praised Fauci) → became dishonest (relentless bashing for political positioning). - **Identity claims:** Trump implicitly casts himself as the original COVID skeptic and the authentic voice — even as he simultaneously defends his vaccine operation in adjacent posts ("We worked very hard to get those vaccines…"). This creates an internal narrative contradiction: Trump is claiming vaccine credit while using Fauci-bashing inconsistency as a weapon, suggesting the "DeSantis hypocrisy" frame is instrumentalized rather than principled. --- ## Level 4 — Clinical Indicators ### Malignant Narcissism **Narcissistic features (high):** Grandiosity via devaluation of rival. Entitlement to the dominant framing. Lack of empathy — no acknowledgment of DeSantis's own COVID record complexity. **Antisocial features (moderate):** Deceitfulness through selective framing (see Projection, below). Contempt for political norms of same-party civility. **Paranoid features (mild-moderate):** Sustained scrutiny of a primary opponent who polled within competitive range. The volume of DeSantis-related posts on this evening suggests hypervigilance to the rival's positioning. **Ego-syntonic sadism (mild):** The "DeSanctimonious" label is deployed with obvious relish. The cruelty of the nickname is not incidental — it's the point. --- ## Psychological Dynamics ### Trigger **Narcissistic injury + preemptive attack.** The prior post is a link to a Trump vs. DeSantis polling story in Florida/Iowa/New Hampshire. Unfavorable or threatening poll data activated competitive anxiety → attack sequence. This is a *supply-restoration* maneuver (reasserting superiority) following perceived threat. ### Narcissistic State **Grandiose.** Expansive, offensive posture. No victimhood framing in this post. The vulnerable state appears in adjacent trial-related posts; here he has pivoted to dominance. ### Narcissistic Rage - **Present:** Mild-to-moderate. Controlled; the rage is sublimated into rhetorical weaponry rather than expressed directly. - **Proportionality:** Disproportionate to the actual trigger (a poll article) — routine primary competition produces a character assassination attempt involving a video compilation. - **Target:** DeSantis specifically; Fauci instrumentalized as the vehicle. --- ## Defense Mechanisms **Projection (immature, Level 2) — primary defense:** Trump's own relationship with Fauci followed a nearly identical arc: praised Fauci in early 2020 ("brilliant," "wonderful"), then turned hostile as COVID became politically costly. By accusing DeSantis of hypocrisy, Trump projects his own inconsistency onto his rival. This is projection in its textbook form — the very trait being attacked ("relentless bashing" after prior praise) describes Trump's own conduct. **Rationalization (neurotic, Level 3):** The attack is presented as principled accountability (exposing a flip-flopper) when it is transparently competitive threat-suppression. **Devaluation (immature, Level 2):** "DeSanctimonious" encapsulates splitting — DeSantis is cast as wholly fraudulent. The nickname itself is a devaluation mechanism, stripping DeSantis of his name (identity) and replacing it with a satirical label. --- ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques - **Ad hominem:** Direct character attack rather than policy disagreement. - **Hypocrisy accusation framing:** Classic opposition research deployment — find an inconsistency, weaponize it. - **Nickname weaponization:** "DeSanctimonious" does multiple jobs simultaneously: mockery, identity theft (renaming), and virtue signaling (implying pretentious piety). A sophisticated rhetorical device despite its seeming crudeness. - **Video "receipts" as evidence:** The attached MP4 (likely a compilation of DeSantis praising Fauci) lends pseudo-empirical weight to what is essentially a rhetorical maneuver. Format echoes opposition research. - **Ellipsis trailing ("…"):** Creates conspiratorial intimacy — invites the reader to fill in the implication ("…and isn't that telling?"). - **Superlative escalation:** "Repeatedly" and "Relentless" amplify both the frequency and intensity of the accusation. --- ## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion **Gaslighting present (selective).** The post constructs a reality in which DeSantis's Fauci trajectory is uniquely hypocritical — omitting that Trump's own Fauci arc was substantially similar. This is not confabulation (cognitive) but deliberate selective framing. The adjacent post defending Trump's vaccine record ("We worked very hard…") further reveals the constructed narrative: Trump simultaneously owns the vaccine legacy and attacks DeSantis for insufficient Fauci-skepticism — logically contradictory positions held simultaneously and presented without acknowledgment of the contradiction. --- ## Cognitive Status Markers **Compared to known 1990s–early 2000s baseline:** No marked deviation. The "DeSanctimonious" coinage demonstrates intact phonemic creativity. Sentence structure is brief but coherent. Trailing ellipsis and capitalization are stylistic constants, not cognitive markers. **No significant cognitive change indicators in this post.** --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "DeSantis repeatedly praised Fauci" | **Mostly True** | DeSantis followed federal COVID guidance in early 2020 and did not publicly criticize Fauci; video clips documented general support for the administration COVID response. 'Repeatedly' may overstate enthusiasm but the directional claim holds. | | "DeSantis's bashing of Fauci was relentless" | **True** | DeSantis called for Fauci's firing, sold 'Don't Fauci My Florida' merchandise, and made Fauci-criticism a centerpiece of his 2021-2023 political brand and presidential primary campaign. | Overall Veracity: 90% ## Order/Chaos Dynamics Trump positions himself as **order restorer** within the Republican primary ecosystem — the original, authentic COVID contrarian, against which DeSantis is cast as a chaotic opportunist who changed positions. The post restructures the hierarchy: DeSantis is diminished (derivative, inconsistent), Trump elevated (original, consistent). --- ## Jungian Archetypal Analysis **Trickster** (primary): The nickname and the video "receipts" are classic Trickster moves — expose the pretender through his own words. Disrupts DeSantis's carefully constructed COVID-warrior identity. **Warrior** (secondary): Persistent combat framing. Every rival encounter is a battle for dominance. **Shadow projection:** Trump's own inconsistency on Fauci is the disowned Shadow here, projected wholesale onto DeSantis and attacked as intolerable in the other. --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: None.** This is intra-party primary competition rhetoric. No violent imagery, no dehumanizing language, no mobilization language. Attack is reputational, not physical. --- ## Hypomanic Indicators **Mild.** The volume of posts on the evening of October 4 (at least five posts in the same session, including multiple DeSantis-related links plus the Speaker speculation content) suggests elevated posting energy, possibly driven by trial stress combined with primary anxiety. Not outside Trump's established range but worth tracking longitudinally. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 88%) ### Indicators - 10:32 PM local EDT timing — squarely in authentic Trump nocturnal window - Self-coined 'DeSanctimonious' nickname — signature Trump rhetorical invention - Trailing ellipsis style consistent with authentic posts - Brief, punchy, emotionally reactive — no polish - Emotionally competitive content matching same-session DeSantis poll anxiety ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (DeSantis polling competitiveness) **Rage:** Intensity 45% targeting Ron DeSantis - Proportionality: 25% Sentiment: -0.58 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Five or more posts in single evening session - Multiple DeSantis attack vectors deployed simultaneously (polling link, Fauci video, Speaker speculation) - Late-night posting cluster during high-stress trial period ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 72% - Antisocial: 38% - Paranoid: 32% - Sadism: 30% **Defense Mechanisms:** - projection (immature) - devaluation (immature) - rationalization (neurotic) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 32% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Conspiratorial ellipsis inviting audience to complete the implication - Video 'receipts' format creates pseudo-empirical intimacy with followers ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - Selective framing presents DeSantis's Fauci arc as uniquely hypocritical while omitting Trump's own near-identical trajectory - Simultaneous adjacent post defending vaccine record creates internally contradictory reality frame presented without acknowledgment ## Fact Checks (2) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._ > DeSantis repeatedly praised Fauci **MOSTLY TRUE** DeSantis followed federal COVID guidance in early 2020 and did not publicly criticize Fauci; video clips documented general support for the administration COVID response. 'Repeatedly' may overstate enthusiasm but the directional claim holds. Sources: General knowledge of DeSantis's documented 2020 COVID posture > DeSantis's bashing of Fauci was relentless **TRUE** DeSantis called for Fauci's firing, sold 'Don't Fauci My Florida' merchandise, and made Fauci-criticism a centerpiece of his 2021-2023 political brand and presidential primary campaign. Sources: General knowledge of DeSantis's documented 2021-2023 anti-Fauci campaign Overall Veracity: 90% ## Tags - desantis-attack (100%) - fauci-weaponization (80%) - primary-competition (90%) - projection (90%) - nickname-weaponization (85%) - authentic-trump (88%) - grandiose-state (75%) - opposition-research-format (70%) - selective-framing (65%) - trial-period (60%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Trial Fury: Trump's 17-Post Blitz Against NY Fraud Case Peaks at "High" Danger With Racial Targeting of AG James** Trump spent the day consumed by his New York civil fraud trial, launching repeated attacks on Attorney General Letitia James and Judge Engoron while cycling between defiance and victimhood. The morning brought the sharpest rage, with racially coded nicknames and accusations of persecution that prompted a "high" danger assessment. Between trial volleys, he displaced anxiety onto Republican rivals DeSantis, Haley, and Senator Cassidy, claimed credit for Biden's border wall decision, and floated the fantasy of becoming House Speaker. Seventeen posts across the day -- elevated but not unprecedented during legal crises -- reflected a man under sustained institutional threat channeling that pressure into every available target. Full digest for 2023-10-05: https://trump.fm/date/2023-10-05/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, October 5). DeSanctimonious Repeatedly Praised Fauci Before... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111180064801317609 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "DeSanctimonious Repeatedly Praised Fauci Before His..." Truth Social, 5 Oct. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111180064801317609. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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