# Post ts_111234552180619005 - Post ID: `ts_111234552180619005` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-10-14T17:29:28.185Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111234552180619005 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111234552180619005/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111234552180619005.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Ron DeSanctimonious has the Poll numbers of a wounded bird falling from the sky. I am up on him by 57 points, and going higher. He has proven to be a terrible and inept candidate who even fought Social Security and MediCare. He will SOON be out of money and dropping out of the race for President… ## What the media says **Video transcript** (1:07), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Rhonda Sanctimonius has the poll numbers of a wounded bird falling from the sky. It's pretty sad to watch. I am up on him by more than 57 points, and it's going higher and higher every day. He has proven to be a terrible and inept candidate who even fought Social Security and Medicare, wanted to raise the minimum age to 70. He will soon be out of money and dropping out of the race for president after having single-handedly gotten him elected governor with no thanks or glory. It has been a beautiful thing to watch him not do so well. So I say good luck, Ron, but I think you're pretty much finished. The people aren't buying what you're saying, and we have to unify our party, get everybody together. The debates have been a disaster, the lowest rating that there's ever been for debates. The lowest rating ever. Think of that. We have to unify our party, and we have to focus on beating Crooked Joe Biden. We have to focus on making America great again. Thank you very much. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/234/552/051/413/163/original/97a0dcd868c7c725.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 11,201 - Reposts: 2,800 - Replies: 379 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.394Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T12:38:58.061Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Post constitutes a textbook grandiose narcissistic dominance display targeting DeSantis during an active primary campaign. The primary trigger is the ongoing implicit challenge of DeSantis's continued candidacy — a competitive narcissistic injury — resolved through wholesale devaluation: the rival is reduced to a 'wounded bird falling from the sky,' stripped of agency and framed as already-dead politically. The central metaphor is clinically notable because it appears verbatim in a separate same-day post about Governor Reynolds, indicating mild perseveration — the phrase emerged from an affective charge and was recycled rather than freshly composed. Defense mechanisms are predominantly devaluation and distortion (the 57-point precision claim, the certainty of DeSantis's imminent exit). The Social Security/Medicare attack introduces a policy legitimizing frame atop an emotionally reactive base. Context amplifies the displacement reading: Trump was simultaneously undergoing a civil fraud trial in Manhattan and a rally in Wolfeboro, NH. The focus on primary dominance display while under significant legal stress is consistent with known patterns of narcissistic displacement — channeling threat-response energy toward a domain where dominance can be confidently asserted. Authorship is assessed as highly authentic based on stylistic fingerprint. Danger level: none. Cognitive status: stable relative to 2023 baseline. Mild hypomanic coloring from the volume and affective pressure of same-day posting across multiple subjects. # Psychological Analysis: Trump Truth Social Post — 2023-10-14 ## Overview This post is a competitive devaluation of Ron DeSantis during an active Republican primary contest. It was posted at 13:29 EDT while Trump was in Wolfeboro, NH for a campaign rally — an active posting environment consistent with authentic composition. The post is one of multiple DeSantis-targeting posts on this day, and shares a verbatim metaphor ("wounded bird falling from the sky") with a same-day post about Governor Reynolds, flagging mild perseveration. --- ## Authorship Attribution (Confidence: High — Authentic Trump) **Score: 0.85/1.0 (strongly authentic)** The stylistic fingerprint is unambiguous: - **"DeSanctimonious"** — exclusively authentic Trump coinage, never aide-deployed - **ALL CAPS "SOON"** — emotional emphasis marker - **Trailing ellipsis** — habitual authentic punctuation - **Repeated 'wounded bird' metaphor** — verbatim reuse across same-day posts signals spontaneous affective phrase rather than staff-crafted messaging - **Hyperbolic false precision** ("57 points, and going higher") The 13:29 EDT timing is mildly ambiguous (business hours), but Trump posts prolifically on rally days and the emotional reactivity of the content is inconsistent with aide composition. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five Expression) | Trait | Direction | Evidence | |-------|-----------|---------| | Extraversion | Very High | Dominant, assertive, broadcasting certainty | | Agreeableness | Very Low | Contempt, devaluation, zero empathy for rival | | Conscientiousness | Low-Moderate | Impulsive posting, unpolished claims | | Neuroticism | Moderate-Elevated | Hostile competitive affect | | Openness | Low | Rigid binary of winner/loser, no complexity | **Dominant facet:** Assertiveness-dominance, with low agreeableness driving the devaluation content. --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations — Motives **Agency: 0.91 / Communion: 0.04** This post is almost purely agency-motivated: power, status, competitive dominance. The political opponent is not engaged substantively but is processed as a dominance object to be publicly degraded. The Social Security/Medicare line introduces a brief policy dimension, but it functions rhetorically (delegitimization) rather than as genuine policy engagement. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity - **Protagonist role:** The inevitable dominant winner, surveying a field of already-defeated challengers from a position of unchallenged height - **Narrative sequence:** Redemption framing — Trump's primary as a restoration of rightful order against an upstart who briefly threatened but is now falling - **Contrasting other:** DeSantis as the archetypal failed rival — "terrible," "inept," "wounded," financially dying - **Identity claims:** "I am dominant by 57 points," "I am going higher," "I predicted this correctly" The protagonist presents himself as a king surveying fallen challengers — not threatened, merely observing the natural order reassert itself. --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators ### Narcissistic Dynamics **Trigger:** Narcissistic injury through competitive comparison — DeSantis's continued candidacy implicitly challenges Trump's inevitability narrative. The response is grandiose counter-assertion rather than rage, placing this in the comfortable-dominance zone of the narcissistic spectrum. **Narcissistic state:** Grandiose — expansive, dismissive, self-referential, certain. **Malignant narcissism component scores:** - Narcissistic features: 0.78 — strong grandiosity, contempt, entitlement - Antisocial features: 0.25 — mild disregard for norms (false precision, reputation attack) - Paranoid features: 0.15 — minimal in this post - Ego-syntonic sadism: 0.35 — mild pleasure in the public humiliation framing ("proven to be terrible") ### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Devaluation (Immature):** "Wounded bird falling from the sky," "terrible and inept candidate" — wholesale reduction of a political rival to a pathetic, dying creature strips him of competitive agency 2. **Distortion (Pathological):** The 57-point claim is stated with false certainty; the prediction of DeSantis's imminent exit is presented as fact 3. **Splitting (Immature):** Binary construction — Trump is surging, DeSantis is dying. No middle ground exists. ### Possible Displacement Notable contextual observation: Trump was simultaneously undergoing a civil fraud trial in Manhattan (Judge Engoron presiding, with Trump organization accountants testifying and gag order violations accumulating). The emphatic dominance display in the political arena — "I am up, and going higher" — during a period of significant legal vulnerability is consistent with narcissistic displacement: channeling threat-response energy toward a domain where dominance can be confidently asserted. ### Cognitive Status **Mild perseveration flagged:** "Wounded bird falling from the sky" appears verbatim in a same-day post about Governor Reynolds and again here. This is the most clinically notable feature of this post — the phrase was emotionally resonant enough to be recycled within hours rather than freshly composed for each target. This falls within the mild range of perseveration and is consistent with known Trump compositional patterns (phrase fixation), not indicative of significant cognitive change. No other cognitive markers detected. Baseline: stable. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis **Primary device:** Zoomorphic metaphor — reducing DeSantis to a "wounded bird falling from the sky" is rhetorically efficient and viscerally memorable. It conveys helplessness, decline, pathos, and inevitability in a single image. **Secondary devices:** - Nickname as embedded ad hominem ("DeSanctimonious" — moral failing baked into the name) - Hyperbolic false precision ("57 points") — numerical specificity signals authority without inviting scrutiny - Prolepsis — predicting DeSantis's exit as certain and imminent - ALL CAPS escalation ("SOON") - Trailing ellipsis as rhetorical restraint — implying obvious devastation too complete to enumerate **Propaganda techniques:** - Firehose of messaging: same 'wounded bird' image saturated across multiple same-day posts - Bandwagon via poll dominance framing - Character assassination layered with policy delegitimization (Social Security/Medicare claim) --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "I am up on him by 57 points" | **Mostly True** | October 2023 RealClearPolitics averages showed Trump at approximately 58-62% and DeSantis at 11-14% in Republican primary polling, yielding gaps of roughly 45-50 points. '57 points' likely reflects a specific favorable poll or slight cherry-picking, but the general magnitude of dominance is accurate. | | "He even fought Social Security and Medicare" | **Half True** | As a House member, DeSantis voted for Republican Study Committee budgets that proposed restructuring Medicare and Social Security, and co-sponsored fiscal reform legislation critics characterized as threatening entitlements. However, 'fought' overstates it — DeSantis did not campaign against these programs; the votes were procedural/budgetary. The attack has factual substrate but is rhetorically inflated. | | "He will SOON be out of money" | **Mostly True** | DeSantis's campaign had been burning through cash at an alarming rate throughout 2023. By Q3 2023, serious reporting confirmed his campaign was cutting staff and reducing spending to manage runway. He ultimately suspended his campaign in January 2024. The prediction was directionally accurate. | Overall Veracity: 70% ## Archetypal Reading **Primary archetype:** King/Alpha — commanding from unchallenged height, declaring rivals defeated, asserting natural order **Secondary archetype:** Warrior — competitive combat framing, political adversary as enemy to be destroyed **Shadow projection:** The 'wounded bird' may project Trump's own legal vulnerability onto DeSantis — the truly embattled figure at this moment is Trump (active fraud trial), yet the post constructs DeSantis as the fragile, falling one --- ## Order/Chaos Dynamics - **Positioning:** Order attacker within his own party — disrupting DeSantis's political standing - **Hierarchy dynamics:** Elevated: Trump as inevitable primary winner. Diminished: DeSantis as failed, outclassed challenger - **Grievance:** DeSantis's continued candidacy as an insult to Trump's dominance — the grievance is competitive, not ideological - **Who gets order:** Trump's coalition and the "true" conservative base - **Who gets chaos:** DeSantis's campaign apparatus and supporters --- ## Danger Assessment **Level: None** No dehumanizing language, eliminationist rhetoric, or stochastic terrorism indicators. This is intra-party competitive politics. The zoomorphic metaphor ('wounded bird') is degrading but does not approach eliminationist territory. --- ## Summary This post represents a characteristic grandiose dominance display in competitive mode, highly authentic in composition, with mild perseveration of the 'wounded bird' metaphor as its most clinically notable feature. The displacement hypothesis — emphatic political dominance assertion during active legal jeopardy — adds contextual depth. Cognitive status stable relative to 2023 baseline. Danger: none. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 85%) ### Indicators - Signature nickname 'DeSanctimonious' — exclusively authentic Trump coinage - ALL CAPS 'SOON' for emotional emphasis - Trailing ellipsis — habitual authentic punctuation pattern - Vivid metaphorical language ('wounded bird falling from the sky') appearing verbatim in same-day post about Reynolds, suggesting spontaneous repetition of a phrase that emotionally landed - Stream-of-consciousness hyperbole ('I am up on him by 57 points, and going higher') ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (DeSantis's continued candidacy and implicit competitive challenge to Trump's inevitability narrative) Sentiment: -0.45 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Elevated self-confidence significantly exceeding the evidentiary basis - Multiple rapid-fire posts on the same day covering disparate subjects - Repetitive deployment of a single charged metaphor across posts suggesting pressured, affect-driven composition - Dismissive certainty about rival's imminent defeat — grandiose forecasting ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 78% - Antisocial: 25% - Paranoid: 15% - Sadism: 35% **Defense Mechanisms:** - devaluation (immature) - distortion (pathological) - splitting (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 38% Cognitive Markers: - perseveration **Parasocial Techniques:** - Predictive certainty ('He will SOON be out of money') invites audience to share Trump's confident dismissal as shared social reality - Poll number citation as loyalty signal — accepting the 57-point figure requires accepting Trump's dominance narrative ## Fact Checks (3) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._ > I am up on him by 57 points **MOSTLY TRUE** October 2023 RealClearPolitics averages showed Trump at approximately 58-62% and DeSantis at 11-14% in Republican primary polling, yielding gaps of roughly 45-50 points. '57 points' likely reflects a specific favorable poll or slight cherry-picking, but the general magnitude of dominance is accurate. Sources: RealClearPolitics Republican primary polling averages, October 2023 > He even fought Social Security and Medicare **HALF TRUE** As a House member, DeSantis voted for Republican Study Committee budgets that proposed restructuring Medicare and Social Security, and co-sponsored fiscal reform legislation critics characterized as threatening entitlements. However, 'fought' overstates it — DeSantis did not campaign against these programs; the votes were procedural/budgetary. The attack has factual substrate but is rhetorically inflated. Sources: DeSantis House voting record on RSC budgets 2013-2018 > He will SOON be out of money **MOSTLY TRUE** DeSantis's campaign had been burning through cash at an alarming rate throughout 2023. By Q3 2023, serious reporting confirmed his campaign was cutting staff and reducing spending to manage runway. He ultimately suspended his campaign in January 2024. The prediction was directionally accurate. Sources: Campaign finance reporting, Q3 2023 FEC disclosures Overall Veracity: 70% ## Tags - devaluation (90%) - grandiosity (85%) - primary_competition (90%) - nickname_ad_hominem (85%) - perseveration_mild (45%) - zoomorphic_dehumanization (60%) - displacement_legal_to_political (50%) - desantis (95%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Trial Anxiety Simmers Beneath Grandiose Surface All Day Before Erupting in Evening Rage Against "Monster" Prosecutor** A busy Saturday of 29 posts started with late-night golf bragging and a Louisiana endorsement, then shifted into a midday firehose of partisan links, pointed attacks on DeSantis (twice called a "wounded bird"), and culture-war broadsides against universities and California. The civil fraud trial was clearly the unspoken driver of the day -- references to Judge Engoron and AG Letitia James leaked into otherwise unrelated posts. By evening, the mask came off entirely with a raw, angry demand to end the "Witch Hunt," calling the attorney general a "monster." A notable stumble -- "RINO Paul RINO" instead of "RINO Paul Ryan" -- and the recycled "wounded bird" metaphor across two separate posts hinted at cognitive rigidity under stress. Full digest for 2023-10-14: https://trump.fm/date/2023-10-14/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, October 14). Ron DeSanctimonious has the Poll numbers of a... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111234552180619005 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Ron DeSanctimonious has the Poll numbers of a wounded bird..." Truth Social, 14 Oct. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111234552180619005. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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