# Post ts_111449858518482165 - Post ID: `ts_111449858518482165` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-11-21T18:04:42.177Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111449858518482165 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111449858518482165/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111449858518482165.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > FoxNews gave up on DeSanctimonious… ## What the media says **Video transcript** (0:20), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Fox News gave up and run to sanctimonies. He's turned out to be a disaster. Now they're pushing bird brain. You know, that is Nikki Haley. They just haven't learned, and probably they never will. It's just not happening. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/449/858/385/601/019/original/325eac36574ecc96.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 8,805 - Reposts: 2,128 - Replies: 213 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.390Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T11:00:35.584Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Psychological Analysis: ts_111449858518482165 **Platform:** Truth Social | **Date:** 2023-11-21 | **Post:** "FoxNews gave up on DeSanctimonious…" + video --- ## Authorship Attribution **Score: 0.78 (likely authentic Trump)** | Confidence: Medium UTC 18:04 converts to ~12:04 PM Central Time, placing Trump in Iowa on the day of his Fort Dodge rally — technically business hours, which is a mild signal for aide involvement. However, the stylistic evidence overrides the timing signal. "DeSanctimonious" is Trump's personal coinage and is not deployed this casually by campaign staff. The one-line + ellipsis + video-clip structure is a characteristic Trump Truth Social idiom. Assessment: authentic, likely tapped on a personal device between rally logistics. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five) - **Extraversion (High):** Assertive, dominant, no hedging - **Agreeableness (Very Low):** Contemptuous dismissal of rival, zero magnanimity - **Conscientiousness (Low):** Impulsive brevity, no elaboration - **Neuroticism (Low-Moderate here):** Notably, this post shows minimal anxiety or wound — it is cool and confident, placing the subject in a **grandiose** rather than **vulnerable** narcissistic state - **Openness (Low):** Rigid, zero-sum framing of political landscape --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motives dominant.** The post is about power and status consolidation: marking a rival's decline as confirmation of Trump's own primacy. No communion motives present. **Schemas revealed:** - *Self schema:* "I am the inevitable winner; rivals fall, Fox News follows my lead" - *Other schema (DeSantis):* A pretender whose pretension ("sanctimonious") was always his undoing - *World schema:* The media ecosystem is a legitimacy-granting mechanism that Trump believes he controls or strongly influences **Motive:** Primarily **status/power** — this is not anger-driven; it is scorekeeping from a position of perceived strength. The trigger is likely an incoming Fox News segment Trump found vindicating. He is in supply-seeking mode, distributing validation via shared Schadenfreude. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist role:** The Inevitable — not the fighter in this instance, but the man who was right all along. DeSantis's fall confirms the narrative Trump has been building. **Narrative sequence: Redemption for Trump / Contamination for DeSantis.** DeSantis rose (the media-anointed challenger) and is now falling (being abandoned). Trump's narrative is the reverse: challenged, survived, now ascending. **Contrasting Other:** DeSantis — cast as the sanctimonious pretender now exposed and discarded. **Identity claims implicit in post:** - "I am the candidate Fox News ultimately cannot ignore" - "My judgment about DeSantis (he is sanctimonious, inauthentic) has been validated" - "The established Republican media ecosystem recognizes my dominance" --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators ### Malignant Narcissism Assessment | Component | Score | Evidence | |-----------|-------|----------| | Narcissistic features | 0.70 | Grandiosity, implicit entitlement to Fox loyalty, rival devaluation | | Antisocial features | 0.20 | Contempt for rival, but within normal political competitive bounds here | | Paranoid features | 0.10 | Minimal — no perceived conspiracy in this post | | Ego-syntonic sadism | 0.35 | Mild relish in DeSantis's abandonment; the nickname carries a blade | **Overall malignant narcissism composite:** Moderate-High on narcissistic dimension; low on paranoid and antisocial in *this specific post* (though broader pattern differs). ### Narcissistic Dynamics **State:** Grandiose. This is not a post from a wounded man. The subject is in an expansive, dominant register — characteristic of periods when he perceives rivals declining and his own position strengthening. **Trigger:** Supply-seeking combined with competitive dominance display. The Fox News content serves as external validation Trump is broadcasting to his audience as shared triumph. **Narcissistic Rage:** Absent. The devaluation is cool and controlled, not hot. This is more consistent with contemptuous dismissal than rage — a higher-order display of dominance (I don't even need to be angry; I merely note your failure). ### Defense Mechanisms 1. **Devaluation (Immature):** "DeSanctimonious" — the portmanteau does double duty: it degrades DeSantis while simultaneously encoding Trump's "I-told-you-so" narrative. The nickname pre-frames DeSantis as having a character defect that explains his failure. 2. **Splitting (Immature):** The implied binary is Fox-backing = legitimate Republican candidate, with Trump as the sole survivor of that test. ### Archetypal Analysis **Primary archetypes activated:** - **King (dominant):** Surveying the field, acknowledging a subordinate's fall from favor, confirming the natural order - **Trickster (latent):** The mocking nickname carries trickster energy — irreverence as power; the establishment pretender exposed by the chaos agent **Shadow projection:** "Sanctimonious" is a notable projection target. Trump's own moral pretensions (claim to be uniquely qualified, chosen, above norms) are exactly what he accuses DeSantis of. Classic Jungian shadow displacement. --- ## Cognitive Status **Assessment:** Insufficient data from a 6-word post. No word-finding anomalies detectable. The nickname "DeSanctimonious" demonstrates functional wordplay and neologism construction. **Deviation from baseline: None.** Consistent with Trump's established pattern of punchy, contemptuous one-liners about rivals. --- ## Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques - **Derogatory portmanteau nickname:** "DeSanctimonious" encodes the attack in the label itself — a pre-loaded cognitive frame - **Surrogate validation:** Using Fox News's perceived shift as third-party confirmation of Trump's own narrative, bypassing the need for Trump to make the argument directly - **Understatement as contempt:** The brevity signals DeSantis is not worth elaborating upon - **Media clip as evidence:** "Don't take my word for it — watch" — invites followers to witness rather than be told, creating shared experiential bonding over rival's humiliation - **Ellipsis rhetoric:** Trailing "…" performs "need I say more?" — a rhetorical withholding that implies the video speaks for itself No dehumanizing language, no violent imagery. This is competitive political contempt within normal campaign parameters. --- ## Gaslighting Indicators None present in this post. No denial of documented events, no DARVO, no epistemic manipulation. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "FoxNews gave up on DeSanctimonious" | **Mostly True** | DeSantis polling had collapsed from ~30% to single digits by fall 2023; Fox News hosts and informal institutional support had measurably cooled toward DeSantis campaign through this period. 'Gave up' is hyperbolic but directionally accurate. | Overall Veracity: 80% ## Danger Assessment **Level: None.** This is routine intraparty competitive contempt. No eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no mobilization signals, no stochastic terrorism indicators. --- ## Longitudinal Note This post should be read alongside the same-day "President Xi and I had a deal" post (fentanyl/death penalty claim) and "Crooked Joe Left Border Enforcement Out to Dry." The cluster reveals Trump's thematic trifecta for this period: (1) dominate Republican primary by dispatching DeSantis, (2) assert foreign policy superiority over Biden via Xi/fentanyl narrative, (3) border/crime grievance activation against Biden. The DeSantis post is the most psychologically relaxed of the cluster — confident, brief, cool. The Xi post shows more confabulatory risk. Together they suggest a subject in relatively stable grandiose state rather than anxious-vulnerable mode, consistent with the Fort Dodge rally day and the favorable Colorado 14th Amendment ruling received the prior day. ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 78%) ### Indicators - 'DeSanctimonious' is a Trump-coined nickname not used by aides in casual posts - Trailing ellipsis + video attachment is consistent with Trump teasing media clips - Terse, punchy, one-line structure with no polish is authentically Trumpian - Post at 12:04 PM Central Time (Fort Dodge, Iowa) is business hours — mild aide-written signal — but override by stylistic fingerprint - No event-announcement or scheduling content that would indicate Scavino authorship ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking — Comparison (Fox News perceived shift away from DeSantis) Sentiment: -0.30 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 70% - Antisocial: 20% - Paranoid: 10% - Sadism: 35% **Defense Mechanisms:** - devaluation (immature) - splitting (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 15% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Invites follower to share in rival's humiliation - Video teaser creates conspiratorial 'see for yourself' dynamic - Implicit message: the mainstream media is coming around to Trump's pre-existing judgment of DeSantis ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > FoxNews gave up on DeSanctimonious **MOSTLY TRUE** DeSantis polling had collapsed from ~30% to single digits by fall 2023; Fox News hosts and informal institutional support had measurably cooled toward DeSantis campaign through this period. 'Gave up' is hyperbolic but directionally accurate. Sources: Pre-researched historian context on 2023 Republican primary trajectory Overall Veracity: 80% ## Tags - DeSantis_attack (90%) - devaluation_nickname (85%) - Fox_News_validation (75%) - grandiose_state (70%) - surrogate_validation (70%) - primary_dominance_display (80%) - shadow_projection (55%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Iowa Rally Day Masks Legal Siege as 21-Post Blitz Culminates in Evening Eruption Over NY Fraud Trial** Trump spent the day campaigning in Iowa with a Fort Dodge rally, firing off a rapid burst of nearly 20 posts around noon before going quiet for five hours. The midday cluster mixed standard campaign messaging with attacks on Biden, DeSantis, Kim Reynolds, and multiple legal proceedings. The day's sharpest moment came in the early evening, when a raw, high-anger post about the New York civil fraud trial named specific officials and reversed the court's own findings. Underneath the rally-day energy, legal anxiety was the constant undercurrent — nearly half the posts referenced ongoing prosecutions or election grievances. Full digest for 2023-11-21: https://trump.fm/date/2023-11-21/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, November 21). FoxNews gave up on DeSanctimonious… [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111449858518482165 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "FoxNews gave up on DeSanctimonious…" Truth Social, 21 Nov. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111449858518482165. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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