# Post ts_111513728162968961

- Post ID: `ts_111513728162968961`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-12-03T00:47:35.618Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111513728162968961/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111513728162968961.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> The Ron DeSanctimonious campaign people are dropping like flies. Kristin Davidson of Always Back Down PAC is out. Many others have recently quit, or been fired, in a very unceremonious way. JEFF ROE, who heads “Always,” and is known for spending Top Dollars on failing campaigns (doing massive surgery on a candidate’s wallet!), will, I predict, soon follow. I beat him when he ran the Ted Cruz 2016 campaign - It was great fun!

## Engagement

- Likes: 9,164
- Reposts: 2,182
- Replies: 320
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.389Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T11:27:33.346Z (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 post exhibits textbook grandiose supply-seeking with a clinically notable ego-syntonic sadism marker. Trump catalogs the DeSantis campaign's staff departures with undisguised pleasure, culminating in the unmodulated declaration "It was great fun!" — expressing enjoyment of a rival's historical defeat without social dampening. Jeff Roe functions as a constructed foil whose prior loss to Trump in 2016 licenses the prediction of DeSantis's collapse, while simultaneously confirming Trump's self-narrative of inevitable dominance. Defense mechanisms are splitting (binary winner/loser framing) and rationalization (prediction reframed as prophecy). Authorship is high-confidence authentic: multiple concurrent Trumpian stylistic signatures (derogatory portmanteau nickname, parenthetical humor, ALL CAPS targeting, historical anecdote tangent) posted at 6:47 PM Iowa time following two major rallies. Fact claims are largely accurate; the PAC name distortion ("Always Back Down" for "Never Back Down") is deliberate mockery rather than error. No cognitive markers of concern — verbal wit and metaphorical facility are intact and consistent with baseline. No danger indicators. Longitudinally, this is consistent with Trump's primary-season competitive triumphalism pattern: offensive rather than reactive, gleeful rather than wrathful, and oriented toward confirming rather than defending his dominant position.

## Post Analysis: ts_111513728162968961 | 2023-12-03T00:47:35Z

### Authorship Attribution

**Local Time Conversion:** Trump was in Iowa on December 2, 2023 (Ankeny and Cedar Rapids rallies confirmed in events). Iowa observes Central Time (UTC−6). Post timestamp 00:47 UTC on December 3 converts to **6:47 PM CT on December 2** — late afternoon/early evening, post-rally wind-down period. Not late-night, but post-event personal posting is fully consistent with authentic Trump behavior.

**Style Markers (strongly authentic):**
- "Ron DeSanctimonious" — his established derogatory portmanteau nickname
- Parenthetical asides mid-sentence: *(doing massive surgery on a candidate's wallet!)*
- ALL CAPS for emphasis on a specific target name (JEFF ROE)
- Exclamatory retrospective gloating: *"It was great fun!"*
- First-person competitive history invoked mid-thought (2016 Ted Cruz)
- "dropping like flies" — colloquial hyperbole, Trumpian idiom register
- Stream-of-consciousness pivoting from present observation → prediction → historical anecdote

**Assessment:** High confidence this is authentic Trump composition.

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### Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

The post activates a distinctive cluster: **very low agreeableness** (contempt, mockery of competitors), **high extraversion** (assertive dominance, positive affect directed at rival's distress), **low neuroticism** (no anxiety or defensiveness — purely offensive posture), and **low openness** (rigid competitive framing, no reflection).

Conscientiousness is minimally visible — the post is purposeful but spontaneous in execution.

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### Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Dominant motive: Agency / Power.** The post is entirely organized around dominance assertion — cataloguing an enemy's collapse, predicting further collapse, and citing a prior victory as warrant. There is zero communion content.

**Schema revealed:** The world is an arena of winners and losers; losers are identified by association (working for a losing campaign, spending ineffectually). Trump's own identity is constituted by contrast: he won against Roe in 2016, Roe now runs another losing campaign, therefore Trump remains dominant.

**Goal:** Accelerate narrative of DeSantis campaign inevitability of failure while harvesting supply from Iowa rally audience.

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### Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role:** The Inevitable Winner — not a fighter here (no adversity), but a champion who has already won and watches lesser figures confirm that verdict.

**Narrative sequence:** Pure *contamination applied to others* — DeSantis's campaign arc is narrated as good-going-to-bad (formerly "Always Back Down" was a viable challenger operation, now it is hemorrhaging staff). Trump's own arc is the implicit inversion: stable, dominant, ascending.

**Identity claims:**
- *I am someone who beats people like Roe* ("I beat him")
- *I can predict the future of campaigns* ("I predict, soon follow")
- *This is sport to me, and I enjoy it* ("great fun")

**Contrasting other:** Jeff Roe functions as the foil — an expensive, ineffective operator whose history of failure (Cruz 2016, now DeSantis 2024) validates Trump's superiority by direct contrast.

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### Level 4: Clinical Indicators

#### Malignant Narcissism Assessment

**A. Narcissistic Features:** High. Grandiosity expressed through prediction of others' failure as *fait accompli*; entitlement to enjoy that failure; belief in unique competitive insight. The phrase "It was great fun!" is notably naked — most people would modulate such open enjoyment of a competitor's difficulties.

**B. Antisocial Features:** Mild. Contempt for norms of collegial political discourse; willingness to humiliate publicly.

**C. Paranoid Features:** Absent in this post. No persecution narrative.

**D. Ego-Syntonic Sadism:** Present and salient. *"It was great fun!"* is an unguarded expression of pleasure at a rival's defeat. The "doing massive surgery on a candidate's wallet!" parenthetical exhibits similar quality — the suffering of the candidate who hired Roe is narrated as amusing. This is not incidental; it is structurally central to the post's emotional payload.

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### Narcissistic Dynamics

**Trigger:** Primarily *supply-seeking* with an element of *maintenance* — no acute narcissistic injury is being processed here. This is offensive, not reactive. The news of Davidson's departure provides an opportunity to assert dominance narrative rather than defend against attack.

**Narcissistic state:** Firmly **grandiose**. No vulnerability markers whatsoever. The post radiates expansive confidence.

**Rage:** Absent. Affect is gleeful, not wrathful. This is closer to ego-syntonic sadism than rage — pleasure at dominance confirmation rather than reactive aggression.

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### Defense Mechanisms

**Splitting (immature):** The competitive landscape is rendered binary — Trump's operation succeeds; DeSantis/Roe operation fails. No complexity acknowledged.

**Rationalization (neurotic):** Framing the rival campaign's disintegration as *predictable/inevitable* ("I predict, soon follow") rather than contingent or contested. This protects the grandiose self-image from the possibility of a competitive threat.

**Idealization (self-directed):** The 2016 anecdote retroactively constructs a track record of infallibility.

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### Cognitive Status

No markers of concern. The post is:
- Syntactically controlled, with deliberate parenthetical structuring
- Temporally coherent (2016 correctly referenced, present and past cleanly distinguished)
- Vocabulary appropriate and moderately rich ("unceremonious," "predict")
- The parenthetical *("doing massive surgery on a candidate's wallet!")* displays active verbal wit and metaphorical facility

**Complexity score relative to baseline:** Consistent. No decline or elevation from typical register.

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### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Kristin Davidson of Always Back Down PAC is out" | **True** | Davidson's departure from Never Back Down PAC was reported in late November/early December 2023 |
| "Jeff Roe heads 'Always' (Never Back Down PAC)" | **Mostly True** | Roe did lead Never Back Down PAC; Trump deliberately inverts name to 'Always Back Down' as mockery — the factual basis is accurate, the name is distorted |
| "Jeff Roe ran the Ted Cruz 2016 campaign" | **True** | Roe was chief strategist for Cruz's 2016 Republican primary campaign |
| "Trump beat Roe/Cruz in the 2016 campaign" | **True** | Trump won the 2016 Republican nomination over Cruz |
| "Roe known for spending top dollars on failing campaigns" | **Half True** | Cruz 2016 and DeSantis 2024 are notable losses; Roe has wins in other races. Claim is selectively accurate, omitting wins. |

Overall Veracity: 86%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 88%)

### Indicators

- 'Ron DeSanctimonious' derogatory portmanteau — established authentic Trump nickname
- Parenthetical aside mid-sentence with exclamation mark — signature Trump structural tic
- ALL CAPS for target emphasis (JEFF ROE) — authentic formatting pattern
- 'It was great fun!' — unguarded, socially unmodulated gloating inconsistent with aide drafting
- Stream-of-consciousness pivot from present to 2016 historical anecdote

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (DeSantis campaign staff departures provide opportunity for dominance display)

Sentiment: +0.30

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Elevated positive affect post-rallies
- Exclamatory punctuation throughout
- Racing through multiple targets and anecdotes in compressed space
- Unmodulated pleasure expression ('It was great fun!')

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 75%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 5%
- Sadism: 55%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)
- idealization (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 52%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Shared triumph framing ('It was great fun!') invites audience to enjoy rival's collapse vicariously
- Insider political knowledge display creates parasocial intimacy
- Prediction-as-prophecy positions follower as witness to Trump's special insight

## Fact Checks (5)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._

> Kristin Davidson of Always Back Down PAC is out

**TRUE**

Davidson's departure from Never Back Down PAC was reported in late November/early December 2023

Sources: Contemporary political reporting, late November 2023

> Jeff Roe heads 'Always' (Never Back Down PAC)

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Roe did lead Never Back Down PAC; Trump deliberately inverts name to 'Always Back Down' as mockery — the factual basis is accurate, the name is distorted

Sources: Campaign finance and political reporting 2023

> Jeff Roe ran the Ted Cruz 2016 campaign

**TRUE**

Roe was chief strategist for Cruz's 2016 Republican primary campaign

Sources: 2016 primary campaign records

> Trump beat Roe/Cruz in the 2016 campaign

**TRUE**

Trump won the 2016 Republican nomination over Cruz

Sources: 2016 Republican primary results

> Roe known for spending top dollars on failing campaigns

**HALF TRUE**

Cruz 2016 and DeSantis 2024 are notable losses; Roe has wins in other races. Claim is selectively accurate, omitting wins.

Sources: Roe's campaign history

Overall Veracity: 86%

## Tags

- primary-competition (90%)
- DeSantis-attack (85%)
- ego-syntonic-sadism (70%)
- grandiose-supply-seeking (80%)
- Iowa-campaign (60%)
- triumphalism (75%)
- authentic-authorship (88%)
- derogatory-nickname (70%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**Post-Rally Victory Lap Anchors a Day of Grandiose Campaign Messaging, Capped by a Disproportionate De Niro Devaluation**

The day was a classic post-rally high carried over from Iowa, with a long evening of campaign links and victory-lap messaging giving way to a quiet morning and a combative afternoon. Most posts were triumphant and self-congratulatory, amplifying favorable polls, endorsements, and rally coverage. Two flashes of anger stood out: a gleeful attack on the Drudge Report for going "anti-Trump," and a much sharper evening takedown of Robert De Niro that read as genuinely personal and disproportionate. The overall mood was confident and campaign-focused, with no signs of distress or erratic behavior.

Full digest for 2023-12-03: https://trump.fm/date/2023-12-03/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, December 3). The Ron DeSanctimonious campaign people are... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111513728162968961
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "The Ron DeSanctimonious campaign people are dropping like..." Truth Social, 3 Dec. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111513728162968961. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "The Ron DeSanctimonious campaign people are dropping like...," Truth Social, December 3, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111513728162968961.

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