# Posts from Wednesday, February 18, 2026 20 posts on 2026-02-18. ## Day analysis Day analysis page: https://trump.fm/date/2026-02-18/analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-23T05:03:44.108Z (UTC): a model's reading of the day's posts, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ **The 6 a.m. hour went to six-year-old ballot-fraud video; the afternoon went to telling Starmer not to lease away Diego Garcia** Trump posted twenty times, in an evening batch and a dense hour just after six in the morning, then went quiet for most of the working day. Nearly half of it was 2020 election material — old Detroit ballot-fraud testimony, a Dominion segment, a Georgia post crediting an ally with beating Fani Willis — none of it prompted by anything that happened that week, and almost all of it posted without a word of his own. The one thing he actually wrote was an afternoon message telling the British prime minister not to lease out Diego Garcia, dismissing Mauritius's internationally recognized claim as fictitious and raising the possibility of needing the base to strike Iran; it contradicted his own State Department. He said nothing about the Syria withdrawal, the herbicide order he signed that day, or the Geneva talks. No anger anywhere in the day, a normal night's sleep gap, and an unusually early stop in the late afternoon. - Posts analyzed: 14 - Dominant state: grandiose - Narrative arc: mixed - Aggregate rage level: 0.04 - Max danger level: elevated - Theme obsession: 2020 election fraud - Claims: 5 (2 false) - Era: Second Term He was in Washington on the 18th — he signed the Defense Production Act order on phosphorus and glyphosate that day — so Eastern time is the right frame for the clock. Converted, the UTC window of 00:43 to 21:19 runs from 7:43 p.m. Tuesday the 17th to 4:19 p.m. Wednesday the 18th. Twenty posts sit inside it, in two tight clusters and then a long thin tail: seven between 7:43 and 10:58 p.m., nine between 6:02 and 7:04 a.m., a six-and-a-half-hour silence across the working day, one long written post at 1:42 p.m., and a pair at 4:19 p.m. that ended it. The overnight gap is roughly seven hours with nothing in it, and there is no late-night tail at all — the day stops in the afternoon and does not resume. On timing alone this is an unremarkable sleep window, and the hypomanic markers that usually travel with a heavy day (3 a.m. posting, sub-minute bursts sustained for hours, a widening waking window) are absent. Six of the twenty posts are reposts of his own account, and each one is an immediate echo of an analyzed post: the filibuster clip at 10:57 p.m. reposted the same minute, the Detroit testimony at 6:02 a.m. reposted at 6:05, the Dominion segment at 6:32 reposted at 6:33, the social-security clip at 6:33 reposted at 6:34, the NATO clip at 6:35 reposted the same minute, the family compilation at 7:03 reposted at 7:04. Whether that is a deliberate second push or an artifact of how the clips were pushed to the account can't be settled from the record here, but it matters for reading the volume: twenty posts is about fourteen distinct items with six same-minute duplicates behind them, not twenty separate acts of selection. **An evening that opened as a eulogy and closed as a grievance file** The first post is a video marking the fifth anniversary of Rush Limbaugh's death — "he was a friend of mine, Rush Limbaugh... I never met him. He liked my opening speec[h]" — and the register is retrospective and warm. Within eighty minutes the evening turns. At 9:01 p.m. comes a wordless share of a Georgia GOP tweet crediting David Shafer with beating Fani Willis, who allegedly "threatened him w/bankruptcy & life in prison," and who "never flinched, fought back, & won." At 10:18 p.m. a burst of straightforward self-congratulation: "Congratulations to Kid Rock! Number One, and also, great Super Bowl ratings. A BIG WEEK. MAGA all the way!!!" Then at 10:57 and 10:58 the evening settles onto what would occupy the next nine hours — a cable segment attacking "lazy senators who want to threaten the filibuster" and promising he will soon reveal concealed intelligence about 2020 foreign interference, a meme captioned "People that doubted will soon see," and a link headlined as a call for Georgia to take over Fulton County elections after an FBI raid. That evening run is where the day's grammar gets set: a persecution claim about 2020 is made, but it is made by other accounts and other voices, and he supplies no words of his own to any of it. **Six in the morning, and Detroit again** The morning cluster is nine posts in sixty-two minutes, and the first half of it is entirely 2020. At 6:02 a.m. a poll-challenger deposition from Wayne County — "the poll book is completely off, completely off." At 6:32 a segment claiming Dominion systems "may have switched as many as 435,000 votes" and deleted another 2.7 million. Both are six years old and both have been through the courts. Nothing in the surrounding events gives them a proximate trigger; there was no new ruling, no new accusation, no fresh loss. These two are the only posts of the day scored vulnerable, which is the reading the material supports: the persecutory frame sits in the content he chose rather than in any injury he sustained. Counting the two morning self-reposts, the Georgia pair from the night before, the meme and the filibuster clip, roughly nine of the day's twenty posts carry the 2020 theft narrative or its Georgia offshoot. That concentration, with no event pulling on it, is the clearest single finding of the day. Two of the four elevated-danger ratings fall here, and they rest on what recirculating adjudicated fraud claims in a midterm year does downstream rather than on anything in the clips themselves — no target is named for action, and no audience is asked to do anything. The cluster then pivots without transition. At 6:33 an immigration clip about proof of status, at 6:35 the NATO secretary general crediting him for European defense spending — "the 2% reach by all... NATO countries now at the end of 2025 would never, ever, ever have happened without Trump" — and at 7:03 a family compilation in which a grandchild says "he's just a normal grandpa" alongside a third party calling him "strong, smart, tough, vicious, violent." Grievance to flattery to domesticity inside thirty minutes, all in other people's voices. Within that same morning there is a quiet internal conflict. The Dominion segment presents the theft as already found and quantified; the evening's filibuster clip and the "People that doubted will soon see" meme present it as concealed and pending revelation. Both were posted inside nine hours and both are load-bearing for the same conclusion. Neither is his own assertion, which limits what it says about his reasoning, but the pair only holds together if the evidence is simultaneously established and still hidden. **The one post he wrote** At 1:42 p.m. comes the day's only substantial original text, and its intensity (0.60) is more than double the day's average. He instructs the UK prime minister on a sovereign decision — "I have been telling Prime Minister Keir Starmer... that Leases are no good when it comes to Countries" — characterizes Mauritius's claim to the Chagos archipelago as "fictitious" and belonging to "entities never known of before," and raises the possibility of needing Diego Garcia to strike Iran. Two things distinguish it from the amplification around it. The sovereignty characterization runs against the 2019 ICJ advisory opinion and the UN resolutions behind it, and against his own State Department's published support for the UK–Mauritius transfer, which makes it the day's one clearly false claim attributable to him. And the alliance commitment is made conditional on ideology rather than strategy: "We will always be ready... but they have to remain strong in the face of Wokeism." The insertion of Wokeism into a post about Indian Ocean basing and a possible Iranian strike is the only observable topic drift of the day, and it is observable only because this is the only place he wrote at length. With eleven of fourteen analyzed posts carrying no words of his own, there is too little original language here to call a complexity trend in either direction. The Diego Garcia post is also the day's only event correlation in the strict sense — it did not respond to an event, it became one. Everything else on the historian's list went unmentioned: the announced withdrawal of the last US troops from Syria, the glyphosate order he signed himself and the MAHA backlash it drew, the Geneva rounds on Ukraine and on Iran, the Milan Olympics, the deported infant. A day with that much live policy in it went, on the platform, to 2020. **No spiral, and an early stop** Zero of fourteen analyzed posts register rage, and the day's average intensity is 0.27. The 1:42 p.m. peak is a spike with nothing leading into it — six and a half hours of silence before, a drop back to 0.30 and 0.15 after — so it does not read as a rage spiral, and there is no proportionality question to answer because there was no trigger to be proportionate to. The close is two posts at 4:19 p.m.: "Will be the Greatest Ballroom ever built, now rising at the site of the White House — Fully paid for by American Patriot Donors. ZERO cost to our United States Taxpayers!" and the architectural rendering it describes. Then nothing for the rest of the evening. The arc across the full day is oscillating rather than directional — eulogy, self-congratulation, grievance, relayed flattery, foreign-policy command, monument — and it ends roughly where it began in tone, which is why it reads as mixed rather than as a fall from victory into victimhood or a climb back out of one. ### Narrative The day swung between moods instead of building toward one. It opened Tuesday evening with a warm tribute to Rush Limbaugh and a cheerful note about Kid Rock, drifted into old grievances about Georgia and Fani Willis before bed, and woke up at six with an hour of 2020 ballot-fraud video, then flipped inside thirty minutes to clips of other people praising him and a grandchild calling him a normal grandpa. The afternoon's one written post was a blunt instruction to the British prime minister about Diego Garcia, and the day closed on a rendering of the new White House ballroom. Nothing escalated and nothing resolved; it ended in roughly the same register it started. ### Dominant themes - 2020 election fraud and its promised vindication (1 post) - Third-party praise relayed without comment (1 post) - Voter eligibility and proof-of-status (1 post) - White House ballroom as monument (1 post) - Directing an allied government's sovereign decision (1 post) ### Contradictions that day - [ts_116091412418659980](https://trump.fm/post/ts_116091412418659980): Amplified segment presents 2020 vote theft as already documented and quantified — Dominion systems "may have switched as many as 435,000 votes" and deleted 2.7 million more vs. [ts_116089623709541734](https://trump.fm/post/ts_116089623709541734): Amplified meme presents the proof as still concealed and about to be produced — "People that doubted will soon see", echoing the 10:57 p.m. clip's promise of hidden intelligence yet to be revealed ### Cognitive concerns - Topic drift inside the day's only long original post: "they have to remain strong in the face of Wokeism" inserted into an argument about Indian Ocean basing and a possible strike on Iran (ts_116093101641103750). - Alliance commitment framed as conditional on ideological alignment rather than strategic interest in the same post — "We will always be ready... but". - Eleven of fourteen analyzed posts contain no words of his own, so the day supplies too little original language to score a complexity trend either way. ## Posts ### [ts_116093719961011955](https://trump.fm/post/ts_116093719961011955) Truth Social · 2026-02-18T21:19:44.435Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment **Image** (other), described automatically; these are a machine's words about the picture, not the poster's: > A computer-generated architectural rendering of a large white neoclassical building with a monumental Corinthian-columned portico (two rows of tall fluted columns with ornate capitals), a balustrade along the roofline, and a wide curved double staircase leading up to the entrance. Two small human figures (rendered as generic 3D scale models) stand on the steps near the entrance for scale. The building sits on a manicured green lawn with a paved walkway in the foreground, a tree to the left, more trees and a plain gray boxy structure to the right, and a partial view of an adjoining classical building on the far left. The sky is blue with light clouds. The image contains no visible text. 17,672 likes · 3,676 reposts · 1,219 replies · unknown views Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116093719961011955/analysis --- ### [ts_116093719071243747](https://trump.fm/post/ts_116093719071243747) Truth Social · 2026-02-18T21:19:30.857Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment > Will be the Greatest Ballroom ever built, now rising at the site of the White House — Fully paid for by American Patriot Donors. ZERO cost to our United States Taxpayers! 23,281 likes · 5,267 reposts · 1,396 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_116093719071243747.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116093719071243747/analysis --- ### [ts_116093101641103750](https://trump.fm/post/ts_116093101641103750) Truth Social · 2026-02-18T18:42:29.592Z (UTC) > I have been telling Prime Minister Keir Starmer, of the United Kingdom, that Leases are no good when it comes to Countries, and that he is making a big mistake by entering a 100 Year Lease with whoever it is that is "claiming" Right, Title, and Interest to Diego Garcia, strategically located in the Indian Ocean. Our relationship with the United Kingdom is a strong and powerful one, and it has been for many years, but Prime Minister Starmer is losing control of this important Island by claims of entities never known of before. In our opinion, they are fictitious in nature. Should Iran decide not to make a Deal, it may be necessary for the United States to use Diego Garcia, and the Airfield located in Fairford, in order to eradicate a potential attack by a highly unstable and dangerous Regime — An attack that would potentially be made on the United Kingdom, as well as other friendly Countries. Prime Minister Starmer should not lose control, for any reason, of Diego Garcia, by entering a tenuous, at best, 100 Year Lease. This land should not be taken away from the U.K. and, if it is allowed to be, it will be a blight on our Great Ally. We will always be ready, willing, and able to fight for the U.K., but they have to remain strong in the face of Wokeism, and other problems put before them. DO NOT GIVE AWAY DIEGO GARCIA! 35,188 likes · 8,766 reposts · 3,089 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_116093101641103750.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116093101641103750/analysis --- ### [ts_116091534872593127](https://trump.fm/post/ts_116091534872593127) Truth Social · 2026-02-18T12:04:02.563Z (UTC) · repost · 1 media attachment > RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/116091531183692853 Reposted [ts_116091531183692853](https://trump.fm/post/ts_116091531183692853) (2026-02-18T12:03:06.275Z (UTC)) - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/116/091/528/336/696/702/original/25a5633865bb2f23.mp4 **Video transcript** (reposted clip, 1:45), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > To me, he's just a normal grandpa. He gets less candy and soda when her parents aren't looking. On Saturday, I was shocked when I heard that he has been shocked. And I just want to know if he was OK. Make American great again. Oh, geez. That was great, honey. Go for grandpa. Let's go. Come on, let's go. Have a good time. Is he allowed to respond? They don't respond, yeah. I mean, hold on. You're on, too. Imagine that in Florida right now, in 90-degree weather. See? That's bad. He's strong, he's smart, he's tough, he's vicious, he's violent. All the big rings you need. It's been a tremendous time and now it's time to go back home. My daughter had a baby. I'm going to go back home and see that little baby. I'm going to go back home and see that little baby. I'm going to go back home and see that little baby. I'm going to go back home and see that little baby. I'm going to go back home and see that little baby. I'm going to go back home and see that little baby. I'm going to go back home and see that little baby. I'm going to go back home and see that little baby. I'm going to go back home and see that little baby. I'm going to go back home and see that little baby. I'm going to go ba… (full transcript: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116091534872593127) 24,279 likes · 5,762 reposts · 1,860 replies · unknown views --- ### [ts_116091531183692853](https://trump.fm/post/ts_116091531183692853) Truth Social · 2026-02-18T12:03:06.275Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment **Video transcript** (1:45), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > To me, he's just a normal grandpa. He gets less candy and soda when her parents aren't looking. On Saturday, I was shocked when I heard that he has been shocked. And I just want to know if he was OK. Make American great again. Oh, geez. That was great, honey. Go for grandpa. Let's go. Come on, let's go. Have a good time. Is he allowed to respond? They don't respond, yeah. I mean, hold on. You're on, too. Imagine that in Florida right now, in 90-degree weather. See? That's bad. He's strong, he's smart, he's tough, he's vicious, he's violent. All the big rings you need. It's been a tremendous time and now it's time to go back home. My daughter had a baby. I'm going to go back home and see that little baby. I'm going to go back home and see that little baby. I'm going to go back home and see that little baby. I'm going to go back home and see that little baby. I'm going to go back home and see that little baby. I'm going to go back home and see that little baby. I'm going to go back home and see that little baby. I'm going to go back home and see that little baby. I'm going to go back home and see that little baby. I'm going to go back home and see that little baby. I'm going to go ba… (full transcript: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116091531183692853) 16,449 likes · 3,155 reposts · 642 replies · unknown views Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116091531183692853/analysis --- ### [ts_116091422444967464](https://trump.fm/post/ts_116091422444967464) Truth Social · 2026-02-18T11:35:27.054Z (UTC) · repost · 1 media attachment > RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/116091421399345387 Reposted [ts_116091421399345387](https://trump.fm/post/ts_116091421399345387) (2026-02-18T11:35:11.099Z (UTC)) - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/116/091/419/962/942/202/original/4a673b7a417fcea9.mp4 **Video transcript** (reposted clip, 1:40), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > My relationship with the president, hey, listen, if somebody is doing good stuff and president Trump is doing a lot of good stuff, I believe, I know I'm irritating a lot of you again, but I think so. Because as I said, also in Davos, the 2% reach by all, uh, NATO countries now at the end of 2025 would never, ever, ever have happened without Trump. Do you really think that Spain and Italy and Belgium and Canada would have decided to move from 1.5 to 2% Italy spending 10 billion more in our own defense at the beginning of the year without president Trump? No way it would not have happened. And do you really think that in the Hague we would have come to the 5% commitment without president Trump? No way. So when president Trump is doing good stuff, I have operation, uh, and I don't mind him, uh, publishing text messages. And if anyone thinks here again, that the European union or Europe as a whole can defend itself without the US, keep on dreaming. You can't, we can't. We need each other. And why do we need each other? I tell you, first of all, because also the US needs NATO for the US to stay safe. And by the way, Arctic region is evidence here. They need a secure Arctic. They need to… (full transcript: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116091422444967464) 17,619 likes · 4,801 reposts · 747 replies · unknown views --- ### [ts_116091421399345387](https://trump.fm/post/ts_116091421399345387) Truth Social · 2026-02-18T11:35:11.099Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment **Video transcript** (1:40), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > My relationship with the president, hey, listen, if somebody is doing good stuff and president Trump is doing a lot of good stuff, I believe, I know I'm irritating a lot of you again, but I think so. Because as I said, also in Davos, the 2% reach by all, uh, NATO countries now at the end of 2025 would never, ever, ever have happened without Trump. Do you really think that Spain and Italy and Belgium and Canada would have decided to move from 1.5 to 2% Italy spending 10 billion more in our own defense at the beginning of the year without president Trump? No way it would not have happened. And do you really think that in the Hague we would have come to the 5% commitment without president Trump? No way. So when president Trump is doing good stuff, I have operation, uh, and I don't mind him, uh, publishing text messages. And if anyone thinks here again, that the European union or Europe as a whole can defend itself without the US, keep on dreaming. You can't, we can't. We need each other. And why do we need each other? I tell you, first of all, because also the US needs NATO for the US to stay safe. And by the way, Arctic region is evidence here. They need a secure Arctic. They need to… (full transcript: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116091421399345387) 11,956 likes · 2,637 reposts · 290 replies · unknown views Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116091421399345387/analysis --- ### [ts_116091418141758007](https://trump.fm/post/ts_116091418141758007) Truth Social · 2026-02-18T11:34:21.392Z (UTC) · repost · 1 media attachment > RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/116091416662034679 Reposted [ts_116091416662034679](https://trump.fm/post/ts_116091416662034679) (2026-02-18T11:33:58.813Z (UTC)) - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/116/091/416/383/204/737/original/49ddadf34e04313c.mp4 **Video transcript** (reposted clip, 0:33), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > let's admit the truth everywhere people go they're asked for a social security card in fact one way to prove your bonafide person who can have a job is to ask for a driver's license and a social security card this is an anti fraud amendment all the over where we go people say well why can't you stop illegal immigrants or others from coming here and the number one answer we give our constituents is when they come here they can get jobs get benefits against the law because of fraud 19,270 likes · 8,901 reposts · 1,266 replies · unknown views --- ### [ts_116091416662034679](https://trump.fm/post/ts_116091416662034679) Truth Social · 2026-02-18T11:33:58.813Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment **Video transcript** (0:33), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > let's admit the truth everywhere people go they're asked for a social security card in fact one way to prove your bonafide person who can have a job is to ask for a driver's license and a social security card this is an anti fraud amendment all the over where we go people say well why can't you stop illegal immigrants or others from coming here and the number one answer we give our constituents is when they come here they can get jobs get benefits against the law because of fraud 12,879 likes · 4,734 reposts · 470 replies · unknown views Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116091416662034679/analysis --- ### [ts_116091415720201273](https://trump.fm/post/ts_116091415720201273) Truth Social · 2026-02-18T11:33:44.441Z (UTC) · repost · 1 media attachment > RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/116091412418659980 Reposted [ts_116091412418659980](https://trump.fm/post/ts_116091412418659980) (2026-02-18T11:32:54.067Z (UTC)) - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/116/091/340/516/170/141/original/c44ae562ec4583fb.mp4 **Video transcript** (reposted clip, 7:49), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Election systems across the country are found to have deleted millions of votes cast for President Trump. According to an unaudited analysis of data obtained from Edison Research, states using Dominion voting systems may have switched as many as 435,000 votes from President Trump to Joe Biden. And the author also finds another 2.7 million Trump votes appear to have been deleted by Dominion, including almost 1 million Trump votes in Pennsylvania alone. The experts' claims are quite shocking and starkly contrast the narrative that we've heard. Media claims have been made that the machines were not connected to the internet, but according to the forensic report, that is patently false. The experts examined both Dominion and ES&S machines, and both were connected to the internet using wireless technology. This is a fact that the machine vendors knew well before the election, because their proposal to pitch for the contract included information about internet transmission and wireless capabilities. What is the vehicle for the transmission from the ICP? Is it cellular modem versus VPN? It is a cellular modem that can be configured in a VPN, right? And we currently in Chicago and Cook Cou… (full transcript: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116091415720201273) 15,283 likes · 6,233 reposts · 1,108 replies · unknown views --- ### [ts_116091412418659980](https://trump.fm/post/ts_116091412418659980) Truth Social · 2026-02-18T11:32:54.067Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment **Video transcript** (7:49), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Election systems across the country are found to have deleted millions of votes cast for President Trump. According to an unaudited analysis of data obtained from Edison Research, states using Dominion voting systems may have switched as many as 435,000 votes from President Trump to Joe Biden. And the author also finds another 2.7 million Trump votes appear to have been deleted by Dominion, including almost 1 million Trump votes in Pennsylvania alone. The experts' claims are quite shocking and starkly contrast the narrative that we've heard. Media claims have been made that the machines were not connected to the internet, but according to the forensic report, that is patently false. The experts examined both Dominion and ES&S machines, and both were connected to the internet using wireless technology. This is a fact that the machine vendors knew well before the election, because their proposal to pitch for the contract included information about internet transmission and wireless capabilities. What is the vehicle for the transmission from the ICP? Is it cellular modem versus VPN? It is a cellular modem that can be configured in a VPN, right? And we currently in Chicago and Cook Cou… (full transcript: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116091412418659980) 10,278 likes · 3,089 reposts · 373 replies · unknown views Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116091412418659980/analysis --- ### [ts_116091304981296302](https://trump.fm/post/ts_116091304981296302) Truth Social · 2026-02-18T11:05:34.700Z (UTC) · repost · 1 media attachment > RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/116091294028607026 Reposted [ts_116091294028607026](https://trump.fm/post/ts_116091294028607026) (2026-02-18T11:02:47.579Z (UTC)) - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/116/091/290/724/781/294/original/9f87bb767ed915ca.mp4 **Video transcript** (reposted clip, 6:13), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > - If these ballots were run through multiple times, as you've alleged, I think you said possibly up to 30,000 times, definitely thousands of times, being counted, when we examine the poll book and see who voted, and we count those numbers, would they then not line up with the total number of votes coming out of Detroit? - Just later, later, the poll book is completely off, completely off. - Off to 30,000? - I'd say that poll book is off by over 100,000. - Where are you from? - Oh, I'm from down river. - Okay. - I'm here because of the 38,000 ballots that arrived here at 3.45 AM, they're just now sitting over there and getting counted, supposedly. - Okay, okay. - And that's why I arrived. - Okay. - To an eye-opening of hypocrisy, let me tell you, something I want you to see, they're taping up the windows, the security's taping up the windows so that people who are challenging cannot see in here, and he can't see out, so it's an interesting development. Interesting development. - I began observing the process of ballots at several counting boards. I quickly noticed that none, and I mean none, of the names who were being scanned from the ballots were in the electronic poll books. All… (full transcript: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116091304981296302) 14,331 likes · 5,907 reposts · 929 replies · unknown views --- ### [ts_116091294028607026](https://trump.fm/post/ts_116091294028607026) Truth Social · 2026-02-18T11:02:47.579Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment **Video transcript** (6:13), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > - If these ballots were run through multiple times, as you've alleged, I think you said possibly up to 30,000 times, definitely thousands of times, being counted, when we examine the poll book and see who voted, and we count those numbers, would they then not line up with the total number of votes coming out of Detroit? - Just later, later, the poll book is completely off, completely off. - Off to 30,000? - I'd say that poll book is off by over 100,000. - Where are you from? - Oh, I'm from down river. - Okay. - I'm here because of the 38,000 ballots that arrived here at 3.45 AM, they're just now sitting over there and getting counted, supposedly. - Okay, okay. - And that's why I arrived. - Okay. - To an eye-opening of hypocrisy, let me tell you, something I want you to see, they're taping up the windows, the security's taping up the windows so that people who are challenging cannot see in here, and he can't see out, so it's an interesting development. Interesting development. - I began observing the process of ballots at several counting boards. I quickly noticed that none, and I mean none, of the names who were being scanned from the ballots were in the electronic poll books. All… (full transcript: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116091294028607026) 9,784 likes · 2,930 reposts · 363 replies · unknown views Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116091294028607026/analysis --- ### [ts_116089625350524787](https://trump.fm/post/ts_116089625350524787) Truth Social · 2026-02-18T03:58:25.568Z (UTC) > Key political voice in Georgia urges state to take over Fulton County elections after FBI raid: https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/monkey-political-voice-georgia-urges-state-take-over-fulton-county/ 14,199 likes · 4,367 reposts · 872 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_116089625350524787.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116089625350524787/analysis --- ### [ts_116089623709541734](https://trump.fm/post/ts_116089623709541734) Truth Social · 2026-02-18T03:58:00.532Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment **Image** (meme), described automatically; these are a machine's words about the picture, not the poster's: > Screenshot of a social media post (X/Twitter) from an account named "Pepe Deluxe" (@deluxe_pepe, with a green frog emoji and a blue verified checkmark). The post text reads "People that doubted will soon see" followed by "Great clip Fren". Below the text is an embedded meme image: a close-up, darkened, high-contrast photo of a man's face (resembling Donald Trump) with his eyes digitally edited to glow bright white, like flashlights or camera flash reflections, giving an intense/menacing effect. Bold white all-caps text is overlaid on the image, split across the top and bottom: "I WILL BE THE ONE TO" above the face and "SHUT IT DOWN" below it. The post shows a timestamp of 1:55 PM · Feb 17, 2026 and "11K Views". Text in the image: "Pepe Deluxe 🐸✅ @deluxe_pepe People that doubted will soon see Great clip Fren I WILL BE THE ONE TO SHUT IT DOWN 1:55 PM · Feb 17, 2026 · 11K Views" 14,761 likes · 4,229 reposts · 1,047 replies · unknown views Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116089623709541734/analysis --- ### [ts_116089622233377615](https://trump.fm/post/ts_116089622233377615) Truth Social · 2026-02-18T03:57:38.006Z (UTC) · repost · 1 media attachment > RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/116089620936035048 Crooked Elections cannot be allowed in the U.S.A. President DJT Reposted [ts_116089620936035048](https://trump.fm/post/ts_116089620936035048) (2026-02-18T03:57:18.212Z (UTC)) - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/116/089/611/510/532/325/original/58468af0d5a85f6f.mp4 **Video transcript** (reposted clip, 2:00), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Now we have a bunch of lazy senators who want to threaten the filibuster and not get off their feet and talk and really represent the people and stand for what they believe in. And all the American people are asking John Thune to do is to restore the Senate to the way it used to work before Mitch McConnell's lazy filibuster ideas kind of came into play. And I think that the American people are going to be there. Here's what I think is going to happen, Dan. And I think you probably know some of this because you had a, you had a foresight into some of the things that the bureau now knows it was kept from the American public. I think Donald Trump is going to change the narrative in America. I think he's going to change some senators' minds and he's going to do it by revealing some of the things that Chris Ray and that the Chris Krebs and other major officials who were in charge of the integrity of our elections and who told us it was a perfect election in 2020, he's going to start revealing some of the intelligence that was kept from the American people. And we're going to see that our foreign adversaries have monkeyed with our system more than we knew, more than those driver's licens… (full transcript: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116089622233377615) 16,416 likes · 5,586 reposts · 1,004 replies · unknown views --- ### [ts_116089620936035048](https://trump.fm/post/ts_116089620936035048) Truth Social · 2026-02-18T03:57:18.212Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment **Video transcript** (2:00), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Now we have a bunch of lazy senators who want to threaten the filibuster and not get off their feet and talk and really represent the people and stand for what they believe in. And all the American people are asking John Thune to do is to restore the Senate to the way it used to work before Mitch McConnell's lazy filibuster ideas kind of came into play. And I think that the American people are going to be there. Here's what I think is going to happen, Dan. And I think you probably know some of this because you had a, you had a foresight into some of the things that the bureau now knows it was kept from the American public. I think Donald Trump is going to change the narrative in America. I think he's going to change some senators' minds and he's going to do it by revealing some of the things that Chris Ray and that the Chris Krebs and other major officials who were in charge of the integrity of our elections and who told us it was a perfect election in 2020, he's going to start revealing some of the intelligence that was kept from the American people. And we're going to see that our foreign adversaries have monkeyed with our system more than we knew, more than those driver's licens… (full transcript: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116089620936035048) 9,465 likes · 2,440 reposts · 282 replies · unknown views Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116089620936035048/analysis --- ### [ts_116089469225716247](https://trump.fm/post/ts_116089469225716247) Truth Social · 2026-02-18T03:18:43.293Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment > Congratulations to Kid Rock! Number One, and also, great Super Bowl ratings. A BIG WEEK. MAGA all the way!!! President DJThttps://www.instagram.com/billboard/p/DU4RK1OEuFZ/ 5,779 likes · 1,584 reposts · 456 replies · unknown views Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_116089469225716247.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116089469225716247/analysis --- ### [ts_116089164279508195](https://trump.fm/post/ts_116089164279508195) Truth Social · 2026-02-18T02:01:10.184Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment **Image** (screenshot), described automatically; these are a machine's words about the picture, not the poster's: > A screenshot of a post from X (Twitter) by the verified account "GAGOP" (@GaRepublicans), the Georgia Republican Party, shown on a white background with an X.com watermark in the corner. The account's profile picture is a dark circle containing a red elephant/"G" logo. The post text praises David Shafer, described as the party's Chairman Emeritus, for supporting Donald Trump in 2020 and claims Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis pressured him to disavow Trump and threatened him with bankruptcy and life imprisonment when he refused, asserting he "fought back, & won." The post ends by encouraging readers to follow Shafer. Below the text is a timestamp and view count. Text in the image: "GAGOP ✓ @GaRepublicans X.com Our Chairman Emeritus @DavidShafer stood up for President Trump in 2020. Fani Willis demanded that he repudiate the President & apologize for standing w/him. When he refused, she threatened him w/bankruptcy & life in prison. He never flinched, fought back, & won. Follow him. 6:21 PM · 2/16/26 · 29K Views" 13,886 likes · 3,766 reposts · 532 replies · unknown views Analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116089164279508195/analysis --- ### [ts_116088857079776597](https://trump.fm/post/ts_116088857079776597) Truth Social · 2026-02-18T00:43:02.689Z (UTC) · 1 media attachment **Video transcript** (1:06), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Well, this is the fifth anniversary of the loss of a really great man, a great conservative, somebody that loved our country, loved his family, loved a lot of things. But he was a friend of mine, Rush Limbaugh. I never met Rush when I announced that I was running. I'll never forget, 2015. And I got a call, all excited that Rush Limbaugh just endorsed you. I never met him. He liked my opening speech. He liked when I got up in June and I said, you know, we got bad borders, we got bad crime, we got bad everything. And he liked it. I came down the escalator with now our first lady, and he thought it was great. And he endorsed me, and then I got to know him, and I realized what a great guy he was. But it's five years that we miss Rush. As Sean Hannity would often say, there will never be another Rush Limbaugh. Also to his family, his great wife and family, I just want to say we miss you all. We miss him. And there'll never be anybody like him. 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