# Post ts_112662113200763683

- Post ID: `ts_112662113200763683`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-06-22T20:17:00.730Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112662113200763683
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_112662113200763683/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_112662113200763683.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Mayor Trent Staggs for Senate, he will be great!

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (1:48), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> It's my great honor to fully endorse me, Trent Staggs. He's a fantastic person, running for the seat of one of the worst senators in the history of the Republican Party, Mitt Romney. You don't get much worse. Some people may not like me saying that, but that's the way I feel. You don't get much worse. And Trent is somebody I endorsed at the convention, and he won a little bit of a long shot, but he would be a great senator. And I'm behind him 100%. I think he'll do really, really well. I think he's gonna get a lot of votes. He doesn't have the campaign finance that some of the opponents have, but sometimes that doesn't matter. I didn't either. A lot of people don't, and they end up winning big. And I just want to say that he will be a really great senator. He's very conservative. He's MAGA all the way, Make America Great Again. And he's all about America first. And Trent Stags, if you feel like it, you go out on Tuesday and you vote for me, you may surprise a lot of people. It's an honor to be with everybody. I love the state. It's a great state. And I will be there very soon. We'll be campaigning very soon. Some incredible friends in Utah. And it's just a place that's very, very special to me. I've won it twice. I've won the nomination twice, so if you look at it, 4-0, and we expect that we're going to be doing better. We just had polls coming out from raspy. I said that we're 10 points ahead of Crooked Joe Biden, the worst president in history. And we think we're going to do very well. But if you can, get out and vote for Trent Stags for the U.S. Senate, and he will not let you down. It'll be great, yes, by complete and total endorsement. Thank you.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/112/662/112/935/979/758/original/301acbfcc9550fa0.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 8,694
- Reposts: 2,241
- Replies: 363
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.347Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T09:59:55.465Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Analysis: ts_112662113200763683 — Endorsement Post (Trent Staggs for Senate)

## Overview
A minimally complex, high-confidence aide-authored endorsement post. Content and timing indicate coordinated campaign scheduling rather than authentic Trump expression.

## Authorship
**Aide-written (high confidence).** Published at 16:17 EDT on a Saturday — late afternoon, business hours. Format is clean and templated, mirroring same-day endorsements for Pastor Mark Burns. No orthographic, syntactic, or affective markers of authentic Trump authorship are present.

## Personality Framework (McAdams & Pals)
**Level 1 (Traits):** Post is too brief for meaningful trait-level inference. Mild assertiveness is the only discernible signal.

**Level 2 (Characteristic Adaptations):** Agency motives dominate structurally: Trump is positioned as a kingmaker whose endorsement confers viability. The post is a performance of *status dispensation* rather than personal expression.

**Level 3 (Narrative Identity):** Protagonist role = **Patron/Kingmaker**. The post enacts a recurring narrative in which Trump's approval is the central legitimating force in Republican politics. No redemption or contamination sequences; no contrasting other invoked.

## Clinical Indicators
None present. No narcissistic injury trigger, no rage, no delusional content, no cognitive irregularities.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Trent Staggs is a Mayor running for Senate" | **True** | Trent Staggs was the Mayor of Riverton, Utah, and ran in Utah's 2024 Republican Senate primary for the seat vacated by retiring Senator Mitt Romney. |

Overall Veracity: 100%

## Danger Assessment
**None.** Routine political endorsement with no eliminationist, dehumanizing, or mobilization language.

## Summary
*Not clinically significant — summary omitted.*

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 20%)

### Indicators

- Post published at 4:17 PM EDT — solidly within business hours
- No typos, misspellings, or capitalization irregularities
- Extremely brief, complete sentence — polished format
- Structural identity with same-day Burns endorsement posts (templated rhythm)
- No emotional reactivity, ALL CAPS, or stream-of-consciousness markers

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance

Sentiment: +0.45

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 10%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 100%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- endorsement as social currency dispensation

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._

> Trent Staggs is a Mayor running for Senate

**TRUE**

Trent Staggs was the Mayor of Riverton, Utah, and ran in Utah's 2024 Republican Senate primary for the seat vacated by retiring Senator Mitt Romney.

Sources: general knowledge

Overall Veracity: 100%

## Tags

- endorsement (100%)
- aide-authored (90%)
- kingmaker-framing (50%)
- Utah-Senate-2024 (60%)
- low-signal (90%)

## That day

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

**A Managed Campaign Saturday: Staff-Driven Endorsements Frame a Philadelphia Rally Day**

Trump had a quiet, staff-managed campaign day centered on a Philadelphia rally at Temple University. The morning opened with a sharp attack on Bill Maher -- the only real flash of anger all day -- before pivoting to endorsements for congressional and Senate candidates. Most of the day's posts were clearly written by staff, promoting the rally and amplifying surrogates. The overall mood was steady and operational, with no signs of distress beyond a single post recycling the "politically motivated prosecution" narrative.

Full digest for 2024-06-22: https://trump.fm/date/2024-06-22/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, June 22). Mayor Trent Staggs for Senate, he will be great! [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_112662113200763683
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Mayor Trent Staggs for Senate, he will be great!" Truth Social, 22 Jun. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112662113200763683. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Mayor Trent Staggs for Senate, he will be great!," Truth Social, June 22, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_112662113200763683.

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