# Post ts_113397071592866799 - Post ID: `ts_113397071592866799` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-10-30T15:26:35.741Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113397071592866799 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113397071592866799/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_113397071592866799.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > From Border Patrol Union National President, Paul Perez… ## What the media says **Video transcript** (0:38), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > I'm Paul Perez, President of the National Border Patrol Council, the Border Patrol Union. In a career spanning 27 plus years, I'm used to being villainized and insulted. But when you, Kamala Harris, the borders are, make the comparison that we are Nazis simply because of our support for Donald J. Trump, you forfeit your right to lead the men and women who protect this border every day. This is yet another reason why Americans should not trust you and should support Donald J. Trump for President. You owe us an apology for your vile and disgusting comparison. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/113/397/071/491/915/113/original/3bf40fa3ed0c0950.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 11,540 - Reposts: 4,058 - Replies: 468 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.328Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T16:56:10.091Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ # Analysis: Truth Social Post — 2024-10-30T15:26 UTC ## Overview This post consists entirely of a single attribution line — "From Border Patrol Union National President, Paul Perez…" — followed by a video attachment. With no substantive text body, psychological and linguistic analysis is severely constrained. Commentary is therefore focused on structural and contextual dimensions. --- ## Authorship Attribution **Verdict: Very likely aide-written (Scavino or campaign staff). Confidence: HIGH.** Post time is 15:26 UTC = **11:26 AM EDT**, well within standard business hours. The format — a clean attribution line with a professional ellipsis leading into a video — is structurally inconsistent with Trump's authentic posting style, which is characterized by first-person voice, emotional intensity, ALL CAPS, and frequent typos. This post exhibits none of those markers. The broader posting pattern on October 30 reinforces this: the account published at least five substantive posts — candidate endorsements for Anderson, Sonza, Merrin, and Miller, plus a website link — in a serialized cadence. This volume and regularity is characteristic of a staff-managed GOTV coordination effort in the final six days before the election (November 5, 2024). --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits **Insufficient text for reliable trait inference.** No affective language, no first-person statements, no value-laden adjectives appear in the visible text. Assessment deferred to video content (unavailable). --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations (Motives) **Agency motive dominant (power/status)** — indirectly. The choice to amplify the Border Patrol Union president is instrumentally rational: it serves Trump's electoral goal of dominating the immigration salience dimension in the closing week of the campaign. The surrogate's credibility (frontline union president) substitutes for the subject's own credibility on this dimension, a sophisticated persuasion architecture. **Communion motives absent** — no solidarity, belonging, or care language. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity The subject is **absent from the narrative** of this post. There is no protagonist role, no identity claim, no contrasting other visible in the text. The post functions as an amplification relay, not a self-narrative construction. This is consistent with aide-managed content. --- ## Level 4: Clinical Indicators **Not assessable from this post.** Insufficient linguistic sample. No cognitive markers, no affect dysregulation, no narcissistic display visible. The video content (unavailable for analysis) would be necessary for any meaningful clinical observation. --- ## Psychological Function & Context The post serves a clear **instrumental/electoral function**: deploying an institutional authority figure — the elected president of the National Border Patrol Council — as a credentialed surrogate on the most salient Republican closing issue (immigration/border security). This is a textbook "voices from the field" messaging strategy, giving the campaign's core border narrative an appearance of organic expert testimony rather than political messaging. Contextually, this occurs the same day as the Madison Square Garden rally (October 27 was the MSG event; Trump is deep in final-week blitz campaigning) and amid the Biden "garbage" comment controversy, which the campaign was actively capitalizing on. The Border Patrol Union endorsement amplification is coherent with this strategic moment. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Paul Perez is the National President of the Border Patrol Union" | **True** | Paul Perez is the elected National President of the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC), the union representing U.S. Border Patrol agents. This is consistent with public records. | Overall Veracity: 100% ## Danger Assessment **None** — from the visible text. Video content not assessable. --- ## Summary *Not generated — post lacks sufficient linguistic content for clinically significant pattern analysis. No deviation from baseline observable in the text portion.* ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 10%) ### Indicators - Post time 15:26 UTC = 11:26 AM EDT (business hours, not late night) - No typos, no ALL CAPS, no emotional reactivity - Clean professional attribution format - Minimal text — curated video-share format consistent with staff-managed posting - Part of a serialized, high-volume endorsement cadence (5+ posts same day), consistent with aide-managed scheduling ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (Campaign GOTV surrogate amplification) Sentiment: +0.25 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 10% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - idealization (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Surrogate voice technique: using a union official to speak directly to an audience segment (law enforcement, border security voters) with higher perceived authenticity than a Trump direct appeal ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._ > Paul Perez is the National President of the Border Patrol Union **TRUE** Paul Perez is the elected National President of the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC), the union representing U.S. Border Patrol agents. This is consistent with public records. Sources: National Border Patrol Council public records Overall Veracity: 100% ## Tags - surrogate_amplification (90%) - aide_authored (90%) - border_security (80%) - gotv_campaign (80%) - institutional_endorsement (70%) - video_payload (60%) - low_text_content (90%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Six Days Out: Campaign Sprint Masks Overnight Defensiveness and a Paranoid Election-Fraud Spike** Trump barnstormed through three states in the final week before Election Day, holding rallies in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Wisconsin. The day's mood was overwhelmingly upbeat and campaign-focused, but overnight damage control over the MSG rally's Puerto Rico controversy and Biden's "garbage" gaffe revealed a defensive undercurrent. The most alarming moment came in an early morning post baselessly accusing Pennsylvania of large-scale election cheating and calling on law enforcement to act — a preemptive fraud narrative with no supporting evidence. Most of the day's high-volume output was formulaic endorsements and get-out-the-vote messaging, much of it clearly written by staff rather than Trump himself. Full digest for 2024-10-30: https://trump.fm/date/2024-10-30/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, October 30). From Border Patrol Union National President, Paul... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113397071592866799 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "From Border Patrol Union National President, Paul Perez…" Truth Social, 30 Oct. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113397071592866799. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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