# Post ts_113397147936704567 - Post ID: `ts_113397147936704567` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2024-10-30T15:46:00.656Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113397147936704567 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113397147936704567/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_113397147936704567.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > From Border Patrol Union National Vice President, Art Del Cueto… ## What the media says **Video transcript** (0:42), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Hello, my name is Artel Cueto, I'm Vice President of the National Border Patrol Council. I was extremely bothered recently by the comments made by Kamala Harris comparing Trump supporters to Nazis. As a Hispanic and as a member of the law enforcement community, that is a tremendous slap in the face and once again it proves why Kamala Harris is just unfit to be president of this country. Remember, this November 5th, put your trust in the one person that does not want to divide this country and has fought for law enforcement and for many other members of the community. Put your trust in Donald J. Trump because a vote for Donald J. Trump is not just a win for him, it's a win for America. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/113/397/147/837/253/237/original/b10cad92ee1f28be.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 10,096 - Reposts: 3,244 - Replies: 307 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.328Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T16:57:03.038Z (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_113397147936704567 — Truth Social, 2024-10-30 ## Overview This post is a near-content-free video delivery vehicle. The entire original text reads: *"From Border Patrol Union National Vice President, Art Del Cueto…"* followed by an attached MP4. No original Trump voice is present; the post cedes all communicative content to the embedded video. Paired with an identical companion post featuring National President Paul Perez, this constitutes a coordinated two-shot surrogate amplification deployment. --- ## Level 1: Dispositional Traits **Not assessable.** A single attribution line contains insufficient lexical or syntactic material to score any Big Five facet with meaningful confidence. Personality inferences would be fabrication rather than analysis. --- ## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations **Agency motives (indirect):** The decision to post two ranked union officials in sequence (President, then Vice President — or VP first, building to President) reveals deliberate strategic hierarchy awareness. Border security is the campaign's signature agency claim, and institutional validators are deployed to reinforce it without Trump needing to make first-person claims. **Schemas:** The world is structured here as one requiring credentialed authority to confer legitimacy — the campaign is *borrowing* institutional trust rather than generating it organically. --- ## Level 3: Narrative Identity **Protagonist absent.** Trump does not appear as narrator or protagonist in this post. The surrogate is the speaking subject. This is consistent with an aide-managed content strategy where Trump's narrative voice is substituted for third-party legitimacy. --- ## Level 4: Authorship Attribution **Verdict: Aide-authored (Scavino / comms staff). Confidence: High.** - **Timing:** 15:46 UTC = **11:46 AM EDT** (Trump was in the Eastern time zone during the MSG/Wisconsin campaign swing). Squarely within business-hours Scavino window. - **Style:** Zero typos, zero ALL CAPS passages, zero self-referential superlatives, no stream-of-consciousness phrasing. The ellipsis functions as a professional bridge to video, not an impulsive trailing thought. - **Structural coordination:** The companion Perez post (same day, same template, same format) indicates planned multi-post campaign content — not impulsive late-night posting. --- ## Contextual / Strategic Note This post drops the same day as the MSG rally and in the immediate aftermath of the Tony Hinchcliffe Puerto Rico controversy ("floating island of garbage"), which generated widespread condemnation among Latino communities and threatened the campaign's outreach to Hispanic voters. Amplifying a Border Patrol Union official named **Art Del Cueto** — a Hispanic federal law enforcement figure — within hours of the Hinchcliffe fallout is unlikely to be coincidental. This functions as implicit damage control: the campaign surfaces a credentialed Latino border enforcement voice to counter the perception of anti-Hispanic sentiment without directly addressing the controversy. --- ## Rhetorical Analysis - **Appeal to authority / institutional credibility transfer:** Border Patrol Union leadership carries law enforcement credibility. Presenting their statements without editorializing launders the message through a perceived neutral expert. - **Serialization volume tactic (RAND Firehose element):** Two posts, two officials, same day — feed saturation with border messaging in the campaign's final week. - **Ellipsis engagement hook:** Minor but deliberate; drives video completion. --- ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Art Del Cueto is National Vice President of the Border Patrol Union" | **True** | Del Cueto is a well-documented public figure serving as VP of the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC), frequently appearing in media in this capacity. | Overall Veracity: 100% ## Danger Assessment: None No eliminationist language, no dehumanization, no stochastic terrorism indicators. Routine campaign surrogate content. --- ## Summary Post contains no original Trump text. All frameworks requiring direct linguistic analysis (cognitive markers, narcissistic state, defense mechanisms, Big Five) are inapplicable. The sole analytically meaningful signal is **strategic**: coordinated deployment of a Hispanic border law enforcement official as institutional validator, timed within hours of the Hinchcliffe controversy, suggesting comms-managed damage control. Aide-authored with high confidence. Low psychological signal; no clinical significance in isolation. ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 10%) ### Indicators - Posted at 11:46 AM EDT — midday business hours, classic Scavino window - Zero original Trump text; no ALL CAPS, superlatives, or self-referential claims - Clean ellipsis formatting as professional transition to video - Structurally identical template to companion Perez post — coordinated two-post series - No typos, no impulsive stream-of-consciousness quality ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance Sentiment: +0.10 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 0% - Antisocial: 0% - Paranoid: 0% - Sadism: 0% **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 0% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Third-party validation via credentialed surrogate ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-21._ > Art Del Cueto is National Vice President of the Border Patrol Union **TRUE** Del Cueto is a well-documented public figure serving as VP of the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC), frequently appearing in media in this capacity. Sources: General knowledge — NBPC public records Overall Veracity: 100% ## Tags - surrogate-amplification (90%) - border-security (80%) - aide-authored (95%) - institutional-endorsement (80%) - election-closing-week (70%) - implicit-damage-control (60%) ## 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 Vice President,... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113397147936704567 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "From Border Patrol Union National Vice President, Art Del..." Truth Social, 30 Oct. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113397147936704567. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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