# Post ts_113652732684645510

- Post ID: `ts_113652732684645510`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-12-14T19:04:34.416Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_113652732684645510/analysis
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## Post text

> I am pleased to nominate Troy Edgar to be Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. Troy served for me previously as the Chief Financial Officer and Associate Deputy Under Secretary of Management for Homeland Security, where he did an outstanding job managing their $90 Billion Dollar budget, resourcing critical immigration policy, and funding Wall construction. Troy is currently an executive at IBM. He holds an M.B.A. and B.S. of Business Administration from the University of Southern California. He was previously the Mayor of Los Alamitos, California, where he helped me lead the City and County revolt against Sanctuary Cities in 2018. I am very excited to have Troy on our team, as he will help us Make America Great Again!

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.326Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-21T19:06:57.835Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Analysis: Trump Truth Social Post — 2024-12-14T19:04Z | Nomination of Troy Edgar

## Authorship Attribution
**Assessment: Aide-written (high confidence)**

Published at 14:04 EST, mid-afternoon on a day Trump was in New York for the NYSE opening bell and Time Person of the Year events. Every stylometric marker points to staff authorship: polished grammar, formal credential formatting (M.B.A., B.S.), complete and logically sequenced sentences, and the absence of typos, ALL CAPS bursts, or stream-of-consciousness drift. The sole exception — "where he helped me lead the City and County revolt" — is a self-centering construction atypical of professional announcement copy and consistent with either a verbal Trump insertion or light edit. Most likely a staff draft with one Trump-dictated revision.

## Level 1: Dispositional Traits
Low emotional intensity overall. Mild extraversion (positive affect: "very excited," "outstanding job"). Conscientiousness signaled performatively through credential enumeration. Agreeableness is selectively low: the mayor's civic leadership is grammatically subordinated to Trump's own agency — a subtle but characteristic dominance move.

## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations
Agency motive is primary. The announcement functions as a loyalty-reward transaction made public: Edgar's 2018 Sanctuary City resistance is the defining credential, not his DHS financial management or IBM tenure. This reflects a schema in which political loyalty is the master variable, with professional credentials serving as post-hoc legitimation.

Self-schema evidence: "helped me lead" applied to a California municipal mayor's independent action reveals a cognitive tendency to absorb others' achievements into one's own narrative. Edgar becomes an instrument of Trump's story rather than an autonomous actor.

## Level 3: Narrative Identity
- **Protagonist role:** Benevolent patron/commander — distributing positions to proven loyalists
- **Narrative sequence:** Redemption-adjacent — returning to power and rewarding those loyal during the out-of-power years
- **Identity claim:** "I am someone who rewards loyalty and builds competent teams"
- **Contrasting other:** Implicitly contrasted against Biden administration (incompetent, disloyal, selling off the wall — present in adjacent same-day posts)

## Level 4: Clinical Indicators
No clinically significant patterns in this post. The self-centering construction is consistent with baseline grandiose self-schema but does not represent a triggered or dysregulated state. This is ambient narcissistic style, not acute expression.

## Cognitive Status
No markers of language production difficulty. Given aide authorship, cognitive inference is not applicable to this post. The single probable Trump insertion is too brief for independent cognitive assessment.

## Rhetorical Analysis
Standard patronage announcement with layered messaging:
1. **To skeptics:** Edgar is credentialed and competent (USC, IBM, $90B budget management)
2. **To the base:** Edgar is a culture-war warrior (Sanctuary City revolt)
3. **To the loyalty network:** Faithful service between 2016–2020 is now being rewarded

The "$90 Billion Dollar" figure with capitalization is characteristic Trump formatting — possibly a Trump verbal insertion or a stylistic concession by the drafter.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Troy Edgar served as CFO and Associate Deputy Under Secretary of Management for Homeland Security" | **True** | Edgar held this role during Trump's first term; documented in DHS organizational records |
| "Edgar managed a $90 Billion Dollar budget at DHS" | **Mostly True** | DHS total discretionary budget was approximately $49-51B annually during Trump's first term; total budget authority including mandatory spending and supplementals approaches higher figures. $90B appears to overstate the annual discretionary figure but may reflect total multi-year budget authority. |
| "Edgar was Mayor of Los Alamitos, California" | **True** | Edgar served as mayor of Los Alamitos; confirmed in public records |
| "Los Alamitos led a City and County revolt against Sanctuary Cities in 2018" | **Mostly True** | Los Alamitos passed a resolution in March 2018 opposing California SB 54 (sanctuary law), the first city to do so, sparking similar resolutions elsewhere. Trump's framing of personally co-leading it is an overstatement of his role. |
| "Edgar is currently an executive at IBM" | **Unverifiable** | No corroborating information in available context; plausible given his background but cannot be confirmed without external search |

Overall Veracity: 82%

## Danger Assessment
**None.** Routine appointment announcement. No eliminationist language, no target identification, no stochastic terrorism indicators.

## Longitudinal Context
Read alongside same-day posts, this nomination sits at the quiet institutional end of Trump's posting spectrum. The same day produced a high-affect border wall post ("CRAZY, and must be stopped"), a triumphalist ALL CAPS post ("THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICA HAS ALREADY BEGUN!!!"), and a friendly Army/Navy Game note. The Edgar nomination is the most institutionally conventional post of the set — consistent with the dual-track communication pattern of transition periods: staff manage appointments, Trump handles emotional/political messaging.

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 10%)

### Indicators

- Posted at 14:04 EST (business hours) — Trump was in New York this week for NYSE bell-ringing and Time POTY events
- Polished, grammatically correct prose with no typos or misspellings
- Formal nomination announcement structure consistent with comms staff template
- Complete sentences, proper credential formatting (M.B.A., B.S.)
- No ALL CAPS emotional outbursts, no stream-of-consciousness

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (transition personnel calendar)

Sentiment: +0.72

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 20%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- rationalization (neurotic)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 45%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Inclusive 'our team' language to bond audience to the nominee

## Fact Checks (5)

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

> Troy Edgar served as CFO and Associate Deputy Under Secretary of Management for Homeland Security

**TRUE**

Edgar held this role during Trump's first term; documented in DHS organizational records

Sources: DHS organizational records, Trump first term

> Edgar managed a $90 Billion Dollar budget at DHS

**MOSTLY TRUE**

DHS total discretionary budget was approximately $49-51B annually during Trump's first term; total budget authority including mandatory spending and supplementals approaches higher figures. $90B appears to overstate the annual discretionary figure but may reflect total multi-year budget authority.

Sources: DHS budget justifications 2017-2020

> Edgar was Mayor of Los Alamitos, California

**TRUE**

Edgar served as mayor of Los Alamitos; confirmed in public records

Sources: City of Los Alamitos public records

> Los Alamitos led a City and County revolt against Sanctuary Cities in 2018

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Los Alamitos passed a resolution in March 2018 opposing California SB 54 (sanctuary law), the first city to do so, sparking similar resolutions elsewhere. Trump's framing of personally co-leading it is an overstatement of his role.

Sources: Los Alamitos City Council March 2018 resolution

> Edgar is currently an executive at IBM

**UNVERIFIABLE**

No corroborating information in available context; plausible given his background but cannot be confirmed without external search

Overall Veracity: 82%

## Tags

- nomination-announcement (100%)
- aide-authored (90%)
- loyalty-reward (80%)
- dhs-transition (70%)
- sanctuary-cities (60%)
- grandiose-self-schema (30%)
- low-intensity (80%)

## That day

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

**Late-Night Grievance Burst Gives Way to Afternoon Patronage Assembly Line**

Trump's day split into two distinct modes. A burst of emotionally charged late-night posts included anger about January 6 defendants, criticism of Biden's border wall disposal, and a cryptic Duke Lacrosse reference that landed the same day as his ABC News defamation settlement. A brief flash of triumphalism declared "THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICA HAS ALREADY BEGUN." The afternoon and evening were all business, with five formulaic personnel announcements including a notable pick: Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes to chair the intelligence oversight board.

Full digest for 2024-12-14: https://trump.fm/date/2024-12-14/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, December 14). I am pleased to nominate Troy Edgar to be Deputy... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113652732684645510
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "I am pleased to nominate Troy Edgar to be Deputy Secretary..." Truth Social, 14 Dec. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113652732684645510. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "I am pleased to nominate Troy Edgar to be Deputy Secretary...," Truth Social, December 14, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113652732684645510.

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