# Post ts_114866148855492915

- Post ID: `ts_114866148855492915`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2025-07-17T02:12:15.807Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_114866148855492915
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_114866148855492915/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_114866148855492915.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Tom Homan: “President Trump secured this border, the highest level EVER-/in seven weeks…he took the most unsecure border we’ve ever seen…and secured it in seven weeks.”

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (0:12), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> President Trump secured this board the highest level ever in seven weeks. He took the most unsecured border we've ever seen with all these historic numbers and secured it in seven weeks. President Trump.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/114/866/145/464/398/981/original/35fc374bba07abd9.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 8,278
- Reposts: 2,133
- Replies: 1,277
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.305Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T02:47:00.739Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Analysis: Tom Homan Border Quote Share (2025-07-17)

## Overview
A low-intensity supply-seeking post sharing a video clip of Tom Homan praising Trump's border security achievements. This is a routine maintenance post in which Trump amplifies third-party validation of his policy record.

## Personality Framework

### Level 1: Traits
- **Extraversion** (high): Public display of achievement validation
- **Agreeableness** (low): Implicit contrast with predecessor's failure

### Level 2: Motives
- **Agency/power**: Demonstrating executive effectiveness
- **Achievement**: "Highest level EVER" — record-setting framing

### Level 3: Narrative Identity
- **Protagonist role**: Competent fixer who solved an impossible problem in record time
- **Redemption sequence**: "Most unsecure border" → "secured it in seven weeks"
- **Contrasting other**: Implicit predecessor who created the "unsecure" border

## Clinical Indicators
Minimal clinical significance. Standard grandiose maintenance behavior consistent with baseline patterns. No cognitive markers, no rage, no escalation.

## Context
This post appears amid the Epstein files controversy and the WSJ birthday letter story. The choice to post routine positive content rather than address these stories could represent avoidance or strategic messaging discipline.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Trump secured the border at the highest level ever in seven weeks" | **Mostly False** | While border encounters declined significantly in early 2025 due to executive orders, characterizing it as 'highest level EVER' and 'secured in seven weeks' is hyperbolic. Border security involves multiple metrics and the claim lacks specific benchmarks. |

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 40%)

### Indicators

- Quote-sharing format common to both Trump and aides
- Late evening posting (10:12 PM ET)
- Simple repost of supportive clip

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking

Sentiment: +0.70

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 50%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 10%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- idealization (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 20%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- authority endorsement
- third-party validation

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-22._

> Trump secured the border at the highest level ever in seven weeks

**MOSTLY FALSE**

While border encounters declined significantly in early 2025 due to executive orders, characterizing it as 'highest level EVER' and 'secured in seven weeks' is hyperbolic. Border security involves multiple metrics and the claim lacks specific benchmarks.

Sources: CBP encounter data

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Tags

- border_security (100%)
- third_party_validation (80%)
- supply_seeking (70%)

## That day

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

**A Quiet Day of Self-Amplification as the Epstein Storm Brews Just Off-Screen**

A low-energy day dominated by resharing his own previous posts, with almost no original content. The only real flash of personality came in a morning demand that the Federal Reserve lower interest rates. The Epstein birthday letter story broke in the Wall Street Journal, but Trump avoided addressing it directly -- instead sharing an article about his strong base approval ratings despite the controversy. Staff appeared to handle most of the day's posting.

Full digest for 2025-07-17: https://trump.fm/date/2025-07-17/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2025, July 17). Tom Homan: “President Trump secured this... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_114866148855492915
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Tom Homan: “President Trump secured this border, the..." Truth Social, 17 Jul. 2025. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_114866148855492915. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Tom Homan: “President Trump secured this border, the...," Truth Social, July 17, 2025, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_114866148855492915.

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