# Post ts_115064705209848959

- Post ID: `ts_115064705209848959`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2025-08-21T03:47:45.335Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_115064705209848959/analysis
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## Post text

> Big WIN for the Great State of Texas!!! Everything Passed, on our way to FIVE more Congressional seats and saving your Rights, your Freedoms, and your Country, itself. Texas never lets us down. Florida, Indiana, and others are looking to do the same thing. More seats equals less Crime, a great Economy, and a STRONG SECOND AMENDMENT. It means Happiness and Peace. But Republicans, there is one thing even better - STOP MAIL-IN VOTING, a total fraud that has no bounds. Also, go to PAPER BALLOTS before it is too late - At one tenth the cost, faster, and more reliable. If we do these TWO things, we will pick up 100 more seats, and the CROOKED game of politics is over. God Bless America!!!

## Engagement

- Likes: 24,000
- Reposts: 5,987
- Replies: 1,104
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.299Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T03:42:13.541Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Psychological Analysis: Texas Legislative Victory & Voting Reform Post

### Authorship
Posted at 03:47 UTC on August 21, 2025. In August, Trump is likely at Bedminster, NJ (EDT, UTC-4), making this ~11:47 PM local time. Late-night timing, ALL CAPS emphasis, stream-of-consciousness style, grandiose claims ("100 more seats"), and emotional escalation all point strongly to authentic Trump authorship.

### Content Analysis
The post celebrates a Texas legislative outcome (likely redistricting/special session adding congressional seats), then pivots rapidly to election integrity grievances. The logical chain — more seats → less crime, great economy, strong 2A → "Happiness and Peace" — is characteristic magical thinking, connecting unrelated outcomes through sheer assertion.

The claim that eliminating mail-in voting and switching to paper ballots would yield "100 more seats" is a fabricated number with no empirical basis. The assertion that mail-in voting is "a total fraud that has no bounds" repeats longstanding unsupported claims.

### Psychological Dynamics
The post begins in grandiose supply-seeking mode (celebrating a win) then transitions into persecutory framing ("CROOKED game of politics"). This grandiose-to-paranoid oscillation is characteristic. The phrase "before it is too late" introduces urgency/threat framing typical of narcissistic vulnerability bleeding through grandiosity.

### Rhetorical Analysis
Heavy use of hyperbole, false causal chains, and utopian promises. The "God Bless America" closing is a standard parasocial bonding device. The enumeration style (TWO things, 100 seats) creates false precision.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Texas passed legislation leading to five more congressional seats" | **Mostly True** | Texas likely passed redistricting or census-related legislation in a special session; the exact number may reflect projected gains from redistricting rather than guaranteed seats |
| "Mail-in voting is 'a total fraud that has no bounds'" | **False** | Multiple studies, audits, and court cases have found mail-in voting fraud to be extremely rare. Trump's own administration found no evidence of widespread fraud in 2020. |
| "Paper ballots cost one tenth as much as alternatives" | **Mostly False** | Paper ballot systems have lower equipment costs but total election administration costs vary widely; the 1/10th figure is unsupported |
| "Eliminating mail-in voting and using paper ballots would yield 100 more Republican seats" | **False** | No empirical basis exists for this claim. Many mail-in voting states are Republican-leaning. The number appears fabricated. |

Overall Veracity: 25%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 90%)

### Indicators

- Late night posting (~11:47 PM ET)
- ALL CAPS emphasis on multiple words
- Stream-of-consciousness pivot from Texas to voting reform
- Exclamation mark clusters (!!!)
- Round number fabrication (100 seats)

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Texas legislative victory)

Sentiment: +0.60

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Grandiose claims and promises
- Rapid topic shifts
- Elevated mood with expansive assertions
- Late-night posting

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 70%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 40%
- Sadism: 10%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- distortion (pathological)
- splitting (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 35%

Cognitive Markers:
- tangentiality

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- inclusive 'we' and 'us'
- God Bless America closing
- framing audience as co-participants in victory
- promising happiness and peace

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Gaslighting

- Presents mail-in voting as established fraud despite no evidence
- Implies elections are rigged ('CROOKED game of politics') without substantiation

## Fact Checks (4)

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

> Texas passed legislation leading to five more congressional seats

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Texas likely passed redistricting or census-related legislation in a special session; the exact number may reflect projected gains from redistricting rather than guaranteed seats

> Mail-in voting is 'a total fraud that has no bounds'

**FALSE**

Multiple studies, audits, and court cases have found mail-in voting fraud to be extremely rare. Trump's own administration found no evidence of widespread fraud in 2020.

> Paper ballots cost one tenth as much as alternatives

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Paper ballot systems have lower equipment costs but total election administration costs vary widely; the 1/10th figure is unsupported

> Eliminating mail-in voting and using paper ballots would yield 100 more Republican seats

**FALSE**

No empirical basis exists for this claim. Many mail-in voting states are Republican-leaning. The number appears fabricated.

Overall Veracity: 25%

## Tags

- election-integrity (80%)
- redistricting (60%)
- supply-seeking (70%)
- grandiosity (70%)
- reality-distortion (70%)
- mail-in-voting (80%)

## That day

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

**Partial Legal Win Declared "Total Victory" as Trump Threatens Colorado Officials Over Tina Peters**

Trump spent the day in a celebratory mood, claiming wins on multiple fronts — from Texas redistricting to a New York appeals court ruling that tossed his fraud penalty, which he declared a "total victory" despite the court upholding the underlying fraud finding. The most alarming moment came in a morning post demanding the release of convicted election tamperer Tina Peters, where he threatened "harsh measures" against Colorado state officials — a striking use of presidential authority against state-level justice. The day bookended with late-night partisan cheerleading and an evening visit to federal agents and National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., projecting strength and control. The overall tone was overwhelmingly triumphant, with fabricated statistics and inflated claims peppered throughout posts on voting, polls, and legal outcomes.

Full digest for 2025-08-21: https://trump.fm/date/2025-08-21/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2025, August 21). Big WIN for the Great State of Texas!!!... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_115064705209848959
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Big WIN for the Great State of Texas!!! Everything Passed,..." Truth Social, 21 Aug. 2025. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_115064705209848959. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Big WIN for the Great State of Texas!!! Everything Passed,...," Truth Social, August 21, 2025, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_115064705209848959.

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