# Post ts_115118817792640786

- Post ID: `ts_115118817792640786`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2025-08-30T17:09:17.895Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_115118817792640786
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_115118817792640786/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_115118817792640786.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Doug Collins: "An average of 17 Veterans die by suicide each day, and that is 17 too many. If you're a Veteran in crisis or concerned about one, contact the Veterans Crisis Line to receive 24/7 confidential support. To reach responders, dial 988 then Press 1. You don't have to be enrolled in Veterans Affairs benefits or health care to call."

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (3:12), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> I get reports every day of those in our lives, especially the lives of veterans, who are no longer with us. Some have actually went on VA property and taken their own life. No matter what number you use, I'm firmly convinced that one is too many. I'm firmly convinced that if we as a society and we as a government call the VA do not care, then the rest of the world will not give a damn about us. It is us that has to take the priority. It is this VA that has to take priority, and it is you in back home, in your communities, in your town halls, in your places where you go to worship, in your places of laws, everywhere you go, you've got to take the accountability for each other because if we don't, then we'll continue to lose them. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, twelve, twelve, sixteen, seventeen. At the end of this day, we'll not be with us anymore. Not every week, not every month, today. So as we gather to celebrate, the Legion coming together, the VA doing what it's supposed to do, and that's to take care of veterans and quit worrying about the bureaucracy. I challenge each of you. When you get up in the morning, or before you go to bed in the evening, count to 17, and then say, "I will be the one." I won't take "I'm fine" for an answer any longer, and I'll commit to you. As Secretary of the VA, I will wake up every day with one thing and one thing on my mind, is how do I do what the President told me to do? I'm going to take care of veterans, and that's all I'm going to do.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/115/118/815/843/740/007/original/4b30029e9e970e7e.mp4

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.298Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T03:53:11.959Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Analysis: Veteran Suicide Prevention PSA (2025-08-30)

## Overview
A verbatim quote from VA Secretary Doug Collins providing the Veterans Crisis Line number (988, Press 1) and noting 17 veterans die by suicide daily. Accompanied by a video. This is institutional communication with zero personal authorship signal.

## Authorship
Almost certainly aide-produced. Posted at 1:09 PM ET, uses quote-block formatting of a cabinet secretary's statement, contains no Trump voice markers, and serves a standard White House comms function.

## Psychological Significance
Negligible. This post reveals nothing about the subject's psychological state. It is a routine amplification of government messaging on a bipartisan issue. The choice to post it may reflect comms strategy (showing compassion amid a contentious news cycle involving tariff court losses and military deployments), but this inference is speculative.

## Context
Posted during a dense news period. The surrounding posts show Trump in combative mode (tariffs, congressional redistricting). This PSA may serve as tonal counterbalance in the feed.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "An average of 17 Veterans die by suicide each day" | **True** | The VA's 2023 National Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report cited approximately 17.5 veteran suicides per day. This has been the consistent figure for several years. |

Overall Veracity: 100%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 5%)

### Indicators

- Official government quote format
- Perfect grammar and formatting
- Business hours posting (1:09 PM ET)
- PSA content with no personal commentary
- Professional, polished presentation

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance

Sentiment: +0.15

### Clinical

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 50%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- institutional authority display

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> An average of 17 Veterans die by suicide each day

**TRUE**

The VA's 2023 National Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report cited approximately 17.5 veteran suicides per day. This has been the consistent figure for several years.

Sources: VA National Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Reports

Overall Veracity: 100%

## Tags

- veteran_suicide_prevention (90%)
- aide_authored (95%)
- PSA (100%)

## That day

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

**Quiet Saturday Scrolling Erupts Into Federal Threat Against Defiant Governor**

A routine Saturday afternoon of presidential proclamations and social media link-sharing escalated sharply in the final minutes with a pointed attack on Illinois Governor Pritzker over Chicago crime. Trump cherry-picked weekend violence statistics to demand federal intervention while simultaneously claiming D.C. had become "virtually crime-free" under his watch -- both claims at odds with available data. The bulk of the day was spent scrolling and amplifying supportive social media posts, with a notable aside about his pride in White House stonework. The mood was consistently self-congratulatory, spiking into genuine anger only when confronted with a governor who publicly refused his help.

Full digest for 2025-08-30: https://trump.fm/date/2025-08-30/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2025, August 30). Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Doug Collins: "An... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_115118817792640786
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Doug Collins: "An average of..." Truth Social, 30 Aug. 2025. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_115118817792640786. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Doug Collins: "An average of...," Truth Social, August 30, 2025, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_115118817792640786.

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