# Post ts_115814640881301083

- Post ID: `ts_115814640881301083`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2025-12-31T14:26:15.554Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> Tim Waltz of Minnesota is a Crooked Governor!!!

## Engagement

- Likes: 42,363
- Reposts: 9,822
- Replies: 7,012
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.287Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T06:39:12.437Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: "Tim Waltz of Minnesota is a Crooked Governor!!!"

### Key Observation
The post misspells Tim Walz's name as "Waltz" — a phonemic paraphasia or simple carelessness. This is a very brief, impulsive attack post with no specific allegation or evidence offered.

### Authorship
14:26 UTC = 9:26 AM EST (Mar-a-Lago). Business hours but the brevity, misspelling, ALL CAPS-adjacent energy (triple exclamation), and lack of substance suggest authentic Trump rather than aide-drafted. Aides would likely spell the name correctly.

### Psychological Context
This fits a pattern visible in the surrounding posts: Trump is on a tear attacking Democratic governors (Colorado's Polis, California's Newsom, now Minnesota's Walz). The longitudinal context shows escalating devaluation of state-level Democratic officials during the holiday period. Walz was his 2024 opponent's VP pick, making this partly residual campaign hostility.

### Rhetorical Analysis
Maximally simple: name + location + pejorative label + punctuation emphasis. No argument, no evidence — pure branding through repetition of "Crooked," a label Trump cycles across targets (previously Clinton, Biden, now applied to governors).

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Tim Walz is a 'Crooked Governor'" | **Half True** | Trump's 'crooked' label is a political pejorative, but it is not entirely without factual basis. Multiple large-scale fraud scandals occurred under Walz's governorship, most notably the Feeding Our Future scheme (the largest COVID-19 pandemic fraud case in the country, with 78+ defendants charged for stealing $250M+ from the Federal Child Nutrition Program), plus fraud in Medicaid-funded autism services and housing stabilization programs. A 2024 Minnesota Legislative Auditor report found that the state Department of Education 'created opportunities for fraud' through oversight failures. The Republican-led House Oversight Committee gathered testimony from 30+ whistleblowers alleging the Walz administration knew about fraud as early as 2019-2020, failed to act decisively, and retaliated against employees who raised concerns. Walz denied these allegations in his March 4, 2026 testimony before the committee. Program spending exploded under his watch (Feeding Our Future grew from $307,000 in 2018 to $199 million in 2021; autism center spending jumped from $24 million in 2019 to $342 million in 2024). Walz dropped his 2026 re-election bid in January 2026, citing the need to focus on fighting fraud. However, critical context: Walz has not been personally charged with any crime, there is no evidence he personally profited from or participated in any fraud scheme, and it was federal prosecutors (not state officials) who investigated and prosecuted the fraud cases. PolitiFact rated False Walz's claim that he put people in jail for fraud, noting federal investigators 'had to build a case from scratch' with little help from state agencies. A separate DOJ investigation into Walz under a Civil War-era statute (18 U.S.C. 372) relates to immigration enforcement disputes, not fraud, and is widely characterized as politically motivated retribution. The 'crooked' characterization has a factual kernel in documented oversight failures and whistleblower retaliation allegations, but overstates the case by implying personal corruption or criminality for which no charges exist. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 82%)

### Indicators

- Misspelling of 'Walz' as 'Waltz'
- Extreme brevity with no substantive content
- Triple exclamation marks
- Morning post but impulsive quality
- No formatting or polish

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Residual campaign hostility; pattern of attacking Democratic governors)

**Rage:** Intensity 40% targeting Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota
- Proportionality: 20%

Sentiment: -0.70

Baseline Deviation: slight

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Part of high-volume posting spree during holiday period
- Impulsive brevity

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 50%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 10%
- Sadism: 20%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- devaluation (immature)
- splitting (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 5%

Cognitive Markers:
- phonemic paraphasia

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Brand labeling to shape audience perception
- Repetition of 'Crooked' label across multiple targets

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-22; a recheck of the unverifiable ones last ran 2026-03-29._

> Tim Walz is a 'Crooked Governor'

**HALF TRUE**

Trump's 'crooked' label is a political pejorative, but it is not entirely without factual basis. Multiple large-scale fraud scandals occurred under Walz's governorship, most notably the Feeding Our Future scheme (the largest COVID-19 pandemic fraud case in the country, with 78+ defendants charged for stealing $250M+ from the Federal Child Nutrition Program), plus fraud in Medicaid-funded autism services and housing stabilization programs. A 2024 Minnesota Legislative Auditor report found that the state Department of Education 'created opportunities for fraud' through oversight failures. The Republican-led House Oversight Committee gathered testimony from 30+ whistleblowers alleging the Walz administration knew about fraud as early as 2019-2020, failed to act decisively, and retaliated against employees who raised concerns. Walz denied these allegations in his March 4, 2026 testimony before the committee. Program spending exploded under his watch (Feeding Our Future grew from $307,000 in 2018 to $199 million in 2021; autism center spending jumped from $24 million in 2019 to $342 million in 2024). Walz dropped his 2026 re-election bid in January 2026, citing the need to focus on fighting fraud. However, critical context: Walz has not been personally charged with any crime, there is no evidence he personally profited from or participated in any fraud scheme, and it was federal prosecutors (not state officials) who investigated and prosecuted the fraud cases. PolitiFact rated False Walz's claim that he put people in jail for fraud, noting federal investigators 'had to build a case from scratch' with little help from state agencies. A separate DOJ investigation into Walz under a Civil War-era statute (18 U.S.C. 372) relates to immigration enforcement disputes, not fraud, and is widely characterized as politically motivated retribution. The 'crooked' characterization has a factual kernel in documented oversight failures and whistleblower retaliation allegations, but overstates the case by implying personal corruption or criminality for which no charges exist.

Sources: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-to-know-about-minnesota-fraud-allegations-as-trump-levels-attacks-on-walz/; https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/06/timeline-of-fraud-investigations-that-shaped-walz-tenure; https://oversight.house.gov/release/hearing-wrap-up-minnesota-governor-walz-and-attorney-general-ellison-ignored-rampant-taxpayer-fraud-and-silenced-state-whistleblowers/; https://oversight.house.gov/release/oversight-committee-releases-explosive-testimony-revealing-minnesota-fraud-cover-up-by-governor-walz-and-attorney-general-ellison/; https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/dec/05/tim-walz/MN-Somali-fraud-Donald-Trump-TPS-immigration/; https://www.fox9.com/news/minnesota-fraud-walz-ellison-congress-march-4-2026; https://protectdemocracy.org/work/the-doj-investigation-of-minnesota-officials-explained/; https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-slams-walz-newsom-crooked-governors-asserting-states-awash-fraud; https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/05/politics/tim-walz-minnesota-reelection; https://www.fox9.com/news/gov-walz-no-evidence-fraud-billions-despite-allegations-dec-2025

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- devaluation (80%)
- governor_attacks (70%)
- branding (70%)
- name_error (30%)

## That day

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

**From 'Happy New Year' to 'Rot in Hell': A Holiday Consumed by Fraud Obsession and Ethnic Scapegoating**

Trump's New Year's Eve started with a cheerful holiday greeting boasting about the economy and border, but the mood shifted sharply by mid-morning into a long stretch of grievance and fury. The most alarming escalation came when general fraud allegations gave way to targeting a specific congresswoman and the Somali-American community with dehumanizing language and calls for deportation. He posted a near-identical defense of jailed election-fraud advocate Tina Peters twice, hours apart, and at least half the day's 17 posts centered on election fraud or attacks on Democratic officials. By late afternoon, the rage had cooled to routine boasting and a parting shot at the Clooneys, but the holiday was thoroughly overtaken by persecution narratives.

Full digest for 2025-12-31: https://trump.fm/date/2025-12-31/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2025, December 31). Tim Waltz of Minnesota is a Crooked Governor!!! [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_115814640881301083
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Tim Waltz of Minnesota is a Crooked Governor!!!" Truth Social, 31 Dec. 2025. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_115814640881301083. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Tim Waltz of Minnesota is a Crooked Governor!!!," Truth Social, December 31, 2025, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_115814640881301083.

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