# Post ts_116143525942565730

- Post ID: `ts_116143525942565730`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-02-27T16:26:03.330Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116143525942565730
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116143525942565730/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_116143525942565730.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> It is my Great Honor to endorse Carlos De La Cruz, a fantastic America First Candidate running to be the next Congressman from Texas' 35th Congressional District! A Brave, 20 Year Air Force Veteran, and now, as a successful Businessman, Carlos has a Proven Record of Success — He is a WINNER! In Congress, Carlos will work tirelessly to Grow the Economy, Promote our Amazing Farmers and Ranchers, Cut Taxes and Regulations, Champion MADE IN THE U.S.A., Advance American Energy DOMINANCE, Keep our Border SECURE, Strengthen our Military/Veterans, Ensure LAW AND ORDER, Advocate for Election Integrity, and Protect our always under siege Second Amendment. Carlos De La Cruz has my Complete and Total Endorsement to be the next Representative from Texas' 35th Congressional District. GET OUT AND VOTE FOR CARLOS DE LA CRUZ — HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN! Find your Voting Location here: https://swampthevoteusa.com/Texas/

## Engagement

- Likes: 3,178
- Reposts: 788
- Replies: 75
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-27T18:45:24.711Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T07:44:49.832Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Analysis: Congressional Endorsement — Carlos De La Cruz (TX-35)

This is one of a batch of Texas congressional endorsements posted on the same day, all following an identical template structure. The post is indistinguishable in format from the Yarbrough (TX-32), Flores (TX-34), Tijerina, Carter (TX-31), and Babin (TX-36) endorsements posted the same day.

### Authorship
Posted at 11:26 AM ET (Trump likely at Mar-a-Lago or D.C. given SOTU week). Business hours, perfect grammar, formulaic structure, professional formatting, and inclusion of a campaign URL all point decisively to aide authorship (likely Dan Scavino or political staff). The post follows a rigid template: honorific opener → biography → policy list → "Complete and Total Endorsement" → call to action. The policy list is nearly word-for-word identical across all six endorsements.

### Psychological Content
Minimal authentic psychological signal. The post is a political operation product — a batch of endorsements for Texas special elections or primaries. The ALL CAPS items (DOMINANCE, SECURE, LAW AND ORDER, MADE IN THE U.S.A.) reflect standard Trump branding rather than emotional state.

### Rhetorical Techniques
Standard endorsement rhetoric: superlatives ("fantastic," "WINNER"), appeal to military service, nationalist framing ("America First"), and the proprietary "Complete and Total Endorsement" formula that functions as a brand stamp.

### Context
The batch endorsement blitz likely serves as routine political maintenance during a week dominated by the SOTU address and its aftermath, keeping the political operation running while attention-grabbing posts address Omar/Tlaib and other controversies.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Carlos De La Cruz is a 20 Year Air Force Veteran" | **Mostly True** | Multiple independent and credible sources consistently report that Carlos De La Cruz served 20 years in the U.S. Air Force. Ballotpedia, the San Antonio Report, the Latino Leaders profile, and Fox News all describe him as a 20-year Air Force veteran. The San Antonio Report's candidate profile states he "enlisted in the United States Air Force at 18, and served 20 years — including multiple deployments to the Middle East following 9/11 and assignments at our southern border conducting drug interdiction operations against the cartels." The Latino Leaders profile adds that he received an honorable retirement and was deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, and along the U.S.-Mexico border. Fox News identified him on-air as "a 20-year Air Force veteran and congressional candidate." His family background also includes military ties — his grandfather served in the U.S. Navy during WWII, and his sister is U.S. Rep. Monica De La Cruz. After retiring from the Air Force, he and his wife founded a kickboxing gym in San Antonio in 2018, and he later founded an IT company that grew to over 550 employees. No stolen valor allegations, contradictions, or challenges to his military service claims were found in any search. The rating is "mostly true" rather than "true" only because the underlying evidence traces to the candidate's self-reported biography rather than independently verified military records; however, the consistent reporting across multiple reputable news organizations (Texas Tribune, San Antonio Report, Fox News, Ballotpedia) and the complete absence of any challenge to the claim — especially given the scrutiny congressional candidates receive from opposition research — strongly supports its accuracy. |

Overall Veracity: 80%

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Business hours posting (11:26 AM ET)
- Perfect grammar and spelling throughout
- Rigid template identical to 5+ same-day endorsements
- Professional formatting with campaign URL
- Formulaic 'Complete and Total Endorsement' language

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance

Sentiment: +0.70

### Clinical

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 30%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- brand stamp endorsement as personal gift
- framing endorsement as 'Great Honor' (bestowing status)

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> Carlos De La Cruz is a 20 Year Air Force Veteran

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Multiple independent and credible sources consistently report that Carlos De La Cruz served 20 years in the U.S. Air Force. Ballotpedia, the San Antonio Report, the Latino Leaders profile, and Fox News all describe him as a 20-year Air Force veteran. The San Antonio Report's candidate profile states he "enlisted in the United States Air Force at 18, and served 20 years — including multiple deployments to the Middle East following 9/11 and assignments at our southern border conducting drug interdiction operations against the cartels." The Latino Leaders profile adds that he received an honorable retirement and was deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, and along the U.S.-Mexico border. Fox News identified him on-air as "a 20-year Air Force veteran and congressional candidate." His family background also includes military ties — his grandfather served in the U.S. Navy during WWII, and his sister is U.S. Rep. Monica De La Cruz. After retiring from the Air Force, he and his wife founded a kickboxing gym in San Antonio in 2018, and he later founded an IT company that grew to over 550 employees. No stolen valor allegations, contradictions, or challenges to his military service claims were found in any search. The rating is "mostly true" rather than "true" only because the underlying evidence traces to the candidate's self-reported biography rather than independently verified military records; however, the consistent reporting across multiple reputable news organizations (Texas Tribune, San Antonio Report, Fox News, Ballotpedia) and the complete absence of any challenge to the claim — especially given the scrutiny congressional candidates receive from opposition research — strongly supports its accuracy.

Sources: https://ballotpedia.org/Carlos_De_La_Cruz; https://sanantonioreport.org/profile/carlos-de-la-cruz-2026-candidate-for-texas-35th-congressional-district/; https://discoverlatinoleaders.com/leaders/texas/carlos-de-la-cruz; https://www.texastribune.org/2025/10/02/carlos-de-la-cruz-congress-35th-district-republican-primary-campaign/; https://www.foxnews.com/video/6390337941112; https://www.sacurrent.com/news/san-antonio-news/carlos-de-la-cruz-brother-of-south-texas-congresswoman-will-run-to-represent-san-antonios-35th-district/; https://sanantonioreport.org/carlos-de-la-cruz-qa-tx-35-runoff/; https://www.carlosforcongress.com/; https://news.ballotpedia.org/2026/03/12/carlos-de-la-cruz-r-and-john-lujan-r-are-running-in-the-republican-primary-runoff-for-texas-35th-congressional-district-on-may-26-2026/

Overall Veracity: 80%

## Tags

- endorsement (100%)
- aide_authored (95%)
- batch_post (90%)
- texas_elections (80%)

## That day

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

**Ten hours of State of the Union praise end with an order stripping Anthropic out of every federal agency**

Trump woke in the middle of the night to share three screenshots about the 2020 election being stolen, one of them carrying another user's line that "people need to be in prison," then went quiet for six hours. Most of the rest of the day was bulk posting: about seventeen links to friendly coverage of a State of the Union address he gave three days earlier, and sixteen Texas congressional endorsements filed in seven minutes, nearly all of it written in staff boilerplate. The one real outburst came mid-afternoon, an all-caps post banning the AI company Anthropic from the federal government and threatening prosecution after it refused Pentagon demands on autonomous weapons. He followed it with a more anxious post about the Supreme Court striking down his tariffs, floating the idea that the Court should hear the case again. He was in Corpus Christi for an energy rally where he stood with all three Republicans running for Texas Senate and endorsed none of them, and he stopped posting by late afternoon.

Full digest for 2026-02-27: https://trump.fm/date/2026-02-27/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, February 27). It is my Great Honor to endorse Carlos De La... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_116143525942565730
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "It is my Great Honor to endorse Carlos De La Cruz, a..." Truth Social, 27 Feb. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116143525942565730. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "It is my Great Honor to endorse Carlos De La Cruz, a...," Truth Social, February 27, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116143525942565730.

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