# Post ts_116282191339559931

- Post ID: `ts_116282191339559931`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-03-24T04:10:29.373Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116282191339559931
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116282191339559931/analysis

## Post text

_No text of its own. The post is its media, below._

## What the media says

**Image** (document), described automatically; these are a machine's words about the picture, not the poster's:

> This is a screenshot of an official letter/document. It is a letterhead from the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC), featuring a circular seal and the tagline "Protecting Those Who Protect Our Borders," signed by Paul A. Perez, National President. The letter is dated March 17, 2026, and is addressed to Senator Rand Paul (Chairman) and Senator Gary Peters (Ranking Member) of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. The letter formally endorses Senator Markwayne Mullin as President Trump's nominee for Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), citing his time visiting the border with frontline agents, his leadership style, and private-sector experience, and urges the Committee to advance his nomination to the full Senate. It ends with a handwritten-style signature above the printed name "Paul A. Perez, National President."

Text in the image: "NATIONAL BORDER PATROL COUNCIL PAUL A. PEREZ / President PROTECTING THOSE WHO PROTECT OUR BORDERS March 17, 2026 The Honorable Rand Paul Chairman Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs United States Senate 340 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable Gary Peters Ranking Member Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs United States Senate 340 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Dear Chairman Paul and Ranking Member Peters: The men and women of the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) are excited to provide our support for President Donald J. Trump's nominee to be Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Senator Markwayne Mullin. We have no doubt that Senator Mullin is the right person to lead DHS and continue the Trump Administration's focus on keeping America safe. Thanks to President Trump's vision and leadership, we now have the most secure border in our lifetime and Border Patrol agents are again able to do the job of protecting our great nation. While much has been accomplished, there is still work to be done and Senator Mullin will ensure we never let our guard down. Threats emanating from overseas remain persistent and the cartels operating south of our border continue to try and smuggle narcotics, people and weapons across our borders. The brave men and women of the Border Patrol deter and stop these threats every day and we know Senator Mullin will have our backs as we execute our mission. Senator Mullin has spent valuable time on the ground at the border and met with frontline agents to understand our mission and challenges. We have gotten to know Senator Mullin and his no-nonsense leadership style means Border Patrol will remain focused on public safety and enforcing our nation's laws. In addition to his more than a decade of leadership and public service in Congress, Senator Mullin brings much needed private sector experience that will allow him to cut through bureaucratic red tape and ensure agents in the field have the resources and equipment we need to secure our borders. The NBPC is proud to endorse Senator Mullin to be the next DHS Secretary, and we urge the Committee to swiftly pass and move his nomination to the full Senate. Sincerely, Paul A. Perez National President"

## Media

- image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/116/282/191/112/923/698/original/983d6aee0e9f5162.jpg

## Engagement

- Likes: 11,762
- Reposts: 2,338
- Replies: 269
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-03-24T20:00:31.107Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-16T10:54:52.529Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

The post carries no words of his own — a photographed letter from the National Border Patrol Council's president endorsing Markwayne Mullin for DHS Secretary, addressed to Senators Paul and Peters. The only behavior available for analysis is the choice to publish this document, unaccompanied, at 12:10 a.m. Eastern.

That choice functions as borrowed validation. The letter states the Border Patrol union believes "we now have the most secure border in our lifetime" under his administration and calls Mullin's leadership "no-nonsense" — claims made by a third party, which he amplifies by posting the image without adding or editing a word. This lets an institutional voice assert what would read as self-congratulation if he said it directly: a mild idealization of his own administration's record, laundered through someone else's letterhead. It is consistent with supply-seeking during an active confirmation fight, where outside endorsements shore up a nominee under committee scrutiny.

Set against the surrounding week — a public "Good, I'm glad he's dead" reaction to Mueller's death, threats against Iranian energy infrastructure, and "COWARDS" directed at NATO — this post is markedly lower-temperature: no target, no attack, no grievance. It reads as routine confirmation-process business rather than an extension of that week's hostility, which is itself worth noting as the more unusual data point: a return to procedural normalcy sitting immediately downstream of the Mueller remark.

Nothing in the image asserts eliminationist, dehumanizing, or threatening content; the letter's rhetoric is institutional advocacy, not attack. Because no fact claim here is his own assertion — the border-security characterization belongs to the NBPC president, not to a sentence he wrote — there is nothing to fact-check as his statement.

Authorship cannot be assessed from prose since none exists; the only signal is timing. Posting past midnight Eastern fits his documented pattern of personal, unstaffed engagement, but a single timestamp on a text-free post is thin evidence for who selected this particular image.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 55%)

### Indicators

- Posted 00:10 a.m. Eastern — inside his typical late-night personal posting window
- No accompanying text, so no stylometric evidence exists either way
- Image-only shares of institutional letters are also a common staff task during confirmation pushes

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 50%
- Agreeableness: 40%
- Conscientiousness: 40%
- Neuroticism: 15%
- Openness: 25%

Strongest facet: status-seeking assertiveness via curated third-party validation

**Motives:**
- Agency: 60%
- Communion: 15%

Primary drive: status

### Narrative

- **Role:** border-security architect vindicated by frontline endorsement
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** senators or critics who might obstruct Mullin's confirmation

**Identity Claims:**
- 'the most secure border in our lifetime' — attributed to the union, adopted by republication

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Mullin's DHS nomination before the Senate Homeland Security Committee)

Sentiment: +0.30

### Clinical

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

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 0%

## Tags

- institutional-endorsement-share (80%)
- dhs-nomination (70%)
- borrowed-validation (60%)
- image-only-no-text (90%)

## That day

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

**Indiana Republicans who voted against redistricting get branded "America Last" in an afternoon endorsement blitz**

Most of the day went to one burst in the mid-afternoon: within about half an hour his account put out endorsements for Indiana state senators. It praised the Republicans who backed his push to redraw the state's congressional map and attacked six who voted against it, calling them "RINO" and "America Last." Earlier, just before and after midnight, he posted a border agents' union letter and a claim that Democrats want to protect undocumented immigrants so they can vote, which is false. The Iran war, the biggest story of the day, showed up only once, as a screenshot of Pakistan's prime minister offering to host US-Iran talks. He finished the evening by endorsing Hungary's Viktor Orbán for re-election and telling Hungarians to vote for him.

Full digest for 2026-03-24: https://trump.fm/date/2026-03-24/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, March 24).  [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_116282191339559931
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 24 Mar. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116282191339559931. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, March 24, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116282191339559931.

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