# Post ts_116823744965970219

- Post ID: `ts_116823744965970219`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-06-27T19:34:41.963Z (UTC)
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## Post text

> I am very pleased to announce that I have nominated Lance Schroyer to be our next ICE Director. Lance has over 29 YEARS of Law Enforcement experience in Oklahoma — A State where I WON all 77 Counties in 2016, 2020, and 2024! Lance is a former Oklahoma State Trooper, and United States Marine. He is a PATRIOT with real operational experience, and proven leader with DECADES of experience locking up the worst of the worst, including spearheading 287g Law Enforcement partnerships with ICE! Lance has firsthand experience getting Illegal Aliens OFF our streets and, just like ME and our Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin, he LOVES the men and women of ICE. Importantly, Lance Schroyer has what it takes to DETAIN AND DEPORT Illegal Alien Criminals, including murders, rapists, and drug traffickers at a rate never seen before! Remember, our Administration has the HIGHEST Daily Arrest Rate by ICE and CBP than ANY other President, by far. It’s not even close! The Senate must CONFIRM Lance, IMMEDIATELY — Do not delay. Together, we will MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-07-01T19:34:56.549Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

A grandiose, agency-driven personnel announcement rather than a reactive post: no narcissistic injury triggered it, and affect is comparatively regulated. Psychological interest lies in the stable trait/motive signature — high extraversion, low selective agreeableness, dominance and status motivation — and in the fusion of a bureaucratic function (an ICE Director nomination) with campaign self-aggrandizement. The nominee is idealized but ultimately subsumed into Trump's own myth ('just like ME'), while the enforcement target is dehumanized via splitting ('worst of the worst,' 'Illegal Alien Criminals'). Defenses are primarily idealization, splitting/devaluation, and mild reality distortion (the unverifiable 'HIGHEST Daily Arrest Rate... by far'). Presentation is stably grandiose with no vulnerable oscillation and no cognitive-decline markers — the lone 'murders/murderers' elision is a habitual stylistic slip, not paraphasia. Authorship is most consistent with Trump-dictated content lightly staff-formatted: business-hours timing and formal announcement structure suggest staff involvement, but compulsive self-insertion, idiosyncratic capitalization, round unattributed superlatives, and the signature 'Thank you for your attention to this matter!' closer mark authentic voice. Danger is rated elevated — dehumanizing categorization and crime-fear framing are present, but the action pathway is institutional (nomination, Senate confirmation, deportation) with no eliminationist call, named target, or mobilization. This post is a representative baseline specimen of Trump's grandiose-protector narrative mode rather than a marked deviation.

## Multi-Level Personality Analysis

### Overview
This is a formal personnel announcement — the nomination of "Lance Schroyer" as ICE Director — rendered in the distinctive Trump idiom. It is a maintenance/broadcast post rather than a reactive one: no discernible narcissistic injury triggered it. Its psychological interest lies less in acute affect than in the stable trait and motive signature it displays, and in the fusion of a bureaucratic function (a nomination) with campaign-style self-aggrandizement and enforcement rhetoric.

### Level 1 — Dispositional Traits (Big Five)
- **Extraversion (high):** Assertive, high-energy, superlative-saturated ("never seen before," "not even close"). Positive affect is performative and dominance-oriented.
- **Agreeableness (low, selectively):** Warmth is extended only to the in-group (ICE personnel, the nominee, the Secretary), while out-groups ("Illegal Alien Criminals") are dehumanized. Modesty facet is near-absent — self-insertion ("just like ME") is compulsive.
- **Conscientiousness (mixed):** Achievement-striving is high ("HIGHEST Daily Arrest Rate"), but deliberation and precision are low — the "murders" for "murderers" slip and round rhetorical claims indicate impulsive production.
- **Neuroticism (moderate, controlled here):** Angry-hostility is channeled into policy targets rather than personal grievance; this is a comparatively regulated specimen.
- **Openness (low):** Rigid values framing, formulaic structure, no aesthetic or ideational novelty.

### Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations
Overwhelmingly **agency-driven**: power ("DETAIN AND DEPORT"), status ("I WON all 77 Counties"), dominance, and control. Communion appears only as tribal belonging — a shared love of "the men and women of ICE" functioning as a loyalty totem rather than genuine intimacy. The self-schema is that of an unrivaled record-holder; the world-schema is threat-saturated (streets requiring clearing of "the worst of the worst").

### Level 3 — Narrative Identity
Trump casts himself as **protector-victor**: the strongman who both wins territory (electoral: "all 77 Counties in 2016, 2020, and 2024") and secures it (enforcement). The nominee is absorbed into the protagonist's own myth — praised, but chiefly as an extension of Trump's agenda ("just like ME"). The narrative arc is restorative: "MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN" invokes a contamination-then-redemption structure (nation endangered → nation reclaimed). The contrasting other is the criminal "Illegal Alien," with a secondary implied antagonist in a Senate that might "delay."

### Level 4 — Clinical Indicators
**Malignant narcissism:** Grandiosity and need for admiration are salient (narcissistic features moderate-high), but antisocial, paranoid, and sadistic loadings are comparatively low *in this specific post* — the cruelty is policy-mediated and impersonal rather than the ego-syntonic humiliation of a named individual. This is a grandiose, not vulnerable, presentation with no oscillation.

**Defense mechanisms:** Primarily **idealization** (of self, nominee, ICE) paired with **devaluation/splitting** (all-good enforcers vs. all-bad "worst of the worst"). Mild **distortion** in the superlative claims.

**Cognitive status:** No markers of decline. Syntax is complex and goal-directed; the single "murders/murderers" error is a common Trump elision, not paraphasia. Coherence is intact. Complexity is consistent with baseline for a prepared statement.

### Authorship Attribution
Timestamp 19:34 UTC ≈ 3:34 PM ET; Trump was in the Washington, D.C. area (America 250 State Fair events on the National Mall). This is **business-hours**, and the post is a **structured nomination announcement** with the third-person sign-off "President DONALD J. TRUMP" — both aide-consistent features. However, the voice is saturated with authentic Trump markers: compulsive self-insertion ("just like ME," "I WON all 77 Counties"), idiosyncratic capitalization, the "murders" elision, round unattributed superlatives ("HIGHEST Daily Arrest Rate… by far"), and the signature closer "Thank you for your attention to this matter!" The most likely production model is **Trump-dictated content lightly staff-formatted** — his voice with staff scaffolding. Net score reflects strong authentic-voice indicators tempered by the official format and timing.

### Rhetorical & Propaganda Techniques
Hyperbole/superlatives throughout; appeal to fear (crime, "our streets"); in-group/out-group dichotomy; dehumanizing categorization ("Illegal Alien Criminals," "worst of the worst"); credential-stacking (Marine, Trooper, "DECADES," "29 YEARS"); electoral trophy display as competence proxy; and an urgency appeal ("IMMEDIATELY — Do not delay") pressuring the Senate.

### Danger Assessment
Enforcement rhetoric is aggressive and dehumanizing but operates within institutional/legal channels (nomination, confirmation, deportation). It contains categorical dehumanization and a "root out crime" thrust but **no eliminationist call to extra-legal violence, no named target, no mobilization**. Rated **elevated** for dehumanizing framing, not high/critical.

### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Trump won all 77 counties in Oklahoma in 2016, 2020, and 2024" | **Mostly True** | Oklahoma has 77 counties, and Trump carried all 77 in both 2016 and 2020; a statewide sweep in 2024 is consistent with Oklahoma's strongly Republican voting pattern. Treated as mostly true absent any indication of a county flip. |
| "Our Administration has the highest daily arrest rate by ICE and CBP of any President, by far" | **Half True** | This is no longer unverifiable — the underlying enforcement data is well documented, and it is partly true but the superlative is exaggerated. On the ICE side, interior arrests genuinely surged to record or near-record daily highs under Trump's second term. A Washington Post analysis of government data found ICE averaged about 1,264 arrests per day from December 2025 through January 2026 (roughly a 300% jump from about 300/day before Trump took office), and street/'at-large' arrests rose roughly 11-fold. The Deportation Data Project and CU Boulder found average daily ICE arrests of about 821 in the first ten months of 2025 (up ~170% from Biden's final year of 482/day; Obama's final year was ~305/day; Trump's first term averaged ~435/day), and stated ICE 'arrested more people per day in 2025 than at any time in the past decade.' However, the phrase 'in the past decade' is doing important work: Obama's Secure Communities-era peak of about 322,000 interior arrests/removals in FY2011 (~882/day) is described as remaining 'the highest on record,' with Trump only 'on track to surpass' that annual record in 2026 and possibly just edging it in peak weeks. Fox News anchor Shannon Bream reported Obama-era numbers were 'comparable,' which prompted Trump's rebuttal — so 'by far' and 'it's not even close' are contradicted; the true picture is close to Obama's peak. The claim is further undercut by bundling 'CBP': CBP/Border Patrol apprehensions fell to record lows under Trump's second term — FY2025 Southwest border apprehensions (237,538) were the lowest since 1970, and monthly encounters ran roughly 95% below the Biden monthly average. Under Biden, CBP recorded on the order of 2 million border encounters per year (thousands per day), so a literal combined ICE-plus-CBP 'arrest rate' was far higher in prior years, not lower. Net: record-high ICE interior/daily arrest activity is real (kernel of truth), but the absolute 'highest by ICE and CBP of any president, by far' framing is exaggerated and partly false. |
| "Lance Schroyer nominated as ICE Director with 29 years of Oklahoma law enforcement experience, former State Trooper and Marine" | **True** | Independently confirmed by numerous major national outlets. On June 27, 2026, President Trump announced he was nominating Lance Schroyer to be the next director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement — reported by PBS NewsHour, CNN, NBC News, CBS News, NPR, ABC News, and Newsweek. The biographical details match the post. Schroyer has more than 29 years of law enforcement experience in Oklahoma, primarily with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol / Department of Public Safety, where he rose from trooper to major overseeing the Emergency Services Unit (disaster response and specialized tactical units). He is a former Oklahoma state trooper and a former U.S. Marine. He has worked with 287(g) programs linking state and local police to federal immigration enforcement; Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Schroyer 'ran large scale operations and worked alongside state and federal partners to remove illegal aliens from Oklahoma under the 287g program.' At the time of nomination he was serving as a senior adviser to DHS Secretary Mullin and had previously been part of Mullin's Senate security detail. CNN also framed the pick as a win handed to Mullin, who had pushed for Schroyer. Every specific, checkable element of the claim (nomination as ICE director, 29+ years Oklahoma law enforcement, former state trooper, Marine, 287(g) work) is corroborated. |
| "Markwayne Mullin is Secretary of Homeland Security" | **True** | Confirmed by primary government sources and independent reporting. The Department of Homeland Security's official site lists Markwayne Mullin as the 9th Secretary of Homeland Security. The U.S. Senate confirmed him on March 23, 2026, by a bipartisan vote of 54-45, and he was sworn in on March 24, 2026. He replaced Kristi Noem, whom Trump fired on March 5, 2026. Before this role, Mullin was a U.S. Senator from Oklahoma (2023-2026) and previously a U.S. Representative for Oklahoma's 2nd district (2013-2023); he is an enrolled Cherokee Nation citizen and the second tribal citizen to serve in the president's Cabinet. This is corroborated across DHS.gov, the White House, NPR, C-SPAN (footage of his swearing-in), and Wikipedia. The claim is accurate within the July 2026 timeframe of the post. |

Overall Veracity: 83%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 65%)

### Indicators

- Business-hours timing (~3:34 PM ET) and formal nomination-announcement format are aide-consistent
- Third-person sign-off 'President DONALD J. TRUMP' typical of staffed statements
- Compulsive self-insertion ('just like ME', 'I WON all 77 Counties') is a strong authentic-voice marker
- Idiosyncratic ALL-CAPS emphasis and round unattributed superlatives ('by far', 'not even close')
- 'murders' elision for 'murderers' — organic Trump-style error

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Routine personnel/policy announcement (ICE Director nomination))

Sentiment: +0.35

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Superlative-saturated, high-energy delivery
- Grandiose comparative claims ('never seen before', 'not even close')
- Imperative urgency ('IMMEDIATELY — Do not delay')

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 70%
- Antisocial: 35%
- Paranoid: 20%
- Sadism: 25%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 60%

Cognitive Markers:
- phonemic paraphasia

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- In-group loyalty totem ('LOVES the men and women of ICE')
- Shared-identity framing binding audience to leader ('just like ME')

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Categorical dehumanization of migrants ('Illegal Alien Criminals', 'worst of the worst')
- Crime-fear framing ('murders, rapists, and drug traffickers')
- 'Root out'-style enforcement zeal ('DETAIN AND DEPORT... at a rate never seen before')

**Dehumanizing Language Present**

## Fact Checks (4)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-07-01._

> Trump won all 77 counties in Oklahoma in 2016, 2020, and 2024

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Oklahoma has 77 counties, and Trump carried all 77 in both 2016 and 2020; a statewide sweep in 2024 is consistent with Oklahoma's strongly Republican voting pattern. Treated as mostly true absent any indication of a county flip.

> Our Administration has the highest daily arrest rate by ICE and CBP of any President, by far

**HALF TRUE**

This is no longer unverifiable — the underlying enforcement data is well documented, and it is partly true but the superlative is exaggerated. On the ICE side, interior arrests genuinely surged to record or near-record daily highs under Trump's second term. A Washington Post analysis of government data found ICE averaged about 1,264 arrests per day from December 2025 through January 2026 (roughly a 300% jump from about 300/day before Trump took office), and street/'at-large' arrests rose roughly 11-fold. The Deportation Data Project and CU Boulder found average daily ICE arrests of about 821 in the first ten months of 2025 (up ~170% from Biden's final year of 482/day; Obama's final year was ~305/day; Trump's first term averaged ~435/day), and stated ICE 'arrested more people per day in 2025 than at any time in the past decade.' However, the phrase 'in the past decade' is doing important work: Obama's Secure Communities-era peak of about 322,000 interior arrests/removals in FY2011 (~882/day) is described as remaining 'the highest on record,' with Trump only 'on track to surpass' that annual record in 2026 and possibly just edging it in peak weeks. Fox News anchor Shannon Bream reported Obama-era numbers were 'comparable,' which prompted Trump's rebuttal — so 'by far' and 'it's not even close' are contradicted; the true picture is close to Obama's peak. The claim is further undercut by bundling 'CBP': CBP/Border Patrol apprehensions fell to record lows under Trump's second term — FY2025 Southwest border apprehensions (237,538) were the lowest since 1970, and monthly encounters ran roughly 95% below the Biden monthly average. Under Biden, CBP recorded on the order of 2 million border encounters per year (thousands per day), so a literal combined ICE-plus-CBP 'arrest rate' was far higher in prior years, not lower. Net: record-high ICE interior/daily arrest activity is real (kernel of truth), but the absolute 'highest by ICE and CBP of any president, by far' framing is exaggerated and partly false.

Sources: https://deportationdata.org/analysis/immigration-enforcement-first-year.html; https://www.colorado.edu/today/2026/02/18/ice-arrests-reach-record-highs-percent-criminal-record-plummets; https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/12/28/ice-deportations-data-trump-arrests/; https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-rages-at-fox-news-anchor-for-reporting-his-administration-has-lower-ice-arrest-rate-than-biden-or-obama/; https://www.factcheck.org/2026/01/as-ice-arrests-increased-a-higher-portion-had-no-u-s-criminal-record/; https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/border-crossings-once-again-record-low-november-2025; https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/10/07/lowest-fiscal-year-border-patrol-apprehensions-1970; https://homeland.house.gov/2025/11/13/border-brief-fy25-southwest-border-apprehensions-hit-lowest-level-in-half-a-century-as-law-enforcement-faces-threats/; https://tracreports.org/immigration/reports/517/

> Lance Schroyer nominated as ICE Director with 29 years of Oklahoma law enforcement experience, former State Trooper and Marine

**TRUE**

Independently confirmed by numerous major national outlets. On June 27, 2026, President Trump announced he was nominating Lance Schroyer to be the next director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement — reported by PBS NewsHour, CNN, NBC News, CBS News, NPR, ABC News, and Newsweek. The biographical details match the post. Schroyer has more than 29 years of law enforcement experience in Oklahoma, primarily with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol / Department of Public Safety, where he rose from trooper to major overseeing the Emergency Services Unit (disaster response and specialized tactical units). He is a former Oklahoma state trooper and a former U.S. Marine. He has worked with 287(g) programs linking state and local police to federal immigration enforcement; Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Schroyer 'ran large scale operations and worked alongside state and federal partners to remove illegal aliens from Oklahoma under the 287g program.' At the time of nomination he was serving as a senior adviser to DHS Secretary Mullin and had previously been part of Mullin's Senate security detail. CNN also framed the pick as a win handed to Mullin, who had pushed for Schroyer. Every specific, checkable element of the claim (nomination as ICE director, 29+ years Oklahoma law enforcement, former state trooper, Marine, 287(g) work) is corroborated.

Sources: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-says-he-is-nominating-former-oklahoma-state-trooper-lance-schroyer-as-ice-director; https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/27/politics/ice-director-trump-nominee-lance-schroyer; https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-says-nominating-former-oklahoma-state-trooper-lance-schroyer-ice-rcna352071; https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-lance-schroyer-ice-director-nomination/; https://www.newsweek.com/trump-ice-director-lance-schroyer-who-is-12131135; https://www.npr.org/2026/06/27/nx-s1-5873485/trump-nominates-lance-schroyer-ice-director; https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/30/politics/lance-schroyer-ice-markwayne-mullin

> Markwayne Mullin is Secretary of Homeland Security

**TRUE**

Confirmed by primary government sources and independent reporting. The Department of Homeland Security's official site lists Markwayne Mullin as the 9th Secretary of Homeland Security. The U.S. Senate confirmed him on March 23, 2026, by a bipartisan vote of 54-45, and he was sworn in on March 24, 2026. He replaced Kristi Noem, whom Trump fired on March 5, 2026. Before this role, Mullin was a U.S. Senator from Oklahoma (2023-2026) and previously a U.S. Representative for Oklahoma's 2nd district (2013-2023); he is an enrolled Cherokee Nation citizen and the second tribal citizen to serve in the president's Cabinet. This is corroborated across DHS.gov, the White House, NPR, C-SPAN (footage of his swearing-in), and Wikipedia. The claim is accurate within the July 2026 timeframe of the post.

Sources: https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/03/24/us-senate-confirms-markwayne-mullin-secretary-department-homeland-security; https://www.dhs.gov/markwayne-mullin; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markwayne_Mullin; https://www.npr.org/2026/03/23/g-s1-114813/markwayne-mullin-confirmed-homeland-security; https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/03/secretary-markwayne-mullin-is-ready-to-deliver-on-president-trumps-agenda/; https://www.c-span.org/clip/white-house-event/markwayne-mullin-sworn-in-as-homeland-security-secretary/5197638

Overall Veracity: 83%

## Tags

- grandiose (80%)
- maintenance (90%)
- power (80%)
- status (70%)
- dehumanization (60%)
- hyperbole (85%)
- splitting (60%)
- idealization (70%)
- immigration_enforcement (90%)
- personnel_nomination (90%)
- dictated_staff_formatted (60%)

## That day

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

**Announcing new strikes on Iran, he warns "the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist"**

Friday night he cheered John Bolton's guilty plea, calling his former national security adviser a "lunatic" who only wanted wars and hoping he would be "dealt with harshly." Most of Saturday was self-celebration: an early-morning burst of reposts of his own boasts about packed rallies, his poll numbers and the coming July 4th airshow, then an image of himself as Atlas holding up the world. In the afternoon he named a new ICE director and endorsed a candidate for Oklahoma governor, working the same brag about winning every Oklahoma county into both posts. The evening belonged to Iran: minutes after sharing a clip that credited him alone with stopping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, he announced new U.S. airstrikes over ceasefire violations and warned that "the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist." The day had opened with him attacking Bolton, long one of Washington's loudest Iran hawks, for wanting wars.

Full digest for 2026-06-27: https://trump.fm/date/2026-06-27/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, June 27). I am very pleased to announce that I have... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_116823744965970219
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "I am very pleased to announce that I have nominated Lance..." Truth Social, 27 Jun. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116823744965970219. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "I am very pleased to announce that I have nominated Lance...," Truth Social, June 27, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116823744965970219.

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