# Post ts_116959709239826209

- Post ID: `ts_116959709239826209`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-07-21T19:52:12.169Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116959709239826209
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116959709239826209/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:

> A Department of Homeland Security document/press release image with the DHS seal and "Homeland Security" logo at top. It is titled "PREVENTING ALIEN VOTING" and contains several sections of text describing DHS investigations into non-citizen voter registration, a table of "Proactive SAVE User States" listing deceased and non-citizen registrant counts by state, and a paragraph criticizing a federal judge and the Biden administration's border policies. The bottom of the image has a black redaction/censor bar.

Text in the image: "Homeland Security PREVENTING ALIEN VOTING NATIONAL SECURITY INVESTIGATIONS: The Department of Homeland Security has initiated multiple investigations related to allegations of non-citizen voting and registration. Review of the first set of public voter files from states that have not utilized the SAVE system revealed: OVER 250,000 NON-CITIZENS ARE ILLEGALLY REGISTERED TO VOTE IN JUST THE FOUR STATES FOR WHICH PUBLIC DATA FILES HAVE BEEN REVIEWED. State election officials in California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Nevada have been notified of this serious threat to national security and DHS stands ready to support their efforts to identify and remove ineligible registrants. The investigation is expanding to include multiple additional states. In addition, DHS will support the Department of Justice's review of voter files obtained pursuant to their enforcement authority under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 and the Help America Vote Act of 2002. STATES THAT PROTECT FEDERAL ELECTIONS: Numerous proactive, conscientious state officials have successfully utilized free services offered by the Department of Homeland Security to assist election officials in identifying non-citizens who have registered and/or voted in their states. In the short time that the enhanced SAVE system has been available to states, 10 have states processed their full voter lists. As of June 22, 2026, a total of 25 different states processed more than 68 million registration records through the SAVE system. DHS has enabled those states to identify over 400,000 deceased registrants and over 28,000 non-citizens who illegally registered to vote. As demonstrated by the sample data to the right, these states are serious about ensuring that only US citizens vote in US elections. DHS applauds their efforts to prevent non-citizens from registering and to remove ineligible registrants who unlawfully register. Proactive SAVE User States State | Deceased | Non-Citizen Georgia | 42,776 | 2,549 Ohio | 59,774 | 769 Tennessee | 37,850 | 1,009 Texas | 111,573 | 2,296 North Carolina | 34,622 | 1,599 Idaho | 4,328 | 49 Alabama | 33,165 | 465 Missouri | 10,660 | 1,112 Louisiana | 15,231 | 419 Kansas | 10,197 | 449 Several other proactive state officials have also signed Memoranda of Agreement with USCIS to utilize the SAVE system and have processed portions of their state voter rolls. Unfortunately, due to the actions of the activist Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, many of the enhancements to this service of USCIS have been suspended pending appeal. As a result, US citizens are at risk of having their votes diluted by ineligible alien voters. UNAMBIGUOUS CONTRAST: There is an undeniable pattern emerging as DHS begins to unravel the horrific damage done by the open border policies of the Biden administration. States that have adopted alien-first policies instead of American-first policies have a disproportionate number of non-citizens on their voter rolls."

## Media

- image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/116/959/708/981/939/129/original/a2054d7ea96a6042.jpg

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-13T23:01:39.287Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

He posted, without comment, a DHS handout claiming "OVER 250,000 NON-CITIZENS ARE ILLEGALLY REGISTERED" in California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Nevada. The same sheet praises ten Republican-led states as "proactive, conscientious" and blames "the activist Judge Sparkle Sooknanan." The document's own figures don't support its headline. SAVE checks found 28,000 non-citizens in 68 million records, about 0.04%. The capitalized claim implies a rate roughly fifteen times higher, drawn from public voter files that hold no citizenship data. Posting it sorts officials into good and bad by party and cooperation, and moves blame onto a named judge and the prior administration. It fits a same-day run of posts deflecting responsibility for immigration and war casualties. Naming a sitting judge as the cause of a "national security" threat before the midterms supplies a target and a grievance with no call to action, which puts the post above routine. It was posted at 3:52 p.m. Eastern on a Washington workday, so whether he or an aide chose it can't be told.

## A government press sheet, reposted without comment

The post contains no words of his own. It is one image of an official Department of Homeland Security handout headed "PREVENTING ALIEN VOTING." The behavior to analyze is the choice to put an executive-branch document in front of his audience as it stands. The document makes three moves, and each is chosen, not written, by him.

**It sorts the states into two groups.** California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Nevada are "notified of this serious threat to national security," with "OVER 250,000 NON-CITIZENS... ILLEGALLY REGISTERED." Ten other states (Georgia, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, North Carolina, Idaho, Alabama, Missouri, Louisiana, Kansas) are "proactive, conscientious" and "serious about ensuring that only US citizens vote," and DHS "applauds their efforts." All ten praised states have Republican-controlled election offices. The four accused states are mostly led by Democrats. This is splitting laid over a map: officials are good or bad according to whether they cooperate with the federal program, and the partisan pattern is never mentioned.

**Its numbers don't agree with each other.** The document's own SAVE figures report 28,000 non-citizen registrants found in "more than 68 million registration records," about 0.04%. The headline figure claims 250,000 in four states whose combined rolls come to roughly 40 million, about 0.6%. That rate is around fifteen times higher, and it comes from "public voter files," which do not record citizenship. The method behind the larger number is never given, but that number is the one set in capitals. Posting the sheet puts the alarming figure forward and leaves the smaller, method-backed one in the table. Earlier SAVE-based roll reviews also flagged naturalized citizens whose records were out of date, so "identified" in these figures does not mean confirmed. Under the instructions, these points belong in this prose and not in fact-checks attributed to him, because the claims are DHS's.

**It names a judge.** The truncated last paragraph blames "the actions of the activist Judge Sparkle Sooknanan" and, according to the description, the Biden administration's border policy. An official agency document that names a sitting federal judge and calls her "activist" is unusual. When he amplifies it, a specific person is tied to a charge of enabling election fraud and a "threat to national security." The image contains no call to action, but it does supply a named target and a grievance at a time when threats against federal judges are running high. That is why the danger rating is above none. With no directive language, it goes no higher than elevated.

## What the selection says about him

The day's other posts give the context. They include a New York Post op-ed link, "Blame immigration chaos on Biden and Harris — not Trump," and a casualty table setting the Iran conflict ("4 months, 18 DEAD") against earlier wars. Both deflect blame from his administration while US troops are dying in the Iran conflict. The DHS sheet continues that line. Immigration becomes a threat to elections, and responsibility moves to Democratic state officials, a judge and the previous administration. This fits his long-standing pattern of treating any unfavorable election result as the product of illegitimate voters, a projection of his own fear of losing onto the electorate. The midterms are less than four months away.

On motives, the post serves agency and control: federal authority over state voter rolls, with praise for compliance ("applauds") and exposure for refusal. It casts him as order restorer and his opponents as sources of chaos. Order goes to cooperating "proactive" states, and suspicion goes to the four non-cooperating ones. The narcissistic register is maintenance, not injury. The immediate trigger is most likely the document's release itself, not a slight, and the grandiosity sits in the institution's voice, not his.

Mechanisms, with what they rest on:
- **Splitting:** "proactive, conscientious" states against states that pose "this serious threat to national security."
- **Projection and displacement:** blame for the border lands on "the Biden administration," and blame for obstruction lands on "the activist Judge."
- **Appeal to fear:** "national security" is used for a voter-roll question, and the capitals carry the least-supported number.
- **Borrowed authority:** the DHS seal and table format give the claim an official look that his own post could not.

## Authorship and timing

The post went up at 19:52 UTC, 3:52 p.m. Eastern. That day he met Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, which puts him in Washington during working hours. A same-day post signed "President DONALD J. TRUMP" is also polished. An image of an agency handout with no caption, posted mid-afternoon, is the kind of post staff produce, and nothing here separates his own choice from an aide's. The question is who picked the image, since no one in his circle wrote any of it.

Nothing in the post can be read for cognition. There is no language of his to examine.

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 30%)

### Indicators

- Posted 3:52 p.m. Eastern during a Washington workday (Aoun meeting)
- Uncaptioned repost of an official DHS handout
- Same-day posts include polished, signed statements typical of staff drafting
- No written text, so no stylometric evidence either way

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 50%
- Agreeableness: 20%
- Conscientiousness: 50%
- Neuroticism: 50%
- Openness: 20%

Strongest facet: Low trust (suspicion of electorates and officials in opposing states)

**Motives:**
- Agency: 80%
- Communion: 20%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** Defender of election integrity restoring order
- **Arc:** contamination
- **Contrasting:** Democratic-led states, an "activist" federal judge, the Biden administration

**Identity Claims:**
- His administration protects federal elections from illegal voting

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Release of DHS non-citizen voter registration materials; ongoing litigation involving Judge Sooknanan)

Sentiment: -0.40

### Clinical

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

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- displacement (neurotic)
- projection (immature)
- idealization (immature)

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Borrowed institutional authority (DHS seal) presented to followers as confirmation of a shared suspicion

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Names a specific sitting federal judge as responsible for enabling alleged illegal voting
- Links the judge and Democratic-led states to a "threat to national security"
- Pre-midterm delegitimization of voter rolls in four named states

## Tags

- non-citizen voting (90%)
- judiciary attack (60%)
- splitting (60%)
- midterm delegitimization (70%)

## That day

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

**A war-dead scoreboard ranks the Iran conflict's "18 DEAD" against Vietnam's 58,220**

He was in Washington, hosting Lebanon's president at the White House, and posted in bursts from breakfast to early evening with a long pause around the meeting. The morning started on Iran, with pictures of a young man said to have been executed and of a weeping woman, plus a line calling the regime "Savages" and asking when "the Dumocrats" would wake up. That was his one flash of anger all day. In the afternoon he defended the same war a different way, with a tally of American war dead that put the Iran conflict at 18 next to Vietnam's 58,220, and then he reposted it. Minutes later he posted four government documents about the 2020 election and voter rolls without comment, which looked like a warm-up for pushing House Republicans to pass a voting bill. He ended the day with a plan for tariffs on imported generic drugs that rise to 200% in later years, hours after sharing a story praising his work to cut drug prices.

Full digest for 2026-07-21: https://trump.fm/date/2026-07-21/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, July 21).  [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_116959709239826209
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 21 Jul. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116959709239826209. Accessed 26 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, July 21, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116959709239826209.

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