# Post ts_116985537282198490

- Post ID: `ts_116985537282198490`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-07-26T09:20:36.819Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116985537282198490
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_116985537282198490/analysis

## Post text

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

## What the media says

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

> A screenshot of two consecutive tweets from a verified X (Twitter) account "Mike Lee" (@BasedMikeLee), part of a numbered thread (posts 9 and 10). The first tweet advocates for passage of the "SAVE America Act" and includes an image: a map of the continental United States filled with a weathered, sepia-toned American flag design (stars over the northwestern states, stripes across the rest), with state borders outlined in black, styled to look like an aged/distressed vintage poster. Engagement icons below show 12 replies, 81 reposts, 560 likes, and 8.3K views. The second tweet asks readers to share the thread and follow for more content, showing 16 replies, 92 reposts, 419 likes, and 7.2K views.

Text in the image: "Mike Lee ✓ @BasedMikeLee · Jul 23 9. It's time for senators to stop making lame excuses and pass the SAVE America Act. By securing our elections, we can—and will—truly save America. And we must! 12 81 560 8.3K Mike Lee ✓ @BasedMikeLee · Jul 23 10. Please share this thread if you agree and follow if you'd like to see more posts like this one. 16 92 419 7.2K"

## Media

- image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/116/985/536/983/106/186/original/0efec9c0d99b3ff8.jpg

## Engagement

- Likes: 6,632
- Reposts: 1,877
- Replies: 148
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-08-02T09:01:53.442Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-13T21:18:57.404Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## A 5 a.m. screenshot that finishes the filibuster post

The post is a screenshot of the last two entries in a numbered thread by Senator Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee), dated July 23. Trump added no words. The first entry says "It's time for senators to stop making lame excuses and pass the SAVE America Act" and "By securing our elections, we can—and will—truly save America." It carries a weathered, vintage-poster image of the continental US filled with the flag. The second entry is Lee's sign-off: "Please share this thread if you agree and follow if you'd like to see more posts like this one."

It went up at 09:20 UTC on a Sunday. That is about 5:20 a.m. Eastern, whether he spent the weekend at Bedminster or in Washington. It is part of a same-day sequence. In his written post, "The all Republican Senators! Terminate the Filibuster... and PASS THE SAVE AMERICA ACT... Do it now, before it is too late!!!", he makes the demand in his own voice. The screenshot adds a sitting Republican senator saying the same thing to his colleagues. The day before, he shared an Alaska Beacon link headlined "Alaska removes thousands from state's active voter list." All three posts press one bill on one audience: Senate Republicans.

## What choosing this image does

Posting a senator's thread borrows authority. Trump saying the Senate should act is routine. A senator saying it makes the holdouts look isolated inside their own caucus. The sharpest phrase in the image, "lame excuses," is Lee's. By passing it on, Trump calls reluctant Republicans lazy without signing the insult. This is a mild, indirect jab at allies, far milder than the name-calling he keeps for opponents ("Dumocrats" in the earlier post).

The screenshot also keeps Lee's "Please share this thread... and follow" plea. That line does nothing for Trump's argument and advertises Lee's account. Leaving it in points to a quick phone capture, not a curated graphic, which fits the hour.

The framing in the image leans on fear and patriotic nostalgia. "Securing our elections" assumes elections are currently insecure, and the aged flag-map adds an old-America look to a voting bill. That assumption is the premise of the whole SAVE America Act push, and Trump has repeated it for years. Here it comes through someone else's words, with no new claim of fraud from him.

## Psychological reading

There is little here to read for state. The post keeps a campaign going. It shows no sign of a fresh injury, and there is no anger in it beyond what the earlier text post already carried ("before it is too late!!!"). Its urgency comes from the legislative calendar: the filibuster, the budget, the "upcoming Debt Ceiling." It does not come from a personal grievance. The underlying motive is control: he wants the Senate's procedure changed so his agenda passes, and he recruits a senator's voice to squeeze the rest of the caucus. The us-versus-them structure is soft. The "other" in this post is Republican senators who hesitate, not a demonized enemy.

Two things in the surrounding week matter for context, though the post doesn't mention either. An Iran war was under way, with soldiers' remains returning on July 22. And he was threatening a "massive attack." Posting about a voting bill before dawn in that same week shows domestic election control holding its place among his top preoccupations. One post cannot say more than that.

No words of his own means nothing to judge about his language or thinking. The image names no person or group as a target and suggests no action beyond passing a bill, so there is nothing here to raise safety concerns.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 70%)

### Indicators

- Posted about 5:20 a.m. Eastern on a Sunday
- Follows a same-day text post with authentic markers ("The all Republican Senators!", triple exclamation) pushing the same bill
- Unpolished phone screenshot that keeps Lee's irrelevant "share and follow" plea
- No written text, so no stylometric evidence

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 60%
- Agreeableness: 30%
- Conscientiousness: 50%
- Neuroticism: 40%
- Openness: 30%

Strongest facet: Assertiveness (pressuring the legislature through a proxy)

**Motives:**
- Agency: 75%
- Communion: 20%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** Director of the party's legislative push
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** Hesitant Senate Republicans making "lame excuses"

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Ongoing push to end the filibuster and pass the SAVE America Act)

Sentiment: +0.10

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 20%
- Antisocial: 5%
- Paranoid: 20%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- passive aggression (immature)

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Amplifies an allied senator to signal agreement within the movement
- Passes along a "share this thread" call to followers

## Tags

- SAVE America Act (90%)
- Mike Lee (70%)
- filibuster (60%)
- election integrity (70%)
- screenshot repost (50%)

## That day

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

**Six AI images of Trump seizing an Iranian oil tanker, posted as U.S. strikes on Iran paused**

Between Saturday night and Sunday afternoon he posted 58 times, and only three of those posts had words he wrote: an Arizona endorsement, an order to Senate Republicans to kill the filibuster, and a thank-you to Morocco's king. The rest were pictures, mostly AI art made by supporters, and most of them landed in a two-hour flood in the afternoon. The loudest thread turned the Iran war into trophy pictures: six versions of him seizing an Iranian oil tanker, ships exploding, and the word "IRAN" in flames. They went up on a day the U.S. had paused its strikes to give talks room. Six more images pushed "Trump 2028," echoing the cap he pulled out at the Correspondents' Dinner, while others put him beside Washington, Kennedy and the Founders or showed late-night hosts as beggars, and the mood was gloating rather than angry until the feed went quiet late in the afternoon.

Full digest for 2026-07-26: https://trump.fm/date/2026-07-26/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, July 26).  [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_116985537282198490
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 26 Jul. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116985537282198490. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, July 26, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_116985537282198490.

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