# Post ts_117173934197924486

- Post ID: `ts_117173934197924486`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-08-28T15:52:25.550Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117173934197924486
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117173934197924486/analysis

## Post text

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

## What the media says

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

> A chart/infographic titled "Endorsement Record in Republican Primaries" with subtitle "Record by Year | 2018-2026". It is a bar chart showing wins (green) and losses (red, shown as small segments at the base of each bar) for endorsed candidates across five election cycles: 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024, and 2026. Each bar is labeled with a win percentage above it and a "won" count inside the bar, with endorsement totals and losses listed below each year on the x-axis.

Text in the image: "Endorsement Record in Republican Primaries. Record by Year 2018-2026. Wins and losses among endorsed candidates. 97 percent success rate over five cycles (762 of 785). Won. Lost. 97 percent, 35 won, 2018, 36 endorsements, 1 lost. 98 percent, 117 won, 2020, 120 endorsements, 3 lost. 96 percent, 179 won, 2022, 187 endorsements, 8 lost. 98 percent, 175 won, 2024, 178 endorsements, 3 lost. 97 percent, 256 won, 2026, 264 endorsements, 8 lost."

## Media

- image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/173/933/995/136/895/original/9a8106ba39c46ce1.jpg

## Engagement

- Likes: 3,591
- Reposts: 854
- Replies: 87
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-09-04T15:01:27.836Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-12T10:33:22.990Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Three posts, one grammar

Within the same morning he published two captioned renovation items — "Cleaning and Regrouting the Granite, for the first time in 63 years, at the White House North Entrance. Perfect work" and "Fixing and Restoring the Thomas Jefferson Columns at the White House — Better than new!" — and then this chart with no words at all. The chart is the same sentence in a different medium: a domain was in a state, he acted on it, the result is at maximum. What the captions do with "Perfect work" and "Better than new," the graphic does with "97 percent success rate over five cycles (762 of 785)."

## What a success rate is doing here

Primary endorsements are the most controllable number available to an endorser: he picks the races, the candidates, and the timing, and a late endorsement of a front-runner counts the same as an early bet on a long shot. So the graphic does not really transmit information about political skill — it converts influence into a denominator nobody can dispute, because a count feels unarguable in a way a claim of dominance does not. The currency being counted is other people's careers.

The 2026 row is the tell. "264 endorsements" in the current cycle is more than 2018 and 2020 combined, and the artifact is arranged so that the largest bar is the most recent one. Published roughly ten weeks before a midterm, it addresses candidates and donors as much as the general audience: the ledger says the party's nominations still run through him, and that his hold on them is at its historical peak right now.

## The losses are printed

His dominance displays normally need someone visibly losing — a named rival, an institution, a reporter. This one contains no adversary at all, and it prints his own failures: "1 lost" in 2018, "8 lost" in 2022 and again in 2026, rendered as red segments at the base of each bar. Including them is what lets the thing read as a record rather than a brag, and it rules out the reading that would otherwise be automatic here — this is not a counterattack. Nothing is being avenged, nothing is being denied. It is inventory.

## The week behind it, held loosely

The preceding days carried an impeachment resolution filed against him (H.Res.1486, 24 Aug), WSJ reporting that he personally told a senior DOJ official to "settle" the Live Nation antitrust case, and a Washington Post account of doctors warning about a 23-pound weight gain. A scorecard of unbroken success published into that week invites a compensatory reading. The evidence for the link is circumstantial — he posts endorsement tallies in uneventful weeks too, and the same morning's granite and columns posts suggest a general custodial mood rather than a wound. The more economical explanation is the calendar: this is what an endorsement asset looks like when it is being marketed before a primary season closes.

## Who selected it

Posted at 11:52 a.m. Eastern, mid-morning, inside the working day, as part of a sequence of White House-property items that read as a comms push. The artifact itself is a produced infographic with consistent per-year formatting and a computed aggregate — staff work, not something assembled at a phone. That bears on who made and scheduled the image; it says little about who decided it should go up, and the decision is the only behavior available to analyze. There is no text of his in the post, so the usual markers — the sign-off, the capitals, the drifting second clause that the granite post carries — have nothing to attach to.

The self-presentation is the standard grandiose register in numerical form, and it sits where it usually sits for him. What is faintly unusual is the modesty of the frame: he let someone build him a chart with his losses on it, and published it without a word of amplification.

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Posted 11:52 a.m. ET — inside the working day, the window in which staff-assembled material typically appears
- Part of a same-morning sequence of White House property/renovation posts with the formal 'President DONALD J. TRUMP' sign-off, consistent with a comms push
- The artifact is a produced infographic with uniform per-year formatting and a computed five-cycle aggregate, not phone-assembled material
- No written text of his accompanies it, so no stylometric signal exists either way

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 65%
- Agreeableness: 20%
- Conscientiousness: 50%
- Neuroticism: 30%
- Openness: 30%

Strongest facet: Low modesty (Agreeableness) expressed through achievement display

**Motives:**
- Agency: 85%
- Communion: 10%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** Kingmaker — the one whose blessing decides nominations
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** None named — unusually for him, the dominance claim is made without an opponent in the frame

**Identity Claims:**
- I am the decisive electoral force in Republican primaries
- My record is verifiable, cumulative, and near-perfect
- My influence is at its peak in the current cycle

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Pre-midterm endorsement season; same-morning sequence of self-crediting posts)

Sentiment: +0.55

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 60%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 5%
- Sadism: 0%

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Wordless publication that invites the audience to supply the boast themselves
- Scoreboard framing that positions followers as witnesses to an unbroken record

## Tags

- grandiose-display (70%)
- kingmaker-framing (80%)
- media-only-post (100%)
- statistical-self-certification (75%)
- pre-midterm-positioning (60%)
- staff-produced-artifact (60%)

## That day

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

**A day spent marking things as his — statues, a lake, the Strait of Hormuz — until one Times byline broke the calm**

He posted 54 times, and most of it was inventory: gold leaf going onto statues, White House granite regrouted for the first time in 63 years, a fake nautical chart renaming the Great Lakes "Lake America," and a graphic quietly adding the Strait of Hormuz to a list of U.S. territories, marked NEW. Eight separate charts and composites, five of them inside a single minute, made one point — candidates he endorses win. He slept a normal night and posted nothing angry until late afternoon, when a New York Times story about his 9/11 schedule set off a long attack on the reporter: he called her "Maggot," threatened two lawsuits, said she had stalked him for years, then reposted the whole thing himself nine minutes later. An hour after that he went after New York's governor for not backing the lake renaming, and closed the day announcing what he called the biggest oil deal in world history, with Venezuela. The impeachment articles filed against him four days earlier never came up, and neither did anything else that had gone wrong that week.

Full digest for 2026-08-28: https://trump.fm/date/2026-08-28/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, August 28).  [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117173934197924486
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 28 Aug. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117173934197924486. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, August 28, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117173934197924486.

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