# Post ts_117293383002117599

- Post ID: `ts_117293383002117599`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-09-18T18:09:49.658Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
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## Post text

> Ashley Moody has my Complete and Total Endorsement for Re-Election as U.S. Senator from Florida — SHE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN! President DONALD J. TRUMP

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (2:12), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> Hello, Florida. This November I'm asking you to knock doors, volunteer, get out and vote to send Ashley Moody a phenomenal senator back to the United States Senate. She's respected by everybody. Ashley has my complete and total endorsement and always has. As your senator, she was a pivotal vote in developing and doing the largest tax cuts anywhere in American history, including no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security. For our great seniors, I'll tell you, without Ashley, it probably wouldn't have happened. She's worked tirelessly to lower your prescription drug costs, close our southern border, strengthen our military and pass the Save America Act to defend our sacred American elections. Everybody is running against a communist named Angie Nixon, a very low IQ person who's an active member of the Democrat Socialists of America, which support abolishing the police, abolishing ICE, abolishing the Supreme Court, abolishing your border, abolishing everything, and granting full amnesty and voting rights to all illegal aliens, especially anybody that's in a gang, anybody that happened to murder somebody. She's a total disaster, Angie Nixon is. I wonder if she's related in any way to Richard Nixon. I don't know. I don't think he'd be too happy. Angie Nixon would vote to turn America into a failed third world communist country like Cuba or Venezuela, and the people of Florida are not going to let that happen. On November 3rd, defeat Angie Nixon and elect Ashley Moody to the United States Senate, get out early or vote for Ashley on election day. She's phenomenal. She will never, ever let you down. She's an amazing person, highly respected Senator. Go out and vote for Ashley Moody. Thank you.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/293/382/314/711/054/original/adbd227ae7989609.mp4

## Engagement

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- Replies: 166
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- Metrics collected: 2026-09-25T18:00:58.746Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-18T18:47:24.682Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## A staff caption over a video he recorded himself

The written caption follows a fixed template. The Dan Sullivan post from earlier the same afternoon is word-for-word the same apart from the name, state and pronoun ("HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!"). The timestamp works out to about 2:09 p.m. Eastern on a Friday, assuming he was back in Washington after the Ireland trip earlier in the week. Endorsements were going out in a batch, and the caption is staff output.

The video is a different kind of material. Trump speaks it in the first person ("I'm asking you," "Ashley has my complete and total endorsement and always has"), so what it says is his. The instruction about third-party speakers doesn't apply here, and the clip's claims are fact-checked below as his.

## Where the script ends and he takes over

The spine is a campaign script: the call to "knock doors, volunteer," the list of tax provisions, drug prices, border, military, the SAVE America Act, the DSA planks, the November 3 date. His ad-libs are easy to spot because each one pushes a scripted claim a step further than the script goes:

- The credit line gets a spoken intensifier: "I'll tell you, without Ashley, it probably wouldn't have happened."
- The scripted list of abolitions ("abolishing the police, abolishing ICE") runs on into "abolishing the Supreme Court, abolishing your border, abolishing everything."
- "Full amnesty and voting rights to all illegal aliens" grows into "especially anybody that's in a gang, anybody that happened to murder somebody."
- The surname sets off a riff: "I wonder if she's related in any way to Richard Nixon. I don't know. I don't think he'd be too happy."

The Nixon aside wanders off and comes back to the script at once ("Angie Nixon would vote to turn America into..."). This insert-a-joke-then-resume habit runs through his rally speech from the 2015–16 campaign on, so it doesn't count as cognitive drift. The running "abolishing" list works as anaphora that he extends for effect, which is his normal rhetorical habit and not abnormal repetition. "Everybody is running against a communist" is most likely a transcription error for "She's running against," so no reading is built on it.

## Loyalty is the selling point

"Never let you down" shows up three times: once in the caption and twice in the video, the second time as "never, ever." The endorsement sells reliability more than any policy, and "always has" stresses that his backing has never lapsed. Moody's record is told entirely through his agenda. Her main credit is being "a pivotal vote" for "the largest tax cuts anywhere in American history," which are his cuts. That is agency motivation expressed as patronage: praise goes to an ally in proportion to how useful she has been to him.

The two candidates are sorted with nothing in between. Moody is "phenomenal," "respected by everybody," "an amazing person." Nixon is "a communist," "a very low IQ person," "a total disaster." This is splitting through idealization and devaluation, with each woman placed wholly by which side of him she stands on. "Very low IQ" is his stock insult for opponents, used especially often against Black women in politics (Maxine Waters, Jasmine Crockett, Kamala Harris). Nixon is a Black state legislator, so the choice of epithet follows a documented pattern and shouldn't be read as offhand.

The story is order restoration. Nixon would turn the country into "a failed third world communist country like Cuba or Venezuela," a comparison aimed at Florida's Cuban and Venezuelan exile voters. Moody and "the people of Florida" are the barrier against that. The archetypes are the king handing out favor and the warrior facing a communist enemy. Trickster and victim elements are missing, which fits a produced ad.

## The opponent sketch against the record

One part of the attack is accurate: Nixon is a DSA member. Her August primary upset over Alex Vindman made her the first DSA member to win a major-party nomination for statewide office. DSA's documented positions on ICE and policing give "abolishing the police, abolishing ICE" some basis. The ad-libbed parts have none: "abolishing everything," and amnesty aimed "especially" at gang members and murderers. They attribute to her a preference for violent criminals that nothing in her record or DSA's platform supports. That is red-baiting joined to guilt by association.

The attack stays electoral. "Defeat Angie Nixon" is tied to "November 3rd" and "vote for Ashley on election day," and the only mobilization is door-knocking. The day's threat language is in a different post: the leak post from the same afternoon ("When we find you, you will pay a big price!!!"). This one names an opponent and caricatures her but asks for nothing beyond a vote.

## The tax claims

The tax passage repeats his standard inflation of the 2025 reconciliation law. "Largest tax cuts... in American history" fails as a share of GDP, and much of the bill extended cuts from 2017. "No tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security" describes capped deductions that expire after 2028 and a temporary deduction for seniors. None of the three makes the income fully untaxed. The claim that Moody was "pivotal" holds up on the numbers: the Senate passed the bill 51–50 with the Vice President breaking the tie, so every Republican yes was needed. "Re-Election" in the caption is loose too. DeSantis appointed Moody in January 2025, and this is her first election for the seat.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Ashley Moody was a pivotal vote for the tax cuts; 'without Ashley, it probably wouldn't have happened.'" | **Mostly True** | The Senate passed the 2025 reconciliation bill 51–50 on July 1, 2025, with Vice President Vance breaking the tie. Moody voted yes, so the bill would have failed without her vote, as it would have without any other Republican's yes. |
| "The tax cuts were the largest anywhere in American history." | **False** | As a share of GDP, the 2025 law ranks below several earlier cuts, including the 1981 Reagan cut and postwar reductions, and much of its cost comes from extending the 2017 cuts rather than new reductions. |
| "The law included no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security." | **Half True** | The law created deductions for tips (capped at $25,000) and overtime premium pay (capped at $12,500 for single filers), both phasing out at higher incomes and expiring after 2028, plus a temporary $6,000 deduction for seniors. Social Security benefits stay taxable under existing rules, and tips and overtime above the caps stay taxed. |
| "Angie Nixon is an active member of the Democratic Socialists of America." | **True** | Nixon is a DSA member and won Florida's August 2026 Democratic Senate primary over Alex Vindman, the first DSA member to win a major-party statewide nomination. WLRN reported that Republican attacks overstate how closely her positions match the national DSA platform. |
| "DSA supports abolishing the police, ICE, the Supreme Court, the border and 'everything,' and granting full amnesty and voting rights to all illegal aliens, 'especially anybody that's in a gang, anybody that happened to murder somebody.'" | **Mostly False** | National DSA has called for abolishing ICE and for defunding or abolishing police, so those two items have a documented basis. 'Abolishing everything' is hyperbole, and nothing in DSA's platform gives gang members or murderers priority for amnesty. WLRN found the Moody campaign's version of this attack misleading. |
| "Moody is running for 're-election' as U.S. Senator from Florida." | **Half True** | Moody is the incumbent, appointed by Governor DeSantis in January 2025 to fill Marco Rubio's seat. The 2026 special election is her first election to the office, so 'Re-Election' overstates it. |
| "Election day is November 3rd." | **True** | The 2026 general election falls on Tuesday, November 3, 2026. |

Overall Veracity: 57%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 35%)

### Indicators

- Caption identical in template to the Sullivan endorsement posted the same afternoon (name/state/pronoun swapped)
- Early-afternoon Eastern posting time, business hours
- Title-case formula 'Complete and Total Endorsement' and sign-off 'President DONALD J. TRUMP' consistent with staff batch output
- Video is Trump speaking in first person, with recognizable ad-libs (Richard Nixon aside, 'abolishing everything', 'anybody that happened to murder somebody')
- Scripted spine in video (policy list, SAVE America Act, election date) points to a campaign-written script he read and embellished

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 70%
- Agreeableness: 25%
- Conscientiousness: 50%
- Neuroticism: 30%
- Openness: 20%

Strongest facet: Low agreeableness (antagonism) toward the opponent next to warm, loyalty-based praise of the ally

**Motives:**
- Agency: 75%
- Communion: 30%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** Kingmaker and legislative victor whose allies share credit for his tax cuts
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** Angie Nixon and the Democratic Socialists of America, cast as communists who would remake America as Cuba or Venezuela

**Identity Claims:**
- Architect of 'the largest tax cuts anywhere in American history'
- His endorsement is a durable guarantee ('always has')
- Protector of Florida from communism

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Midterm endorsement batch; Nixon's August primary upset over Vindman made the Florida seat newly contested)

Sentiment: +0.10

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 45%
- Antisocial: 20%
- Paranoid: 10%
- Sadism: 15%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 40%

Cognitive Markers:
- tangentiality

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct second-person address to Florida voters ('Hello, Florida'; 'I'm asking you')
- Personal vouching as guarantee ('She will never, ever let you down')
- Folksy aside inviting shared amusement (Richard Nixon joke)

## Fact Checks (7)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-09-18._

> Ashley Moody was a pivotal vote for the tax cuts; 'without Ashley, it probably wouldn't have happened.'

**MOSTLY TRUE**

The Senate passed the 2025 reconciliation bill 51–50 on July 1, 2025, with Vice President Vance breaking the tie. Moody voted yes, so the bill would have failed without her vote, as it would have without any other Republican's yes.

Sources: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/votes.htm

> The tax cuts were the largest anywhere in American history.

**FALSE**

As a share of GDP, the 2025 law ranks below several earlier cuts, including the 1981 Reagan cut and postwar reductions, and much of its cost comes from extending the 2017 cuts rather than new reductions.

Sources: https://www.crfb.org/; https://taxfoundation.org/

> The law included no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security.

**HALF TRUE**

The law created deductions for tips (capped at $25,000) and overtime premium pay (capped at $12,500 for single filers), both phasing out at higher incomes and expiring after 2028, plus a temporary $6,000 deduction for seniors. Social Security benefits stay taxable under existing rules, and tips and overtime above the caps stay taxed.

Sources: https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/one-big-beautiful-bill-provisions; https://taxfoundation.org/

> Angie Nixon is an active member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

**TRUE**

Nixon is a DSA member and won Florida's August 2026 Democratic Senate primary over Alex Vindman, the first DSA member to win a major-party statewide nomination. WLRN reported that Republican attacks overstate how closely her positions match the national DSA platform.

Sources: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/angie-nixon-winner-florida-senate-primary-democrat-alex-vindman-moody-rcna593255; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angie_Nixon; https://www.wlrn.org/government-politics/2026-08-24/how-aligned-is-angie-nixon-with-democratic-socialists-moodys-florida-senate-race-attack-misleads

> DSA supports abolishing the police, ICE, the Supreme Court, the border and 'everything,' and granting full amnesty and voting rights to all illegal aliens, 'especially anybody that's in a gang, anybody that happened to murder somebody.'

**MOSTLY FALSE**

National DSA has called for abolishing ICE and for defunding or abolishing police, so those two items have a documented basis. 'Abolishing everything' is hyperbole, and nothing in DSA's platform gives gang members or murderers priority for amnesty. WLRN found the Moody campaign's version of this attack misleading.

Sources: https://www.dsausa.org/; https://www.wlrn.org/government-politics/2026-08-24/how-aligned-is-angie-nixon-with-democratic-socialists-moodys-florida-senate-race-attack-misleads

> Moody is running for 're-election' as U.S. Senator from Florida.

**HALF TRUE**

Moody is the incumbent, appointed by Governor DeSantis in January 2025 to fill Marco Rubio's seat. The 2026 special election is her first election to the office, so 'Re-Election' overstates it.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Florida

> Election day is November 3rd.

**TRUE**

The 2026 general election falls on Tuesday, November 3, 2026.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Florida

Overall Veracity: 57%

## Tags

- endorsement (90%)
- midterms-2026 (80%)
- red-baiting (60%)
- splitting (50%)
- loyalty-schema (50%)
- tax-cut-hyperbole (50%)
- low-iq-insult (40%)
- video-self-speaking (40%)

## That day

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

**CNN, MSNOW and Politico banned from the White House "effective immediately," with "Other Fake News Media Outlets to follow"**

Trump spent Thursday night posting Fox News clips of other people praising him, including a historian who ranked him behind only Washington and Lincoln. Just after midnight he threatened whoever leaked his advisers' warnings about the Iran conflict: "When we find you, you will pay a big price." On Friday afternoon his account put out fifteen identical endorsements in about twenty minutes, and several carried campaign videos with harsh personal attacks on Democrats, including one tying a Muslim-American Senate candidate in Michigan to Hamas and 9/11. Soon after, he banned CNN, MSNOW and Politico from the White House, said more outlets would follow, and posted a fan video of a lion that has to "show the jackals who he is." The evening turned to celebration, with a Greenland security deal he called "a dream come true" and a list of accomplishments from what he called his "Term Three."

Full digest for 2026-09-18: https://trump.fm/date/2026-09-18/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, September 18). Ashley Moody has my Complete and Total... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117293383002117599
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Ashley Moody has my Complete and Total Endorsement for..." Truth Social, 18 Sep. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117293383002117599. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Ashley Moody has my Complete and Total Endorsement for...," Truth Social, September 18, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117293383002117599.

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