# Post ts_117293400265439279 - Post ID: `ts_117293400265439279` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2026-09-18T18:14:13.074Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117293400265439279 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117293400265439279/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_117293400265439279.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > Mike Collins has my Complete and Total Endorsement to be the next U.S. Senator from Georgia — HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN! President DONALD J. TRUMP ## What the media says **Video transcript** (3:54), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > >> Hello, Georgia, a place that I love. This November I'm asking you to knock doors, volunteer, and get out and vote for an incredible guy respected by everybody in Washington, one of the most, Mike Collins, to be your next United States Senator from Georgia, now a congressman. And he is a true patriot and fighter who has been with us from the very beginning. And he is my complete and total endorsement, he always has. Mike wrote the very first bill I signed into law last year, the Lake and Riley Act, which included strong penalties for illegal alien criminals and killers. Mike will always be tough on crime, and as your next Senator, he'll vote for strong borders, lower taxes, a booming economy, and the greatest military anywhere in the world. Mike is running against a radical left Democrat named John Ossoff, highly overrated, I beat him before. If you remember six years ago or so, he was running for Congress, and I had a Congressperson that nobody ever heard of, and Ossoff was leading by a lot, I got involved in the race, and Ossoff went down to a serious defeat, a very shocking defeat. So I've beaten him once, and now I'm gonna beat him again with a very much better candidate, a strong candidate, a great candidate. And as you know, I've been saying that Ossoff is a lightweight, he's like Pee Wee Herman. I don't know if you know Pee Wee Herman, you don't want to be too much like, but he's a lookalike, and a very ineffective Senator who happens to have a lot of money pouring into his campaign because everybody needs his vote, so they can open up your borders and they can have men playing in women's sports. And all of the other things, he's gonna give Georgia zero, zero achievement. Nobody respects Ossoff in Congress. Nobody respects him in the Senate. He's a laughing socket. I don't know, he's got a good PR machine, because people say that he's doing well in terms of the vote. I don't think he's done, hasn't done anything. But Ossoff betrayed Georgia by voting against no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security for our great seniors. He voted against pay raises for our troops. He's against our military. He voted against massive improvements at Fort Benning and Fort Stewart. He is absolutely against voter ID and proof of citizenship, which means he wants to cheat. That's all it means. And Ossoff voted for men in women's sports, transgender mutilization of your children, wide open borders so every country can send their criminal into America. We now have the strongest border, the best border we've ever had, and we're gonna keep it that way. So on November 3rd, Georgia, you have to do this. I won you big, and I love Georgia, and Georgia loves me. We had a big success in the presidential election. That's why our country has never ever done better than it's done now. We have $20 trillion flowing in with no country has ever had that. So I asked you to go out and vote against John Ossoff, and instead elect a real man, Mike Collins, for the United States Senate. Mike is respected by everybody. He'll be a great senator, and besides that, he's central casting. You just look at him. He is meant to be a senator. Again, everybody loves him in Washington. They do as he says. He'll bring it all back to Georgia. He will bring Georgia more gifts than anybody I can think of. So go out and vote for Mike Collins. Thank you. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/293/397/679/059/816/original/35ce6fce95066111.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 9,164 - Reposts: 2,112 - Replies: 164 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-09-25T18:00:58.497Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-18T18:50:06.062Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary The written post is a staff template, the third identical Senate endorsement of the day. The attached video is Trump speaking, and his ad-libs turn a Collins endorsement into a personal rematch with Jon Ossoff. He retells the 2017 Georgia House special election as his own win and "a very shocking defeat." That race was nine years ago, not "six years ago or so," was decided by about 3.6 points, and was won by a former Secretary of State he calls "a Congressperson that nobody ever heard of." He never mentions Ossoff's 2021 Senate win over Trump-backed David Perdue. The result is a win-only history of an opponent who has beaten his side before. He admits Ossoff's polling strength and puts it down to a "PR machine." The ridicule is gendered, a "Pee Wee Herman" lookalike set against Collins as "a real man," and the praise of Collins is about looks: "central casting." The line with the most consequence is "he wants to cheat. That's all it means." It reads opposition to voter ID as fraud intent six weeks before an election, repeating the frame he used for Georgia's 2020 result. The ad-libbed passages show abandoned clauses and merged sentences, but this one partly scripted clip supports only a slight deviation from baseline. ## A form endorsement carrying a grudge match The written text uses the same template as the Dan Sullivan and Ashley Moody endorsements posted the same day: "has my Complete and Total Endorsement… HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN! President DONALD J. TRUMP." Only the name, state and office change. It went up at 2:14 PM Eastern (he was back in the U.S. after the Ireland trip, and Washington and Bedminster are both on Eastern time). The timing, the fixed wording and the signature line all point to a staffer working through a list of endorsements. The attached video is a different matter. Trump is the speaker, in the first person throughout ("I beat him before," "I won you big"), so the transcript can be read as his speech. It looks like a scripted endorsement with ad-libs, and the ad-libs are where the material is. The scripted parts are tidy: "strong borders, lower taxes, a booming economy, and the greatest military." The improvised parts turn almost at once from Collins to Jon Ossoff and to Trump himself. ## The Ossoff race he counts and the one he leaves out The longest ad-lib is a story of personal victory: "Ossoff was leading by a lot, I got involved in the race, and Ossoff went down to a serious defeat, a very shocking defeat. So I've beaten him once, and now I'm gonna beat him again." The story has a clear redemption shape: an unknown candidate, a Trump intervention, a rescue. The facts are wrong in several places. The 2017 GA-6 special election was nine years ago, not "six years ago or so." Karen Handel was a former Georgia Secretary of State, not "a Congressperson that nobody ever heard of." She won by about 3.6 points, which is hard to call "a serious defeat." What the story leaves out matters more. In January 2021 Ossoff unseated David Perdue, after Trump campaigned in Georgia while contesting the state's presidential result. So the scoreboard is one loss and one win against Ossoff, and he presents it as one win. That is selective memory in the service of a grandiose self-image. The account shrinks an injury, a Senate seat lost in a state he says he owns, into silence, and a narrow House result grows into a rout. "I love Georgia, and Georgia loves me" sits in the same place. The line claims a relationship that 2020 and 2021 complicate. One ad-lib points the other way. "I don't know, he's got a good PR machine, because people say that he's doing well in terms of the vote. I don't think he's done, hasn't done anything." He admits Ossoff is polling well and explains it away in the same breath, which is rationalization. It is the closest the clip comes to a vulnerable state: a threat is acknowledged, then put down to publicity rather than voters. ## Pee Wee Herman and the "real man" The attacks on Ossoff are contempt and mockery more than rage. "Lightweight," "he's like Pee Wee Herman… he's a lookalike," "a laughing socket" (almost certainly "laughing stock," perhaps garbled in transcription), "Nobody respects Ossoff in Congress. Nobody respects him in the Senate." The frame is about masculinity. Ossoff is compared to a childlike comic figure, and voters are told to "elect a real man, Mike Collins." The idealization of Collins is pitched to match: "he's central casting. You just look at him. He is meant to be a senator." "Central casting" is one of Trump's lifelong terms for someone who looks the part. It shows that he judges fitness for office by appearance. The split is complete: Collins is "respected by everybody," Ossoff is respected by nobody. ## "That's all it means" The line that carries the most weight: "He is absolutely against voter ID and proof of citizenship, which means he wants to cheat. That's all it means." A policy position is turned into a claim about criminal intent, and the second sentence forbids any other reading. This is epistemic closure. The voter is left one way to understand opposition to the SAVE Act. Six weeks before an election Trump's side may lose, it also pre-writes a fraud story. He framed Georgia's 2020 result the same way, and there that framing ended in the "find 11,780 votes" call. The clip has no call to action beyond voting and names no physical target. What it plants is groundwork for disputing a result. Other lines mischaracterize Ossoff's record. "Voted for men in women's sports" describes a vote *against* cloture on a ban. "Transgender mutilization of your children" repeats a long-running coinage of his. "Wide open borders so every country can send their criminal into America" is an appeal to fear. The claim about voting against "no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security" rests on Ossoff's vote against the whole 2025 reconciliation package. It treats a no on an omnibus bill as opposition to each piece in it, and the package created deductions, not full exemptions. ## Where the speech slips The improvised sections break down in small ways. "One of the most, Mike Collins" stops without finishing the superlative. "He is my complete and total endorsement, he always has" merges two sentences and leaves an auxiliary with nothing to attach to. "You don't want to be too much like, but he's a lookalike" drops its object. "He will bring Georgia more gifts than anybody I can think of" and "they do as he says" are odd word choices for a senator's standing. "Mutilization" is established vocabulary for him, so it is not new evidence. The calendar error on the 2017 race ("six years ago or so" for nine) fits a pattern of compressed time spans documented elsewhere in the archive. Against his 1980s–90s interview baseline, where sentences usually finished even when they sprawled, the abandoned clauses here are more frequent. Still, one clip with a teleprompter base and possible transcription errors only supports a slight deviation. The "$20 trillion flowing in with no country has ever had that" line is also his. Investment pledges become money "flowing in," and the figure is about double the administration's own tallies. The border boast, "the strongest border, the best border we've ever had," is closer to the record: encounters at the southwest border fell to historic lows in 2025. ## Why post it Putting out a batch of templated endorsements (Sullivan, Moody, Collins) on a day that also has a 95% approval boast and a CNN attack is maintenance of the kingmaker role: he confers standing, and candidates carry his name. In the Georgia video the endorsed candidate is almost incidental. The emotional weight falls on beating Ossoff "again" and on Georgia's love for Trump. The Senate race is a rematch in which he casts himself as the real opponent. ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Mike Collins wrote the Laken Riley Act, the first bill Trump signed into law last year." | **True** | Collins sponsored the House version of the Laken Riley Act (H.R. 29). Trump signed it on January 29, 2025, the first bill he signed in his second term. | | "About six years ago Ossoff, running for Congress, was leading by a lot, Trump got involved, and Ossoff suffered a serious, shocking defeat against a candidate nobody had heard of." | **Mostly False** | The race was the June 2017 GA-6 special election, nine years earlier. Ossoff led the first round with about 48% and led some runoff polls. Karen Handel, a former Georgia Secretary of State, won the runoff roughly 51.8% to 48.2%. Trump did endorse and support Handel. The claim omits that Ossoff beat Trump-backed Senator David Perdue in the January 2021 runoff. | | "Ossoff voted against no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security." | **Half True** | Ossoff voted against the 2025 reconciliation law (One Big Beautiful Bill Act), which created temporary deductions for tip and overtime income and an added senior deduction. It did not fully exempt any of them, and Social Security benefits stayed partly taxable. The vote was on the whole package. The standalone No Tax on Tips Act passed the Senate by unanimous consent in May 2025 without objection from Ossoff. | | "Ossoff voted for men in women's sports." | **Half True** | In March 2025 Ossoff voted against cloture on the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, which would have barred transgender girls and women from female school sports. He opposed the ban. He did not vote for any affirmative measure, so 'voted for' mischaracterizes the vote. | | "We have $20 trillion flowing in; no country has ever had that." | **False** | The figure refers to announced investment pledges, not money that has arrived. The White House's own 2025 tallies of pledged investment were roughly $9–10 trillion, and independent reviews found many pledges vague, overlapping, or multi-year. There is no $20 trillion in realized inflows. | | "I won Georgia big in the presidential election." | **Half True** | Trump won Georgia in 2024 by about 2.2 points (roughly 50.7% to 48.5%, about 115,000 votes). He won, but 'big' overstates a close margin. | | "We now have the strongest border, the best border we've ever had." | **Mostly True** | Southwest border apprehensions in 2025 fell to their lowest monthly levels in decades of CBP records, which supports a record-low-crossings claim. 'Strongest' and 'best' are evaluative, and the measure depends on encounter data. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 30%) ### Indicators - Written text matches, word for word, the template of the Sullivan and Moody endorsements posted the same day - Posted at 2:14 PM Eastern, during business hours - Fixed signature line 'President DONALD J. TRUMP' - Attached video is Trump speaking in the first person with visible ad-libs ('I don't know if you know Pee Wee Herman') - Scripted sections ('strong borders, lower taxes, a booming economy') alternate with improvised grievance about Ossoff ## Psychological Profile ### Traits **Big Five:** - Extraversion: 85% - Agreeableness: 20% - Conscientiousness: 35% - Neuroticism: 50% - Openness: 25% Strongest facet: Assertiveness paired with low modesty: 'I've beaten him once, and now I'm gonna beat him again' **Motives:** - Agency: 85% - Communion: 30% Primary drive: power ### Narrative - **Role:** Kingmaker and returning champion in a personal rematch - **Arc:** redemption - **Contrasting:** Jon Ossoff, cast as an unmanly, unrespected 'lightweight' **Identity Claims:** - The one whose intervention decides races ('I got involved in the race, and Ossoff went down') - Beloved by Georgia ('Georgia loves me') - Author of an unprecedented economy ('$20 trillion flowing in') ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance — Comparison (Scheduled endorsement batch. Ossoff's reported polling strength is a secondary irritant acknowledged in the ad-libs) Sentiment: -0.10 Baseline Deviation: slight ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 70% - Antisocial: 35% - Paranoid: 35% - Sadism: 30% **Defense Mechanisms:** - distortion (pathological) - rationalization (neurotic) - devaluation (immature) - idealization (immature) - splitting (immature) - projection (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 40% Cognitive Markers: - temporal confusion - phonemic paraphasia - tangentiality - neologism - word finding difficulty **Parasocial Techniques:** - 'I love Georgia, and Georgia loves me' - Direct address: 'Hello, Georgia, a place that I love' - Shared-memory prompt: 'If you remember six years ago or so' - Casting the voter as his ally in a personal rematch ## Danger Assessment **NONE** ### Gaslighting - 2017 House result recast as 'a very shocking defeat' for Ossoff, with Ossoff's 2021 Senate win omitted - Polling that favors Ossoff dismissed as a 'PR machine' - Opposition to voter ID declared to mean intent to cheat, with no other reading allowed ## Fact Checks (7) _The model's verdicts from 2026-09-18._ > Mike Collins wrote the Laken Riley Act, the first bill Trump signed into law last year. **TRUE** Collins sponsored the House version of the Laken Riley Act (H.R. 29). Trump signed it on January 29, 2025, the first bill he signed in his second term. Sources: Congress.gov H.R. 29 (119th Congress); White House, January 29, 2025 signing > About six years ago Ossoff, running for Congress, was leading by a lot, Trump got involved, and Ossoff suffered a serious, shocking defeat against a candidate nobody had heard of. **MOSTLY FALSE** The race was the June 2017 GA-6 special election, nine years earlier. Ossoff led the first round with about 48% and led some runoff polls. Karen Handel, a former Georgia Secretary of State, won the runoff roughly 51.8% to 48.2%. Trump did endorse and support Handel. The claim omits that Ossoff beat Trump-backed Senator David Perdue in the January 2021 runoff. Sources: Georgia Secretary of State 2017 special election results; Georgia Secretary of State January 2021 runoff results > Ossoff voted against no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security. **HALF TRUE** Ossoff voted against the 2025 reconciliation law (One Big Beautiful Bill Act), which created temporary deductions for tip and overtime income and an added senior deduction. It did not fully exempt any of them, and Social Security benefits stayed partly taxable. The vote was on the whole package. The standalone No Tax on Tips Act passed the Senate by unanimous consent in May 2025 without objection from Ossoff. Sources: Senate roll call on H.R. 1, July 1, 2025; Congress.gov S. 129 (No Tax on Tips Act) > Ossoff voted for men in women's sports. **HALF TRUE** In March 2025 Ossoff voted against cloture on the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, which would have barred transgender girls and women from female school sports. He opposed the ban. He did not vote for any affirmative measure, so 'voted for' mischaracterizes the vote. Sources: Senate roll call on cloture, S. 9, March 3, 2025 > We have $20 trillion flowing in; no country has ever had that. **FALSE** The figure refers to announced investment pledges, not money that has arrived. The White House's own 2025 tallies of pledged investment were roughly $9–10 trillion, and independent reviews found many pledges vague, overlapping, or multi-year. There is no $20 trillion in realized inflows. Sources: White House investment announcements, 2025; Independent fact-check reviews of investment pledge totals, 2025 > I won Georgia big in the presidential election. **HALF TRUE** Trump won Georgia in 2024 by about 2.2 points (roughly 50.7% to 48.5%, about 115,000 votes). He won, but 'big' overstates a close margin. Sources: Georgia Secretary of State 2024 general election results > We now have the strongest border, the best border we've ever had. **MOSTLY TRUE** Southwest border apprehensions in 2025 fell to their lowest monthly levels in decades of CBP records, which supports a record-low-crossings claim. 'Strongest' and 'best' are evaluative, and the measure depends on encounter data. Sources: U.S. Customs and Border Protection monthly operational updates, 2025 Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - endorsement (90%) - Jon Ossoff (85%) - Georgia Senate 2026 (80%) - election integrity framing (60%) - grievance rematch (60%) - masculinity contrast (50%) - investment pledge inflation (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). Mike Collins has my Complete and Total... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117293400265439279 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Mike Collins has my Complete and Total Endorsement to be..." 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