# Post ts_117293409824088390

- Post ID: `ts_117293409824088390`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-09-18T18:16:38.928Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117293409824088390/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_117293409824088390.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Roger Marshall has my Complete and Total Endorsement for Re-Election as U.S. Senator from Kansas — HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN! President DONALD J. TRUMP

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (1:42), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> Hello, Kansas. A very, very special place to me. I won it all three times and you are fantastic. This November, I'm asking you to get out and vote to send a really good friend of mine and a really good man and senator, Roger Marshall, back to the U.S. Senate. Roger proudly defended our country in the U.S. Army and served Kansas as a distinguished medical doctor for over 25 years. He's an outstanding man, totally respected in Washington. As your senator, he has been a champion for strong borders, low taxes, our military, our veterans and our great Kansas farmers and ranchers. He's also been a champion of a bill we're going to pass as soon as possible, it's going to happen quickly, to eliminate out of control credit card swipe fees, saving the typical family up to $2,000 a year. It's a big deal for Roger. While Roger has been fighting for Kansas, his opponent is a radical left Democrat named Adam Hamilton, who says that Kansas needs to repent for eating beef at the church where he's a pastor. He funds programs to take children to drag shows. He's a radical left lunatic. Adam Hamilton does not represent Kansas values, he never has, and he never will. Roger does. On November 3rd, go out and vote for Roger Marshall for the United States Senate. He will never, ever let you down. Thank you.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/293/406/482/665/602/original/681a7c20a07f1cdf.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 9,007
- Reposts: 2,022
- Replies: 136
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-09-25T18:00:58.249Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-18T18:18:53.728Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## A template filled in for Kansas

This is one of at least four Senate endorsements posted on 18 September, and it matches the others word for word except for the name, state and pronoun: "[Name] has my Complete and Total Endorsement for Re-Election as U.S. Senator from [State] — [HE/SHE] WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN! President DONALD J. TRUMP." Dan Sullivan (Alaska), Ashley Moody (Florida) and Mike Collins (Georgia) got the same frame the same day. The only variation in the set is the Collins post, which reads "to be the next U.S. Senator" because he is a challenger, not an incumbent. Someone switched the wording by candidate status, which points to a person working through a list.

## Who wrote it

At 18:16 UTC it was 2:16 p.m. Eastern. Trump had returned from the Ireland trip earlier in the week, so he was most likely in Washington, and the post went out during working hours. The text has no errors, no digression and no aside about Trump himself. It carries the fixed third-person sign-off "President DONALD J. TRUMP" and an attached video that had to be prepared in advance. Everything about it suggests staff running a scheduled endorsement batch ahead of the November midterms. The capitalized closing line is part of the template, so it tells us nothing about his mood in the moment. Posts from the same day that read as more personal, such as the CNN attack ("Unwatchable and Failing CNN is so dishonest") and the self-referential approval claim ("95%, A RECORD"), sit alongside the batch. They show the account switching between Trump's own voice and staff output within hours.

## What the frame says about the endorser

The formula casts Trump as the one who grants legitimacy. His endorsement is "Complete and Total," a phrase that measures his favor as all or nothing and leaves no room for a qualified one. "HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN" makes a promise to the reader on the candidate's behalf. It works as reassurance by proxy: Trump vouches, and his standing guarantees the candidate. That is an agentic, status-granting motive delivered through routine patronage. It does not signal grandiosity beyond his established baseline. Nothing in the post reacts to anything, so it gives no sign of injury, criticism or a rival that needed answering.

The rhetoric is superlative ("Complete and Total," "NEVER") and relies on transfer, moving Trump's popularity with the base onto a down-ballot incumbent. It names no opponent and no out-group. That absence separates it from the same-day CNN post, where the "FAKE NEWS" framing does the splitting this post never attempts. Because the text contains no spontaneous speech, cognitive markers can't be assessed from it.

## Checkable claims

Only one factual premise is embedded: Marshall is the sitting senator from Kansas and faces re-election. He won the seat in 2020, so his term ends in January 2027 and he is on the 2026 ballot. The promise that he "will never let you down" is an endorsement, not a fact that can be checked.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Roger Marshall is the U.S. Senator from Kansas and is seeking re-election" | **True** | Marshall won the Kansas Senate seat in 2020, and his term ends in January 2027, which puts the seat on the 2026 ballot as an incumbent re-election race. |

Overall Veracity: 100%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 12%)

### Indicators

- Identical template shared with at least three other same-day Senate endorsements
- Posted 2:16 p.m. Eastern, during business hours
- Wording adjusted by incumbent vs. challenger status (Collins post differs), which implies list-driven drafting
- Fixed third-person sign-off 'President DONALD J. TRUMP'
- Pre-produced video attachment

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 60%
- Agreeableness: 50%
- Conscientiousness: 50%
- Neuroticism: 10%
- Openness: 20%

Strongest facet: assertiveness

**Motives:**
- Agency: 70%
- Communion: 30%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** kingmaker/patron
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** None named

**Identity Claims:**
- His endorsement is decisive and total
- He can guarantee a candidate's loyalty to voters

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Midterm endorsement batch ahead of November 2026 elections)

Sentiment: +0.60

### Clinical

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

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 20%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct address to voters ('let YOU down')
- Personal guarantee transferring the leader's credibility onto the candidate

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> Roger Marshall is the U.S. Senator from Kansas and is seeking re-election

**TRUE**

Marshall won the Kansas Senate seat in 2020, and his term ends in January 2027, which puts the seat on the 2026 ballot as an incumbent re-election race.

Sources: U.S. Senate member listing; Kansas Secretary of State election records

Overall Veracity: 100%

## Tags

- endorsement (100%)
- midterms-2026 (80%)
- template-batch (90%)
- kansas (50%)
- patronage (50%)

## 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). Roger Marshall has my Complete and Total... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117293409824088390
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Roger Marshall has my Complete and Total Endorsement for..." Truth Social, 18 Sep. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117293409824088390. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Roger Marshall has my Complete and Total Endorsement for...," Truth Social, September 18, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117293409824088390.

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