# Post ts_117293443739276008

- Post ID: `ts_117293443739276008`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-09-18T18:25:16.432Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117293443739276008
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117293443739276008/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_117293443739276008.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Laurie Buckhout has my Complete and Total Endorsement to be the next U.S. Representative from North Carolina’s 1st Congressional District — SHE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN! President DONALD J. TRUMP

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (1:30), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> Hello, North Carolina. This November, I'm asking you to vote for Colonel Laurie Buckout, highly respected, to be the next representative of North Carolina's first congressional district. For too long, eastern North Carolina has been represented by liberals like Don Davis. Not good. Don Davis voted against no tax on tips. He voted against no tax on overtime, and he voted against no tax on social security for our great seniors. Don Davis is a weak and ineffective leader. He's not respected in Washington. Nobody ever heard of him. I don't even think I've ever heard of him. He abandoned our farmers. He let our farmers go right down in the tubes. He abandoned our borders. He abandoned our law enforcement. He abandoned the people of North Carolina. Laurie Buckout will always fight for you in Congress. She's a retired army colonel, decorated combat commander who would defend your family just like she defended our country. Laurie will always vote for strong borders, a powerful military, and she will cut taxes, regulations, and make America stronger, richer, greater than ever before. So on November 3rd, go out and defeat Don Davis. He's bad news. Remember, nobody even knows who he is and elect Laurie Buckout to Congress. She will never, ever let you down. Thank you very much.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/293/443/025/023/741/original/5074b9e9de446af4.mp4

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-18T19:07:39.618Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## A form endorsement with an attack ad attached

The text is the fixed template used across the batch posted on 18 September: "[Name] has my Complete and Total Endorsement to be the next [office] — SHE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN! President DONALD J. TRUMP." Five earlier posts the same day (Sullivan, Moody, Collins, Marshall, Rogers) differ from it only in name, state, office and pronoun. This one differs in what came with it. Where the Senate endorsements were bare text, the Buckhout post carries a produced video aimed at the Democratic incumbent, Don Davis. That fits the seat's standing. North Carolina's 1st is one of the few Democratic-held House seats the national party is actively trying to flip. Buckhout lost it to Davis narrowly in 2024, and the district was redrawn in 2025 to favor Republicans. Out of a day of routine endorsements, this is the one race where an endorsement video was put together.

The post went up at 18:25 UTC, 2:25 p.m. Eastern. That is mid-afternoon in any US location he was likely to be in the week after returning from Ireland. The ALL CAPS closer and the signature line are part of the template, so they show nothing about his mood. The timing, the fill-in-the-blanks wording and the batch release all indicate a staff-run endorsement operation. The attached video is a different kind of artifact from the text.

## He is the speaker in the clip

Unlike most attached media, this transcript is in the first person and in his own voice: "I'm asking you to vote for Colonel Laurie Buckout," "I don't even think I've ever heard of him." The spelling "Buckout" comes from the speech-to-text and is not his error. The clip mixes two registers. The scripted sections are tidy and read like a policy list: "voted against no tax on tips. He voted against no tax on overtime, and he voted against no tax on social security for our great seniors." Between them are unscripted asides in his familiar cadence: "Not good," "He let our farmers go right down in the tubes," "He's bad news." Seeing where the script ends and the ad-lib starts is the most useful thing the clip offers.

## The "never heard of him" aside

The clip lists several of Davis's specific votes and then says "Nobody ever heard of him. I don't even think I've ever heard of him," returning to it at the close with "Remember, nobody even knows who he is." This is a stock move of his. He dismisses an opponent as a nobody, and the insult is that the man doesn't even register with him. Here it contradicts the rest of the clip. A candidate whose voting record is being itemized, in a seat the party redrew to unseat him, is plainly known to the speaker. The aside works as devaluation: Davis loses standing by being called forgettable, not by being argued against. Buckhout gets the reverse treatment in inflated terms: "highly respected," "decorated combat commander who would defend your family just like she defended our country," "She will never, ever let you down." The two portraits follow the familiar split, one candidate all good and the other all bad. The attack stays at a campaign-ad pitch: "weak and ineffective," "abandoned our farmers," "abandoned our borders." Nothing in it points supporters at Davis as a person to act against. The call is "go out and defeat Don Davis" on 3 November, which is an electoral instruction.

The "abandoned" line runs four times ("abandoned our farmers... our borders... our law enforcement... the people of North Carolina"). That is ad-copy anaphora and says nothing about his cognition. The repeated "nobody knows who he is" is a deliberate callback, not perseveration. The ad-libs are coherent and on topic.

## What the record claims rest on

The three "voted against" charges are each a description of one vote. In 2025 Davis voted with every House Democrat against the reconciliation law, which included deductions for tip and overtime income and an added deduction for seniors. The provisions were capped deductions tied to income limits, not a full end to tax on tips, overtime or Social Security. Calling them "no tax on social security" overstates the senior provision most of all. Calling Davis one of the "liberals" who have represented eastern North Carolina for "too long" is a characterization, but it ignores his membership in the conservative-leaning Blue Dog Coalition and his record of crossover votes. The "liberal" label is borrowed from his predecessor's era and applied to a Democrat who campaigns as a moderate.

## Motive and self-positioning

The self-image here is that of a patron. His endorsement is offered as a gift ("my Complete and Total Endorsement"), and the recipient's value is vouched for through loyalty language ("will never let you down") more than through policy. With the midterms about six weeks away, the post reads as coordinated House-majority work: power-oriented and routine, with none of the grievance about himself that runs through his reactive posts. He appears in the video only as the person whose word decides who is "respected" and who is a nobody.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Don Davis voted against no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security" | **Half True** | Davis voted with all House Democrats against the 2025 reconciliation law, which contained capped deductions for tip and overtime income and an added deduction for seniors. That vote was against the whole bill, not against standalone measures. The law also did not eliminate tax on Social Security benefits. It added a temporary, income-limited deduction for people 65 and over. |
| "Eastern North Carolina has been represented by liberals like Don Davis" | **Mostly False** | Davis is a member of the Blue Dog Coalition and one of the more centrist House Democrats, with a record of crossover votes. His predecessor, G.K. Butterfield, fits the 'liberal' description better, but the label misstates Davis's own record. |
| "Laurie Buckhout is a retired Army colonel" | **True** | Buckhout is a retired U.S. Army colonel and was the 2024 Republican nominee in North Carolina's 1st District, losing narrowly to Davis. |

Overall Veracity: 57%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 20%)

### Indicators

- Identical template to five other endorsements posted the same day, differing only in name, state, office and pronoun
- Posted 2:25 p.m. Eastern, mid-business hours
- Batch release pattern typical of staff-managed endorsement rollouts
- Attached video is in his own voice, with scripted policy lines interleaved with ad-libs ('Not good', 'down in the tubes', 'I don't even think I've ever heard of him')

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

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

Strongest facet: assertiveness

**Motives:**
- Agency: 80%
- Communion: 30%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** kingmaker / patron whose endorsement confers standing
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** Rep. Don Davis, cast as a forgettable liberal who 'abandoned' farmers, borders and police

**Identity Claims:**
- His endorsement is decisive ('Complete and Total Endorsement')
- He decides who is respected and who is a nobody ('Nobody ever heard of him')

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Midterm endorsement rollout; NC-1 targeted pickup seat)

Sentiment: +0.15

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 5%
- Sadism: 10%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 35%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct address to the audience ('Hello, North Carolina')
- Endorsement framed as a personal gift ('my Complete and Total Endorsement')
- Loyalty promise to voters ('SHE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN')

## Fact Checks (3)

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

> Don Davis voted against no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security

**HALF TRUE**

Davis voted with all House Democrats against the 2025 reconciliation law, which contained capped deductions for tip and overtime income and an added deduction for seniors. That vote was against the whole bill, not against standalone measures. The law also did not eliminate tax on Social Security benefits. It added a temporary, income-limited deduction for people 65 and over.

Sources: Congress.gov roll call on H.R. 1 (One Big Beautiful Bill Act), July 2025

> Eastern North Carolina has been represented by liberals like Don Davis

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Davis is a member of the Blue Dog Coalition and one of the more centrist House Democrats, with a record of crossover votes. His predecessor, G.K. Butterfield, fits the 'liberal' description better, but the label misstates Davis's own record.

Sources: Blue Dog Coalition membership roster; House voting record analyses (e.g., GovTrack ideology scores)

> Laurie Buckhout is a retired Army colonel

**TRUE**

Buckhout is a retired U.S. Army colonel and was the 2024 Republican nominee in North Carolina's 1st District, losing narrowly to Davis.

Sources: 2024 NC-1 election coverage

Overall Veracity: 57%

## Tags

- endorsement (100%)
- North Carolina NC-1 (80%)
- Don Davis (70%)
- no tax on tips (50%)
- devaluation (40%)
- staff-authored (60%)

## 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). Laurie Buckhout has my Complete and Total... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117293443739276008
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Laurie Buckhout has my Complete and Total Endorsement to be..." Truth Social, 18 Sep. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117293443739276008. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Laurie Buckhout has my Complete and Total Endorsement to be...," Truth Social, September 18, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117293443739276008.

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