# Post ts_117293461566506192

- Post ID: `ts_117293461566506192`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-09-18T18:29:48.454Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117293461566506192
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117293461566506192/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_117293461566506192.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Eric Flores has my Complete and Total Endorsement to be the next U.S. Representative from Texas’ 34th Congressional District — HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN! President DONALD J. TRUMP

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (1:36), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> Hello, Texas. This is November. I'm asking you to go vote for Eric Flores to be the next representative for Texas' 34th congressional district. Eric Flores is a true American patriot. He was an Army infantry officer and a former federal prosecutor who took on the cartels and won. Eric fights with courage, honor, and conviction, and he gets the job done. In Congress, Eric will stand up for our great farmers and ranchers, vote to rebuild roads and bridges, keep our borders secure, bring down the cost of living, and give America the greatest economy in the history of the world. And he will support the Save America Act to defend our sacred American elections. But first, Eric must defeat his opponent, Vicente Gonzalez, who is a total disaster and a puppet for the radical left communists. He's really bad news. Gonzalez voted against the no tax on tips, against no tax on overtime, and against no tax on Social Security for our great seniors. He voted in favor of child sexual mutilization and men playing in women's sports. He is a total disgrace. He shouldn't be allowed to run. He shouldn't be on the ticket. He's a disaster. So go vote to defeat Vicente Gonzalez and elect Eric Flores to Congress. And on November 3rd, do it. You're going to be very happy. He will never let you down. He's a fantastic person, a great man. Thank you.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/293/460/445/350/463/original/1f8d793a7b897200.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 11,800
- Reposts: 2,526
- Replies: 160
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-09-25T18:00:56.065Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-18T19:42:09.005Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Sixth template endorsement of the afternoon, with a stronger attack in the video

The text is the fixed endorsement formula used for every candidate that day: "[Name] has my Complete and Total Endorsement to be the next U.S. Representative from Texas' 34th Congressional District — HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN! President DONALD J. TRUMP." Pete Ricketts, Jon Husted, Stacy Garrity, Monica De La Cruz and Tano Tijerina got the same sentence the same day, with only the name, office and pronoun changed. There are three Texas House seats in this batch (TX-15, TX-28, TX-34), all in the Rio Grande Valley and South Texas. That grouping follows the midterm target map for Hispanic-majority districts the GOP has been working to flip since 2022. The written text is a campaign-office product with nothing personal in it.

## Who wrote it

The post went up at 18:29 UTC. With Trump back from Ireland and in the run-up to Xi's September 24 state visit, that is about 2:29 p.m. Eastern, inside the working day. The sign-off "President DONALD J. TRUMP" is third-person, the district name is spelled out exactly, the punctuation is clean, and the only capitals are the stock tagline. These are the marks of a staff-run endorsement queue releasing a list of names in sequence.

The video is different. It is a first-person direct address ("I'm asking you to go vote for Eric Flores"), which is the standard format for Trump's recorded endorsement messages, and the second half moves into his spoken register. The prepared part reads like a script, with a résumé ("Army infantry officer and a former federal prosecutor who took on the cartels and won") and a bundle of policy items ("stand up for our great farmers and ranchers, vote to rebuild roads and bridges"). Then it turns into repetitive attack lines: "He's really bad news," "He is a total disgrace," "He's a disaster," "He's a fantastic person, a great man." The text is aide-produced. The recording is most likely his own voice reading a script and adding his own lines, but that attribution rests on format and style, not on anything the speaker says about himself.

## What the video adds

The written post only praises Flores. The video spends about half its length on the opponent. Vicente Gonzalez is "a total disaster and a puppet for the radical left communists," and the charge list ends with "child sexual mutilization and men playing in women's sports." The split is total. One candidate is "a true American patriot" who "fights with courage, honor, and conviction." The other is "a total disgrace." That is idealization and devaluation in the same clip, with nothing between them.

The line to note is "He shouldn't be allowed to run. He shouldn't be on the ticket." It moves from "vote against him" to saying the opponent's candidacy should not exist at all. There is no legal or procedural basis given. It works as a delegitimizing flourish, and similar lines recur in his remarks about Democratic opponents and prosecutors. It does not call for any action beyond voting ("go vote to defeat Vicente Gonzalez"), and there is no violent or dehumanizing imagery. "Puppet for the radical left communists" is a standard contempt label from his campaign vocabulary, and the clip's hostility stays at that level.

The video also promotes the "Save America Act to defend our sacred American elections." That ties a local House race to his national election-integrity story, so the endorsement doubles as a loyalty test: support for the bill is listed as a condition of the candidate's worth.

## Accuracy of the attack lines

The voting-record charges are only partly accurate. "No tax on tips" and "no tax on overtime" were enacted inside the 2025 reconciliation package, which every House Democrat, Gonzalez included, voted against. Describing that as a vote against each provision takes one omnibus vote and presents it as several targeted refusals. The Social Security item refers to a temporary added deduction for seniors; the tax on benefits remains in place. The women's-sports charge runs against the record: in January 2025 Gonzalez was one of two House Democrats, with Henry Cuellar, who voted for the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. So the clip attributes to him the opposite of a vote he actually cast. The error came either from the script's research or from an ad-lib, and the clip does not show which. Either way it went out under Trump's name.

## Motive and self-positioning

The drive here is agency through patronage. He takes the role of kingmaker, whose "Complete and Total Endorsement" is presented as the thing that confers legitimacy, and the promise that the candidate "will never let you down" puts loyalty to the voter and loyalty to the endorser in the same sentence. The day's pattern is volume: six-plus identical endorsements in one afternoon read as the midterm operation running a list, and nothing in the batch points to a triggering injury.

The spoken text has repetition typical of his ad-libs ("He's a disaster," "total disaster," "total disgrace"), which matches his long-standing spoken style of circling back to the same insult. "Mutilization" is a form he has used in past remarks, though here the transcriber may have produced it. "This is November" is most likely a transcription error for an opening self-identification. Neither is strong enough to support a cognitive reading.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Gonzalez voted in favor of men playing in women's sports." | **False** | In January 2025 Vicente Gonzalez was one of two House Democrats, with Henry Cuellar, who voted for the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, which barred biological males from women's school sports. The claim reverses his recorded vote. |
| "Gonzalez voted against no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security." | **Half True** | The tips and overtime deductions were enacted inside the 2025 reconciliation package, which every House Democrat, Gonzalez included, opposed. So he did vote against the bill that carried them, but it was one party-line omnibus vote, not a series of targeted votes. The Social Security item was a temporary added deduction for seniors, not the elimination of tax on benefits. |

Overall Veracity: 25%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 15%)

### Indicators

- Identical endorsement template used for at least five other candidates the same day
- Posted about 2:29 p.m. Eastern, business hours
- Third-person sign-off 'President DONALD J. TRUMP'
- Exact office and district nomenclature, clean punctuation
- Attached video is first-person address, likely his own recorded voice reading a script with ad-libs

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

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

Strongest facet: assertiveness

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

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** kingmaker whose endorsement confers legitimacy
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** Vicente Gonzalez and 'the radical left communists'

**Identity Claims:**
- His endorsement is 'Complete and Total' and decisive
- He vouches for loyalty: 'HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!'

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Midterm endorsement batch for South Texas House targets)

Sentiment: +0.20

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 35%
- Antisocial: 15%
- Paranoid: 10%
- Sadism: 5%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 30%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct second-person address to Texas voters ('Hello, Texas')
- Promise of personal satisfaction ('You're going to be very happy')
- Endorser vouching for candidate loyalty ('He will never let you down')

## Fact Checks (2)

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

> Gonzalez voted in favor of men playing in women's sports.

**FALSE**

In January 2025 Vicente Gonzalez was one of two House Democrats, with Henry Cuellar, who voted for the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, which barred biological males from women's school sports. The claim reverses his recorded vote.

Sources: House Clerk roll call on H.R. 28, January 14, 2025

> Gonzalez voted against no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security.

**HALF TRUE**

The tips and overtime deductions were enacted inside the 2025 reconciliation package, which every House Democrat, Gonzalez included, opposed. So he did vote against the bill that carried them, but it was one party-line omnibus vote, not a series of targeted votes. The Social Security item was a temporary added deduction for seniors, not the elimination of tax on benefits.

Sources: House roll call on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, July 2025

Overall Veracity: 25%

## Tags

- midterm endorsements (90%)
- Texas 34th district (70%)
- kingmaker (60%)
- splitting (50%)
- voting-record distortion (50%)
- template post (80%)

## 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). Eric Flores has my Complete and Total Endorsement... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117293461566506192
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Eric Flores has my Complete and Total Endorsement to be the..." Truth Social, 18 Sep. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117293461566506192. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Eric Flores has my Complete and Total Endorsement to be the...," Truth Social, September 18, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117293461566506192.

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