# Post ts_117293999250317993

- Post ID: `ts_117293999250317993`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-09-18T20:46:32.858Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117293999250317993
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117293999250317993/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_117293999250317993.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Ashley Hinson has my Complete and Total Endorsement to be the next U.S. Senator from Iowa — SHE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN! President DONALD J. TRUMP

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (1:46), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> Hello, Iowa, a place that I love this November. I'm asking you to get out and vote for Ashley Hinson to be your next United States senator. She's fantastic. Ashley is a proud mother and a fighter for hardworking families and farmers. She was a decisive vote in delivering the largest tax cuts in American history, including no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security for our great seniors. She voted to save millions of family farms from the death tax or the inheritance tax, as some people would call it. She expanded the child tax credit, helped secure the largest investment in border security history, gave you the largest ever expansion of school choice, and she supports Iowa farmers and ethanol 100 percent. Ashley's opponent is a radical left maniac named Josh Turrick. Turrick wants to massively raise your taxes, take a giant cut out of your Social Security check, open your borders and let millions of illegal aliens loot, rob and kill in our country. We just went through four years of that. We don't want to go through it again. As a member of the Iowa Statehouse, Turrick voted for transgender insanity in Iowa schools, and there's something wrong with them. We cannot let him represent Iowa and we can certainly not let him go to the Senate. Ashley Hinson is great. She's a total winner. On November 3rd, go out and vote for Ashley Hinson. She will never let you down. She is a champion.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/293/998/051/965/931/original/c273520999064e70.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 15,645
- Reposts: 3,213
- Replies: 473
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-09-25T20:00:51.358Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-18T21:02:18.878Z (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 letter in a batch of form letters

The post fills a fixed template: "[Name] has my Complete and Total Endorsement to be the next [office] — SHE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN! President DONALD J. TRUMP." The same day's feed shows at least three identical fills: Eric Flores (TX-34), Carlos De La Cruz (TX-35) and Ken Paxton (TX Senate). Only the name, the office and the pronoun change. The wording is the one Trump endorsements have used for years, and the fixed "Complete and Total Endorsement" block is what makes it recognizable as his. What the post shows is a routine output, and a close reading has little to work with.

## Who likely typed it

The post went up at 20:46 UTC, about 4:46 pm Eastern. The historian record puts him back from Ireland and preparing for Xi Jinping's visit on September 24, which points to Washington. That is business hours, inside a batch of posts with identical structure, with a produced video attached (the .mp4) and the correct capitalization of "U.S. Senator from Iowa." Nothing in it drifts, slips or reacts to anything. The capitalized close "SHE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!" and the signature "President DONALD J. TRUMP" are part of the template, so they don't count as signs of him typing. The likeliest reading is staff drafting with his approval, and his name on the post means he owns it, even if he didn't type it.

## Loyalty as the whole character reference

The only thing the post says about Hinson is "SHE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!" She gets no policy, no record and no biography. Her fitness for office is framed as dependability, and in Trump's usage that usually means dependability toward him and his base. This matches a long-standing agentic, transactional pattern in his endorsements: the endorsement works as a gift of status ("my Complete and Total Endorsement"), and the promise attached to it is loyalty. "Complete and Total" is formulaic hyperbole. It has been said so many times that it has lost most of its force as a superlative.

## What the post leaves out

The post has no opponent, no grievance and no enemy. That sets it apart from the CNN/MSNOW/Politico ban posted the same day, which was full of combat ("Fake News," "Crooked Joe Biden," "Seems like corruption to me!"). Across one afternoon the feed moves between attack and patronage. The template's steady, positive tone suggests the endorsement posts run on a separate production track from the grievance posts, rather than reflecting a change in his mood. With no opponent in the text, there is nothing for a defense mechanism to work on. The positive framing of an ally is mild idealization at most, and it belongs to the template.

## Cognitive and factual notes

The sentence is short, correct and repeated verbatim from a template. It can't be compared with baseline speech, because Trump didn't compose it in the moment. The one factual premise is that Hinson is running for Iowa's U.S. Senate seat. She declared in 2025 for the seat Joni Ernst is leaving, and Trump endorsed her at that point, so this is a general-election reaffirmation six weeks before the midterms.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Ashley Hinson is a candidate to be the next U.S. Senator from Iowa" | **True** | Rep. Ashley Hinson (IA-02) entered the 2026 race for the Iowa Senate seat Joni Ernst is vacating in 2025, and Trump endorsed her then. This post repeats that endorsement ahead of the November 2026 general election. |

Overall Veracity: 100%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 25%)

### Indicators

- Posted about 4:46 pm Eastern, during business hours
- Word-for-word template shared with at least three other endorsements posted the same day
- Produced campaign video attached
- Clean capitalization and punctuation ("U.S. Senator from Iowa")
- Signature-style close is part of the template and does not show he typed it

## 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 decides who is worth backing

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Midterm campaign endorsement batch)

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 second-person address to voters ("let YOU down")
- Personal endorsement framed as a guarantee

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> Ashley Hinson is a candidate to be the next U.S. Senator from Iowa

**TRUE**

Rep. Ashley Hinson (IA-02) entered the 2026 race for the Iowa Senate seat Joni Ernst is vacating in 2025, and Trump endorsed her then. This post repeats that endorsement ahead of the November 2026 general election.

Sources: General knowledge of the 2026 Iowa Senate race

Overall Veracity: 100%

## Tags

- endorsement (100%)
- 2026 midterms (80%)
- Iowa Senate (70%)
- loyalty framing (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). Ashley Hinson has my Complete and Total... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117293999250317993
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Ashley Hinson has my Complete and Total Endorsement to be..." Truth Social, 18 Sep. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117293999250317993. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Ashley Hinson has my Complete and Total Endorsement to be...," Truth Social, September 18, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117293999250317993.

## For agents

- Site overview: https://trump.fm/llms.txt
- API specification: https://trump.fm/openapi.json
- MCP server: https://trump.fm/mcp (search and fetch tools, no auth)
- This post as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/posts/ts_117293999250317993
- Analysis as JSON: https://trump.fm/api/analysis/ts_117293999250317993
- All citation formats: https://trump.fm/api/cite/ts_117293999250317993
- Same day: https://trump.fm/date/2026-09-18
- The record alone, without the analysis: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117293999250317993.md?analysis=false

_Markdown view of a trump.fm page. Post, analysis, date, feed, contradictions, search and about pages answer in markdown at their URL with `.md` appended (`/index.md` for the home page), or when sent `Accept: text/markdown`._