# Post ts_117310501298755407

- Post ID: `ts_117310501298755407`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-09-21T18:43:14.133Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117310501298755407
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117310501298755407/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_117310501298755407.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Joe Mitchell has my Complete and Total Endorsement to be the next U.S. Representative from Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District — HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN! President DONALD J. TRUMP

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (2:32), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> Hello, Iowa. This November, I'm asking you to get out and vote for Joe Mitchell, a spectacular guy, to represent Iowa's second district in Congress. Joe is a proud home builder, real estate developer, very successful at that, and a rising star in the Republican party. He was the youngest ever member of the Iowa state legislature, and now he's going to fight for Iowa workers, families, and farmers in the United States House of Representatives. He'll be at my side. In Congress, Joe will vote for low taxes, less regulation, more American energy for lower fuel prices, and he will support Iowa ethanol, as I do. Joe will be a rock-solid vote for protecting your Second Amendment and for defending your borders. And with Joe's help, we will pass the Stop Insider Trading Act, banning members of Congress from corruptly profiting from inside trader information. Joe's opponent, Lindsay James, is not even from Iowa. She's a left-wing radical, and she is really radical, from Portland, Oregon, of all places, who wants to crush your farms and supports the transgender mutualization of your children. She's everything that Iowa does not stand for. Lindsay James also wants to abolish no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security for our great seniors, something that I worked very hard to get, and she'll raise your taxes on Social Security. That's what she wants to do. She also wants to bring back the death tax or the estate tax, which would kill thousands of family farms across your state. What you do and what I've gotten is that you don't have to pay a state tax or the death tax if you want to leave your farm to your children. She wants to end that so that you have to... The fact is that Democrats are very bad for farmers and ranchers. So, Iowa, go out and vote. I won Iowa three times in a row, getting the highest vote total in the history of the state for any office, and it was an honor. And I think I'm more popular now than I was even there. Whatever that popularity is, go out and vote for Joe Mitchell, because he will do a fantastic job. He'll never let you down, and you have to do the one thing. Pretend him on the ballot. Pretend him on the ballot, because we really are on the ballot, and get out and vote for Joe Mitchell.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/310/495/955/000/142/original/f660623eb768937b.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 11,184
- Reposts: 2,363
- Replies: 286
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-09-28T18:01:43.875Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-21T18:45:55.334Z (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 in the middle of a heavy posting day

The post is Trump's standard endorsement template with a new name and district filled in: "[Name] has my Complete and Total Endorsement to be the next U.S. Representative from [District] — HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN! President DONALD J. TRUMP." The same wording appears earlier the same day for Mike Bouchard in Michigan's 10th. It has a fixed structure, an em-dash and the signature block. It says nothing specific about Joe Mitchell, which means the text could not have been written with knowledge of this particular candidate and could be pasted onto anyone. The one all-caps phrase, "HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN," is part of the template. It does not mark a burst of emotion.

## Who wrote it

It was posted at 18:43 UTC, which is 2:43 p.m. Eastern. Trump was in Washington that day: an earlier post describes "just leaving the White House Lawn" on the new heliport's first flight. So this is mid-afternoon on a working day. The wording matches an earlier post character for character, the em-dash is typeset correctly, the post is signed in the third person ("President DONALD J. TRUMP"), and it carries a produced video. Those are the marks of staff running an endorsement queue. The capitalization ("Complete and Total Endorsement") is his house style, but staff copy it too. Trump presumably approves the endorsement itself. He probably did not compose the text in the moment.

## What the post shows about him

Read as a psychological document, the post shows one thing: loyalty used as a transaction. The promise that the candidate "will never let you down" is addressed to voters, but Trump's endorsements carry an implied loyalty condition. They go to candidates expected to stay aligned with him, so the line also reads as a guarantee about fidelity to the endorser. The value of "my Complete and Total Endorsement" assumes that his approval is a resource that decides the race. That is a mild, routine case of agency and status motives: a patron handing out backing, with his name signing off the post. Nothing in the text answers a slight or names an opponent, so the post draws no us-versus-them line, and the defensive and paranoid machinery on display in the same day's filibuster post ("the Dumocrats will... control the Voting Mechanisms") has nothing to act on here.

Rhetorically, the post uses only an unsupported guarantee and the capitalized endorsement formula. There are no factual claims to check. "He will never let you down" is a promise, and it can't be verified.

## Context within the day

On the same day he posted about AI as a bigger "Hoax" than "RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA," demanded that Senate Republicans "TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER," and asked readers to choose between "SUPER INTELLIGENCE VS. SUPERIOR INTELLIGENCE." Next to those, this post is a flat administrative entry. That contrast is useful as a baseline: the template shows what the account looks like when staff are handling routine party business, which helps separate the signed-off posts from the self-composed ones. The attached video was not transcribed. If Trump speaks in it, the video would be better authorship evidence than the text.

The text offers nothing to assess cognitively: it is a fixed formula, and it has no errors because it is copied.

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Posted 2:43 p.m. Eastern on a working day at the White House
- Same wording as the Mike Bouchard endorsement posted earlier the same day, with only the name and district changed
- Correctly typeset em-dash and a fixed signature block
- Third-person sign-off "President DONALD J. TRUMP"
- Produced video attachment

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 60%
- Agreeableness: 40%
- Conscientiousness: 50%
- Neuroticism: 10%
- Openness: 20%

Strongest facet: Assertiveness (conferring backing as the party's patron)

**Motives:**
- Agency: 60%
- Communion: 20%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** Kingmaker
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** None named

**Identity Claims:**
- His endorsement is decisive and worth having

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Midterm endorsement queue)

Sentiment: +0.60

### Clinical

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 15%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct second-person promise to followers: "HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!"

## Tags

- endorsement (100%)
- 2026 midterms (80%)
- Iowa (60%)
- patronage (50%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**Trump calls his ban on CNN, Politico and MSNOW 'an assault on the FAKE NEWS,' then goes after the judge hearing their suit**

Trump's posts ran from Sunday night into Monday afternoon, when he left Washington for New York, and the thread through them was his ban on CNN, Politico and MSNOW from the White House. Overnight he shared a friendly article about the ban; by morning he was insisting he was going after "fake news," not the free press, and likening the media to cancer; by afternoon, with the outlets suing, he was attacking the judge on the case by name before any ruling. In between he pressed Senate Republicans to scrap the filibuster, warning he'd otherwise be "the last Republican President" and hinting that Republican election losses would be illegitimate. The anger stayed inside the press fight. The rest of the day was golf, a pitch for artificial intelligence that waved off fears about it as a hoax, endorsements, a first ride from a new White House heliport he thanked Lockheed Martin's chief for, and a friendly note about visiting Gracie Mansion at Mayor Mamdani's invitation.

Full digest for 2026-09-21: https://trump.fm/date/2026-09-21/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, September 21). Joe Mitchell has my Complete and Total... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117310501298755407
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Joe Mitchell has my Complete and Total Endorsement to be..." Truth Social, 21 Sep. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117310501298755407. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Joe Mitchell has my Complete and Total Endorsement to be...," Truth Social, September 21, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117310501298755407.

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