# Post ts_117333027652824076

- Post ID: `ts_117333027652824076`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-09-25T18:11:59.018Z (UTC)
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## Post text

> Congratulations to America First Patriot, Jerry Kassar, who I very strongly supported, on his unanimous Re-Election as Chairman of the Conservative Party of New York State. Jerry is MAGA all the way, and has dedicated his life to the Conservative Party, and the ONCE GREAT STATE OF NEW YORK (IT CAN BE GREAT AGAIN!). I know Jerry will continue to do a fantastic job, and secure many Victories for New York Conservatives and Republicans in the 2026 Midterm Elections, and beyond. THANK YOU NEW YORK — MAGA2026! President DONALD J. TRUMP

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-09-25T18:42:35.150Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## A congratulation with the sender's name in it

The post is a party-politics courtesy note, and the tell is the clause inserted before the news arrives: "Jerry Kassar, who I very strongly supported, on his unanimous Re-Election." The subordinate clause reassigns an internal party vote to the poster's account before the reader learns what the vote was. The same move recurs in the forecast — "I know Jerry will continue to do a fantastic job" — where the endorsement's warrant is the speaker's knowledge rather than anything about Kassar's record beyond "has dedicated his life to the Conservative Party." Loyalty, not performance, is what gets evaluated: "Jerry is MAGA all the way."

## New York as a fallen place

The parenthetical is the one part of this post that isn't formula: "the ONCE GREAT STATE OF NEW YORK (IT CAN BE GREAT AGAIN!)." The construction puts his birthplace in the past tense and then offers conditional restoration — a contamination sequence (it was great, something ruined it) with a redemption clause bolted on. No agent of the ruin is named, which is unusual; the grievance is stated as a state of affairs rather than aimed at Hochul, Manhattan prosecutors, or the courts that handled the civil fraud judgment. Three days earlier he was physically in New York for the UN General Assembly. The absence of a named spoiler is what makes this readable as habit rather than fresh injury: the devaluation of New York has become a stock epithet he can deploy without reloading the underlying complaint.

Structurally this is idealization and devaluation in one sentence — Kassar elevated to "America First Patriot," the state around him written down — with the speaker positioned as the axis both turn on.

## Kingmaker framing and the sign-off

The closing sequence, "THANK YOU NEW YORK — MAGA2026! President DONALD J. TRUMP," thanks a state on behalf of a party election it did not hold, coins a dated slogan, and signs with the office title. The role claimed across the whole post is patron: the one whose support produced a unanimous vote and whose brand ("MAGA all the way") certifies who counts. Agency motives dominate — status conferred and status received — with the communal register ("dedicated his life") reserved for describing the other man.

Rhetorically it runs on capitalized emphasis ("ONCE GREAT," "THANK YOU NEW YORK"), superlative forecasting ("fantastic job," "many Victories"), and nostalgia. No opponent is derogated and no action is urged; that absence is what keeps this off the danger register entirely, and it separates the post from the grievance posts it sits beside in the same feed.

## Who typed it

Timing is 2:11 PM Eastern, mid-afternoon on a day that also carried two posts about Xi Jinping's departure and one denial about Scott Bessent — business hours, staff-adjacent. The prose is clean: no homophone slips, no dropped prepositions, no mid-post drift. But the content markers cut the other way. "who I very strongly supported," the parenthetical shout, the coined hashtag-less slogan, and the "President DONALD J. TRUMP" sign-off are the endorsement template he dictates rather than one an aide composes cold; the name and office of a state party chairman are the kind of precision an aide supplies around dictated content. Most likely a dictated core cleaned up before posting.

## Language

Syntax holds through a long multi-clause sentence ("Jerry is MAGA all the way, and has dedicated his life to... and the ONCE GREAT STATE OF NEW YORK") without losing the subject or the referent. Vocabulary sits at his usual register. Nothing here departs from the archive's baseline for a congratulatory post.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Jerry Kassar is Chairman of the Conservative Party of New York State." | **True** | Kassar, a Brooklyn-based party figure, has led the New York State Conservative Party since 2019, when he succeeded long-serving chairman Michael Long. His chairmanship is well documented in coverage of New York ballot-line politics. |
| "Kassar was unanimously re-elected chairman, with Trump's strong support." | **Mostly True** | The re-election and its unanimity are confirmed by multiple independent sources; the claim of Trump's support has no public record.

On the vote: the Conservative Party of New York State published a press release dated 9/19/26 headlined "Kassar unanimously reelected as chairman of the New York State Conservative Party," reporting that the State Committee met in White Plains and elected Gerard "Jerry" Kassar to a fifth two-year term. The same release names the rest of the slate elected that day: Ralph C. Lorigo as executive vice chairman, Howard Lim as secretary, Matthew J. Beadnell as treasurer, eight state vice chairmen, seven regional vice chairmen and 37 executive committee members. The South Shore Press covered the meeting independently on September 20, 2026, confirming the unanimous result, the fifth term, and that Kassar ran unopposed. Kassar's own weekly wrap-up of 9/21/26 repeats that he was "unanimously reelected." The pattern is long-standing: the party issued a near-identical release on 9/21/24 ("Kassar unanimously reelected chairman of the New York State Conservative Party"), and Independent Political Report covered that 2024 vote as well. Kassar has led the party since February 2019, when he succeeded Michael R. Long, with full terms in 2020, 2022, 2024 and now 2026.

On Trump's support: no public evidence of it exists. The party's own 9/19/26 release, Kassar's 9/21/26 wrap-up and the party homepage's September 2026 items make no mention of Trump, a Trump letter, or a Trump endorsement in connection with the chairmanship. A search of the complete Truth Social post archive (97,957 posts) returns exactly one post mentioning Kassar by name: this one, timestamped September 25, 2026, six days after the vote. The independent trumpstruth.org archive returns the same single result. No news outlet reported Trump intervening in or commenting on the chairmanship before the vote.

Two points of context weigh against the framing. First, the election was an uncontested internal State Committee proceeding with no rival candidate, so there was no contest in which support could have been decisive. Second, Trump and Kassar's party were publicly at odds during 2026 in the NY-21 Republican primary: Trump endorsed businessman Anthony Constantino while the state Conservative Party backed Assemblyman Robert Smullen, after earlier naming state Sen. Dan Stec its preferred candidate; Spectrum News framed the race as a test of whether a Trump endorsement could beat the state party.

Private encouragement cannot be ruled out, which is why this is not rated false. But the documented relationship between Trump and the party runs the other direction: Trump sent a letter thanking the party for delivering 321,788 votes, read by Kassar at a Conservative Party Political Action Conference, which is party-to-president gratitude, not presidential backing for a chairmanship bid. |

Overall Veracity: 90%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 65%)

### Indicators

- Self-crediting aside inserted before the news itself: 'who I very strongly supported'
- Capitalized parenthetical outburst '(IT CAN BE GREAT AGAIN!)' — idiosyncratic, not a staff construction
- Coined dated slogan 'MAGA2026!' and the 'President DONALD J. TRUMP' sign-off characteristic of dictated endorsements
- Loyalty certification as the operative praise: 'Jerry is MAGA all the way'
- Against authenticity: 2:11 PM Eastern posting time, clean grammar and spelling, no drift or self-interruption

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 78%
- Agreeableness: 32%
- Conscientiousness: 50%
- Neuroticism: 30%
- Openness: 22%

Strongest facet: assertiveness, with a conspicuous deficit in modesty

**Motives:**
- Agency: 75%
- Communion: 42%

Primary drive: status

### Narrative

- **Role:** patron and restorer — the one whose support delivers unanimous votes and whose movement can make a fallen state great again
- **Arc:** redemption
- **Contrasting:** New York in its present state — 'ONCE GREAT', unnamed in its causes of decline, positioned against the version his movement would restore

**Identity Claims:**
- The arbiter of who counts as 'America First' and 'MAGA all the way'
- The decisive backer of a party election he did not vote in: 'who I very strongly supported'
- The figure New York owes thanks to: 'THANK YOU NEW YORK'

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance

Sentiment: +0.55

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Fifth post of the day across four unrelated subjects (Xi's departure, a Bessent denial, a memorial, state party politics)
- Capitalized exclamatory intrusion mid-sentence: '(IT CAN BE GREAT AGAIN!)'
- Forward-projecting confidence about outcomes not yet contested: 'secure many Victories... in the 2026 Midterm Elections, and beyond'

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 45%
- Antisocial: 5%
- Paranoid: 10%
- Sadism: 0%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 55%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Collective address to a state as though it were an audience he is owed by: 'THANK YOU NEW YORK'
- Movement-membership vocabulary that invites the reader to be inside it: 'America First Patriot', 'MAGA all the way'
- Forward-dated slogan giving followers a shared marker: 'MAGA2026!'

## Fact Checks (2)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-09-25._

> Jerry Kassar is Chairman of the Conservative Party of New York State.

**TRUE**

Kassar, a Brooklyn-based party figure, has led the New York State Conservative Party since 2019, when he succeeded long-serving chairman Michael Long. His chairmanship is well documented in coverage of New York ballot-line politics.

> Kassar was unanimously re-elected chairman, with Trump's strong support.

**MOSTLY TRUE**

The re-election and its unanimity are confirmed by multiple independent sources; the claim of Trump's support has no public record.

On the vote: the Conservative Party of New York State published a press release dated 9/19/26 headlined "Kassar unanimously reelected as chairman of the New York State Conservative Party," reporting that the State Committee met in White Plains and elected Gerard "Jerry" Kassar to a fifth two-year term. The same release names the rest of the slate elected that day: Ralph C. Lorigo as executive vice chairman, Howard Lim as secretary, Matthew J. Beadnell as treasurer, eight state vice chairmen, seven regional vice chairmen and 37 executive committee members. The South Shore Press covered the meeting independently on September 20, 2026, confirming the unanimous result, the fifth term, and that Kassar ran unopposed. Kassar's own weekly wrap-up of 9/21/26 repeats that he was "unanimously reelected." The pattern is long-standing: the party issued a near-identical release on 9/21/24 ("Kassar unanimously reelected chairman of the New York State Conservative Party"), and Independent Political Report covered that 2024 vote as well. Kassar has led the party since February 2019, when he succeeded Michael R. Long, with full terms in 2020, 2022, 2024 and now 2026.

On Trump's support: no public evidence of it exists. The party's own 9/19/26 release, Kassar's 9/21/26 wrap-up and the party homepage's September 2026 items make no mention of Trump, a Trump letter, or a Trump endorsement in connection with the chairmanship. A search of the complete Truth Social post archive (97,957 posts) returns exactly one post mentioning Kassar by name: this one, timestamped September 25, 2026, six days after the vote. The independent trumpstruth.org archive returns the same single result. No news outlet reported Trump intervening in or commenting on the chairmanship before the vote.

Two points of context weigh against the framing. First, the election was an uncontested internal State Committee proceeding with no rival candidate, so there was no contest in which support could have been decisive. Second, Trump and Kassar's party were publicly at odds during 2026 in the NY-21 Republican primary: Trump endorsed businessman Anthony Constantino while the state Conservative Party backed Assemblyman Robert Smullen, after earlier naming state Sen. Dan Stec its preferred candidate; Spectrum News framed the race as a test of whether a Trump endorsement could beat the state party.

Private encouragement cannot be ruled out, which is why this is not rated false. But the documented relationship between Trump and the party runs the other direction: Trump sent a letter thanking the party for delivering 321,788 votes, read by Kassar at a Conservative Party Political Action Conference, which is party-to-president gratitude, not presidential backing for a chairmanship bid.

Sources: https://www.cpnys.org/kassar-unanimously-reelected-as-chairman-of-the-new-york-state-conservative-party-9-19-26/; https://www.southshorepress.com/state/kassar-wins-fifth-term-as-state-conservative-chair-095bb847; https://www.cpnys.org/chairman-kassars-weekly-wrap-up-9-21-26-re-election-save-the-date-new-conservative-party-ad/; https://www.cpnys.org/news/; https://www.cpnys.org/; https://www.cpnys.org/2024/09/21/kassar-unanimously-reelected-chairman-of-the-new-york-state-conservative-party/; https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2024/09/new-york-state-conservative-party-reelects-gerard-kassar-as-chair-names-new-executive-committee/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Kassar; https://www.trumpstruth.org/?q=Kassar; https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/politics/2026/06/19/can-trump-beat-state-party; https://www.timesunion.com/capitol/article/conservative-party-backs-stec-ny-21-20238105.php; https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2026/02/blakeman-courts-right-wing-voters-state-conservative-party-convention/411132/; https://politicsny.com/2019/02/25/jerry-kassar-elected-as-new-state-conservative-party-chair/

Overall Veracity: 90%

## Tags

- endorsement (95%)
- patronage_claim (80%)
- new_york_grievance (70%)
- nostalgic_restoration (70%)
- loyalty_certification (65%)
- grandiose_state (50%)
- midterm_framing (50%)
- mixed_authorship (60%)

## That day

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

**He spent the Xi summit's afterglow denying a czarship over a word he coined the day before.**

He posted seven times, all of them between dawn and dinnertime in Washington, and nothing after. Most of the day was afterglow from Xi Jinping's state visit: a readout of the meeting, a note when Xi's plane left for China, and a forward schedule of November in China and the G20 in Miami in December. The strangest thread was about a word — having decided the day before that artificial intelligence should be renamed "super intelligence," he spent the early afternoon denying a report that his Treasury Secretary would be made "Super Intelligence (SI) Czar," an office that exists only inside his own new name for the field. He closed by posting, with no words of his own, a video of a Pakistani official crediting him with averting a nuclear war. There was no anger in any of it, and nothing at all about the government funding deadline five days away.

Full digest for 2026-09-25: https://trump.fm/date/2026-09-25/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, September 25). Congratulations to America First Patriot, Jerry... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117333027652824076
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Congratulations to America First Patriot, Jerry Kassar, who..." Truth Social, 25 Sep. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117333027652824076. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Congratulations to America First Patriot, Jerry Kassar, who...," Truth Social, September 25, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117333027652824076.

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