# Post ts_117399931237063983 - Post ID: `ts_117399931237063983` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2026-10-07T13:46:26.698Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117399931237063983 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117399931237063983/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_117399931237063983.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > We Can’t Trust Annie Andrews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNsGcNiCJ3U ## Engagement - Likes: 8,921 - Reposts: 2,690 - Replies: 834 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-10-09T06:01:28.999Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-07T20:56:03.234Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## A campaign link card aimed at the South Carolina Senate race The whole post is a headline and a URL: "We Can't Trust Annie Andrews:" followed by a YouTube link. The fetched page gave back only the video title, which the post copies word for word. No channel, upload date or description came back, so this analysis cannot say what the video accuses Andrews of. It can say what the post asserts on its face. Andrews is a Charleston pediatrician who lost the 2022 race for South Carolina's 1st District and is the Democratic challenger to Lindsey Graham in 2026. Trump endorsed Graham. Coming three weeks into October, with the weak September jobs report as background, the post reads as routine midterm support for an endorsed incumbent, delivered through someone else's content. ### Who probably posted it At 13:46 UTC it was 9:46 a.m. Eastern on a Wednesday, inside the staff working day. The format is "Headline: URL", the same pattern as the Jack Smith/Susie Wiles link posted earlier that morning, and it is how this account usually amplifies third-party material. Nothing in it is Trump's own wording: he adds no comment, no capitals, no aside, and no "President DJT" sign-off like the one on the previous day's France post, which did carry his voice ("a once great Country!"). The text holds no errors or drift that would point to his own hand. A staff share is the more likely reading. Confidence is medium, because Trump does sometimes paste links himself and the bare format would look the same. ### What the headline does The attack goes after character, not policy. "Can't trust" makes Andrews' honesty the issue, and that is an ad hominem frame whatever the video goes on to argue. The first-person plural "We" folds the reader into a group that has already reached its verdict, a small bandwagon move that asks the audience to share a conclusion before they have seen any evidence. Devaluation of an opponent is the only defense-like operation here, and it happens at one remove, through an ad or a video made by others. The account itself shows no injury, rage or self-reference. Set beside the morning's other link, the contrast is useful. The Jack Smith share sits in the persecution story Trump has told about himself for years, with his own staff as the victims of surveillance. This one points outward at a down-ballot race where Trump is not the protagonist. If both are staff-curated, they show a feed mixing personal grievance with electoral maintenance in the same hour. Whether that mix comes from Trump or from the people running the account would need timestamp-level comparison across more days. ### Limits of the evidence The post contains one sentence, and it is borrowed, so it says almost nothing about Trump's cognition, personality, or emotional state that morning. The Big Five and motive scores below are drawn mainly from what the account chose to amplify. They are low-confidence inferences, not readings of composed text. The headline names a political opponent and calls for nothing beyond distrust, which is ordinary campaign speech. ## Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Annie Andrews cannot be trusted (headline of the shared video)" | **Mostly False** | The video is identifiable. "We Can't Trust Annie Andrews" is an attack ad from Security Is Strength, a PAC that backed Lindsey Graham and now backs his sister, Sen. Darline Graham. The Daily Beast (Oct. 7, 2026) names the PAC and the title, and says Trump shared the ad on Wednesday, Oct. 7. The SC Daily Gazette reports the same sponsor and says he reposted it to double down after his Oct. 5 Truth Social post, which called Andrews "trannie" three times (reported by NBC News, CNN, The Hill and the Post and Courier). The first-pass context also needs a correction. Lindsey Graham died on July 11, 2026. Gov. McMaster appointed Darline Graham to the seat on Trump's recommendation, and she won the Aug. 25 runoff against Ralph Norman. Andrews is running against Darline Graham, not Lindsey Graham (Wikipedia race page, NBC News). What the ad alleges: the Daily Beast, the SC Daily Gazette and LGBTQ Nation all describe a fictional grocery-store scene in which a man in a pink wig and skirt approaches a small child. The narrator says Andrews supports "puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries for minors" and lets males compete against women in sports. The ad closes with a "they/them" line reused from Trump's 2024 attack on Kamala Harris. How each allegation holds up: - Surgery for minors: contradicted. Since her 2022 House race against Nancy Mace, Andrews has said "I do not support gender-affirming surgery for anyone under 18—nor does my hospital perform those procedures" (Wikipedia, Post and Courier 2022 fact check). On Oct. 6, 2026 she again said she opposes transition surgeries for children (SC Daily Gazette, NBC News). The Gazette adds that such surgeries weren't being done in South Carolina before the 2024 ban. - Trans athletes: her current position contradicts the ad. On Oct. 6, 2026 she said she opposes letting transgender girls and women compete in female sports (SC Daily Gazette, NBC News, Yahoo/The State). The charge isn't invented, though. In 2022 she called the Save Women's Sports Act "shameful legislation," and the Graham campaign points to her older posts. - Puberty blockers and hormones: partly grounded. In 2022 she backed "evidence-based medical care, with parental consent, for teens struggling with gender identity issues." National Review reports that in a February 2025 podcast she described a path running from social affirmation to puberty-pausing medication and later cross-sex hormones. She also called MUSC's 2024 cutoff of youth care "an inappropriate infiltration of politics." Now, though, her campaign says South Carolina's ban on blockers and hormones for minors is "not something she's working to change." - The grocery-store scene: it is staged, and no record supports its suggestion that Andrews or her positions endanger children. Whether someone can be trusted is a value judgment that facts can't settle. Judged on its stated basis, the headline mostly fails. The ad presents as her current positions things she has disavowed (sports) or never publicly held (surgery for minors). Only the blockers and hormones charge has real support in her past advocacy. Her shift on sports and hormones since 2022 gives a "trust" argument some footing, which is why this is rated mostly false rather than false. No dedicated fact check of this ad from PolitiFact, FactCheck.org or AP had appeared by Oct. 7, 2026. This assessment relies on the news reporting listed. | Overall Veracity: 20% ## Authorship Analysis **Aide-Written** (score: 15%) ### Indicators - Posted 9:46 a.m. Eastern on a weekday, during staff hours - Bare 'Headline: URL' format that copies the video title verbatim - Same format as the Jack Smith link share posted earlier the same morning - No commentary, capitalization, sign-off, or idiosyncratic error in Trump's own voice - Outward-facing campaign content for an endorsed candidate, typical of staff-run amplification ## Psychological Profile ### Traits **Big Five:** - Extraversion: 50% - Agreeableness: 25% - Conscientiousness: 50% - Neuroticism: 30% - Openness: 30% Strongest facet: Low agreeableness (distrust of an opponent, expressed through amplification) **Motives:** - Agency: 60% - Communion: 30% Primary drive: power ### Narrative - **Role:** Absent; Trump acts as party leader amplifying a race he is not in - **Arc:** neutral - **Contrasting:** Annie Andrews, Democratic Senate challenger in South Carolina ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Maintenance (Midterm campaign support for endorsed Senate incumbent Lindsey Graham against Democratic challenger Annie Andrews) Sentiment: -0.40 ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 10% - Antisocial: 5% - Paranoid: 5% - Sadism: 0% **Defense Mechanisms:** - devaluation (immature) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 10% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Inclusive 'We' that places the reader in an in-group sharing the verdict ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-10-07._ > Annie Andrews cannot be trusted (headline of the shared video) **MOSTLY FALSE** The video is identifiable. "We Can't Trust Annie Andrews" is an attack ad from Security Is Strength, a PAC that backed Lindsey Graham and now backs his sister, Sen. Darline Graham. The Daily Beast (Oct. 7, 2026) names the PAC and the title, and says Trump shared the ad on Wednesday, Oct. 7. The SC Daily Gazette reports the same sponsor and says he reposted it to double down after his Oct. 5 Truth Social post, which called Andrews "trannie" three times (reported by NBC News, CNN, The Hill and the Post and Courier). The first-pass context also needs a correction. Lindsey Graham died on July 11, 2026. Gov. McMaster appointed Darline Graham to the seat on Trump's recommendation, and she won the Aug. 25 runoff against Ralph Norman. Andrews is running against Darline Graham, not Lindsey Graham (Wikipedia race page, NBC News). What the ad alleges: the Daily Beast, the SC Daily Gazette and LGBTQ Nation all describe a fictional grocery-store scene in which a man in a pink wig and skirt approaches a small child. The narrator says Andrews supports "puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries for minors" and lets males compete against women in sports. The ad closes with a "they/them" line reused from Trump's 2024 attack on Kamala Harris. How each allegation holds up: - Surgery for minors: contradicted. Since her 2022 House race against Nancy Mace, Andrews has said "I do not support gender-affirming surgery for anyone under 18—nor does my hospital perform those procedures" (Wikipedia, Post and Courier 2022 fact check). On Oct. 6, 2026 she again said she opposes transition surgeries for children (SC Daily Gazette, NBC News). The Gazette adds that such surgeries weren't being done in South Carolina before the 2024 ban. - Trans athletes: her current position contradicts the ad. On Oct. 6, 2026 she said she opposes letting transgender girls and women compete in female sports (SC Daily Gazette, NBC News, Yahoo/The State). The charge isn't invented, though. In 2022 she called the Save Women's Sports Act "shameful legislation," and the Graham campaign points to her older posts. - Puberty blockers and hormones: partly grounded. In 2022 she backed "evidence-based medical care, with parental consent, for teens struggling with gender identity issues." National Review reports that in a February 2025 podcast she described a path running from social affirmation to puberty-pausing medication and later cross-sex hormones. She also called MUSC's 2024 cutoff of youth care "an inappropriate infiltration of politics." Now, though, her campaign says South Carolina's ban on blockers and hormones for minors is "not something she's working to change." - The grocery-store scene: it is staged, and no record supports its suggestion that Andrews or her positions endanger children. Whether someone can be trusted is a value judgment that facts can't settle. Judged on its stated basis, the headline mostly fails. The ad presents as her current positions things she has disavowed (sports) or never publicly held (surgery for minors). Only the blockers and hormones charge has real support in her past advocacy. Her shift on sports and hormones since 2022 gives a "trust" argument some footing, which is why this is rated mostly false rather than false. No dedicated fact check of this ad from PolitiFact, FactCheck.org or AP had appeared by Oct. 7, 2026. This assessment relies on the news reporting listed. Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNsGcNiCJ3U; https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-makes-desperate-bid-to-drag-darline-graham-to-victory-over-annie-andrews; https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/not-presidential-sc-senate-candidate-150016676.html; https://scdailygazette.com/2026/10/07/not-presidential-sc-senate-candidate-says-about-trump-post-criticized-as-cruel-and-offensive/; https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/10/shares-absurd-anti-trans-ad-attacking-dem-candidate-but-she-refuses-to-lose-focus/; https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/trump-anti-trans-slur-annie-andrews-south-carolina-democrat-senate-rcna601767; https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/republican-senate-pac-ads-graham-andrews-rcna601848; https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/05/politics/trump-transgender-slur-andrews-graham; https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6130651-trump-slur-graham-senate-race/; https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/trump-annie-andrews-darline-graham-poll/article_62bd35d9-7eb1-4b94-878c-4f94bfd2edf0.html; https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/andrews-responds-trump-calling-names-200824595.html; https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/fact-checking-nancy-mace-and-annie-andrews-in-sc-s-1st-congressional-district-race/article_c9a38aa4-4f20-11ed-9d75-bf29ce1c2b85.html; https://www.nationalreview.com/news/south-carolina-senate-candidate-went-all-in-on-child-gender-transition-despite-being-a-pediatrician/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Andrews_(physician); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_Senate_election_in_South_Carolina; https://www.counton2.com/news/local-news/sparks-fly-as-rep-mace-dr-andrews-discuss-healthcare-for-transgender-individuals/ Overall Veracity: 20% ## Tags - midterms-2026 (90%) - south-carolina-senate (80%) - link-share (90%) - ad-hominem (50%) - staff-authored-likely (70%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Headed to Texas, Trump says Henry Cuellar, the Democrat he pardoned, belongs in a 'top level penitentiary'** Most of the day was routine. Early in the morning a quick batch of short videos and images went up, set to music and applause. After that came links attacking a South Carolina Democrat and praising envoy Steve Witkoff, an endorsement for Wisconsin governor paired with news of federal storm aid, and a statement marking three years since the October 7 Hamas attack. Around noon he distanced himself from political operatives Chris LaCivita and James Blair, saying they are only outside consultants who are free to work for others. The sharp turn came as he headed to Texas: he said Rep. Henry Cuellar, the Democrat he pardoned last December, should be in prison for not joining his side, called the campaign against him "payback," and said it would show that disloyalty brings "loss, heartache, and grief." Full digest for 2026-10-07: https://trump.fm/date/2026-10-07/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, October 7). We Can’t Trust Annie Andrews: https://www.youtube.... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117399931237063983 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "We Can’t Trust Annie Andrews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?..." Truth Social, 7 Oct. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117399931237063983. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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