# Post ts_117486874140858781

- Post ID: `ts_117486874140858781`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-10-22T22:17:10.127Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117486874140858781
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117486874140858781/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_117486874140858781.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> 🚨 LOUISIANA!
>
> Early Voting, in-person, is UNDERWAY NOW in the Great State of Louisiana. If you have a mail-in ballot, return it immediately and, if not, GO VOTE at the Polls RIGHT NOW, and get everyone you know to VOTE FOR THE REPUBLICAN IN EVERY RACE, UP AND DOWN THE BALLOT!
>
> Whether you VOTE early, absentee, by mail, or in-person, Republicans must SWAMP the Radical Left Dumocrats with massive turnout! In Louisiana, you can cast your early Vote, in-person, all the way through October 27th. SO IMPORTANT — PLEASE GET OUT AND VOTE. MAGA!
> President DONALD J. TRUMP
>
> Find your Voting Location here: https://swampthevoteusa.com/louisiana/

## Engagement

- Likes: 603
- Reposts: 185
- Replies: 29
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-10-23T01:01:02.480Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-22T23:14:33.440Z (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 with the state name swapped in

This is the sixth entry in an alphabetical run posted the same afternoon: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, then Louisiana. The Illinois, Indiana and Iowa posts share this one's text word for word. Only the state name and the closing date change: "all the way through November 2nd" there, "through October 27th" here. The Kansas and Kentucky posts use a second template, the endorsement slate ("MAKE A PLAN TO VOTE FOR... Complete and Total Endorsement"). Each post ends with a link to the matching state page on swampthevoteusa.com. The posts work through the states in order the way someone works down a spreadsheet, and that order says more about who wrote them than anything inside a single post.

**Authorship.** The post went up at 22:17 UTC, which is 6:17 p.m. Eastern and 5:17 p.m. Central. The historian notes a planned Iowa trip that day, so either clock falls at the end of the working day. Three things point to staff. The text is a reusable template ("Early Voting, in-person, is UNDERWAY NOW in the Great State of Louisiana"). It gives a state-specific deadline that someone had to look up. And it signs off in the third person, "President DONALD J. TRUMP." The capitals ("GO VOTE," "RIGHT NOW," "UP AND DOWN THE BALLOT") and "Dumocrats" copy Trump's style without his disorder. Nothing drifts off topic, no clause interrupts itself, no error looks accidental. The wording sounds like him, but the person writing it was working from a list of states.

**Psychology.** Because staff wrote the post, it says little about Trump's state of mind. What it does show is the campaign's settled picture of the electorate. Voters are split into Republicans, who must turn out, and "the Radical Left Dumocrats," who must be overwhelmed. "VOTE FOR THE REPUBLICAN IN EVERY RACE, UP AND DOWN THE BALLOT" asks for loyalty to the party label, not to particular candidates. That fits Trump's framing of the midterms as a referendum on himself (historian entry, Kentucky rally, Oct 17). The splitting is real but routine. The opposing party gets a mocking nickname, and nothing in the post suggests it is illegitimate or dangerous.

One tension is worth recording. The template urges supporters to vote "early, absentee, by mail, or in-person" and to return a mail-in ballot "immediately." Trump has attacked mail voting for years, and the week before this post he warned that election workers who count noncitizen ballots "will all go to jail" (Oct 16). Campaign communications regularly drop his stated position on mail ballots whenever turnout is at stake. This post does the same without comment, which suggests the hostility is aimed at how opponents vote rather than at the method itself.

**Rhetoric.** "SWAMP" is a pun on the website name, and it borrows the "drain the swamp" brand while turning the word into a verb for overwhelming turnout. "Dumocrats" is a recurring insult that blends "dumb" and "Democrats." It is a deliberate coinage, not evidence of a language problem. The urgency is constant ("UNDERWAY NOW," "RIGHT NOW," "SO IMPORTANT"), but the date given in the same post undercuts it: Louisiana's in-person window still had five days to run. The 🚨 siren emoji opens every post in the series as a header.

**Violence.** The violence check finds nothing. "SWAMP the Radical Left Dumocrats" refers to ballots, and the only action requested is voting and getting others to vote. Ordinary partisan mockery is the post's ceiling. It never suggests opponents are a threat to be removed.

**Fact check.** The one factual claim checks out. Louisiana law runs early in-person voting from the 14th to the 7th day before an election. For the November 3, 2026 general election, that is October 20 through October 27, so voting was "underway" on Thursday, October 22, and the closing date is correct.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Early in-person voting is underway in Louisiana and runs through October 27th" | **True** | Louisiana law sets early in-person voting from the 14th to the 7th day before an election. For the November 3, 2026 general election, that is October 20 through October 27, so voting was underway on Thursday, October 22 and the stated end date is correct. |

Overall Veracity: 100%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 8%)

### Indicators

- Identical template to the Illinois, Indiana and Iowa posts the same day, with only the state name and deadline changed
- Alphabetical state sequence (IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA) consistent with a staff spreadsheet workflow
- Third-person sign-off 'President DONALD J. TRUMP'
- State-specific statutory deadline ('through October 27th') requiring lookup
- Posted 22:17 UTC (6:17 p.m. ET / 5:17 p.m. CT), the end of the working day

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 75%
- Agreeableness: 30%
- Conscientiousness: 60%
- Neuroticism: 30%
- Openness: 20%

Strongest facet: assertiveness

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

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** party leader mobilizing troops
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** the Radical Left Dumocrats

**Identity Claims:**
- Leader of the Republican ticket 'up and down the ballot'
- MAGA movement figurehead

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Midterm early-voting push across states, posted in alphabetical batches)

Sentiment: +0.30

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 15%
- Antisocial: 2%
- Paranoid: 5%
- Sadism: 5%

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct second-person address ('If you have a mail-in ballot, return it immediately')
- Personal plea ('PLEASE GET OUT AND VOTE')
- Signature in his name to personalize a mass mailing
- Tribal sign-off 'MAGA!'

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-10-22._

> Early in-person voting is underway in Louisiana and runs through October 27th

**TRUE**

Louisiana law sets early in-person voting from the 14th to the 7th day before an election. For the November 3, 2026 general election, that is October 20 through October 27, so voting was underway on Thursday, October 22 and the stated end date is correct.

Sources: La. R.S. 18:1309 (early voting period); Louisiana Secretary of State election calendar

Overall Veracity: 100%

## Tags

- get-out-the-vote (90%)
- midterms-2026 (80%)
- staff-template (90%)
- dumocrats (50%)
- mail-in-voting-endorsed (40%)
- louisiana (60%)

## That day

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

**Trump cheers the Ohio ad in which Amy Acton's estranged mother calls her a liar, wishing 'the mothers of my opponents would be so brave'**

Nearly two-thirds of the day's posts were campaign machinery. The same early-voting notice and endorsement list went out for state after state, usually reposted from his own account a minute or two later, in a morning burst and a much bigger one in the early evening as he headed to a rally in Iowa. The morning also filled with videos and screenshots of other people praising him, including a supporter calling him a 'genius' playing '4D chess' and a Ted Nugent speech about eliminating the Democratic Party. The few posts that sounded like him ran on grievance: a second Dan Sullivan on Alaska's ballot was a Democratic 'SCAM,' Iran was faking attacks to push oil prices up before the election, and LeBron James owed fallen soldiers an apology over the anthem. The sharpest came in the early afternoon, when he praised an Ohio ad in which Democrat Amy Acton's estranged mother calls her a liar, wished his own opponents' mothers were as 'brave,' and called Ohio's Republican governor 'disloyal' for objecting.

Full digest for 2026-10-22: https://trump.fm/date/2026-10-22/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, October 22). 🚨 LOUISIANA! Early Voting, in-person, is... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117486874140858781
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "🚨 LOUISIANA! Early Voting, in-person, is UNDERWAY NOW in..." Truth Social, 22 Oct. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117486874140858781. Accessed 23 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "🚨 LOUISIANA! Early Voting, in-person, is UNDERWAY NOW in...," Truth Social, October 22, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117486874140858781.

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