# Post ts_117486889343064879

- Post ID: `ts_117486889343064879`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-10-22T22:21:02.095Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117486889343064879
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117486889343064879/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_117486889343064879.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> 🚨 MISSOURI!
>
> Early Voting, in-person, is UNDERWAY NOW in the Great State of Missouri. 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 Missouri, you can cast your early Vote, in-person, all the way through November 2nd. SO IMPORTANT — PLEASE GET OUT AND VOTE. MAGA! President DONALD J. TRUMP
>
> Find your Voting Location here: https://swampthevoteusa.com/missouri/

## Engagement

- Likes: 742
- Reposts: 229
- Replies: 56
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-10-23T01:00:58.941Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-22T23:56:44.153Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## A template stamped with Missouri's name

This post is one plate in a run of same-day state get-out-the-vote notices. The Maryland and Mississippi posts from the same afternoon carry identical wording: "Early Voting, in-person, is UNDERWAY NOW in the Great State of [X]," the same "return it immediately" instruction, the same "SWAMP the Radical Left Dumocrats" line, and the same sign-off. Only the state name, the closing date ("all the way through November 2nd") and the URL slug (`swampthevoteusa.com/missouri/`) change. The endorsement-slate posts for Louisiana, Maryland and Michigan follow a second fixed template, "These Great Patriots have my Complete and Total Endorsement — They will never let you down!"

### Who wrote it

The post went up at 22:21 UTC. Trump had announced an Iowa trip for October 22, which would put him on Central Daylight Time, so this is about 5:21 p.m. local (6:21 p.m. if he was still in Washington). Either way it falls in the working day. The text is built from interchangeable slots: a state-specific date pasted into fixed prose, a campaign-branded URL, a 🚨 emoji header, and a third-person-style signature, "President DONALD J. TRUMP." It contains no errors, nothing reacting to news, no drift into grievance and no aside about himself. The capitalization ("GO VOTE," "RIGHT NOW," "SO IMPORTANT") copies his voice on purpose. It sits in the same slot of every state version, so it does not read as an impulse. "Dumocrats" is his coinage, but here it is a fixed piece of the template, so it shows only that staff copy his style, not that he typed the post. The likeliest author is campaign or digital staff working from an approved template, with Trump's agreement assumed.

### What it does psychologically

The post is maintenance. It has no injury to respond to and no rival to answer. It ignores the October 18 Washington Post-ABC-Ipsos poll that put his approval at 33%, so any link between the poll and this volume of turnout posts is a guess, not something the text shows. The one hostile element is the slur "Radical Left Dumocrats," a stock piece of **devaluation** that brands the opposing party as stupid. It shows **splitting** at the lowest level: "VOTE FOR THE REPUBLICAN IN EVERY RACE, UP AND DOWN THE BALLOT" asks for party loyalty with no condition attached and offers no case for any candidate. The verb "SWAMP" does double duty. It is a turnout image, and it is also a pun on his "drain the swamp" brand, used here as the campaign site's name.

The agency here is collective, not personal. The goal is control of Congress through mass turnout, and the protagonist is "Republicans," not the subject. The one personal element is the signature. This fits his habit of framing the midterms as a vote on him (see the Kentucky rally on October 17), but this text never says so.

### Rhetoric

The devices are standard campaign urgency: urgency markers ("NOW," "RIGHT NOW," "immediately"), the alarm emoji, capitals for stress, the flattering stock phrase "Great State," the epithet "Dumocrats," and the plea "SO IMPORTANT — PLEASE GET OUT AND VOTE." It encourages every voting method ("early, absentee, by mail, or in-person"), and that matters because it contradicts his long-running attacks on mail-in voting as fraudulent. The campaign accepts the method in practice while condemning it in his own posts. The text shows no awareness of that contradiction. The only call to action is voting, which is a lawful, routine request. The post names no person as a target, and "swamp" refers to turnout, not to force.

### The checkable claim

Missouri's no-excuse in-person absentee voting, which the post calls "early voting," opened on the second Tuesday before the November 3 election (October 20) and runs through the day before the election. "UNDERWAY NOW" and "through November 2nd" are therefore correct for October 22. The phrase "If you have a mail-in ballot" glosses over the fact that Missouri's mail voting is excuse-based absentee voting. That inaccuracy is minor and does not change the instruction.

### Cognitive markers

Template copy cannot measure his language production. The mismatch between this standardized text and the subject's actual age and speech belongs in analysis of his spontaneous posts and transcripts, not here.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Early in-person voting is underway in Missouri and runs through November 2nd" | **Mostly True** | Missouri's no-excuse in-person absentee voting, enacted in 2022, opens on the second Tuesday before the election and ends the day before. For the November 3, 2026 election that is October 20 through November 2, so it was underway on October 22. The post's mention of 'mail-in ballot' glosses over the fact that Missouri's mail voting is excuse-based absentee voting, which is a minor imprecision. |

Overall Veracity: 80%

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Word-for-word template shared with same-day Maryland and Mississippi posts; only state name, deadline and URL slug change
- Posted about 5:21 p.m. CDT (Iowa trip day), within business hours
- Campaign-branded URL slug matching the state (swampthevoteusa.com/missouri/)
- Formal signature 'President DONALD J. TRUMP' and 🚨 emoji header standard to staff-run campaign posts
- Correct state-specific procedural detail (deadline November 2nd)

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 70%
- Agreeableness: 25%
- Conscientiousness: 50%
- Neuroticism: 20%
- Openness: 20%

Strongest facet: Assertiveness (imperative mobilization)

**Motives:**
- Agency: 70%
- Communion: 30%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** Party leader rallying the base
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** Radical Left Dumocrats

**Identity Claims:**
- President DONALD J. TRUMP
- MAGA

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Midterm early-voting calendar; batch of state-specific turnout posts)

Sentiment: +0.20

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 15%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct imperative address to state voters ('GO VOTE at the Polls RIGHT NOW')
- Personal plea from the leader ('SO IMPORTANT — PLEASE GET OUT AND VOTE')
- Signature as personal endorsement ('President DONALD J. TRUMP')
- Flattering the state ('the Great State of Missouri')

## Fact Checks (1)

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

> Early in-person voting is underway in Missouri and runs through November 2nd

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Missouri's no-excuse in-person absentee voting, enacted in 2022, opens on the second Tuesday before the election and ends the day before. For the November 3, 2026 election that is October 20 through November 2, so it was underway on October 22. The post's mention of 'mail-in ballot' glosses over the fact that Missouri's mail voting is excuse-based absentee voting, which is a minor imprecision.

Sources: Missouri Secretary of State, absentee voting guidance; Missouri HB 1878 (2022)

Overall Veracity: 80%

## Tags

- get-out-the-vote (100%)
- missouri (80%)
- midterms-2026 (90%)
- dumocrats-epithet (50%)
- staff-template (90%)

## 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). 🚨 MISSOURI! Early Voting, in-person, is UNDERWAY... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117486889343064879
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "🚨 MISSOURI! Early Voting, in-person, is UNDERWAY NOW in..." Truth Social, 22 Oct. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117486889343064879. Accessed 23 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "🚨 MISSOURI! Early Voting, in-person, is UNDERWAY NOW in...," Truth Social, October 22, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117486889343064879.

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