# Post ts_117486930473609780

- Post ID: `ts_117486930473609780`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-10-22T22:31:29.698Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117486930473609780
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117486930473609780/analysis

## Post text

> TO THE GREAT PEOPLE OF NEW JERSEY, MAKE A PLAN TO VOTE FOR:
>
> – Jeff Van Drew for U.S. Congress (NJ-02)
> – Chris Smith for U.S. Congress (NJ-04)
> – Tom Kean for U.S. Congress (NJ-07)
>
> These Great Patriots have my Complete and Total Endorsement — They will never let you down! President DONALD J. TRUMP
> https://swampthevoteusa.com/new-jersey/

## Engagement

- Likes: 440
- Reposts: 157
- Replies: 22
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-10-23T01:00:54.766Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-23T00:13:11.773Z (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, filled in for New Jersey

This post is one entry in a run of state-by-state turnout messages that went out on October 22, apparently in alphabetical order: Mississippi, Missouri, Montana and Nebraska got the "🚨 Early Voting … UNDERWAY NOW" template, and New Hampshire and then New Jersey got the endorsement-slate template. The New Jersey text matches the New Hampshire post word for word except for the names and the URL path: "TO THE GREAT PEOPLE OF … MAKE A PLAN TO VOTE FOR," an en-dash bulleted list with district codes in parentheses, the closing "These Great Patriots have my Complete and Total Endorsement — They will never let you down!", the third-person sign-off "President DONALD J. TRUMP", and a link to the RNC-style turnout site swampthevoteusa.com with a per-state slug. The structure comes from a campaign content calendar. The writing reflects nothing he was reacting to at the time.

## Who wrote it

At 22:31 UTC it was 6:31 p.m. Eastern. The historian notes a planned Iowa trip that day, where it would have been 5:31 p.m. Central. Either way the post falls at the end of the working day. The authorship evidence all points toward staff:

- **Template identity.** The wording is reused verbatim across states, which no spontaneous composer produces.
- **Formatting.** En-dash bullets, standardized district notation ("NJ-02", "NJ-04", "NJ-07") and a properly spaced em-dash are the habits of a content tool.
- **Sign-off and link.** The signature block reads "President DONALD J. TRUMP", and the slugged campaign URL makes the post a distribution asset.
- **No drift.** There is no tangent, no grievance aside, no mention of the 33% approval poll, Zelensky or the courts, all of which were live that week.

The capitalized "Great Patriots" and "Complete and Total Endorsement" are Trump's established endorsement formula. Staff reproduce that house style faithfully, so it carries no weight as a sign of personal authorship.

## What the slate shows

The three names are New Jersey's entire Republican House delegation: Van Drew in the 2nd, Smith in the 4th and Kean in the 7th. No challenger in a Democratic-held district is listed, and New Jersey's 2026 U.S. Senate race goes unmentioned. The New Hampshire post the same day, by contrast, led with a Senate candidate (Sununu). Holding the line on incumbents rather than naming pickup targets fits a defensive midterm posture in a state where Republicans are weak statewide, against the backdrop of the record-low approval figure from October 18. This is a reading of campaign targeting, and the choice was probably made by the committee rather than by Trump himself.

## Psychological content

There is little personality signal to work with because the author did not compose anything. The one durable feature is the transactional loyalty frame in "They will never let you down!" The endorsement is presented as a guarantee of the candidates' reliability, which echoes Trump's long-standing habit of valuing allies for loyalty, though here it appears as boilerplate. The flattering opener, "THE GREAT PEOPLE OF NEW JERSEY", is routine audience flattery. The capitalized "Great Patriots" idealizes the in-group mildly, but no out-group is named. That matters: the companion early-voting posts the same day attacked "Radical Left Dumocrats", while this template contains no opponent, no grievance and no threat. That rules out the paranoid and devaluing registers that run through most of his personally written posts.

No defenses operate beyond that mild idealization. The rhetoric is plain get-out-the-vote craft: an imperative ("MAKE A PLAN TO VOTE"), superlative capitalization, and a call to action through the link. Since the text was written by staff, it says nothing about Trump's cognitive state. Its value for longitudinal work is in counting volume and seeing campaign priorities, not in reading his psychology.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Jeff Van Drew is the Republican candidate for U.S. Congress in NJ-02" | **True** | Van Drew has represented New Jersey's 2nd District since 2019, switched to the Republican Party in 2019, and was the Republican nominee for re-election in 2026. |
| "Chris Smith is the Republican candidate for U.S. Congress in NJ-04" | **True** | Smith, in the House since 1981, has represented the 4th District under the current map and was the Republican nominee for re-election in 2026. |
| "Tom Kean is the Republican candidate for U.S. Congress in NJ-07" | **True** | Tom Kean Jr. won NJ-07 in 2022, held it in 2024, and was the Republican nominee in 2026 in one of the state's more competitive districts. |

Overall Veracity: 100%

## Authorship Analysis

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

### Indicators

- Verbatim template shared with the same-day New Hampshire endorsement post
- En-dash bullet list with standardized district codes (NJ-02, NJ-04, NJ-07)
- Third-person signature block 'President DONALD J. TRUMP'
- Campaign turnout URL with per-state slug
- Posted at about 6:31 p.m. Eastern, end of business day, during an alphabetical state-by-state batch

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 60%
- Agreeableness: 45%
- Conscientiousness: 55%
- Neuroticism: 15%
- Openness: 20%

Strongest facet: Extraversion: assertiveness (directive endorsement)

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

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** Kingmaker conferring endorsement
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** None named in this post

**Identity Claims:**
- His endorsement guarantees a candidate's reliability

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Scheduled midterm get-out-the-vote batch, state-by-state)

Sentiment: +0.55

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 12%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct address to 'THE GREAT PEOPLE OF NEW JERSEY'
- Personal endorsement framed as a guarantee from the leader

## Fact Checks (3)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-10-23._

> Jeff Van Drew is the Republican candidate for U.S. Congress in NJ-02

**TRUE**

Van Drew has represented New Jersey's 2nd District since 2019, switched to the Republican Party in 2019, and was the Republican nominee for re-election in 2026.

> Chris Smith is the Republican candidate for U.S. Congress in NJ-04

**TRUE**

Smith, in the House since 1981, has represented the 4th District under the current map and was the Republican nominee for re-election in 2026.

> Tom Kean is the Republican candidate for U.S. Congress in NJ-07

**TRUE**

Tom Kean Jr. won NJ-07 in 2022, held it in 2024, and was the Republican nominee in 2026 in one of the state's more competitive districts.

Overall Veracity: 100%

## Tags

- endorsement (100%)
- midterms-2026 (90%)
- new-jersey (80%)
- get-out-the-vote (80%)
- staff-template (90%)
- loyalty-frame (30%)

## 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). TO THE GREAT PEOPLE OF NEW JERSEY, MAKE A PLAN TO... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117486930473609780
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "TO THE GREAT PEOPLE OF NEW JERSEY, MAKE A PLAN TO VOTE FOR:..." Truth Social, 22 Oct. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117486930473609780. Accessed 23 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "TO THE GREAT PEOPLE OF NEW JERSEY, MAKE A PLAN TO VOTE FOR:...," Truth Social, October 22, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117486930473609780.

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