# Post ts_117525756697578269

- Post ID: `ts_117525756697578269`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-10-29T19:05:30.860Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> Congressman Scott Perry is a tremendous Representative for the Great People of Pennsylvania’s 10th Congressional District!
>
> A retired Army Brigadier General, Scott is a MAGA Warrior, who always puts AMERICA FIRST. His opponent, Janelle Stelson, is a Radical Left Dumocrat who is opposed to NO TAX ON TIPS, NO TAX ON OVERTIME, and NO TAX ON SOCIAL SECURITY and, if she and the Dumocrats ever got in, all of these things will be terminated. She wants massive Tax Increases, Open Borders, Men playing in Women’s Sports, and the Transgender Mutilization of your Children. Janelle Stelson is Reckless, Radical, and Dangerous!
>
> On the other hand, in Congress, Scott is working tirelessly with me to Grow the Economy, Keep our Border SECURE, Stop Migrant Crime, Strengthen our Military and Veterans, Uphold the Rule of Law, Protect our always under siege Second Amendment, and Ensure PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH.
>
> Scott Perry has my Complete and Total Endorsement for Re-Election. GET OUT AND VOTE FOR SCOTT — HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN! President DONALD J. TRUMP
> https://swampthevoteusa.com/states/pennsylvania/

## Engagement

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-29T19:54:12.879Z (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 endorsement, five days out, with one checkable falsehood at its center

The post went up at 3:05 PM Eastern (19:05 UTC; daylight time runs until November 1), five days before the November 3 midterm. The same afternoon brought a near-identical endorsement of David Stumbo for South Carolina attorney general and a post boasting about 3.4 percent GDP growth. This is one of a batch of campaign posts, and its structure matches the endorsement template the account has used since 2022: the candidate's title and district, a credential ("A retired Army Brigadier General"), a label ("MAGA Warrior"), an opponent paragraph, a list of policy deliverables, and the closing formula "has my Complete and Total Endorsement."

## Who wrote it

The text is staff work. Every sentence is complete, the policy list is in parallel construction ("Grow the Economy, Keep our Border SECURE, Stop Migrant Crime, Strengthen our Military and Veterans..."), the district number is exact, and it is signed in the third person, "President DONALD J. TRUMP," above a link to a get-out-the-vote site. Nothing in it drifts off topic or reacts to a news item. The Trump-brand pieces, "Dumocrat" and "Transgender Mutilization," are stock components of these templates and show up across dozens of endorsements, so they say little about who typed this one. The selective capitals ("NO TAX ON TIPS," "PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH") follow the template's habit of putting slogans in caps. They don't read as emotional surges.

## Perry as the good object, Stelson as the bad

The psychological content belongs to the template, and the template does its work by splitting. Perry is all-good and permanently reliable: "HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!" Stelson is all-bad, and the three-adjective close ("Reckless, Radical, and Dangerous!") devalues her without describing anything she has done. The children line, "the Transgender Mutilization of your Children," is the strongest move in the post. It turns a policy disagreement into a threat to the reader's own family, an appeal to fear that recasts a former local news anchor as a danger to the household.

The self-reference is modest but present. Perry's value is measured by his proximity to the speaker, "working tirelessly with me." That is the template's usual loyalty test, where a candidate's worth is his alignment with Trump. Most of the post looks outward, and the narcissistic content is limited to that framing plus the closing endorsement-as-gift formula.

There is a projection worth recording in "Uphold the Rule of Law." Perry was central to the post-2020 effort to install Jeffrey Clark at the Justice Department, and the FBI seized his phone in that investigation. Praising him for the rule of law is a rationalization that reverses his best-known episode. Because the line is boilerplate, it shows the template's priorities, and there is no evidence here of any personal defensive need.

## What the claims rest on

The opponent paragraph contains the post's one specific, checkable charge, and it is false. Stelson's campaign materials, as Spotlight PA reported, pledge to make the tip and overtime deductions permanent. The post says she is "opposed to NO TAX ON TIPS, NO TAX ON OVERTIME." The conditional threat, "if she and the Dumocrats ever got in, all of these things will be terminated," is also misleading. The 2025 law wrote those deductions to expire after 2028, so the Republican statute is what ends them, and a Democratic House could not repeal anything over a presidential veto. "NO TAX ON SOCIAL SECURITY" overstates the law, which added a temporary senior deduction and did not exempt benefits from tax.

The second list ("massive Tax Increases, Open Borders, Men playing in Women's Sports") is the generic Democratic-opponent paragraph. It cites no statement of Stelson's and could be pasted into any race. It works as a category assignment, telling the reader she belongs to the out-group.

## Order and archetype

Perry is cast as Warrior ("MAGA Warrior," the general's rank) and order-restorer. The opponent carries the Shadow: disorder at the border, in sports, and in children's bodies. The hierarchy on offer puts the loyal veteran-legislator above the "Radical Left," and the reader is mobilized only to vote. There is no target for action beyond the ballot, which separates this fear appeal from the incitement pattern.

## Cognitive reading

With staff authorship, the text is no evidence about the subject's language. "Mutilization" (for mutilation) has recurred in these templates long enough that it reads as a house coinage. It is not a slip.

Sources: [Spotlight PA on PA-10](https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/09/scott-perry-janelle-stelson-10th-congressional-district-election-elections/), [Penn Capital-Star voter guide](https://penncapital-star.com/voter-guides/contests/2026-general-u-s-house-district-10/), [Wikipedia: Janelle Stelson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janelle_Stelson), [Penn Capital-Star primary result](https://penncapital-star.com/election-2026/janelle-stelson-will-face-rep-scott-perry-again-after-victory-in-pa-10-democratic-primary/)

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Scott Perry is a retired Army Brigadier General representing Pennsylvania's 10th Congressional District" | **True** | Perry retired from the Pennsylvania Army National Guard as a brigadier general and has represented PA-10 since the 2018 redistricting (first elected to the House in 2012). |
| "Janelle Stelson is opposed to no tax on tips and no tax on overtime" | **False** | Spotlight PA reports that Stelson's campaign materials pledge to make the no-tax-on-tips and no-tax-on-overtime deductions permanent, and her voter-guide statement says she backs eliminating taxes on tips and overtime. |
| "If Stelson and Democrats got in, no tax on tips, overtime and Social Security would be terminated" | **Mostly False** | The 2025 reconciliation law wrote the tip, overtime and senior deductions to expire after 2028, so the Republican statute itself ends them. Stelson pledges to make the tip and overtime deductions permanent, and a Democratic House could not repeal a law over a presidential veto. |
| "There is 'NO TAX ON SOCIAL SECURITY' in effect" | **Mostly False** | The 2025 law added a temporary $6,000 deduction for taxpayers 65 and older, phased out at higher incomes, through 2028. Social Security benefits remain taxable under the existing formula, though the deduction eliminates tax on benefits for many lower- and middle-income seniors. |
| "Stelson wants massive tax increases, open borders, men in women's sports and transgender surgery on children" | **Mostly False** | I checked each of the four items against Stelson's own campaign site, local news coverage of the 2024 and 2026 PA-10 races, and voter guides. Two items are contradicted by her own stated positions. A third has a small kernel. The fourth has no support at all.

Open borders: contradicted. Her priorities page says: "I have always supported a stronger border and have never supported open borders." It also says: "I support deporting every violent illegal immigrant and oppose taxpayer benefits for anyone in the country illegally," and "We need to properly fund a secure border." In their 2024 debate, WITF reported that she and Perry agreed on immigration. She said: "I'd like to secure our border and make sure they don't get into the country. The ones who are here... need to be sent home." Guides.vote cites her saying she is "glad the border is stronger now." Where she does differ from the administration is on enforcement methods. She wants deportations to focus on violent criminals, due process, unmasked ICE agents with badges, and investigations of killings involving ICE. That is not an open-borders position.

Massive tax increases: mostly contradicted, with a kernel. Her site says she supports "tax breaks for the hard-working middle class, not billionaires." It also says: "I support no tax on tips or overtime and would vote to make that permanent." Spotlight PA (September 2026) and WITF (October 2026) report the same pledge, and she wants the tariffs repealed. The kernel: in 2024 she said she would back bills raising taxes on the wealthiest people and largest corporations so they "pay their fair share" (WITF, August 2024). WITF also reported she opposed renewing the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. She criticized Perry's vote for the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act as favoring the wealthy, and Perry says she called that bill "devastating." So there is a basis for saying she would raise some taxes on the rich. Calling that "massive tax increases" for voters generally is a characterization her stated platform doesn't support.

Men in women's sports: no clear statement either way. Her campaign priorities page has nothing on transgender issues or sports. The only statement I found is relayed by guides.vote from a video: "doctors and families and sports associations" need to be involved in decisions about transgender kids in sports. That leaves the matter to others rather than endorsing or opposing trans girls' participation, and it is a secondhand summary. She has said "everyone deserves to love who they love and build a life without discrimination," and Republicans point to her 2024 Human Rights Campaign endorsement. There is a small kernel here, but no record that she advocates for "men playing in women's sports."

Transgender surgery on children: no support found. In 2024, House Freedom Action ran an ad saying she believed taxpayers should fund "sex-change operations for prisoners, illegal aliens, and even minor children." Her campaign said it didn't know what the ad was citing. A DCCC legal letter to TV stations, reported by Punchbowl News, said she never made that claim and does not hold that position. The Inquirer reported that when asked whether the military should pay for gender reassignment, she said no. The group stood by its ad but cited only the HRC endorsement, not anything she said. I found no 2026 statement by her on gender-affirming care for minors, and the guides.vote profile lists no position on it.

Context: the same four-part list appears word for word in Trump's endorsements against Democrats in many districts, which suggests a template rather than a reading of Stelson's record. She was a registered Republican until February 2023 and ran on a centrist platform in 2024 and 2026.

Overall: open borders is contradicted by her direct statements. The tax item turns a tax-the-rich position, alongside her support for middle-class and tips/overtime tax cuts, into "massive tax increases." The sports item has at most an ambiguous kernel. The surgery item has no support, and she disowned it in 2024. Mostly false. |

Overall Veracity: 32%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 20%)

### Indicators

- Posted 3:05 PM Eastern, mid-afternoon
- Fixed endorsement template: credential, label, opponent paragraph, policy list, 'Complete and Total Endorsement'
- Third-person signature 'President DONALD J. TRUMP' plus campaign URL
- Exact district number and parallel-construction policy list
- Part of a same-afternoon batch (Stumbo endorsement uses the same frame)

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 70%
- Agreeableness: 20%
- Conscientiousness: 50%
- Neuroticism: 35%
- Openness: 20%

Strongest facet: Low agreeableness (antagonism toward opponent) paired with assertiveness

**Motives:**
- Agency: 75%
- Communion: 35%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** Patron-kingmaker conferring endorsement on a loyal warrior
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** Janelle Stelson and the 'Radical Left Dumocrats'

**Identity Claims:**
- Ally-in-chief ('working tirelessly with me')
- Guarantor of tax relief and security

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Final-week midterm endorsement batch)

Sentiment: +0.10

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 20%
- Paranoid: 10%
- Sadism: 5%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- devaluation (immature)
- idealization (immature)
- rationalization (neurotic)
- distortion (pathological)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 50%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct address to the reader's family ('your Children')
- Personal vouching ('HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN')
- Endorsement framed as a personal gift ('has my Complete and Total Endorsement')

## Fact Checks (5)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-10-29._

> Scott Perry is a retired Army Brigadier General representing Pennsylvania's 10th Congressional District

**TRUE**

Perry retired from the Pennsylvania Army National Guard as a brigadier general and has represented PA-10 since the 2018 redistricting (first elected to the House in 2012).

Sources: https://penncapital-star.com/voter-guides/contests/2026-general-u-s-house-district-10/

> Janelle Stelson is opposed to no tax on tips and no tax on overtime

**FALSE**

Spotlight PA reports that Stelson's campaign materials pledge to make the no-tax-on-tips and no-tax-on-overtime deductions permanent, and her voter-guide statement says she backs eliminating taxes on tips and overtime.

Sources: https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/09/scott-perry-janelle-stelson-10th-congressional-district-election-elections/; https://penncapital-star.com/voter-guides/contests/2026-general-u-s-house-district-10/

> If Stelson and Democrats got in, no tax on tips, overtime and Social Security would be terminated

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The 2025 reconciliation law wrote the tip, overtime and senior deductions to expire after 2028, so the Republican statute itself ends them. Stelson pledges to make the tip and overtime deductions permanent, and a Democratic House could not repeal a law over a presidential veto.

Sources: https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/09/scott-perry-janelle-stelson-10th-congressional-district-election-elections/

> There is 'NO TAX ON SOCIAL SECURITY' in effect

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The 2025 law added a temporary $6,000 deduction for taxpayers 65 and older, phased out at higher incomes, through 2028. Social Security benefits remain taxable under the existing formula, though the deduction eliminates tax on benefits for many lower- and middle-income seniors.

> Stelson wants massive tax increases, open borders, men in women's sports and transgender surgery on children

**MOSTLY FALSE**

I checked each of the four items against Stelson's own campaign site, local news coverage of the 2024 and 2026 PA-10 races, and voter guides. Two items are contradicted by her own stated positions. A third has a small kernel. The fourth has no support at all.

Open borders: contradicted. Her priorities page says: "I have always supported a stronger border and have never supported open borders." It also says: "I support deporting every violent illegal immigrant and oppose taxpayer benefits for anyone in the country illegally," and "We need to properly fund a secure border." In their 2024 debate, WITF reported that she and Perry agreed on immigration. She said: "I'd like to secure our border and make sure they don't get into the country. The ones who are here... need to be sent home." Guides.vote cites her saying she is "glad the border is stronger now." Where she does differ from the administration is on enforcement methods. She wants deportations to focus on violent criminals, due process, unmasked ICE agents with badges, and investigations of killings involving ICE. That is not an open-borders position.

Massive tax increases: mostly contradicted, with a kernel. Her site says she supports "tax breaks for the hard-working middle class, not billionaires." It also says: "I support no tax on tips or overtime and would vote to make that permanent." Spotlight PA (September 2026) and WITF (October 2026) report the same pledge, and she wants the tariffs repealed. The kernel: in 2024 she said she would back bills raising taxes on the wealthiest people and largest corporations so they "pay their fair share" (WITF, August 2024). WITF also reported she opposed renewing the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. She criticized Perry's vote for the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act as favoring the wealthy, and Perry says she called that bill "devastating." So there is a basis for saying she would raise some taxes on the rich. Calling that "massive tax increases" for voters generally is a characterization her stated platform doesn't support.

Men in women's sports: no clear statement either way. Her campaign priorities page has nothing on transgender issues or sports. The only statement I found is relayed by guides.vote from a video: "doctors and families and sports associations" need to be involved in decisions about transgender kids in sports. That leaves the matter to others rather than endorsing or opposing trans girls' participation, and it is a secondhand summary. She has said "everyone deserves to love who they love and build a life without discrimination," and Republicans point to her 2024 Human Rights Campaign endorsement. There is a small kernel here, but no record that she advocates for "men playing in women's sports."

Transgender surgery on children: no support found. In 2024, House Freedom Action ran an ad saying she believed taxpayers should fund "sex-change operations for prisoners, illegal aliens, and even minor children." Her campaign said it didn't know what the ad was citing. A DCCC legal letter to TV stations, reported by Punchbowl News, said she never made that claim and does not hold that position. The Inquirer reported that when asked whether the military should pay for gender reassignment, she said no. The group stood by its ad but cited only the HRC endorsement, not anything she said. I found no 2026 statement by her on gender-affirming care for minors, and the guides.vote profile lists no position on it.

Context: the same four-part list appears word for word in Trump's endorsements against Democrats in many districts, which suggests a template rather than a reading of Stelson's record. She was a registered Republican until February 2023 and ran on a centrist platform in 2024 and 2026.

Overall: open borders is contradicted by her direct statements. The tax item turns a tax-the-rich position, alongside her support for middle-class and tips/overtime tax cuts, into "massive tax increases." The sports item has at most an ambiguous kernel. The surgery item has no support, and she disowned it in 2024. Mostly false.

Sources: https://janellestelson.com/priorities/; https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/09/scott-perry-janelle-stelson-10th-congressional-district-election-elections/; https://www.witf.org/2026/10/05/election-2026-where-scott-perry-janelle-stelson-stand-on-the-economy/; https://guides.vote/guide/2026-pennsylvania-pa-10-us-house-voters-guide/; https://www.witf.org/2024/10/09/in-10th-district-debate-gop-incumbent-perry-and-democrat-stelson-agree-on-immigration-differ-on-abortion/; https://www.witf.org/2024/08/15/scott-perry-janelle-stelson-lay-out-tax-and-manufacturing-plan-in-10th-district-race/; https://www.inquirer.com/politics/pennsylvania/janelle-stelson-scott-perry-transgender-campaign-ad-20241011.html; https://punchbowl.news/article/election-2024/republicans-accuse-democrats-being-too-exreme-transgender-rights/; https://www.fox43.com/article/news/politics/elections/stelson-disputes-extremist-immigration-claims-in-gop-super-pac-attack-ads/521-cfe20ce0-c248-4c52-a6bb-724deaba4993; https://www.newsweek.com/janelle-stelson-in-striking-distance-of-flipping-gop-seat-amid-dhs-attack-12551162; https://www.cityandstatepa.com/politics/2026/10/pa-10-debate-night-scott-perry-and-janelle-stelson-spar-over-economy-iran-war-and-elections/416604/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janelle_Stelson; https://www.witf.org/2025/07/14/janelle-stelson-renews-campaign-to-oust-scott-perry-from-congress/; https://www.axios.com/2026/10/09/dhs-ice-stelson-democrat-congress-pennsylvania; https://rollcall.com/2026/10/08/janelle-stelson-dhs-pennsylvania-undocumented-immigrant/

Overall Veracity: 32%

## Tags

- endorsement (100%)
- midterms-2026 (90%)
- no-tax-on-tips (60%)
- dumocrat (50%)
- transgender-fear-appeal (50%)
- scott-perry (90%)
- janelle-stelson (80%)

## That day

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

**Five days before Ilhan Omar faces voters, his account shares a headline forecasting her deportation**

Five days before the midterms, Trump's account ran like a campaign machine. It put out a stream of form endorsements, eight of them for Pennsylvania congressmen within a few minutes, plus get-out-the-vote notices for Kentucky and Montana. Around a rally in Rock Hill, South Carolina, it posted and then reposted a run of fan interviews from outside the arena, and in his own voice he claimed that 99% of Republicans approve of him, about twenty points above the polls. He also bragged about a strong economic growth number, even though one of his own rally clips had a supporter saying people are fed up with the economy. The one sharp turn came late in the afternoon, when the account shared a column predicting Ilhan Omar could be indicted and deported, alongside two pieces about Trump himself being framed by investigators.

Full digest for 2026-10-29: https://trump.fm/date/2026-10-29/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, October 29). Congressman Scott Perry is a tremendous... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117525756697578269
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Congressman Scott Perry is a tremendous Representative for..." Truth Social, 29 Oct. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117525756697578269. Accessed 4 Nov. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Congressman Scott Perry is a tremendous Representative for...," Truth Social, October 29, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117525756697578269.

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