# Post ts_117536875845240708

- Post ID: `ts_117536875845240708`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-10-31T18:13:15.587Z (UTC)
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## Post text

> It is my Great Honor to endorse Highly Respected and very popular State Treasurer, Stacy Garrity, who is running to be the next Governor of the GREAT Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, a very special place to me in that we had a LANDSLIDE Presidential Election Win on November 5, 2024!
>
> A successful Businesswoman, retired U.S. Army Reserve Colonel, and now, as State Treasurer, Stacy is a true America First Patriot, who has been with me from the beginning. Her opponent, Josh Shapiro, 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 he and the Dumocrats ever got in, all of these things will be terminated. He wants massive Tax Increases, Open Borders, Men playing in Women's Sports, and Transgender Mutilization of your Children. Josh Shapiro is Reckless, Radical, and Dangerous!
>
> On the other hand, as your next Governor, Stacy will work tirelessly to Grow the Economy, Cut Taxes and Regulations, Promote MADE IN THE U.S.A., Champion American Energy DOMINANCE, Strengthen our Military/Veterans, Keep our Border SECURE, Ensure LAW AND ORDER, Safeguard our Elections, and Defend our always under siege Second Amendment.
>
> Stacy Garrity has my Complete and Total Endorsement to be the next Governor of the Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. GET OUT AND VOTE FOR STACY — SHE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN! President DONALD J. TRUMP
> https://swampthevoteusa.com/pennsylvania/

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# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-31T18:30:45.898Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## An endorsement template with two personal seams

This is the standard Trump endorsement form, nearly unchanged: an honorific opening ("It is my Great Honor to endorse"), a résumé paragraph, an attack paragraph on the opponent, a list of Capitalized Policy Nouns ("Grow the Economy, Cut Taxes and Regulations, Promote MADE IN THE U.S.A., Champion American Energy DOMINANCE..."), and the stock close ("Complete and Total Endorsement... SHE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!"). The same day's feed shows the same machinery at volume: a TeleRally announcement for Garrity and four House candidates, and a slate post listing ten Pennsylvania Republicans. Three days before the November 3 midterm, the post is get-out-the-vote work. Nothing in it reacts to an event.

Two places in the text break from the template, and they show where the subject's own voice sits.

The first is the clause attached to Pennsylvania: "a very special place to me in that we had a LANDSLIDE Presidential Election Win on November 5, 2024!" The state matters here because of what it did for him. The endorsement of someone else becomes, for one sentence, a reminder of his own victory, and the victory gets inflated. Trump carried Pennsylvania by about 1.7 points. Calling that a "LANDSLIDE" is the grandiose distortion he has used about 2024 since it happened. It is the kind of self-referential aside that usually marks his own hand, though by now staff reproduce it routinely.

The second seam is a template carryover: "if he and the Dumocrats ever got in, all of these things will be terminated." Shapiro is the sitting governor, so "ever got in" makes no sense for him. The threatened items (no tax on tips, overtime, Social Security) are federal tax provisions that no governor can end. The paragraph reads as text lifted from congressional endorsements, where a Democratic majority could plausibly touch those provisions, and pasted onto a state race. The misfit points to assembly from boilerplate, not to temporal confusion on the subject's part.

## Shapiro as a composite opponent

Shapiro gets the generic Democratic indictment: "massive Tax Increases, Open Borders, Men playing in Women's Sports, and Transgender Mutilization of your Children," closing with the alliterative triad "Reckless, Radical, and Dangerous!" Almost none of it is specific to Shapiro, a governor who has positioned himself as a centrist and is often named as a 2028 contender. Splitting does the work. Garrity is "a true America First Patriot, who has been with me from the beginning," a loyalty credential more than a qualification. Shapiro is the all-bad opposite, defined by a stock list of cultural threats. "Has been with me from the beginning" puts the endorsement inside a personal-loyalty frame: her value starts with her relation to him.

"Dumocrat" is the established coinage of this period. It also appears in the same-day Essayli post, so it is a house term and does not mark authorship. "Mutilization" is a nonstandard blend of "mutilation." The word turns up in templated endorsement text, so it says little about word retrieval in this post. The phrase "your Children" works as an appeal to fear by putting the reader's family in the threat. It stigmatizes transgender medical care, but it names no target for action and calls for no response beyond voting.

## Who wrote it

At 2:13 pm Eastern (EDT, the day before the clocks change) on a Saturday, the timing falls in business hours. The structure is the strongest evidence: the paragraph architecture is identical to dozens of prior endorsements, the policy list is in house style, and the closing signature "President DONALD J. TRUMP" plus a campaign URL (swampthevoteusa.com) are staff formatting. The "LANDSLIDE" aside is the most Trump-like sentence. Its awkward connector "in that we had" reads like dictation or a personal edit. Best reading: staff drafted it from the template, and the subject approved it or added a line. The carryover error about Shapiro "getting in" points to a drafter working fast from boilerplate.

## What the post shows about him

Read for personality, the post is low-signal maintenance in a grandiose register. The one move that is his own is turning the state's importance back onto himself. Hostility toward Shapiro is formulaic, and nothing in this post provoked it. The narrative casts him as the victor whose 2024 "LANDSLIDE" gives his blessing its weight, and the endorsement's worth runs through the endorser. He supplies the loyalty test ("with me from the beginning") and the reward ("Complete and Total Endorsement"), the patronage pattern that runs through his midterm posting.

The fact pattern matches the template's habits: the biographical claims about Garrity hold up, the self-referential electoral claim is inflated, and the attacks on Shapiro are either unsupported by any record I could find or describe powers a governor does not have. I found no documented statement by Shapiro opposing tip, overtime or Social Security tax breaks. Pennsylvania does not tax Social Security benefits in the first place.

Sources: [Patch on PA no-tax-on-tips bill](https://patch.com/pennsylvania/across-pa/no-tax-tips-pledge-advances-what-pa-workers-should-know), [WHYY on Shapiro tax relief plan](https://whyy.org/articles/shapiro-rolls-out-first-tax-relief-plan-pa-governors-race/amp), [countrytaxcalc PA tips guide](https://www.countrytaxcalc.com/tax-guides/usa/no-tax-on-tips-pennsylvania-2026/)

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Trump won a 'LANDSLIDE' in Pennsylvania in the November 5, 2024 presidential election" | **Mostly False** | The date is correct and Trump did carry Pennsylvania, but by about 1.7 percentage points (roughly 50.4% to 48.7%, about 120,000 votes). By any conventional standard that is a narrow win, not a landslide. |
| "Stacy Garrity is a businesswoman, retired U.S. Army Reserve Colonel, and State Treasurer" | **True** | Garrity retired from the Army Reserve as a colonel after 30 years, including Iraq deployments. She worked as an executive at Global Tungsten & Powders, and she has been Pennsylvania Treasurer since January 2021 (re-elected 2024). |
| "Josh Shapiro is opposed to no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security" | **Mostly False** | There is one real basis for the claim. Shapiro strongly opposed the 2025 federal reconciliation law (the One Big Beautiful Bill Act), which created temporary federal deductions for tips, overtime and seniors. At the only gubernatorial debate (WHTM ABC27, Harrisburg, October 7, 2026), he called it "a bill that I strongly opposed." Garrity answered that the bill means "no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security, expanded Child Tax Credit. So the governor opposes all of that." The post repeats her framing.

I found no record of Shapiro opposing the tips, overtime or senior provisions themselves:
- His statements on the law (June-July 2025 coverage in ABC27, Times Leader and the Inquirer) attacked its Medicaid and SNAP cuts, its effect on rural hospitals and its $3.3 trillion deficit cost. In the debate he said it "gave people at the top tax cuts."
- City & State, Broad + Liberty and Spotlight PA all covered the debate. None reports him addressing the tips, overtime or Social Security pieces at all.
- His 2026-27 budget address never mentions tips, overtime or Social Security. It stresses that the budget "doesn't raise taxes" and continues cutting them.

Policy at the state level points the other way:
- In June 2025, Pennsylvania House Democrats (Shapiro's party) passed HB 1610, 104-99. It would end state personal income tax on tips and overtime, alongside combined reporting and a faster corporate tax cut. Shapiro had proposed both of those corporate measures in his own February 2025 budget.
- Nearly all Republicans voted against it, calling combined reporting a "poison pill." It has stalled in the Republican-controlled Senate.
- I found no evidence that Shapiro specifically endorsed HB 1610, so it doesn't prove he supports a tips and overtime exemption. It does cut against the idea that his side opposes one.

The Social Security part is weaker still. Pennsylvania already exempts Social Security benefits from state income tax, and Shapiro has never proposed changing that. The federal law also doesn't eliminate tax on Social Security. The provision that would have done so was dropped because it broke Senate rules. What remains is a temporary $6,000 deduction for people 65 and older, whether or not they collect Social Security.

Bottom line: the claim turns his opposition to a large omnibus law, opposed mainly over its health and food-aid cuts, into opposition to three specific provisions he never publicly opposed. The fact that he opposed the bill keeps this from being rated simply false. |
| "If Shapiro and the Democrats 'ever got in,' no tax on tips, overtime and Social Security 'will be terminated'" | **Mostly False** | These are federal tax deductions enacted in the 2025 reconciliation law, and a governor has no authority over them. Shapiro has been governor since January 2023, so he is already in office. The deductions are temporary by their own terms, and changing them would take congressional action. |
| "Josh Shapiro wants massive tax increases" | **Mostly False** | Shapiro's budgets have not proposed broad-based income or sales tax increases. He continued the scheduled corporate net income tax cuts and campaigned on tax relief. His revenue proposals have centered on new taxes on cannabis and skill games, which are narrow levies, not 'massive' increases. |

Overall Veracity: 36%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 30%)

### Indicators

- Posted 2:13 pm EDT Saturday, business hours
- Paragraph structure identical to the standard endorsement template
- Capitalized policy-noun list in house style
- Signature line 'President DONALD J. TRUMP' and campaign URL
- Template carryover error: 'if he and the Dumocrats ever got in' applied to a sitting governor

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 70%
- Agreeableness: 30%
- Conscientiousness: 50%
- Neuroticism: 30%
- Openness: 20%

Strongest facet: Assertiveness (extraversion), with low modesty

**Motives:**
- Agency: 80%
- Communion: 35%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** Victor and kingmaker whose 2024 'landslide' gives his endorsement its weight
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** Josh Shapiro and the 'Dumocrats'

**Identity Claims:**
- Pennsylvania is special to him because of his win there
- His endorsement is a mark of loyalty earned ('with me from the beginning')

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Midterm get-out-the-vote push three days before the November 3, 2026 election)

Sentiment: +0.15

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 45%
- Antisocial: 15%
- Paranoid: 15%
- Sadism: 5%

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

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 45%

Cognitive Markers:
- neologism

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct address to voters ('your Children', 'your next Governor')
- Personal attachment to the state ('a very special place to me')
- Endorsement as a transfer of his personal favor

## Danger Assessment

**NONE**

### Indicators

- Stigmatizing framing of transgender care ('Transgender Mutilization of your Children'), no call to action beyond voting

### Gaslighting

- Recasting a narrow 2024 Pennsylvania win as a 'LANDSLIDE'

## Fact Checks (5)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-10-31._

> Trump won a 'LANDSLIDE' in Pennsylvania in the November 5, 2024 presidential election

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The date is correct and Trump did carry Pennsylvania, but by about 1.7 percentage points (roughly 50.4% to 48.7%, about 120,000 votes). By any conventional standard that is a narrow win, not a landslide.

Sources: Pennsylvania Department of State certified 2024 results

> Stacy Garrity is a businesswoman, retired U.S. Army Reserve Colonel, and State Treasurer

**TRUE**

Garrity retired from the Army Reserve as a colonel after 30 years, including Iraq deployments. She worked as an executive at Global Tungsten & Powders, and she has been Pennsylvania Treasurer since January 2021 (re-elected 2024).

Sources: Pennsylvania Treasury official biography

> Josh Shapiro is opposed to no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security

**MOSTLY FALSE**

There is one real basis for the claim. Shapiro strongly opposed the 2025 federal reconciliation law (the One Big Beautiful Bill Act), which created temporary federal deductions for tips, overtime and seniors. At the only gubernatorial debate (WHTM ABC27, Harrisburg, October 7, 2026), he called it "a bill that I strongly opposed." Garrity answered that the bill means "no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security, expanded Child Tax Credit. So the governor opposes all of that." The post repeats her framing.

I found no record of Shapiro opposing the tips, overtime or senior provisions themselves:
- His statements on the law (June-July 2025 coverage in ABC27, Times Leader and the Inquirer) attacked its Medicaid and SNAP cuts, its effect on rural hospitals and its $3.3 trillion deficit cost. In the debate he said it "gave people at the top tax cuts."
- City & State, Broad + Liberty and Spotlight PA all covered the debate. None reports him addressing the tips, overtime or Social Security pieces at all.
- His 2026-27 budget address never mentions tips, overtime or Social Security. It stresses that the budget "doesn't raise taxes" and continues cutting them.

Policy at the state level points the other way:
- In June 2025, Pennsylvania House Democrats (Shapiro's party) passed HB 1610, 104-99. It would end state personal income tax on tips and overtime, alongside combined reporting and a faster corporate tax cut. Shapiro had proposed both of those corporate measures in his own February 2025 budget.
- Nearly all Republicans voted against it, calling combined reporting a "poison pill." It has stalled in the Republican-controlled Senate.
- I found no evidence that Shapiro specifically endorsed HB 1610, so it doesn't prove he supports a tips and overtime exemption. It does cut against the idea that his side opposes one.

The Social Security part is weaker still. Pennsylvania already exempts Social Security benefits from state income tax, and Shapiro has never proposed changing that. The federal law also doesn't eliminate tax on Social Security. The provision that would have done so was dropped because it broke Senate rules. What remains is a temporary $6,000 deduction for people 65 and older, whether or not they collect Social Security.

Bottom line: the claim turns his opposition to a large omnibus law, opposed mainly over its health and food-aid cuts, into opposition to three specific provisions he never publicly opposed. The fact that he opposed the bill keeps this from being rated simply false.

Sources: https://www.cityandstatepa.com/politics/2026/10/7-takeaways-debate-between-gov-josh-shapiro-and-treasurer-stacy-garrity/416488/; https://broadandliberty.com/2026/10/08/shapiro-garrity-spar-in-sole-gubernatorial-debate/; https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/10/josh-shapiro-stacy-garrity-pennsylvania-governor-debate-elections/; https://www.abc27.com/news/top-stories/governor-shapiro-releases-statement-on-gops-one-big-beautiful-bill/; https://www.timesleader.com/news/1706457/gov-shapiro-big-beautiful-bill-will-have-devastating-impacts-on-pennsylvania; https://www.inquirer.com/politics/pennsylvania/josh-shapiro-snap-big-beautiful-bill-20250630.html; https://www.pa.gov/governor/newsroom/2026-press-releases/governor-shapiro-s-2026-27-budget-address-as-prepared-for-delive; https://www.witf.org/2025/06/25/waiting-for-state-budget-pa-house-passes-tax-reform-over-republican-opposition/; https://www.wesa.fm/politics-government/2025-06-26/pennsylvania-house-tax-reform-tips-overtime; https://www.inquirer.com/politics/pennsylvania/pennsylvania-delaware-loophole-budget-taxes-20250630.html; https://www.hklaw.com/en/news/intheheadlines/2025/11/pa-decouples-from-fed-corporate-tax-breaks-in-budget; https://www.countrytaxcalc.com/tax-guides/usa/no-tax-on-tips-pennsylvania-2026/; https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/big-beautiful-bill-may-help-some-seniors-on-social-security-but-it-doesnt-eliminate-taxes-on-benefits/3784002/; https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/new-tax-deduction-in-big-beautiful-bill-misunderstood-by-many-experts-say; https://www.factcheck.org/2026/08/trumps-no-tax-on-tips-claim-doesnt-add-up/; https://www.revenue.pa.gov:443/FormsandPublications/FormsforIndividuals/PIT/Documents/rev-581.pdf; https://whyy.org/articles/pa-ag-shapiro-says-trumps-tipped-wage-proposal-could-take-money-from-workers; https://patch.com/pennsylvania/across-pa/no-tax-tips-pledge-advances-what-pa-workers-should-know

> If Shapiro and the Democrats 'ever got in,' no tax on tips, overtime and Social Security 'will be terminated'

**MOSTLY FALSE**

These are federal tax deductions enacted in the 2025 reconciliation law, and a governor has no authority over them. Shapiro has been governor since January 2023, so he is already in office. The deductions are temporary by their own terms, and changing them would take congressional action.

Sources: One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Public Law 119-21)

> Josh Shapiro wants massive tax increases

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Shapiro's budgets have not proposed broad-based income or sales tax increases. He continued the scheduled corporate net income tax cuts and campaigned on tax relief. His revenue proposals have centered on new taxes on cannabis and skill games, which are narrow levies, not 'massive' increases.

Sources: https://whyy.org/articles/shapiro-rolls-out-first-tax-relief-plan-pa-governors-race/amp

Overall Veracity: 36%

## Tags

- endorsement (90%)
- midterms-2026 (80%)
- pennsylvania (80%)
- 2024-landslide-claim (60%)
- dumocrat (40%)
- transgender (40%)

## That day

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

**A cartoon of 'Islam' torching America's door, posted between batches of midterm endorsements**

Three days before the midterms, almost the whole day was a campaign machine. Wave after wave of near-identical endorsement posts for Republicans in five states went out, each batch timed to one of his phone rallies and plainly written by staff, typos and a duplicate included. His own voice came through mainly in grievance. He insisted that losing a court fight over Los Angeles ballots proved "maybe even Millions" of illegal votes, mocked a Reuters reporter's weight, and wedged an attack on New York's attorney general into one of the endorsements. In a lull between the Florida and New York batches, a cartoon went up showing "Islam" setting fire to America's door after burning down European countries, the ugliest post of the day, which ended quietly with a black-tie group photo on Halloween evening.

Full digest for 2026-10-31: https://trump.fm/date/2026-10-31/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, October 31). It is my Great Honor to endorse Highly Respected... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117536875845240708
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "It is my Great Honor to endorse Highly Respected and very..." Truth Social, 31 Oct. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117536875845240708. Accessed 1 Nov. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "It is my Great Honor to endorse Highly Respected and very...," Truth Social, October 31, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117536875845240708.

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