# Post ts_117536879575938742

- Post ID: `ts_117536879575938742`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-10-31T18:14:12.513Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117536879575938742
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117536879575938742/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_117536879575938742.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## 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 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/pennsylvania/

## Engagement

- Likes: 442
- Reposts: 136
- Replies: 11
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-11-01T12:01:20.444Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-31T19:31:10.958Z (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 one name swapped in

This is one of at least six Pennsylvania endorsements posted on October 31, 2026, three days before the midterm. Each one follows the same template: a superlative opener ("tremendous Representative for the Great People of..."), a résumé line, an attack on the opponent, a list of legislative virtues, and a closing "Complete and Total Endorsement." The Perry post shares whole phrases with the Mackenzie and Bresnahan posts from the same day: "Keep our Border SECURE, Stop Migrant Crime," "Protect our always under siege Second Amendment," and "Radical Left Dumocrat who is opposed to NO TAX ON TIPS." Only the names, the district number and the biography change, which is how a campaign assembles endorsements.

The post went up at 18:14 UTC, or 2:14 PM Eastern. Daylight time was still in effect, since it ends November 1. He was most likely at the White House or Mar-a-Lago, which share a timezone, so this is mid-afternoon on a weekday-style schedule. The text has none of the markers of his own composition. It stays on topic from start to finish, its spelling is clean of homophone errors, and its sentences are long and complete with list-style parallelism. It ends with a signature block ("President DONALD J. TRUMP") and a campaign URL. The capitals fall on slogans ("AMERICA FIRST," "PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH," "NO TAX ON TIPS"), the house style for campaign copy. Two oddities belong to the template's vocabulary. "Dumocrat" is a coined epithet that has run through his endorsements since 2025. "Mutilization," a nonstandard form of "mutilation," turns up in the same stock sentence about "Transgender Mutilization" across many posts. Because these forms recur unchanged, they say nothing about his cognition in this post.

## What the template does psychologically

The structure splits the field cleanly. Perry is all good: "MAGA Warrior," "always puts AMERICA FIRST," "HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN." Stelson is all bad: "Reckless, Radical, and Dangerous," wanting "Open Borders, Men playing in Women's Sports, and Transgender Mutilization of your Children." Neither portrait has any shading. The opponent is defined entirely by threats attributed to her, and the post quotes nothing she has said. This is devaluation used as a campaign tool. Nothing in the post points to a personal slight or injury. The trigger is routine maintenance on a deadline.

The one feature that carries his personal signature even inside an aide's draft is how worth is measured. Perry's merit is that he is "working tirelessly with me," and the final pledge is about loyalty: "he will never let you down." The candidate's value is his closeness to the principal and his dependability. That fits a long-running agency-and-status motive in which allies are judged by fealty. For Perry the frame has a concrete history. He chaired the House Freedom Caucus, and his phone was seized in 2022 in the federal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. "MAGA Warrior" rewards exactly that loyalty.

The narrative is defensive. Gains already won, the tip, overtime and Social Security breaks the post lists in capitals starting with "NO TAX ON TIPS," will be "terminated" "if she and the Dumocrats ever got in." This is a contamination threat: a good present that the out-group would spoil. The archetype is the Warrior guarding a perimeter ("always under siege Second Amendment," "Keep our Border SECURE"), and the post takes the order-defender position on the order/chaos axis. The chaos comes entirely from the opponent.

## Persuasion devices

- Alliterative triplet as a label: "Reckless, Radical, and Dangerous."
- Coined pejorative: "Dumocrat" merges the party name with "dumb."
- Fear appeal through loss aversion: popular tax breaks "will be terminated."
- Moral panic aimed at parents: "Transgender Mutilization of your Children," where the second person "your" draws the reader in.
- Glittering generalities in list form: "Grow the Economy... Uphold the Rule of Law... Ensure PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH."
- Slogan repetition across the day's batch, which is the volume feature of the firehose model.

"Dangerous" names an individual candidate, but it sits inside a standard electoral contrast, and the only action the post asks for is a vote: "GET OUT AND VOTE FOR SCOTT." The "Mutilization" line is the most inflammatory phrase in the post, and it is also boilerplate copied across dozens of endorsements, so its weight comes from repetition across the batch.

## The claims

Perry's résumé checks out. He represents PA-10 and retired from the Pennsylvania Army National Guard as a brigadier general. The seat is close: he beat Stelson by roughly 1.3 points in 2024, which explains why a rematch gets its own post. The tax claims have more problems. The 2025 reconciliation law created temporary deductions for tip and overtime income through 2028, plus an extra $6,000 deduction for seniors. It left Social Security benefits taxable, so "NO TAX ON SOCIAL SECURITY" overstates the law. The post gives no source for Stelson's supposed opposition, and it assigns her "open borders" and "massive Tax Increases" without citing anything she has said.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Scott Perry is a retired Army Brigadier General representing Pennsylvania's 10th District" | **True** | Perry has represented PA-10 since its 2019 renumbering and retired from the Pennsylvania Army National Guard as a brigadier general in 2019. |
| "Janelle Stelson is Perry's opponent" | **True** | Stelson, a former WGAL anchor, lost to Perry by about 1.3 points in 2024 and launched a 2025 rematch campaign as the Democratic frontrunner for the May 2026 primary. The post's framing matches her being the nominee. |
| "No Tax on Tips, No Tax on Overtime, and No Tax on Social Security exist as current policy" | **Half True** | The July 2025 reconciliation law created capped deductions for qualified tips and overtime pay through 2028. For Social Security it added a temporary $6,000 deduction for taxpayers 65 and over and did not exempt benefits from tax, so the third item is overstated. |
| "Stelson opposes these tax provisions and wants massive tax increases and open borders" | **Unverifiable** | The post cites no statement by Stelson. Partisan characterizations such as 'open borders' and 'massive Tax Increases' would need her stated platform to grade, and it was not checked here. |
| "If Democrats win, these tax provisions will be terminated" | **Mostly False** | This is a prediction, but the law and the parties' stated positions as of the post date (Oct. 31, 2026) make it very unlikely.

The provisions already end on their own: the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Public Law 119-21, signed July 4, 2025) created the tips deduction (up to $25,000), the overtime-premium deduction (up to $12,500 single or $25,000 joint) and the $6,000 senior deduction for tax years 2025 through 2028 only. IRS guidance, FindLaw and FactCheck.org all confirm they "all expire after 2028." Under current law they end after 2028 whoever wins, because of how the Republican bill was written.

Democrats can't repeal them alone: the Nov. 3, 2026 midterm cannot change the presidency, and Trump serves until January 2029. A Democratic House, or even a Democratic Congress, would need Trump's signature or a two-thirds veto override to repeal anything before the provisions lapse.

No repeal effort exists: searches found no Democratic proposal to repeal the tips, overtime or senior deductions. FactCheck.org (Oct. 8, 2026) reports that many Democrats say they support these provisions. Democrats have filed bills to expand them, such as covering automatic gratuities and more overtime workers, and the "You Earned It, You Keep It Act" to permanently end federal tax on Social Security benefits. The Senate passed the No Tax on Tips Act by unanimous consent on May 20, 2025, after Democrat Jacky Rosen brought it to the floor. Stelson herself pledges to vote to make the tips and overtime breaks permanent.

The kernel of truth: every House Democrat voted against the OBBBA as a package, and some Democrats want to repeal its tax cuts for top earners. That gives the attack a narrow basis. Even so, voting against a package bill is not a plan to end these specific provisions.

The analysis was done the same day as the post, so no hindsight was used. |

Overall Veracity: 64%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 12%)

### Indicators

- Posted 2:14 PM Eastern, within business hours
- Same template as the Mackenzie, Bresnahan and Meuser endorsements posted that day, with phrases shared word for word
- Signature block 'President DONALD J. TRUMP' and a campaign GOTV URL
- Capitals fall on slogans, not emotional bursts
- No topic drift, homophone errors or self-interruption

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

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

Strongest facet: Low agreeableness (antagonism toward the opponent) paired with assertive endorsement

**Motives:**
- Agency: 75%
- Communion: 25%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** Patron-commander whose allies are measured by loyalty ('working tirelessly with me')
- **Arc:** contamination
- **Contrasting:** Janelle Stelson and the 'Dumocrats'

**Identity Claims:**
- Source of popular tax gains (NO TAX ON TIPS/OVERTIME/SOCIAL SECURITY)
- Head of a movement that confers legitimacy by endorsement

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Final-weekend midterm endorsement batch for Pennsylvania House races)

Sentiment: +0.20

### Clinical

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

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

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

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Second-person address to voters: 'your Children,' 'HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN'
- Personal endorsement as a stamp of legitimacy: 'my Complete and Total Endorsement'

## Fact Checks (5)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-10-31; a recheck of the unverifiable ones last ran 2026-10-31._

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

**TRUE**

Perry has represented PA-10 since its 2019 renumbering and retired from the Pennsylvania Army National Guard as a brigadier general in 2019.

Sources: House of Representatives biographical record; Pennsylvania National Guard

> Janelle Stelson is Perry's opponent

**TRUE**

Stelson, a former WGAL anchor, lost to Perry by about 1.3 points in 2024 and launched a 2025 rematch campaign as the Democratic frontrunner for the May 2026 primary. The post's framing matches her being the nominee.

Sources: Pennsylvania Department of State 2024 results; 2025 campaign announcement coverage

> No Tax on Tips, No Tax on Overtime, and No Tax on Social Security exist as current policy

**HALF TRUE**

The July 2025 reconciliation law created capped deductions for qualified tips and overtime pay through 2028. For Social Security it added a temporary $6,000 deduction for taxpayers 65 and over and did not exempt benefits from tax, so the third item is overstated.

Sources: Public Law 119-21 (One Big Beautiful Bill Act); IRS guidance on the senior deduction

> Stelson opposes these tax provisions and wants massive tax increases and open borders

**UNVERIFIABLE**

The post cites no statement by Stelson. Partisan characterizations such as 'open borders' and 'massive Tax Increases' would need her stated platform to grade, and it was not checked here.

> If Democrats win, these tax provisions will be terminated

**MOSTLY FALSE**

This is a prediction, but the law and the parties' stated positions as of the post date (Oct. 31, 2026) make it very unlikely.

The provisions already end on their own: the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Public Law 119-21, signed July 4, 2025) created the tips deduction (up to $25,000), the overtime-premium deduction (up to $12,500 single or $25,000 joint) and the $6,000 senior deduction for tax years 2025 through 2028 only. IRS guidance, FindLaw and FactCheck.org all confirm they "all expire after 2028." Under current law they end after 2028 whoever wins, because of how the Republican bill was written.

Democrats can't repeal them alone: the Nov. 3, 2026 midterm cannot change the presidency, and Trump serves until January 2029. A Democratic House, or even a Democratic Congress, would need Trump's signature or a two-thirds veto override to repeal anything before the provisions lapse.

No repeal effort exists: searches found no Democratic proposal to repeal the tips, overtime or senior deductions. FactCheck.org (Oct. 8, 2026) reports that many Democrats say they support these provisions. Democrats have filed bills to expand them, such as covering automatic gratuities and more overtime workers, and the "You Earned It, You Keep It Act" to permanently end federal tax on Social Security benefits. The Senate passed the No Tax on Tips Act by unanimous consent on May 20, 2025, after Democrat Jacky Rosen brought it to the floor. Stelson herself pledges to vote to make the tips and overtime breaks permanent.

The kernel of truth: every House Democrat voted against the OBBBA as a package, and some Democrats want to repeal its tax cuts for top earners. That gives the attack a narrow basis. Even so, voting against a package bill is not a plan to end these specific provisions.

The analysis was done the same day as the post, so no hindsight was used.

Sources: https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/one-big-beautiful-bill-act-tax-deductions-for-working-americans-and-seniors; https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/law-and-life/many-of-the-obbbas-most-popular-new-tax-provisions-expire-in-2028/; https://www.factcheck.org/2026/10/misleading-gop-attacks-over-taxes-on-tips-overtime-social-security/; https://www.yahoo.com/news/senate-unanimously-passes-no-tax-234300039.html; https://atr.org/every-house-democrat-just-voted-against-these-tax-cuts/; https://cloud.house.gov/frequently-asked-questions-tax-changes-2026-and-the-one-big-beautiful-bill; https://www.adp.com/spark/articles/2025/07/hr-1-the-one-big-beautiful-bill-act-enacted-july-4-2025.aspx; https://janellestelson.com/faq/; https://keystonenewsroom.com/news/elections/janelle-stelson-plan-col/

Overall Veracity: 64%

## Tags

- endorsement (90%)
- midterms-2026 (80%)
- templated-batch (80%)
- splitting (60%)
- loyalty-framing (60%)
- dumocrat (50%)
- fear-appeal (50%)

## 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). Congressman Scott Perry is a tremendous... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117536879575938742
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Congressman Scott Perry is a tremendous Representative for..." Truth Social, 31 Oct. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117536879575938742. Accessed 1 Nov. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Congressman Scott Perry is a tremendous Representative for...," Truth Social, October 31, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117536879575938742.

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