# Post x_1308870688485388300

- Post ID: `x_1308870688485388300`
- Platform: X (Twitter)
- Posted: 2020-09-24T00:47:44.000Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/x_1308870688485388300
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/x_1308870688485388300/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/x_1308870688485388300.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Scott Fitzgerald (@FitzgeraldForWI) will be a tremendous Congressman for the State of Wisconsin! He is Strong on Jobs and Life, wants to Lower Your Taxes, and he will always Defend your Second Amendment. Scott has my Complete and Total Endorsement! #WI05 https://t.co/r5p9JdCKWS

## Engagement

- Likes: 0
- Reposts: 7,165
- Replies: 0
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:33:24.834Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-19T14:57:10.776Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Analysis: Endorsement Post — Scott Fitzgerald (WI-05), September 23, 2020

## Authorship Attribution

**Assessment: Aide-written (high confidence)**

Posted at **20:47 EDT** on September 23 — well within business/early-evening hours, not the 10 PM–6 AM authentic window. More diagnostically, this is one of **at least five structurally identical endorsement posts** published the same day for candidates in Wisconsin, Kansas, Alabama (×2), and Iowa. The posts share a fixed template:

> *[Name] will be a [superlative] Congressman for [State]! He is [issue stack]. [Name] has my Complete and Total Endorsement! #[district]*

No typos, no stream-of-consciousness drift, no all-caps emotional passages, no personal grievance. The campaign hashtag (#WI05) signals organized staff operation. The phrase "Complete and Total Endorsement" has been absorbed into Scavino-era aide vocabulary as a recognized Trumpian signature — its verbatim recurrence across all five posts confirms templated production. This is a batch endorsement operation by campaign staff working from prepared candidate briefs.

## Psychological State

**Trigger type: Maintenance / kingmaker ritual**

No narcissistic injury, rage, or defensive activation is evident. The psychological significance of this post lies at the structural level: the endorsement ritual performs Trump's self-concept as *ultimate arbiter of Republican legitimacy* — a grandiose but ambient expression, not reactive. Malignant narcissism indicators are near-floor for this content type.

## Personality (Multi-Level Framework)

**Level 1 — Dispositional Traits:**
Extraversion (assertiveness, positive affect) is modestly expressed through superlatives. Other Big Five dimensions are not meaningfully activated by this formulaic content.

**Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations:**
Agency motives dominate: the endorsement enacts *power* (I decide who is legitimate) and *status* (candidates seek my blessing). Communion motives are absent.

**Level 3 — Narrative Identity:**
- **Protagonist role:** Kingmaker / patron. Trump does not appear in this narrative as fighter or victim — he appears as sovereign bestowing legitimacy.
- **Contrasting other:** None specified; no outgroup invoked.
- **Narrative sequence:** Neutral — neither redemption nor contamination arc.

## Rhetorical Techniques

The post's most interesting device is a **mid-sentence address shift**: "He is Strong on Jobs and Life, wants to Lower *Your* Taxes, and he will always Defend *your* Second Amendment." The pronoun pivot fuses candidate and Trump into a unified source of voter benefit, collapsing the intermediary. The issue stack (Jobs / Life / Taxes / Second Amendment) is a compressed tribal checklist hitting economic, social-conservative, fiscal, and gun-rights constituencies in sequence — competent campaign craft.

## Clinical Indicators

None salient. This is institutionally produced content with no behavioral signal of Trump's psychological state at time of posting.

## Cognitive Status

Not assessable from aide-drafted templated content. No meaningful comparison to baseline possible.

## Context

September 23–24, 2020 was a period of extraordinary political pressure: Amy Coney Barrett's nomination was being finalized (announced September 26), the Breonna Taylor grand jury decision had just sparked national protests, COVID deaths had surpassed 200,000, and Trump was trailing in Pennsylvania polls. None of this context surfaces in this post — consistent with staff-drafted campaign maintenance content operating on a pre-scheduled endorsement calendar independent of real-time events.

## Danger Assessment

**None.** Routine electoral endorsement with no threat language, dehumanization, or mobilization elements.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Scott Fitzgerald will be a Congressman for Wisconsin" | **True** | Scott Fitzgerald won WI-05 in November 2020, succeeding Jim Sensenbrenner who retired. |
| "He is Strong on Jobs and Life, wants to Lower Your Taxes, and will Defend your Second Amendment" | **Unverifiable** | These are characterizations of candidate positions, not verifiable factual claims. They are campaign assertions. |

Overall Veracity: 75%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 15%)

### Indicators

- Posted at 20:47 EDT (UTC-4) on September 23 — early evening, not late-night authentic window
- One of at least five structurally identical endorsement posts published in tight succession on the same date (WI, KS, AL-01, AL-02, IA)
- Correct grammar, no typos, no stream-of-consciousness drift
- Campaign hashtag (#WI05) signals organized staff operation
- Polished superlative formula — 'Complete and Total Endorsement' — appears verbatim across all five posts, indicating templated copy

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance

Sentiment: +0.65

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 20%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 20%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- kingmaker positioning — signals to base that Trump controls Republican electoral destiny
- shared identity through candidate proxy — 'he will always Defend your Second Amendment' addresses follower directly

## Fact Checks (2)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-19._

> Scott Fitzgerald will be a Congressman for Wisconsin

**TRUE**

Scott Fitzgerald won WI-05 in November 2020, succeeding Jim Sensenbrenner who retired.

Sources: general knowledge — 2020 election results

> He is Strong on Jobs and Life, wants to Lower Your Taxes, and will Defend your Second Amendment

**UNVERIFIABLE**

These are characterizations of candidate positions, not verifiable factual claims. They are campaign assertions.

Overall Veracity: 75%

## Tags

- endorsement (100%)
- aide-authored (90%)
- batch-operation (85%)
- kingmaker (70%)
- campaign-maintenance (90%)
- value-stacking (60%)
- Wisconsin (50%)

## That day

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

**Pre-dawn rage spike over Louisville shootings bookends an otherwise routine campaign day as 200K COVID deaths go unmentioned**

The day was dominated by routine campaign activity — a rapid-fire batch of congressional endorsements in the evening, sunny swing-state optimism, and standard attacks on Biden. The most notable moment came in the pre-dawn hours, when Trump responded to the shooting of two Louisville police officers during Breonna Taylor protests with a measured statement of support, followed 90 minutes later by a terse, all-caps "LAW & ORDER!" — the day's only flash of anger. The afternoon brought cherry-picked polling numbers, a "low energy" Biden attack recycled from 2016, and a Hunter Biden corruption allegation. Strikingly absent from all 19 posts was any acknowledgment that the U.S. had just crossed 200,000 COVID-19 deaths — a historic milestone that went completely unaddressed.

Full digest for 2020-09-24: https://trump.fm/date/2020-09-24/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2020, September 24). Scott Fitzgerald (@FitzgeraldForWI) will be a... [Social media post]. X (Twitter). trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/x_1308870688485388300
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Scott Fitzgerald (@FitzgeraldForWI) will be a tremendous..." X (Twitter), 24 Sep. 2020. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1308870688485388300. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Scott Fitzgerald (@FitzgeraldForWI) will be a tremendous...," X (Twitter), September 24, 2020, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/x_1308870688485388300.

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