The purpose of this essay has been to investigate how the Trust Delegation constructs trust-based governance and leadership in the delegation's main report SOU 2018:47, and how this construction is reflected in municipal governance models. To answer the purpose of the essay, the main report and municipal governance models have been processed using a discourse methodological work process to then identify discourses that together construct trust-based governance and are reflected in the governance models. The discourses identified in the main report have then been analyzed from a governmentality perspective and Czarniawska's linguistic artifacts. The results show that the construction of trust-based governance and management is based on discourses about trust, the citizen, the leader, the employee, control, and dialogue. Of these discourses, dialogue is primarily reflected in all governance models, while the discourses about the citizen and the employee are present but to a lesser extent. The conclusion shows that trust-based governance, on the one hand, can be seen as a normative framework that shapes subjects, controls behavior, and forms an understanding of how governance and control are understood and exercised. On the other hand, it can be seen as an example of a management language that, through linguistic artifacts, creates a modernized version of New Public Management with trust as the new guiding principle.