In early June 2025, online users claimed tech billionaire and CEO of X Elon Musk, who had recently left his role as White House adviser, suspended U.S. President Donald Trump's X account. Numerous posts on X and TikTok claimed Trump's personal X account, @realDonaldTrump, was no longer accessible on the platform.
The rumor went viral as Musk and Trump waged a war of words on their respective social media platforms, X and Truth Social.
Users spread the claim using purported screenshots of @realDonaldTrump's X profile with the label "Account suspended":
(X user @FreestyleW3)
The screenshot was either fake or altered and the claim was incorrect: As of this writing, Trump's X account was still active (archived), had not been suspended by Musk, and there was no credible evidence to the contrary.
We found archived copies of Trump's X profile from late evening on June 5 (the day the account was allegedly suspended) showing it was active at that time. Trump's most recent post was dated June 2. He continued to publish the majority of his posts on Truth Social.
Had Musk really suspended Trump from X, it would have been widely covered in the news media. As of June 5, the two men continued to target each other on their respective platforms (Musk on X, Trump on Truth Social).
This was a far cry from their previous social media relationship. In January 2021, before Musk purchased X (then called Twitter), Trump was suspended for violating the platform's policies by inciting a riot in the U.S. Capitol. Musk reinstated Trump's account soon after he bought Twitter in late 2022.
It's highly likely the above screenshots were taken when @realDonaldTrump was suspended in 2021 and the dates were altered. One of the screenshots shows only 88 million followers. As of this writing, Trump has around 105 million followers.
The billionaires' relationship deteriorated over disagreements about Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which Musk called a "disgusting abomination." On June 5, Musk posted on X that Trump "is in the [Jeffrey] Epstein files," and "That is the real reason they have not been made public." Musk also claimed Trump would have lost the 2024 presidential election without his support and reposted calls for Trump's impeachment.
For further reading, we checked the authenticity of Musk's critical and accusatory posts and analyzed the context around the claim Trump was mentioned in convicted sex offender Epstein's "black book."