In mid-January 2025, a screenshot circulated online purportedly showing an X post by U.S. President Donald Trump in which he called for a return to Prohibition-era America, when the country's lawmakers outlawed alcohol from 1920 to 1933 under the 18th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. (The 21st Amendment repealed Prohibition.)
The image appeared on Instagram, Reddit and Threads, where the latter user wrote: "Do it Trump. I can a get behind this. lol, His supporters would go crazy." Trump's alleged X post read:
A very disturbing thing is happening all across our once great country. RAGING ALCOHOLICS everywhere. Bars packed, bottles flowing, nobody working, nobody focused. Weak leaders allowed it to spiral completely out of control. Families destroyed, productivity GONE, streets a mess. Nobody wants to say it, but I will.
If this continues, maybe it's time to seriously look at the 18th Amendment Prohibition, to ban alcohol permanently. America was stronger, safer, and sharper before the drinking culture took over. We don't need hangovers —we need GREATNESS. LET'S MAKE AMERICA SOBER AGAIN!
(Threads)
Based on a search of Trump's social media platforms and an archive of his posts, the president never posted the above comments on X about banning alcohol and reintroducing Prohibition. Similarly, a Google search showed no credible news media outlets reported on the alleged post, which would likely have been the case if it were real. There were also several signs the X post in the screenshot was not authentic, as explained below. As such, we have rated the image as fake.
Despite multiple reverse-image searches, we were unable to determine the original creator of the screenshot.
While the fake post appeared to mimic the format of an X post, Trump had not, as of this writing, posted on the social media platform since Dec. 24, 2025.
A comparison between a different, authentic Trump X post and the alleged post about Prohibition highlighted numerous signs that the latter was fake, as shown in the image below.
(X / Snopes Illustration)
The pink rectangle shows the color of Trump's verification badge was wrong in the fake post (it should have been a darker gray) and the spacing between the letters in "Donald" was different from the authentic post; the red circle shows there was no Grok "Explain this post" button (an artificial intelligence tool for analyzing X posts) in the fake post; the blue rectangle shows there was no post-views data in the fake post; lastly, the green rectangle shows there was no "Share" button in the fake post, which also included the words "Retweets," "Quote Tweets" and "Likes" (these words are not included in the authentic post).
Additionally, after billionaire Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022 and changed its name to X, posts were no longer officially called tweets.
As of early 2026, Trump was posting much more frequently on Truth Social, the social media platform he owns. However, a search of his Truth Social posts using Trump's Truth, a website that archives all of Trump's Truth Social posts — whether deleted or not — found no posts matching the one circulating online.
The post also contradicted the Trump administration's policies on alcohol. Federal dietary guidelines introduced on Jan. 7, 2026, abandoned previous recommendations to limit alcohol to one drink or less per day for women and two drinks or less per day for men, instead simply stating that people should "limit alcohol consumption for better health."