In mid-March 2025, a screenshot spread widely online purportedly showing a post from U.S. President Donald Trump's Truth Social account (archived).
Numerous Snopes readers also sent us the screenshot asking about its authenticity.
The alleged post read:
After I've annexed Greenland and making it the 52nd State, I will annexe Alaska. The people of Alaska don't want to be part of a backward nation in Canada. I will make all Alaskan's rich and prosperous when they become the 53rd State of our mighty country. Nobody in Greenland or Alaska would ever have dreamed of this under Crooked Joe Biden.
(Screenshot via X)
However, the screenshot is fake. There is no evidence that Trump posted the above message on Truth Social or any other social media account.
There were no examples of it on his Truth Social account. Likewise, it could not be found within archives of Trump's social media history kept by political news site Roll Call. A Google search of selected sections of the quote resulted in no authentic sources for the statement.
It was not clear where the fake statement was first posted or who created it. Another clue that the post was fake includes the format of the text being different from authentic Truth Social posts.
Furthermore, the claims in the fake post are factually incorrect. For example, Alaska is not part of Canada. It was proclaimed the 49th U.S. state in 1959.
On March 10, 2025, Trump posted a Fox News article about Alaska with the headline: "Alaska leaders cheer Trump oil and gas drilling executive order." In January 2025, Trump issued an executive order reversing limits on drilling activity imposed by former President Joe Biden and opening up oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Trump has called for the U.S. annexation of Greenland. In January 2025, he wrote on Truth Social:
I am hearing that the people of Greenland are "MAGA." My son, Don Jr, and various representatives, will be traveling there to visit some of the most magnificent areas and sights. Greenland is an incredible place, and the people will benefit tremendously if, and when, it becomes part of our Nation. We will protect it, and cherish it, from a very vicious outside World. MAKE GREENLAND GREAT AGAIN!
In March 2025, hundreds of Greenlanders gathered to protest Trump's stated goals of annexing the region. Greenland's incoming Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen told the media: "There is not the slightest chance that I will talk to Trump about Greenland becoming part of the US. Greenland will be Greenland."