Did Trump share post attacking media personality JD Delay over calls to release unredacted Epstein files?

In April 2026, an image spread online claiming to show a Truth Social post by U.S. President Donald Trump attacking media personality JD Delay over his calls to release unredacted versions of the federal government's files related to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

A screenshot of Trump's alleged post shared on X (archived) and Threads (archived) read, in part, that Delay "cares more about a few dozen raped little girls than he does about our greatest ally, Israel, and the BOOMING economy I have created." The full text of the purported post is as follows:

This low IQ so called "podcaster" Jd Delay, who constantly demands that we release the entire, un-redacted Epstein files, is NOT MAGA. He's NOT a patriot! He cares more about a few dozen raped little girls than he does about our greatest ally, Israel, and the BOOMING economy I have created. Some would say the greatest economy of all time. Just look at the DOW. Jd Delay has been nothing but a cut rate critic of our heroic FBI director, Kash Patel. Whose girlfriend is a country music sensation, definitely NOT an Israeli honeypot. Kash has done great work redacting the names of Epstein's rich and powerful co-defendants, and burying the other half of the Democrat hoax files. No true patriot cares about little American girls. They care about Israel and the DOW. Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT

(X user @JDDelay5150)

Snopes readers emailed us and searched our website to determine whether the post was authentic.

However, the post was fake. Searches of Trump's Truth Social account and an archive of his posts on the website Trump's Truth (archived) found no evidence that he shared it. An archive of Trump's posts from Roll Call, a news source covering Capitol Hill, did not display such a post, either.  

Additionally, searches for sections of the quote on Google (archived), Bing (archived) and DuckDuckGo (archived) returned no results for news coverage of Trump making such a statement. Credible news outlets would have covered the alleged post by Trump if it were authentic. That was not the case.

We traced the earliest version of the image back to an X post (archived) from Delay's account on April 20, 2026. He shared the fabricated screenshot with the caption, "IDGAF! RELEASE THE FILES. EXECUTE ALL PEDOPHILES."

IDGAF! RELEASE THE FILES. EXECUTE ALL PEDOPHILES. pic.twitter.com/SFqgTaDajm

— JD Delay (@JdDelay5150) April 20, 2026

Snopes reached out to Delay to confirm whether he created the fake screenshot and, if so, what tools he used. We will update this story if we receive a response.

According to his talent management agency, Leviathan Tribe, Delay was a "career criminal" who now works as a "recovery coach" to help people struggling with addiction.  Delay has been critical of the Trump administration and Israel, and frequently posts about the release of the Epstein files on his social media pages. 

For further reading, Snopes has previously covered other fake Trump Truth Social posts, including one in which he supposedly attacked Pope Leo XIV.