Following Memorial Day, a federal holiday honoring service members who have died while serving in the U.S. armed forces, a screenshot (archived) circulated online that appeared to show a Truth Social post by President Donald Trump in which he wrote an all-caps message wishing a happy Memorial Day to, among others, "the scum that spent the last four years trying to destroy our country."
The screenshot also appeared on Facebook (archived), Bluesky (archived), Reddit (archived) and TikTok (archived), while similar claims were posted on Threads (archived) and Instagram (archived). Snopes readers also emailed to ask whether the image showed an authentic post.
In short, the message was posted on Trump's Truth Social profile (archived) and was still live at the time of this writing. Therefore, we have rated this claim as true.
The full message read:
HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY TO ALL, INCLUDING THE SCUM THAT SPENT THE LAST FOUR YEARS TRYING TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY THROUGH WARPED RADICAL LEFT MINDS, WHO ALLOWED 21,000,000 MILLION PEOPLE TO ILLEGALLY ENTER OUR COUNTRY, MANY OF THEM BEING CRIMINALS AND THE MENTALLY INSANE,THROUGH AN OPEN BORDER THAT ONLY AN INCOMPETENT PRESIDENT WOULD APPROVE, AND THROUGH JUDGES WHO ARE ON A MISSION TO KEEP MURDERERS, DRUG DEALERS, RAPISTS, GANG MEMBERS, AND RELEASED PRISONERS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, IN OUR COUNTRY SO THEY CAN ROB, MURDER, AND RAPE AGAIN — ALL PROTECTED BY THESE USA HATING JUDGES WHO SUFFER FROM AN IDEOLOGY THAT IS SICK, AND VERY DANGEROUS FOR OUR COUNTRY. HOPEFULLY THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, AND OTHER GOOD AND COMPASSIONATE JUDGES THROUGHOUT THE LAND, WILL SAVE US FROM THE DECISIONS OF THE MONSTERS WHO WANT OUR COUNTRY TO GO TO HELL. BUT FEAR NOT, WE HAVE MADE GREAT PROGRESS OVER THE LAST 4 MONTHS, AND AMERICA WILL SOON BE SAFE AND GREAT AGAIN! AGAIN, HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY, AND GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Some social media users criticized the president for failing to directly pay respect to fallen soldiers in his message.
However, Trump did memorialize the nation's fallen soldiers at a later address at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
Snopes has addressed numerous claims relating to Memorial Day in the past, including a rumor that the federal holiday was created by former slaves to honor dead Union soldiers who fought in the American Civil War.