On Nov. 5, 2025, following Democratic victories in gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey and the mayoral election in New York City, a claim (archived) circulated online that U.S. President Donald Trump wrote a post on his social network Truth Social condemning the victories and threatening Americans' voting rights.
Trump allegedly wrote (our emphasis):
SOME PEOPLE are trying to say this election is a "REFERENDUM" on ME - which it absolutely is NOT (but if it was, I WON, by a LOT!!!). They say "Oh, but Mandami in New York won," and "the governorships in New Jersey and Virginia turned blue," and even "Georgia's PUBLIC UTILITIES went Democrat for the first time in 25 YEARS!" Fake! All fake numbers! Rigged like you wouldn't believe. Those aren't even real states anymore - total disasters, run by people who don't appreciate GREATNESS when they see it. I am BIGLY. I will NOT go away. The people love me - the military loves me (the best generals, they all say "Sir, nobody's ever seen leadership like this"). And let me just say: if you keep voting this way, you might not be voting much longer!!! (JOKING - sort of!!!)
(Facebook user Cristian Ramirez)
The claim was most popular on Facebook (archived, archived) but also circulated on Threads (archived) and Instagram (archived). Snopes readers wrote in asking if Trump really wrote the alleged post.
A White House press office spokesperson said via email the post was fake. The alleged post did not appear on Trump's Truth Social feed on Nov. 5, which is when social media claims indicated Trump posted it, and it also did not appear on Trumpstruth.org, an online archive of Trump's Truth Social feed. Given the above, we rate the post fake.
The person who created the post likely used websites that can create fake social media posts. Though it appeared real, the post omitted a black, green and white Truth+ badge seen on posts on Trump's real feed.
Trump did post about the Nov. 4 elections on Truth Social, advising his followers against voting for Democratic candidates (archived, archived). On Nov. 3, Trump lambasted "Fake Polls" from the "Radical Left Media" while praising (archived) his own alleged high polling numbers "In the Fair Polls, and even the Reasonable Polls."