Each year on the Monday after Easter, the White House hosts its Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn, allowing families with children to come and participate based on a lottery. The 2026 Easter Egg Roll drew attention more for what U.S. President Donald Trump said to the participants than it did for its festivities.
For example, one Facebook post (archived) claimed Trump called former Vice President Kamala Harris a "low IQ person," talked about his claim that former President Joe Biden used an autopen while in office and discussed developments in the ongoing Iran war in front of children during the event.
Posts about Trump saying any combination of those things during the April 6, 2026, Easter Egg Roll also spread on TikTok (archived), Threads and Instagram (archived). Snopes readers searched the site and emailed us wondering if the claims were true.
Trump did talk about these various things during the event. While only his comments about Biden's autopen were actually directed to the children, they were present for each topic he discussed. Therefore, we've rated this claim as correctly attributed.
All of Trump's remarks were captured on a White House livestream posted to its YouTube channel (archived). We will reference that video and its timestamps for this fact check.
Quote about Harris
Trump brought up Harris while speaking to visiting families on his way to the egg roll itself. This can be heard at about the 32:15 mark, following a question he asked about people in the egg industry voting for him. He said:
How did I do with the voters that do eggs? Did you say 100% or 90%? Did anybody in the egg industry vote for Kamala? A low IQ — she's a low-IQ person. Who's a lower-IQ person, Biden or Kamala? I think that's probably the toughest question. That's a tough question.
Trump did not mention Harris again.
Quotes about Biden
Not only did Trump reference Biden in the above quote, he brought the former president up again, specifically remarking on his use of an autopen (an automatic signing device), when he joined a group of kids at a coloring station.
While speaking to the children, Trump referred to Biden's autopen use twice. The first time is around the 47:10 mark, when a child replied with "What?" While Trump's words were difficult to make out because of background noise, the exchange between Trump and the child, as heard in the audio of the video, sounded like:
TRUMP: Biden, he used the autopen.
CHILD (in back left as seen in White House video): What?
TRUMP: He had an autopen [unclear; could be "problem" or "following him"]. He was incapable of [unclear; could be "signing his name"].
While the audio isn't clear enough to pick out Trump's exact words after that, he appeared to tell the children that people followed Biden around with a big pen called an autopen, and that he'd take a paper, pass it to these people, and have them sign the papers for him. (Snopes has previously fact-checked Trump's claims about Biden and autopens.)
Trump again brought it up at about the 57:32 mark by joking, "Is there an autopen around, please?" when asked to sign something for one of the children.
Quotes about the Iran war
Trump spoke about the Iran war several times during the event. The first was when he spoke to the lawn as a whole, including the children, and brought up the downed U.S. fighter pilots rescued from Iran. That's at the 3:00 mark of the White House's video. At that point, Trump hadn't yet directly mentioned bombing Iran, although he seemed to suggest it:
You don't mind when the enemy is weak, but that enemy is strong. Not so strong like they were about a month ago. I can tell you in fact right now they're not too strong at all in my opinion. But we're soon going to find out, aren't we?
At the 20:54 mark, Trump began to walk toward where the White House's visitors were set to participate in the egg hunt, but stopped almost immediately to answer media questions. At 44:55, Trump turned toward a crowd of families to say, "Tomorrow is going to be infrastructure day in Iran." He then repeated that sentence seconds later.
At the 1:03:26 mark, Trump walked away from the kids' coloring station to talk to some of the reporters nearby, one of whom opened with a question about the Iran war:
REPORTER: Mr. President, how would it not be a war crime to strike Iran's bridges and power plants?
TRUMP: Because they killed 45,000 people in the last month, more than that, could be as much as 60[,000]. They killed protesters. They're animals. And we have to stop them and we can't let them have a nuclear weapon. Very simple. They want a nuclear weapon. They've been trying for a long time. I stopped them with the Obama horrible Iran nuclear deal. I stopped them in a lot of different ways. Got rid of Soleimani, the evil genius. He was an evil genius. We got rid of him. And then we stopped it with the B-2 bombers not so long ago. And if we didn't do it, Israel and the Middle East would have been extinguished by that.
After that, Trump answered multiple other questions regarding the Iran war for the next eight minutes. He then answered a question about NASA's Artemis II mission; the mission's crew was flying around the moon at the time.