In a March 4, 2025, speech to Congress, U.S. President Donald Trump claimed that Social Security government databases list millions of people over 100 years old, many of whom are collecting payments from the monthly federal income program for retirees, people with disabilities and those with a deceased spouse or parent.
"We're also identifying shocking levels of incompetence and probable fraud in the Social Security program for our seniors," Trump said, adding: "Believe it or not, government databases list 4.7 million Social Security members from people aged 100 to 109."
He then continued to list improbably old-age ranges and figures, in the millions, that purportedly represent the number of people in the system labeled as that age, and then ended with a claim that "one person is listed at 360 years of age." A video of his full comments on Social Security during this speech is available on PBS' YouTube page.
The numbers Trump cited appeared to match a screenshot Elon Musk, tech billionaire and public face of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), posted on X (archived), the social media platform he owns, allegedly showing people marked as alive in the Social Security database at impossibly high ages.