President Donald Trump was at it once more.
On Monday night time, Trump launched into one among his periodic late-night social media posting sprees. As traditional, his dozens of posts and reposts had been affected by debunked conspiracy theories and different wildly inaccurate claims – a lot of them about previous presidential elections and his Democratic foes, notably together with former President Barack Obama.
Trump’s posting continued on Tuesday morning. So did his wrongness.
Right here’s a short fact-check breakdown of simply among the content material to which readers of his Fact Social feed had been handled between about 10pm on Monday and about 8am on Tuesday.
An imaginary quote attributed to a Republican senator
The president shared a pro-Trump commentator’s social media submit that featured a supposed assault on Obama from Republican Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana. However the “Kennedy” quote is totally imaginary.
Within the pretend quote, “Kennedy” demanded that Obama return $120 million that the previous president supposedly earned (however truly didn’t) in connection along with his Obamacare well being care regulation. The very fact-check web site Lead Tales reported in February that the pretend quote “originated with a satire net writer who baits conservatives into re-posting pretend tales” and that the confusingly worded accusation about Obama that the submit put in Kennedy’s mouth – “He allotted cash beneath his personal legal guidelines utilizing taxpayer-generated status” – has additionally been baselessly attributed to varied different public figures, from FBI Director Kash Patel to singers Vince Gill and Madonna.
Kennedy instructed the publication NOTUS after Trump’s submit: “Any person instructed me there was one thing floating round on the web about me accusing President Obama of stealing $120 million or one thing. I didn’t say that. I don’t know the idea of it.”
A number of false conspiracy theories about Obama
President Barack Obama speaks throughout a information convention concerning a nuclear take care of Iran, within the East Room of the White Home on July 15, 2015. – Alex Wong/Getty Photographs/File
False conspiracy theories about Obama have lengthy been a staple of Trump’s reposts on social media. This posting spree featured a bunch extra.
Trump shared a submit – from an account utilizing the title and picture of the late John F. Kennedy Jr. – that mentioned, “Barack Hussein Obama wiretapping Trump Tower throughout the 2016 election was one million instances worse than something Nixon did throughout Watergate. It’s time to arrest the Renegade.” (“Renegade” is Obama’s Secret Service codename.)
However there isn’t a proof anyone wiretapped Trump Tower throughout the 2016 election, not to mention that Obama himself did so. In 2017, throughout the first Trump presidency, the Justice Division mentioned in a courtroom submitting that it had no information to help Trump’s declare earlier that 12 months of Trump Tower having been wiretapped in 2016.
Throughout this posting spree, Trump additionally shared one other false conspiracy submit that included a hyperlink to an internet web page full of lies concerning the Obama administration. These included false claims that former secretary of state Hillary Clinton had used her non-public electronic mail server to promote top-secret info to overseas entities, that Obama had ordered a coverup, and that 9 of 13 New York law enforcement officials making an attempt to reveal the reality “dedicated suicide or died in suspicious circumstances.” For good measure, the web page added a lie that Obama had a “Start Certificates Scandal” proving he was by no means eligible to be president.
As well as, Trump shared a video wherein Tulsi Gabbard, now his director of nationwide intelligence, baselessly claimed in 2024 that Obama and Clinton, amongst others, made selections for former President Joe Biden’s administration. Trump shared one other submit that baselessly alleged Obama had “commissioned the Intelligence Neighborhood to falsify intelligence” and baselessly instructed he’s responsible of treason. And Trump shared a video wherein a conservative commentator baselessly claimed Obama was a “Computer virus for the Marxists” and has made a deliberate try “to destroy America from inside.”
In depth mendacity concerning the 2020 election
No Trump conspiracy blitz can be full with out copious mendacity concerning the 2020 presidential election that he misplaced.
Amongst different falsehood-filled posts this time, Trump shared one from his former nationwide safety adviser Michael Flynn wherein Flynn falsely claimed “The 2020 Election was Stolen.” (Trump misplaced honest and sq. to Biden.) Trump shared a submit that – citing a shoddy information report from right-wing community One America Information – falsely claimed Dominion voting know-how had “DELETED 2.7 MILLION TRUMP VOTES NATIONWIDE. INCLUDING OVER 1 MILLION PENNSYLVANIA VOTES SWITCHED FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP TO BIDEN.” (None of this occurred.) And he shared a submit that based mostly its false declare of a “stolen 2020 election” on pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell’s false claims about Dominion and different entities.
A baseless assertion that The New York Instances is dropping subscribers
The New York Instances constructing in New York, on September 16, 2025. – Michael M. Santiago/Getty Photographs
In a submit criticizing a New York Instances article about how the price of his Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool undertaking is greater than seven instances greater than the “about $1.8 million” determine he cited final week, Trump baselessly claimed that the Instances is shortly dropping subscribers: “The Failing New York Instances, which is among the worst newspapers wherever within the World, and is dropping subscribers on an hourly foundation, is now at it once more.”
Trump is entitled to his opinion on the Instances’ high quality, nevertheless it’s a proven fact that the Instances has been steadily gaining subscribers on a internet foundation, not dropping them, although it definitely has some cancelations. The paper reported final week: “The Instances has added a median of 330,000 complete subscribers 1 / 4, together with print, because the begin of final 12 months” and “now has 13.1 million subscribers…after including about 310,000 digital-only subscribers within the first quarter of the 12 months.”
We don’t have entry to hour-by-hour figures, however there’s no accessible proof for Trump’s suggestion that the paper is quickly shedding clients.
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