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Did Trump post on Truth Social that Democrats used witchcraft and satanism to win the midterms?

Did Trump post on Truth Social that Democrats used 'witchcraft and satanism' to interfere in the 2026 midterms and that 'we WILL FIGHT these results'?

False

Trump never published that post — the screenshot's own date format gives it away.

FALSE. No such Truth Social post exists. Snopes searched the archive of Trump's Truth account for "WITCHCRAFT AND SATANISM" and found nothing, and the screenshot prints its date as "11/4/26" where real Truth Social posts render as "Nov 04, 2026". MEAWW found no matching post on any of Trump's official accounts.

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The post as it circulated, labelled by our media check.Image

Claims

✕ 2 false

Donald Trump posted on Truth Social on 4 November 2026: 'The Democrats and lunatic left have engaged in WITCHCRAFT AND SATANISM to interfere in our elections on a spiritual level!! America is ONE NATION UNDER GOD and we WILL FIGHT these results!'12

✕ FalseCentral claimHigh confidence

The decisive test is simple: does this text exist in Trump's own posting history? Snopes searched the Trump's Truth archive for the phrase 'WITCHCRAFT AND SATANISM' and returned nothing. MEAWW separately found no version of the statement on any of Trump's official accounts. The screenshot also carries an internal error that settles it without needing the archive: it displays the timestamp as '11/4/26, 12:27 PM', while genuine Truth Social posts render dates in the form 'Nov 04, 2026'. That is a formatting mismatch between the fake and the real interface it imitates. Two newsrooms reaching the same conclusion matters, but note their overlap: both checked the same archive, so they are not many independent witnesses. What makes the finding strong is that the underlying question is directly checkable by anyone — the post either exists on the public account or it does not. It does not. A reader should weigh that absence far more heavily than the screenshot's convincing look.

Trump is fighting the 2026 midterm election results24

✕ FalseModerate confidence

This claim rides on the same invented quote, so it fails with it. But there is a second layer: what did Trump actually say after the midterms? Newsweek reports that on election night he told the New York Times he was 'absolutely willing to accept those results' and would work with Democrats, and told Fox News 'I think the Democrats did a good job.' That is the opposite posture to 'we WILL FIGHT these results'. The confidence here is lower than for the central claim because the picture is not entirely one-note: the same reporting notes that Trump has since shared posts questioning vote totals. Sharing doubts about counts is not the same as declaring the results fraudulent or vowing to fight them, which is what the fake post puts in his mouth. Readers should hold both facts: the specific 'fight these results' line is fabricated, and the real post-election record is more mixed than either a full denial or a full acceptance.

Still open: How far Trump's later posts questioning vote totals went is described only in summary form in the reporting we used; we did not review those posts individually.

What was posted

X

An image posted on X, presented as a screenshot of a Truth Social post from the account @realDonaldTrump dated 11/4/26, 12:27 PM. The quoted text accuses "The Democrats and lunatic left" of engaging in "WITCHCRAFT AND SATANISM to interfere in our elections on a spiritual level" and says "we WILL FIGHT these results". The X user's own caption uses the image to insult Trump and question the judgment of the people who support him.

“At what point was supporting this delusional fucking idiot… Not a mental illness?”

The image spread from a Threads account before being reposted on X and Facebook, according to MEAWW and Prime Timer reporting. The X post adds no source for the screenshot.

Who posted it

X
@notavgliberal
View the account on X ↗

Account check

Looks like a genuine account42%
Likelihood of automation18%

Estimates from public signals — account age, posting pattern, audience — not a judgement of the person behind the account, and separate from whether this post is true.

What stood out

  • Anonymous hyper-partisan left-leaning commentary account ('Not Your Average Liberal'); no bio, display name, follower count or creation date supplied, so identity cannot be verified.
  • Long, continuous posting history visible in web results (at least Aug 2025 through Oct 2026), with account still active a few weeks before the assessment date — evidence of a persistent persona rather than a short-lived throwaway.
  • Regularly screenshotted/embedded and quoted as a 'critics on social media' voice by mainstream outlets (Yahoo News, The Poke, Economic Times/LA Times coverage) — indicates real reach and organic engagement.
  • Treated as an adversary by right-leaning outlets (PJ Media cited it in a piece on 'unhinged conspiracy theories'), typical of a genuinely influential partisan account rather than a spam bot.
  • Content style is human and idiosyncratic — profanity, first-person opinion, memes, video clips — not repetitive link-spam or templated text; no evidence found of bot-network or coordinated inauthentic behaviour attribution.
  • Reliability as a source is weak: mixes verifiable stories (MAGA dentist laughing-gas video, Michigan shooter identification, Dover dignified-transfer criticism) with unverified/conspiratorial claims (WHCA dinner shooting 'staged', 'Leavitt called the shooting beforehand', sweeping predictions of impeachment timelines).
  • No fact-checker ruling, suspension, or platform label found specifically against this handle; no blue check, so no identity verification on the platform.
  • Engagement-farming incentive structure on X (post volume, outrage framing, no sourcing links) limits trustworthiness even if the operator is a real person.
Signals (8)+
Posting cadence
High — multiple viral posts per week/month across 2025-2026
Follower ratio
Unknown (follower_count not provided)
Identity transparency
Anonymous persona; no name, bio, or disclosed affiliation
Notable news coverage
Quoted/embedded by Yahoo News, The Poke, Economic Times; attacked by PJ Media
Fact check history
None found against the account itself; several unverified conspiracy claims (staged WHCA shooting) surfaced in its posts
Content type
Partisan commentary, viral clips, screenshot aggregation
Bot network attribution
None found
Sample size note
Metadata fields empty and no recent_posts provided; assessment relies on web-search traces only

Account checked November 8, 2026, 03:00 UTC

The media

Image
EditedPresented as real footage· The claim depends on it

✓ What is genuine

The Truth Social interface itself is real — this is a real platform layout used to carry invented text, not an AI-drawn image. The political backdrop is also real: Democrats did win both the House and Senate in the November 2026 midterms.

The tells

  • ●●● Strong signal Timestamp reads '11/4/26, 12:27 PM'; real Truth Social posts render dates as 'Nov 04, 2026'.Snopes
  • ●●● Strong signal The quoted text does not appear anywhere in the archive of Trump's Truth Social account.Snopes
  • ●●● Strong signal No matching post on any of Trump's official accounts.MEAWW
  • ●●○ Supporting signal The screenshot's account reply layout does not match Trump's own posts, per the media review.our visual review
  • ●●○ Supporting signal Our detector scored the image at roughly 0.02% likelihood of AI generation, so this is not a synthetic picture.our detector

Synthetic-media detector

Detector ran

The claim stands or falls on whether the media is real, so the detector ran.

AI-generated likelihood0%
Deepfake likelihood0%

Scores are the detector’s estimate for the file as uploaded. A low score does not rule out editing, a spliced caption, or footage shown out of context — those are judged above. Model v3.

How we checked the media

  • Ran the image through our AI-generation detector (Hive v3).
  • Reviewed the screenshot visually: layout, account handle, timestamp format.
  • Compared the quoted text against the archive of Trump's Truth Social posts via Snopes' search.
  • Cross-checked with MEAWW and Prime Timer reporting on the image's spread and origin.

Sources

4 sources reviewed

Further reading

  • 1Snopes (via NewsBreak) The central fact check: the archive search and the date-format finding that settles the case.
  • 2MEAWW A second outlet's check across Trump's official accounts, plus his actual election-night comments.
  • 4Newsweek Documents what Trump really said and did after the midterms, the baseline the fake quote distorts.
  • 3Prime Timer (via NewsBreak) Reports where the fabricated image first appeared before it spread to X and Facebook.

The full story

The screenshot works because almost everything around the fake sentence is real. Truth Social is a real platform, @realDonaldTrump is a real account, and the midterms had just produced a genuine Democratic win in both the House and the Senate. A reader scrolling past sees a familiar blue-check-style layout, a familiar voice, and a political moment they already know happened. The only invented part is the sentence itself.

The invented sentence is also calibrated to sound like Trump at his most heated — capitalised phrases, "lunatic left", "ONE NATION UNDER GOD". That is why the archive check matters more than the vibe. Snopes looked for the distinctive phrase in Trump's Truth archive and found nothing, and spotted that the screenshot's date is printed in a form the platform does not use. MEAWW reached the same conclusion across Trump's official accounts.

What makes the fabrication sharper is how it diverges from what Trump actually said. On election night he told the New York Times he was "absolutely willing to accept those results" and told Fox News the Democrats "did a good job". The fake post puts the opposite words in his mouth and then invites readers to react to them.

Reporting traces the image to a Threads account before it spread to X and Facebook, where it travelled alongside other fabricated Trump posts.

Kernel of truth

Democrats did win both chambers of Congress in the November 2026 midterms, and Trump has since shared posts questioning vote totals — real context wrapped around a quote he never wrote.

Timeline

  1. November 3, 2026

    US midterm elections; Democrats win control of both the House and Senate.

  2. November 4, 2026

    Date printed on the fabricated Truth Social screenshot (11/4/26, 12:27 PM). 1Snopes (via NewsBreak)

  3. November 5, 2026

    Snopes publishes a fact check rating the screenshot fake. 1Snopes (via NewsBreak)

How it was framed

Fabricated contentImposter content

The quote attributed to Trump is wholly invented and placed inside a mock-up of a real Truth Social post, so the image both fabricates content and impersonates a genuine account and platform.

  • Emotional language. The X caption calls Trump a "delusional fucking idiot" and asks whether supporting him is "not a mental illness".
  • “Visual proof”. A screenshot formatted as a Truth Social post is offered as the only evidence for the quote.
  • Us vs. them. The fabricated text sets "The Democrats and lunatic left" against "ONE NATION UNDER GOD".
  • Missing context. No link, date or archive reference accompanies the screenshot.

Posted on X by the account @NotAvgLiberal. Reporting by MEAWW and Prime Timer says the image originated in a Threads post before being reposted on X and Facebook.

Bias

NoneSlightModerateStrong

Leans anti-Trump / partisan left. The post fuses a fabricated Trump quote with the poster's own insult ('delusional fucking idiot') to portray Trump supporters as mentally unwell, using a manufactured statement to make the point.

Bias describes how the post frames its message — the slant of the language, selection and emphasis — and is judged separately from whether the claim is true. A true claim can still be framed with a strong slant.

How we checked

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  1. 1

    Searched for the quoted text and the 'WITCHCRAFT AND SATANISM' phrasing to see whether the post or coverage of it existed.

  2. 2

    Reviewed Snopes' fact check, which searched the Trump's Truth archive and examined the screenshot's date format.

  3. 3

    Reviewed MEAWW's fact check, which checked Trump's official accounts.

  4. 4

    Reviewed Prime Timer's report on where the image first appeared.

  5. 5

    Reviewed Newsweek's reporting on Trump's actual post-election comments.

  6. 6

    Ran the image through our AI-generation detector.

  7. 7

    Visually reviewed the screenshot's layout, handle and timestamp.

✓ Claim checked✓ Media checked✓ Sources checked

Why 92% confidence

High

HIGH on the central claim: the question is directly checkable against a public archive, two fact-checking outlets reached the same result, and the screenshot contains an internal formatting error. The second claim sits at MODERATE because the real post-election record is mixed — Trump accepted the results on election night but has since shared posts questioning vote totals.

Limits. We did not open the pages ourselves; the archive search and account checks are reported by Snopes and MEAWW rather than repeated by us. We also did not review each of Trump's later posts questioning vote totals.

What we don’t know

  • Who created the original mock-up and why. Reporting points to a Threads account as the earliest upload but does not establish authorship of the image.
  • How many people saw the screenshot before fact checks circulated, and how far it travelled beyond X and Facebook.
  • Whether the account that posted it on X knew the screenshot was fake.

Spot it yourself

Spot the fake

Looks suspicious, isn’t proof

  • The account posting it is partisan and the caption is insulting. A rude messenger can still share a real document.
  • The screenshot looks clean and "too perfect" for a leak-style image. Polished layout is normal for a platform screenshot.
  • The quote is exactly the kind of thing partisans on both sides expect Trump to say. Expectation is not evidence.

The actual evidence

  • The phrase does not appear in Trump's Truth Social archive, which Snopes searched directly.
  • The timestamp is formatted '11/4/26, 12:27 PM'; real Truth Social posts use 'Nov 04, 2026'.
  • No version exists on any of Trump's official accounts, per MEAWW.
  • Trump's documented election-night comments — 'absolutely willing to accept those results' — contradict the 'we WILL FIGHT these results' line.
  1. 1

    Go to the account and scroll the date

    If a president posted this on a public account, the post would still be there. Search the account's own archive for a distinctive phrase like 'WITCHCRAFT AND SATANISM'.

  2. 2

    Inspect the interface details

    Compare the timestamp, handle and layout against a known real post from the same account. Platforms have consistent date formats; a mismatch is a strong signal.

  3. 3

    Ask who would be reporting it

    A statement this explosive from a major figure would be covered by many outlets within hours. If the only coverage is people debunking it, that tells you something.

  4. 4

    Trace the image backwards

    Run a reverse image search to find the earliest upload. Here that leads to a Threads account, not to Trump's page.

  5. 5

    Check what the person actually said

    Look for reporting on the real event — here, election-night interviews — and compare the claimed quote with the documented one.

Takeaway

A screenshot is a picture of a claim, not proof of one. When the supposed author has a public, searchable account, the post itself is the evidence — and its absence is decisive.

Questions people ask

Did Trump post that Democrats used witchcraft and satanism?+

No. Snopes searched the archive of Trump's Truth Social account for the phrase "WITCHCRAFT AND SATANISM" and found nothing, and MEAWW found no such post on any of Trump's official accounts. The screenshot is fabricated.

How can you tell the Truth Social screenshot is fake?+

Two ways. The quoted text does not exist in Trump's archive, and the timestamp reads "11/4/26, 12:27 PM" while real Truth Social posts display dates as "Nov 04, 2026". A real platform post would not use the wrong date format for its own site.

What did Trump actually say after the 2026 midterms?+

According to Newsweek, on election night he told the New York Times he was "absolutely willing to accept those results" and would work with Democrats, and told Fox News "I think the Democrats did a good job." He has since shared posts questioning vote totals, but did not declare the results fraudulent.

Where did the fake screenshot come from?+

MEAWW and Prime Timer report that the image spread from a Threads post before being reposted on X and Facebook, where it circulated alongside other fabricated Trump posts.

Why do fake screenshots of real platforms spread so easily?+

Because the platform, the account name and the political backdrop are all genuine. Only the words are invented, and a familiar layout makes the text look sourced. Checking the author's own public archive is usually enough to settle it.

Go deeper

Imposter content
Content that impersonates a genuine source — such as a real politician's account or a real news outlet — to make false material look authentic.
Fabricated content
Material that is entirely invented, with no real basis, and presented as if it were genuine.
Open-source verification
Checking a claim using publicly available material, such as an account's own posting history, rather than confidential sources.
Archive search
Searching a person's or outlet's historical posts for a specific phrase, the way Snopes searched the Trump's Truth archive.
Interface forensics
Examining a screenshot's design details — fonts, timestamps, buttons — to spot inconsistencies with the real platform.

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For educators+
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  • If a public figure's account is searchable, what does it mean when a viral post attributed to them cannot be found there?
  • Why might someone build a fake post inside a real platform layout rather than writing the quote as plain text?
  • How would you check a political screenshot before sharing it, in under two minutes?

About this check

Platform
X
Posted by
@notavgliberal
Posted
November 6, 2026
Age when checked
1–2 days old when checked
Where it spread
United States
Audience
US audience
Language
EN
Status
● Post is live
Verified
November 8, 2026, 03:01 UTC
Published
November 8, 2026, 03:01 UTC

Reach. 3,469 likes (x-syndication, 8 Nov 02:3xZ)

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