Did journalists report President-elect Donald Trump responded negatively to TikTok trends urging people "to bring kazoos, recorders, and vuvuzelas to interrupt his speech" at the January 20, 2025, inauguration? No, that's not true: The story originated from an account on X with a satire label stating that it doesn't "report the facts." No information about this supposed post has been reported on the website of any news outlets indexed by Google News, nor is there a record of Trump making such a statement on social media.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) on Threads published on December 24, 2024. It opened:
BREAKING: Donald Trump is reportedly furious that several TikTok trends are going viral urging everyone who can attend his inaugural address to bring kazoos, recorders, and vuvuzelas to interrupt his speech. Trump
This is what the post looked like on Threads at the time of writing:
(Source: Threads screenshot taken on Mon Dec 30 15:56:45 2024 UTC)
Story originated on a self-described satire profile
The story originated on December 15, 2024, in a post from a self-described satire account on X (archived here) whose bio line, in part, reads (archived here):
Halfway true comedy and satire by @DashMacIntyre. I don't report the facts...
The respective website describes (archived here) its author as "a comedian, satirist, and poet from St. Louis."
No credible reports of Trump having made such a statement exist.
Google searches across websites indexed by Google News for the keywords seen here (archived here), here (archived here) and here (archived here) found no journalist published the purported report.
Google searches across Trump's account on Truth Social for the keywords seen here (archived here), here (archived here) and here (archived here) didn't show any indication that he commented on the topic in question. Lead Stories also searched Trump's Truth, the archive of his posts on Truth Social (archived here) for the word "inauguration", but that didn't lead to any posts referring to the supposed trend on TikTok.
Google searches across Trump's verified X account for the keywords seen here (archived here) and here (archived here) didn't produce any Trump statements on the topic. Lead Stories also searched Trump's account on X via the X advanced search tool (archived here), which didn't yield any proof.
A Google search across TikTok (archived here) for examples of the purported posts urging to bring noisy tools to interrupt Trump's inaugural address didn't show a trend related to the claim.
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