Did President Donald Trump post to Truth Social that New Zealand and Congo were both "Third World Countries" and that the Democrats were launching a "meme" coin? No, that's not true: Images of such a post circulating on social media appear to have been falsified, indicated by the inconsistent use of upper and lower case "K" in the engagement counts. The post, also denigrating "Lyin' Chuck Schumer" and "Alex Soros (Little Georgie)", was not present on Trump's Truth Social account and Google hadn't indexed a post like that at the time of writing.
An example of the image appeared in a post on X (archived here) published on February 14, 2025. The text in the image read:
Lyin' Chuck Schumer is at it again - with the help of Alex Soros (Little Georgie) scheming to undo all the GREAT WORK my administration is doing to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! We found thousands of cases of fraud, waste, and bad for them, receipts. Little Georgie funneled millions and billions of taxpayer dollars to Third World Countries like New Zealand and Congo. And now it's being reported that Democrats have created a "meme" coin - but that will fail like all of their other pathetic attempts to profit off the American people. Americans are smart and won't fall for the coin. MAGA!
(Source: image downloaded from x.com by Lead Stories on February 15, 2025 at 10:44:10 UTC)
Lead Stories reviewed Donald Trump's account on Truth Social (archived here) and did not see a post like this published on February 13 as the screenshot said.
A Google search for the phrase "taxpayer dollars to Third World Countries like New Zealand and Congo" limited to links containing truthsocial.com/@realdonaldtrump (using the "site:" search operator) returned no results (archived here), indicating Google didn't recently index such a post.
All screenshots of the supposed post reviewed by Lead Stories showed exactly the same number of ReTruths ("1.8k") and Likes ("6.4K"), inconsistently using an upper and a lower case "k". Truth Social uses lower case "k" in counts like these. If the post were real there would likely be more screenshots circulating showing different Like and ReTruth counts.
