Did Donald Trump post a tweet on November 6, 2012, that read, "If the Dow drops 1,000 points in two days the President should be impeached immediately!"? No, that's not true: This is a fake tweet that was manufactured in 2018, years after it was purportedly first posted. There is no record of the original tweet on Donald Trump's Twitter account, no reporting about it at the time, nor any screenshots of the tweet predating its 2018 appearance in a post made by a now-dormant account that said, "Giving Trump a taste of his own Twitter medicine ... Not legally responsible for myself."
The old fake image reappeared in a post on Facebook on March 4, 2025 (archived here). The Facebook post isn't captioned, but features a screenshot of a tweet purportedly from Donald Trump's @realdonaldtrump Twitter account. The tweet reads:
If the Dow drops 1,000 points in two days the President should be impeached immediately! 12:01 PM-6 Nov 2012
12:01 PM-6 Nov 2012
This is what the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:
(Source: Facebook screenshot taken on Wed Mar 5 17:47:21 2025 UTC)
This tweet is fake -- there is no evidence that the tweet was ever actually posted on the real Twitter account belonging to Donald Trump.
The evidence:
- No existing tweet (archived here) on that date from @realDonaldTrump
- No Google results (archived here) from years past (11/6/2012 - 10/10/2018)
- Debunked by Snopes on October 12, 2018 (archived here)
- First appearance of the screenshot was October 11, 2018, on an account describing itself:
#RESIST Blocked by Trump THREE times. Sad! Giving Trump a taste of his own Twitter medicine. Vandy Engineer🤓. Not legally responsible for myself
The account that posted this (archived here) is no longer active on X and has deleted all their old tweets. The image below is a screenshot of a December 3, 2018, Wayback Machine archive of the October 11, 2018, post by @TravisAllen02 (now deleted) which was captioned:
RETWEET AND LIKE TO SPREAD THIS OLD TRUMP TWEET!
(Source: Wayback Machine screenshot taken on Wed Mar 05 22:48:19 2025 UTC)
This fabricated tweet -- supposedly from 2012 -- was made in 2018 at a time when Trump was in his first term as president and when there had been recent stock market troubles. The market drop was described in an October 10, 2018, Money & Markets article (archived here) titled, "Bloodbath: Dow Jones Sinks 831 Points on Worst Day for Markets in 8 Months."
So the context of the purportedly old tweet superimposed over the news of the day in 2018 -- when Trump was in office -- was designed for impact.
The topic of the fake tweet would not have been relevant to the news happening on the day in 2012 that the fake tweet was purportedly written by Trump. That day -- November 6, Election Day 2012 (archived here) -- was when incumbent president, Barack Obama, won a second term and the market was gaining (archived here).
Snopes debunked the claim the day after @TravisAllen02 made the post, and some people commenting under the post were calling it out (archived here) as fake at the time.
The Wayback Machine did not make an archive on November 6, 2012. The archive of the @RealDonaldTrump account from November 7, 2012 (pictured below) did capture several tweets made on November 6, but not extending back to the 12:01 p.m. time in question.
It is notable that the archived tweets have a square profile picture and the fake tweet screenshot has a round profile picture. The shape of profile photos on Twitter switched from square to circle in June of 2017 (archived here). At the time the switch was made, the change would have been visible on all the previous tweets on the platform, but archived images remain as they were.
Had the post really been made by Trump, it would have had to be left standing on his account from November 6, 2012, to at least June 15, 2017, for @TravisAllen02 to take a screenshot of it with the "new" round profile picture. There is very little chance that a tweet with such a memorable message would have passed for so many years without record.
(Source: Wayback Machine screenshot taken on Wed Mar 05 22:48:19 2025 UTC)
At the time this was written, the claim had previously been reviewed by Snopes in 2018, and again in 2025.
The claim also has been reviewed by PolitiFact.
Additional Lead Stories fact checks on fake tweets can be found here.
