Did Donald Trump admit in an Oval Office ceremony on March 7, 2025, that the 2024 election was rigged so that he could become president again? No, that's not true: President Trump was claiming the 2020 presidential election won by Joe Biden was rigged, not the 2024 election. If he had won in 2020 he would not be president when the FIFA World Cup comes to the United States in 2026 and when the Summer OIympics are hosted in Los Angeles in 2028.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) published on X.com on March 8, 2025. It featured a video clip with an introduction that read:
Here is Trump saying yesterday verbatim "They rigged the election, and I became President"
PLEASE SHARE THIS!!!!
This is what the post looked like at the time of writing:
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The 21-second video clip shared in the post is from March 7, 2025 as President Trump signed executive orders relating to the FIFA World Cup 2026.
Here is Trump saying yesterday verbatim "They rigged the election, and I became President"
-- Morgan J. Freeman (@mjfree) March 9, 2025
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A longer version of what Trump said makes it clear that the president was referring to the 2020 presidential eleciton -- which he has consistently claimed was rigged -- and not the 2024 vote that returned him to the White House:
If Trump had been declared the winner of the 2020 election, he would have completed his second term on January 20, 2025 and would not have been eligible for another term in office. His full remarks indicate that he saw his now being president during the World Cup and Olympics as a silver lining in the "rigged" 2020 election.
