Did President Donald Trump make a post on Truth Social on March 11, 2025, calling people "BROKIES" and saying "I don't care about the stock market"? No, that's not true: A viral screenshot of what looked like a Truth Social post had been digitally manipulated. There is no record of this post on Donald Trump's Truth Social account or on Google.
The fake screenshot appeared in a post on X (archived ) published on March 11, 2025. The post was captioned:
Trump is actually insane man
This is how the post appeared at the time of writing:
(Source: X screenshot taken on Wed Mar 12 14:39:25 2025 UTC)
The text included in the fake screenshot read:
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrumpA bunch of BROKIES are crying about the stock market today! GROW UP! I don't care about the stock market. Frankly, I don't even look at it! I promised you lower prices and that includes stocks! If you wanted HIGHER prices, you should have voted for Sleepy Joe. CRY ME A RIVER!!
6.59k ReTruths 21k Likes Mar 11, 2025, 4:08 PM
Lead Stories searched for the phrase "A bunch of BROKIES are crying about the stock market today" on Trump's Truth Social account (archived here) and did not find any matching posts.
Trump's Truth, a website that archives Trump's Truth Social posts, did not include any posts indexed with that phrase either (archived here).
A Google search (pictured below) for the phrase "A bunch of BROKIES are crying about the stock market today", limited to links containing truthsocial.com/@realdonaldtrump using the "site:" search operator returned no results (pictured below), indicating Google didn't recently index such a post.
(Source: Google.com screenshot taken on Wed Mar 12 15:06:12 2025 UTC)
Additional Lead Stories fact checks on claims involving Truth Social can be found here.
