Did U.S. President Donald Trump write "I am ending all the tariffs today against China, Canada and Mexico" in an April 1, 2025, post on Truth Social? No, that's not true: A screenshot shared by users on other social media platforms was fake. Trump has marked April 2 as a day on which his administration will roll out new tariffs.
The bogus screenshot appeared in an X post on April 1, 2025 (archived here). In it, Trump was presented as writing:
I am ending all the tariffs today against China, Canada and Mexico.
There will be no reciprocal tariffs either. God Bless America
This is what the post looked like at the time of writing:
(Source: X screenshot)
Lead Stories searched for the phrase "I am ending all the tariffs" (archived here) on Trump's Truth Social account, 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).
If Trump had made such a declaration, it would undoubtedly have formed the basis of news stories throughout the world, and would likely have dominated the global news agenda early on April 1, 2025.
To that end, Lead Stories searched Google News for the phrase "I am ending all the tariffs today" (archived here). That search yielded no results.
