Did President Donald Trump address a 2025 Memorial Day message to "scum" and "USA hating judges"? Yes, that's true: Trump posted the lengthy message on Truth Social on the morning of May 26, 2025. Both critics and supporters of Trump re-posted it.
The message was presented as real in a May 26, 2025, post on Facebook (archived here). The caption on that post read:
OMG: Trump's Memorial Day message to America.
This, this is real.
The text of Trump's post, embedded in a screenshot, read:
HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY TO ALL, INCLUDING THE SCUM THAT SPENT THE LAST FOUR YEARS TRYING TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY THROUGH WARPED RADICAL LEFT MINDS, WHO ALLOWED 21,000,000 MILLION PEOPLE TO ILLEGALLY ENTER OUR COUNTRY, MANY OF THEM BEING CRIMINALS AND THE MENTALLY INSANE,THROUGH AN OPEN BORDER THAT ONLY AN INCOMPETENT PRESIDENT WOULD APPROVE, AND THROUGH JUDGES WHO ARE ON A MISSION TO KEEP MURDERERS, DRUG DEALERS, RAPISTS, GANG MEMBERS, AND RELEASED PRISONERS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, IN OUR COUNTRY SO THEY CAN ROB, MURDER, AND RAPE AGAIN -- ALL PROTECTED BY THESE USA HATING JUDGES WHO SUFFER FROM AN IDEOLOGY THAT IS SICK, AND VERY DANGEROUS FOR OUR COUNTRY. HOPEFULLY THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, AND OTHER GOOD AND COMPASSIONATE JUDGES THROUGHOUT THE LAND, WILL SAVE US FROM THE DECISIONS OF THE MONSTERS WHO WANT OUR COUNTRY TO GO TO HELL. BUT FEAR NOT, WE HAVE MADE GREAT PROGRESS OVER THE LAST 4 MONTHS, AND AMERICA WILL SOON BE SAFE AND GREAT AGAIN! AGAIN, HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY, AND GOD BLESS AMERICA!
This is what it looked like at the time of writing:
(Source: Facebook screenshot)
That message was indeed real. Trump posted it to Truth Social at 7:22 am Eastern time on May 26, 2025, which was Memorial Day. It was widely shared and re-posted by both critics and supporters of the president.
Trump has historically marked national holidays by addressing social media posts to his perceived enemies, often using the phrase "haters and losers." Most recently, he posted a "Happy Easter" message attacking "Radical Left Lunatics," "WEAK and INEFFECTIVE judges", and former president Joe Biden, on April 21, 2025.
Later on Memorial Day in 2025, Trump also made remarks at Arlington National Cemetery.
