Did President Donald Trump threaten, in a TruthSocial post, to "drop Chris Christie" on Iran, in June 2025? No, that's not true: A widely-shared screenshot which appeared to show such a message was, in fact, fake. A search of the president's TruthSocial account yielded no record of his having written those words.
The fake post appeared in a June 18, 2025, post on X (archived here) which garnered more than four million views in one day. The text of the fake post read:
IF IRAN DOESN'T SURRENDER IN THE
NEXT 24 HOURS I'M GOING TO DROP
CHRIS CHRISTIE ON THEM. THANK YOU!
This is what it looked like at the time of writing:
(Source: X screenshot)
The Trump post was fake.
A June 19 scan of his TruthSocial account showed no posts matching the one shown in the screenshot. Furthermore, searches on Google and Bing (archived here) for the phrase "drop Chris Christie", limited to links containing "truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump" (using the "site:" search operator) returned no results either. This indicates that Google and Bing didn't recently index such a post.
If Trump had made such a threat, it would undoubtedly have formed the basis of immediate and widespread news coverage. Google News and Yahoo! News searches (archived here and here) both yielded no relevant results for the phrases "Trump" and "drop Chris Christie", further underlining the fabricated nature of the post.
