Did President Donald Trump, in a Truth Social post, ask the public to "focus on Mexicans and flooding" rather than whether he is "all over the Epstein files"? 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 July 9, 2025, post on Threads (archived here) which consisted of a screenshot of the post and the following introductory caption:
Just so y'all know YES THIS IS REAL !! YES HE REALLY SAID THIS 💩 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 #FDT
The text of the embedded screenshot itself read:
Could you all just FOCUS on the very many other more important things to discuss than whether or not I may or MAY NOT be all over the Epstein Files? There was a BIG FLOOD in Texas. Huge flood as it relates to water. Many people DIED. Many beautiful young girls. Perhaps some not so beautiful illegal Mexican peoples as well. Perhaps drug dealers disguised as day laborers. You can never tell. They don't speak American. That is very suspicious. Again, forget about me and the Epstein Files. Focus on MEXICANS and FLOODING.
This is what the post looked like at the time of writing:
(Image source: Screenshot of July 9, 2025, post by threads.com/@seachele420)
Trump never posted that.
A July 10 scan of his TruthSocial account showed no posts matching the one shown in the screenshot. Furthermore, searches on Google (archived here) and Bing (archived here) for the phrase "focus on Mexicans and flooding", 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.
Furthermore, a July 10 search (archived here) of TrumpsTruth.org, a database that archives all the president's Truth Social posts, for phrases from the fake post, yielded no relevant entries.
If Trump had published such a post, it would undoubtedly have formed the basis of widespread news coverage. Google News and Yahoo! News searches (archived here and here) both yielded no relevant results for the phrases "Trump" and "focus on Mexicans and flooding", further underlining the fabricated nature of the post.
