Does a viral video show a black woman "robbing a white woman because Trump cut food stamps"? No, that's not true: The video was posted online three years before the 2025 government shutdown that threatened to delay or cut food subsidies. It shows a 2022 incident in Texas unrelated to Trump or the 2025 federal budget.
The outdated video was added to an October 30, 2025 Instagram post (archived here) on the coffeegoatradio247 account with on-screen titling that read: "ROBBING A WHITE WOMAN BECAUSE TRUMP CUT FOOD STAMPS ON EBT". It continued with on-screen titling that read:
Is it Poor Choices or Survival? Or just plain Crime?
Here's what the video looked like on Instagram at the time this fact check was written:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at instagram.com/coffeegoatradio247.)
The video was recorded by a witness to an April, 2022 shoplifting incident in Temple, Texas, when thousands of dollars of stolen meat were wheeled out of an H-E-B grocery in a cart.
KCEN, an NBC affiliate station in Temple, included the video in its YouTube post of its report on the crime, (archived here) posted April 18, 2022.
The crime was later reported on by KWTX, the CBS and Telemundo affiliate in Waco, Texas, in this broadcast clip from May, 2022, still available on that television station's website (archived here) at the time this fact check was written.
