Does a Trump administration counterterrorism strategy document mention "pro-transgender" groups and "We Will Kill You" on the same page? No, that's not true: The fabricated image cuts and pastes together different sections of the White House document "United States Counterterrorism Strategy 2026." This takes the information out of context and changes its emphasis.
The claim appeared in a post and image (archived here) by the @mdlawveron account on Threads on May 10, 2026. It read:
Trump is going to have American citizens killed. The Republican House & Senate is not going to stop him.
This is what the post looked like on Threads at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @mdlawveron on Threads.)
The text in the post of the image read:
In addition to cartels and Islamist terror groups, our national CT activities will also prioritize the rapid identification and neutralization of violent secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist. We will use all the tools constitutionally available to us to map them at home, identify their membership, map their ties to international organizations like Antifa, and use law enforcement tools to cripple them operationally before they can maim or kill the innocent. We will do the same with the state sponsors of such groups and those governments undertaking lethal plots on U.S. soil or against Americans anywhere.
Our new U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy is a return to common sense and Peace through Strength. As I said after our first successful counterterrorism mission, just days after I was sworn back in office - if you hurt Americans, or are planning to hurt Americans, 'We Will Find You and We Will Kill You.'
[Donald Trump signature]
President Donald J. Trump
The White House
May 2026
Another post and image (archived here) by the @kenoir323 account on Threads on May 9, 2026, shared a similar doctored image using a seamless cut and paste of the same lines from the original document. A screenshot of it appears below:
(Image source: post by @kenoir323 on Threads.)
While the administration's "United States Counterterrorism Strategy 2026" document (archived here) is accurately quoted in the images, the two paragraphs do not appear next to each other in the original document.
This portion of the image (boxed in red) appears on page 3 of the original document in the "Presidential Foreword":
(Image source: United States Counterterrorism Strategy 2026.)
This portion, which appears as the first paragraph in the image from the social media posts, actually is from much later in the document on page 7 in a section called "Our CT [counterterrorism] Priorities":
(Image source: United States Counterterrorism Strategy 2026.)
Rearranging the paragraphs in the cut-and-paste images gives the section on "pro-transgender" groups a prominence it does not have in the original document.
