Did President Donald Trump make a post calling Vice President JD Vance "Judas Disloyal Vance" following the 2026 midterm elections? No, that's not true: The president did not make such a post on his official Truth Social account, and a search of an archive of his posts found no such entry. Lead Stories found no reports from established news outlets of Trump using the phrase.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) on X where it was published by @miribobs on Nov. 10, 2026. The post's caption read:
Aww, the Bromance is over, do you think Vance with [sic] start calling him 'America's hitler' again?
This is what the image included in the post looked like on X at the time of publication:
(Image source: post by @miribobs on X.)
The text in the image read:
I'm hereby signing an EXCLUSIVE ORDER legally
changing JD Vance's name to JUDAS DISLOYAL VANCE!
Nobody gave JD more than President Trump. I took him
from the sidelines and gave him the biggest job of his
life-and now he thinks he can DOUBLE CROSS THE
BOSS and run for President in 2028 without my blessing?
EHHH!
WRONG!
You don't walk into the Trump Family, eat at the table,
kiss the ring, and then decide you're the new Boss!
There is only ONE person who can make America Great
Again the RIGHT WAY, and everybody knows who that is.
JD, you may have forgotten who made you-but I NEVER
forget!
THE PRESIDENT HAS SPOKEN.
There is no evidence that Trump ever made this post. The details in the supposed screenshot -- such as the username being @realDonaldTrump and the inclusion of the repost metric "ReTruths" -- suggest that the post would have been made on Trump's official Truth Social account (archived here). However, some of the details do not exactly match the appearance of the platform, such as the colors of the Truth+ Premium badge icon and the format of the date of the fake post. The date included on the image showed that the post was allegedly made on Nov 5, 2026, just a couple of days after the 2026 midterm elections (archived here). Lead Stories manually reviewed Trump's account for posts made from Nov. 4, 2026, to Nov. 10, 2026. There was no post calling Vance "Judas Disloyal."
An archive of Trump's Truth Social posts, Trump's Truth (archived here), keeps a record, including deleted posts, from the president's official account. A search of the archive for "JUDAS DISLOYAL" (archived here) did not return any results.
Had Trump made such disparaging comments about Vance, would likely have been widely reported by news outlets. Searches of Google News (archived here) and Yahoo News (archived here) for the claim did not return any matching results from established news outlets.
