Claim:
U.S. President Donald Trump called himself “the KING” in a Truth Social post that criticized a judge’s decision to dismiss cases brought by Trump’s illegally appointed prosecutor.
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In November 2025, a claim (archived) circulated online that U.S. President Donald Trump called himself “the KING” in a Truth Social post that criticized a judge’s decision to dismiss cases brought by Trump’s illegally appointed prosecutor.
The purported post circulated on Facebook:
(Facebook user Chrissy Trudelle)
The post read:
The Fake News is going wild because SOME JUDGE says my prosecutor wasn’t ‘properly appointed. Total nonsense. When it comes to people like Tish James and James Comey my VASSALS, quite frankly — I can use ANY prosecutorial vessel I choose. That’s how it works when you’re in charge. They can scream ‘illegal’ or ‘outside the law, but the KING (that’s me!) decides how justice is delivered. The King’s Law, the King’s Sword — VERY POWERFUL — hang over ALL who betrayed America. Woke media can cry about it, doesn’t matter. The throne is secure!
The claim also circulated in other Facebook posts (archived, archived), on Threads (archived) and Instagram (archived). Snopes readers wrote in to ask if Trump actually wrote the post.
The post was fake. Snopes found no trace of the post, which first circulated on Nov. 24, 2025, on Trump’s actual Truth Social profile or Trump’s Truth, an archiving site that saves posts from the president’s Truth Social feed.
Trump’s Truth archives posts “every few minutes,” according to the site itself. We reached out to the White House press office to ask if Trump had posted and deleted the post in question. A White House press office spokesperson told Snopes via email that the post was, “Not real.”
The alleged post also incorrectly replicated elements of Trump’s Truth Social profile by using Trump’s profile picture from X, which differs from the one he uses on Truth Social, and omitting the president’s Truth Plus subscription badge next to his name on Truth Social.
According to his Truth Social feed, Trump did not call himself “king” or post about U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie’s Nov. 24, 2025, ruling to dismiss criminal cases brought by Lindsay Halligan, Trump’s appointed de facto interim United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Currie ruled that criminal cases Halligan brought against New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey should be dismissed because the Trump administration had no legal authority to appoint Halligan to her position.
Snopes previously debunked other fake Truth Social posts that Trump allegedly wrote about the age of consent and voting rights.
