Don’t believe fake Trump post saying ‘most ladies’ don’t want to vote

In mid-April 2025, a screenshot circulated online allegedly showing that U.S. President Donald Trump wrote a post on Truth Social about “most ladies” not wanting to vote.

The image appeared on numerous social media platforms such as Threads (archived) and Facebook (archived), and Snopes readers also reached out to ask if it was real.

Trump’s purported post read: 

A LOT of people are talking about the new bill—saying it’s unfair to the ladies because their ID has to match their birth name. FAKE NEWS! I know from VERY reliable sources (the best!) it’s a NON-ISSUE. You know why? Because most ladies—most of them—don’t even WANT to vote! Isn’t that incredible? They’re smart, they’ve got better things to do! Frankly, I love that for them. Ask me how I know. I KNOW.

(Threads user @varnerallison)

However, there was no proof that the post was real. It did not appear on Trump’s Truth Social feed around the time it was shared on other social media platforms. It also did not appear on Trump’s Truth, an online archive of the president’s Truth Social posts. Searches on popular search engines for phrases from the post also produced no matching results, nor did reverse image searches. Given the media coverage Trump receives, news media outlets would likely have reported on such a post if it was genuine. Therefore, with all this considered, we have rated it as fake.

Snopes has reached out to the White House to ask about the post’s authenticity and we await a reply.

It is easy for people to generate fake social media posts, including for Truth Social, using readily-available online generators. The latter link’s (imgflip) “trump truth social blank Meme Generator” uses the same low-resolution profile picture as the one seen in the fake Trump post. However, we did not independently verify whether imgflip was used to create the fake post.

Though the post itself was fake, concerns about women’s voting rights did arise following the news that the Republican Party wants to introduce the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, federal legislation that requires proof of citizenship to vote.

Snopes readers asked us whether the bill would affect the voting rights of married women who took their husband’s name and therefore did not have a birth certificate matching their legal name to prove their citizenship.

Our report found that although the bill directed states to create a process for acceptable proof-of-citizenship documentation for applicants whose citizenship documents do not align with their legal name, such processes could be costly or difficult and potentially hinder access to voting.

The bill had not become law at the time of this writing.

According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, women voters outnumbered men and also voted at higher rates in the November 2022 midterm elections.

Snopes has previously debunked other fake social media posts attributed to Trump, including one that claimed the president said he wanted to annex Alaska and Greenland and another that alleged he posted on Truth Social about hating pop star Taylor Swift.

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