No evidence Trump called Norah O’Donnell ‘Nora O’Dumble’ in social media post
A screenshot authentically shows an April 2026 social media post in which U.S. President Donald Trump wrote, “That DIRTY nasty 60 minute broad asked me about Epstein to try and smear me. So listen upon NORA O’dumble, keep it up with the BS cause it’s all you have.”
A rumor that U.S. President Trump posted to social media mocking CBS News and “60 Minutes” correspondent Norah O’Donnell spread online in late April 2026.
Users on social media shared a purported screenshot of an X post in which Trump allegedly said, “That DIRTY nasty 60 minute broad asked me about Epstein to try and smear me. So listen upon NORA O’dumble, keep it up with the BS cause it’s all you have.”
The pervasive spread of the screenshot led to many Snopes readers contacting us for more information on its authenticity.
The purported Trump post was dated April 27, 2026, and read:
That DIRTY nasty 60 minute broad asked me about Epstein to try and smear me. So listen upon NORA O’dumble, keep it up with the BS cause it’s all you have. I was totally 100% exonerated by Todd Blanche and Epstein’s girlfriend so stick it. Furthermore this is proof we need a ballroom. Somehow I’ll figure out how to cram all 2400 attendees into our 1000 person ballroom but I’m Trump and I can make it happen. And going forward I’m directly Kadh Patel to investigate anyone who brings up Epstein since it’s being used by ANTIFA to promote violence against the greatest president ever. Thomas Massie is on the short list with Tucker Carlson and now NORA O’DUMBLE.
The post was fake. A search of the president’s X and Truth Social accounts and an online archive of Trump’s social media posts revealed no such post.
Also, the purported screenshot does not match Trump’s actual X page. The “verified” badge in the fake post is blue, while Trump’s official X account has a gray badge reserved for “a government/multilateral organization or official.”
A reverse image search on Google conducted with the screenshot of the alleged post returned only other instances of users sharing the fake post. A reverse image search on TinEye of the same screenshot returned no results.
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The fake post spread online after O’Donnell interviewed Trump during his April 26 appearance on “60 Minutes.” In the full interview, available on YouTube, O’Donnell asked Trump about a quote from the alleged manifesto of White House correspondents’ dinner shooting suspect Cole Allen that read, “I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes,” apparently referring to the president.
Trump replied by calling O’Donnell a “disgrace” for reading the quote and said, “I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would because you’re horrible people.”
“I’m not a rapist. I didn’t rape anybody. I’m not a pedophile,” Trump continued. “You read that crap from some sick person. I got associated with all stuff that has nothing to do with me. I was totally exonerated.”
The only mention of Jeffrey Epstein came from Trump himself at the 20:40 mark, when he accused O’Donnell’s “friends on the other side of the plate” of being “the ones that were involved” with the late sex offender.
But Trump didn’t attack O’Donnell on social media. The only TV personality Trump did attack on social media on April 27 was comedian Jimmy Kimmel, whom Trump appeared to blame for the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on April 25.
For further reading about purported posts from the president, check out Snopes’ investigation into claims about Trump purportedly posting he was “proud” of his “ICE boys” and a statement from January 2026 that the U.S. was “locked and loaded and ready to go” to intervene in Iran.
