Social media users are sharing a fabricated screenshot that falsely attributes a massive trade announcement to Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON, DC: A viral social media rumor suggests that President Donald Trump secured a staggering trillion-dollar trade agreement with China. The speculation gained traction following a visit to the United States by Chinese President Xi Jinping, leading to widespread online debate and necessitating a closer look at the story’s validity.
Claim: Donald Trump announced $110 trillion trade deal with China
The rumor is based on a circulated screenshot purporting to show a message directly from Trump’s official Truth Social account.
The purported social media post read: “We finished our trade talks with President Xi, who was practically BEGGING me! Tears in his eyes, top negotiators weeping in the back of the room!”
It continued with exaggerated claims: “He said, ‘Donald, please, we need your highest quality, supreme American manufactured goods!’ He wanted our world-famous soy beans, our premium chicken feet, our elite pig ears, and our beautiful, clean, scrubbed-by-hand American COAL!”
“I said, ‘Mr. President, it’s going to cost you!’ And we locked it in: $10 TRILLION DOLLARS A YEAR for the next 10 years! That is massive, high-IQ total of $110 TRILLION DOLLARS straight into our pockets!”
“The Dumbocrats don’t know math like I know math-they can’t handle those kinds of numbers! And then he begged me for one more thing.”
“He said, ‘Please let us build giant electric car factories in America!’ I told him, ‘ONLY if it’s 100% US-made by our great American workers, but paid for 100% WITH CHINA MONEY!’”
“They put up all the cash, we keep all the jobs and all the factories! Unbelievable deal! Nobody has ever seen anything like it!”
Fact Check: Donald Trump made no such post
In reality, the claim is entirely unfounded. A thorough check of Trump’s official Truth Social profile reveals no record of the statement.
Had a former or current president announced a deal of this unprecedented financial scale, mainstream news organizations would have immediately covered it extensively.
Furthermore, broader news searches regarding any such international trade agreement outside of social media yielded zero results.
Context reveals that the image actually originated from a satirical social media page named ‘Mrs Putin,’ whose watermark is visible within the graphic.
Closer inspection of the screenshot also highlights clear signs of tampering, including an inaccurate timestamp and a misspelling of the former president’s username as ‘Donald J. Turmp.’