The first sentence in Donald Trump’s Truth Social Post on Memorial Day stated a number that was a million times too large

 

 

 

 

An article by Laerke Christensen at Snopes on May 27, 2025 is titled Fact Check: Trump’s Memorial Day Message. He began by claiming in all caps (my italics):

 

“HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY TO ALL, INCLUDING THE SCUM THAT SPENT THE LAST FOUR YEARS TRYING TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY THROUGH WARPED RADICAL LEFT MINDS, WHO ALLOWED 21,000,000 MILLION PEOPLE TO ILLEGALLY ENTER OUR COUNTRY, MANY OF THEM BEING CRIMINALS AND THE MENTALLY INSANE,THROUGH AN OPEN BORDER THAT ONLY AN INCOMPETENT PRESIDENT WOULD APPROVE, AND THROUGH JUDGES WHO ARE ON A MISSION TO KEEP MURDERERS, DRUG DEALERS, RAPISTS, GANG MEMBERS, AND RELEASED PRISONERS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, IN OUR COUNTRY SO THEY CAN ROB, MURDER, AND RAPE AGAIN — ALL PROTECTED BY THESE USA HATING JUDGES WHO SUFFER FROM AN IDEOLOGY THAT IS SICK, AND VERY DANGEROUS FOR OUR COUNTRY.”

 

He meant instead to say 21 million, as was previously discussed by Simonne Shah and Leslie Dickstein in TIME on December 11, 2024 in another article titled Fact-Checking What Donald Trump Said in His 2024 Person of the Year Interview With TIME. The extra factor of a million raised the number to 21,000,000,000,000 – which is 21 trillion. But the world population only is about eight billion, so the number he said is quite absurd and a consequence of not having proofread.