Donald Trump says "VERY STRANGE" as late ballots erased his leads in key states
“Last night I was leading, often solidly, in many key States, in almost all instances Democrat run & controlled. Then, one by one, they started to magically disappear as surprise ballot dumps were counted. VERY STRANGE, and the ‘pollsters’ got it completely & historically wrong!”
Reported August 25, 2026 by newsbusters.org. Checked word for word against that report.
President Trump has spent the days after Election Day posting claims that vote counts are being manipulated, and Twitter has repeatedly flagged those messages as misleading. In one post, Trump complained that he had been ahead in several key states, most of them run by Democrats, until late-counted ballots erased his leads—calling the situation strange and saying pollsters had been badly wrong. Twitter placed warning labels on that and other posts, including his assertion that ballots arriving after Election Day should not be counted and that opponents were attempting to overturn the election. Facebook said it was labeling posts from both Trump and Joe Biden to note that votes were still being counted. The exchanges show a public clash between the president and social media platforms over the integrity of the 2020 vote.
- newsbusters.org ↗︎25 AUG 2026