Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Post Complaint About Ukraine's Attacks On Russia Interrupting His Sleep

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  • by: Uliana Malashenko
Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Post Complaint About Ukraine's Attacks On Russia Interrupting His Sleep No Such Post

Did U.S. President Donald Trump complain on social media that Ukraine's attacks on Russia interfere with his sleep? No, that's not true: A search across his account on Truth Social did not produce a match to the image a viral post purported to have taken from his account. Searches across an archived version of his account and news reports did not confirm that the post in question ever existed.

The claim appeared in a post (archived here) on X where it was published on June 3, 2025. It opened:

Is he serious?

The post displayed what seemed to be a screenshot of a post published by Trump's account on social media:

Why does Ukraine keep doing these big operations against Russia so early the morning? ľm trying sleep here it's ridiculous!

TODAY ľm sending very strong note protest President Zelenskyy. Very strong!

From now on, demand all operations be conducted *after* my lunch. That's fair. That's classy. Let's keep civilized, folks!

This is what it looked like on X at the time of writing:

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(Source: X screenshot by Lead Stories)

The red checkmark was consistent with the appearance of Trump's account on Truth Social (archived here).

However, a Google search across it (archived here) did not show such a post:

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(Source: Google screenshot by Lead Stories)

Another search for the exact wording from the purported post (archived here) across the "TRUMP'S TRUTH" archive of Trump's posts on Truth Social did not produce a match:

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(Source: Trumpstruth.org screenshot by Lead Stories)

One more search -- across Google News for the keywords seen here (archived here) -- did not show any credible reporting confirming the post ever existed.

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  Uliana Malashenko

Uliana Malashenko joined Lead Stories as a freelance fact checking reporter in March 2022. Since then, she has investigated viral claims about U.S. elections and international conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, among many other things. Before Lead Stories she spent over a decade working in broadcast and digital journalism, specializing in covering breaking news and politics. She is based in New York.

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