In a real social media post, did President Donald Trump say, "I am very close to deciding if I will run again in 2028"? No, that's not true: The supposed post does not appear on the president's official Truth Social account, and there are no reliable reports that it ever did. While Trump has suggested the possibility of running for a third term in 2028 -- despite the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution limiting presidents to two terms -- he has not announced any such plans.
The claim appeared in a post and image (archived here) by the @karlrominger account on Threads on May 6, 2026. It read:
Check that 2028 platform out. 🤣🤣🤣
This is what the post looked like on Threads at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by karlrominger on Threads.)
The text included in the fake screenshot read:
I am very close to deciding if I will run again in 2028. It would be a sacrifice, but someone has to fix this country. I think it's important to see how AMERICA feels about that. So here's my proposed plan for a third term. I will lower prices on gas, groceries, electric, cut them in half day one!! I will keep America out of foreign wars and end needless military adventures, a true America First president!! I will drain the swamp and end the self dealing [sic] corruption that runs rampant in DC !! So if you like what TRUMP 2028 has to offer, let me know. And I DONALD TRUMP will if I run get elected in 2028 for sure, and then Make America Great Again !!
Lead Stories manually reviewed Trump's Truth Social account for recent posts containing the phrase "I am very close to deciding if I will run again in 2028." Lead Stories also searched Trump's Truth -- a website that archives Trump's Truth Social posts -- for the same phrase, limiting the search to May 6, 2026, the date shown on the fake post. No matching posts were found (archived here).
Lead Stories searched Google News (archived here) and Yahoo! News (archived here) and did not find any matching reports for "I am very close to deciding if I will run again in 2028." Had the president actually made such a post, major news outlets would have widely reported it.
