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Did trump write fuck you

Checked on November 6, 2025
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Executive Summary

No credible evidence shows Donald Trump wrote the phrase “fuck you.” Reporting and document excerpts instead show three separate phenomena often conflated: others using or implying the phrase about Trump, documented instances where Trump used profanity verbally (including an on-camera f-word in June 2025 and courtroom outbursts in 2024), and commercial or social-media artifacts that repeat the phrase as political expression. The primary sources reviewed include a 2020 exchange with Chicago’s mayor that involved an implied “F…U,” a 2016 collection of Trump’s letters that contains rude language but not that phrase, a June 2025 report of an on-camera f-word, courtroom transcripts noting profanity in 2024, and numerous anti‑Trump products and studies of online swearing that show cultural amplification rather than authorship [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7].

1. What people actually claimed — and why the phrase stuck

The original claim asks whether Donald Trump wrote “fuck you.” The concrete claims in sources break into three types: direct authorship, verbal utterance, and symbolic use by others. Multiple pieces of reporting show people said or implied the phrase in relation to Trump — for example Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she wanted to say something that “starts with ‘F’ and ends with ‘U’” in response to Trump’s tweets, an implied but not written phrase [1]. Other reports document Trump using profanity aloud — once captured on camera in 2025 and during courtroom testimony in 2024 — but none of the supplied documents present a written instance where Trump himself put the phrase on paper [3] [5].

2. Documented verbal profanity by Trump — context and dates

Reporting establishes at least two verified instances where Trump used coarse language in public or semi-public settings. A June 24, 2025 article reports Trump publicly said “they don’t know what the f*** they’re doing” when discussing Israel and Iran, marking an unusual on-camera use of the f-word by a sitting or former president and attracting historical commentary [3]. Earlier, during the Stormy Daniels-related hush-money proceedings in 2024, transcripts and reporting show Trump uttered a vulgarity during testimony, prompting a judge to warn his counsel about potential intimidation of a witness [5]. These are verbal uses corroborated by contemporary reporting; none of the pieces claim he wrote the exact phrase “fuck you” on a document.

3. What available documents and letters actually show

A January 2016 New York Times compilation of Trump’s personal letters demonstrates his willingness to write harsh, personal notes — including terms like “loser” — but the published letters do not contain the explicit phrase “fuck you” [2]. Coverage from the 2024 hush-money trial notes a handwritten sticky note Trump carried that said “This case should be dismissed by the judge but it’s totally corrupt,” again not the phrase in question [4]. The documentary record provided therefore contains no direct written evidence that Trump penned “fuck you”; rather, the evidence shows other expletives or contempt expressed verbally or in less explicit written forms [2] [4].

4. Amplification: sellers, commentators, and online contagion

Commercial products and online comment cultures amplify the phrase widely as political expression, but they do not demonstrate authorship by Trump. Retail listings for stickers, signs, and apparel openly reading “Fuck Trump” or “Fuck Trump and Fuck You for Voting for Him” are political merchandise created by private sellers [6] [8]. Academic analysis of comment threads shows swearing is contagious online and can escalate emotional language in political discussions, explaining how a phrase can proliferate without originating from the target of the attack [9] [7]. These artifacts serve as echo chambers that make the phrase ubiquitous, not evidence that Trump wrote it.

5. Bottom line and how to verify similar claims going forward

The factual pattern across sources is clear: no sourced document provided here shows Trump wrote “fuck you.” There are documented verbal uses of the f-word by Trump (June 2025 on-camera and earlier courtroom profanity), many third parties using or implying the phrase about him, and commercial goods spreading the language online [3] [5] [6]. To verify future claims, demand a contemporaneous image or transcript of the alleged writing, check multiple reputable outlets for the same primary source, and distinguish between a person’s spoken profanity, others’ speech about them, and merchantized political messaging; conflating those is the primary driver of this misinformation pattern [1] [2] [7].

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