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What exactly did Trump say about age and consent on Truth Social and is there a transcript?
Executive summary
Available reporting shows that President Trump has posted and reposted many lengthy messages on Truth Social about crime and juvenile prosecution, including a widely reported call to let 14‑year‑olds be tried as adults in some contexts; contemporaneous fact‑checks and archives dispute several viral claims that he explicitly urged lowering the age of consent or marriage to 14, and searches of his Truth Social archive did not corroborate some of the most inflammatory quoted lines (Snopes; The Hill; Trump archive) [1] [2] [3].
1. What the mainstream reporting actually documents
Multiple outlets summarized a Truth Social post in which Trump urged changes to laws so that teenagers as young as 14 could be prosecuted as adults — The Hill reported Trump called for the District of Columbia to allow 14‑and‑older youths to be prosecuted as adults and face lengthy prison sentences, and that he shared a graphic post railing against violent crime [2]. The Guardian documented a flurry of Truth Social activity around the same period, noting many posts and videos though not every claim in those posts was transcribed in full by the paper [4].
2. Where the “lowering age of consent / marriage to 14” claim comes from — and how it’s been treated
A number of viral assertions claimed Trump and Republicans sought to reduce either the age of consent or legal marriage age to 14; Snopes investigated and presented a partial transcript circulated online but concluded that mainstream outlets and searches of Trump’s Truth Social did not confirm that development and could not locate an official announcement that Republicans were seeking to lower age of consent or marriage to 14 [1]. Snopes explicitly notes searches of major engines and Trump’s own platform did not turn up corroboration for the most sensational wording [1].
3. Specific viral quotes vs. archived posts: discrepancies and fact‑checks
At least one widely shared image alleged Trump posted “MAGA agrees that 14 year‑old girls are almost women anyway.” Snopes checked that claim against Trump’s Truth Social archive and found no evidence he posted that line; their review found no credible news outlet reporting that quote and could not locate the post in archive searches [5]. In short: some circulated transcripts and images appear to overstate or invent phrasing not found in archived Truth Social posts [5] [1].
4. Available transcript resources and archives
There are third‑party archives that index Truth Social content — for example, “Trump’s Truth” archives TRUTH Social posts and offers searchable transcripts and image descriptions, which Snopes and other fact‑checkers used in their searches [3] [1]. Major news outlets sometimes provide their own quotations or partial transcripts when reporting. Rev and other transcription services also maintain Trump transcripts for speeches and appearances, but those do not replace or replicate every Truth Social post [6].
5. What is not found in the provided reporting
Available sources do not mention a verified, full official transcript published by the White House or by Truth Social that matches the most extreme circulated versions alleging Trump sought to lower age of sexual consent or marryability to 14; Snopes explicitly says it found no credible confirmation that Republicans were seeking to lower the age of consent or marriage to 14, and archive searches did not locate such posts [1] [5]. If a user asks for a verbatim official transcript of such a post, current reporting and archives cited here do not provide one [3] [1].
6. Competing interpretations and potential agendas
Fact‑checkers like Snopes frame their findings around archival searches and mainstream reporting and conclude the most inflammatory formulations can’t be substantiated; news outlets like The Hill and The Guardian emphasize the real policy proposal Trump did press — prosecuting 14‑year‑olds as adults for serious crimes — which is legally and politically distinct from changing age‑of‑consent or marriage laws [2] [4] [1]. Advocates and critics will read the same posts through different lenses: critics stress the danger of normalizing sexualization of minors if language about 14‑year‑olds is misconstrued, while supporters emphasize tough‑on‑crime stances; fact‑checkers warn that viral memes can conflate these debates [1] [5].
7. Bottom line and how to verify further
If you want a verbatim text of what Trump posted, consult archival repositories of Truth Social posts such as Trump’s Truth and cross‑check with Snopes’ investigations; the sources provided show that some viral transcripts are not borne out by archives and mainstream reporting, while the policy push to prosecute some 14‑year‑olds as adults is documented [3] [1] [2]. For any specific quoted line you’ve seen online, compare it to the post archive and to fact‑check pieces — that is the only way, per the cited sources, to separate accurate quotations from embellished or fabricated ones [3] [1].