Is there an arrest warrant for Trump
Executive summary
Yes — there have been arrest warrants tied to Donald J. Trump, most notably a local warrant issued after a 2023 Fulton County indictment; international requests and media reports have sometimes suggested other warrants, but those are either unconfirmed or rejected by intermediary organizations such as INTERPOL in reporting available [1] [2]. Public reporting in early 2026 does not show a presently outstanding, universal “global” arrest warrant for Trump issued by an international court that is being executed worldwide; nuances and differing jurisdictions matter [3] [2].
1. The concrete domestic warrant: Fulton County’s 2023 arrest order
A grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, returned an indictment in August 2023 that led to an arrest warrant for Donald Trump tied to state election-related charges, and that warrant was publicly reported and formed the basis for Fulton County’s surrender arrangements and later courtroom proceedings [1]. That local warrant is a verified, domestic legal action distinct from federal criminal processes and from international notices; its issuance and the subsequent interactions with the court and media are documented in reporting about the indictment and the widely circulated “mug shot” coverage [1].
2. International claims: Iran, INTERPOL, and the difference between requests and enforceable warrants
Media and government statements in the past have referenced Iran issuing an arrest warrant or seeking INTERPOL’s help over the 2020 killing of Qasem Soleimani, and some outlets repeated claims that INTERPOL had issued a notice, but reporting shows that Tehran’s request to INTERPOL was rejected — meaning a UN-style, internationally enforceable INTERPOL Red Notice was not ultimately issued in that instance, and several stories conflated Iran’s request with an actual INTERPOL warrant [2] [4]. That episode demonstrates how government claims, state media, and intermediary organizations’ decisions produce very different legal realities.
3. The International Criminal Court and speculative warrants
Commentators and analysts have explored hypotheticals about an ICC arrest warrant for major political figures, but available reporting frames these as speculative legal thought experiments rather than descriptions of an active ICC arrest warrant for Trump; discussion of the ICC in relation to other leaders illustrates the complexities of surrender, jurisdiction, and political will rather than providing evidence of a current ICC warrant for the U.S. president [3]. The sources make clear that the existence of a sealed or hypothetical ICC warrant is not the same as a confirmed, publicly enforceable arrest warrant.
4. Confusions arising from different kinds of warrants and enforcement practices
News coverage around immigration enforcement and agency warrants highlights the common public confusion about what different warrants allow—administrative immigration warrants authorize arrests but typically do not permit forcible entry, search warrants authorize searches of property and are not arrest warrants, and grand-jury indictments produce arrest warrants in criminal cases [5] [6] [7]. Applying those distinctions to headlines about Trump is essential: a search warrant executed at Mar-a-Lago, for instance, was a property search order rather than an arrest warrant, and conflating the two has misled audiences in other contexts [7].
5. What the record shows and the limits of available reporting
Based on the documents and news items supplied, the clear documented arrest warrant tied directly to Trump is the Fulton County 2023 warrant following the grand jury indictment, while international claims — such as Iran’s request to INTERPOL — did not result in an enforceable Red Notice according to reporting, and speculation about ICC warrants remains hypothetical in these sources [1] [2] [3]. The supplied reporting does not confirm any new, additional, globally enforceable arrest warrant for Trump as of early 2026; if other warrants exist, they are not reflected in the material provided here, and this analysis does not assert their absence beyond the scope of those sources.