Trump truth social post casting America was full of raging alcoholics and called for prohibition 18th amendment?
Executive summary
There is no direct, verifiable evidence in the reporting provided that former President Trump posted on Truth Social an explicit claim that “America was full of raging alcoholics” and that he called for a new Eighteenth Amendment (national Prohibition); the sources include archives of his Truth Social posts and numerous accounts of his late-night posting sprees but none in this set document such a prohibitionist proclamation [1] [2] [3]. The history and rhetoric of temperance and the Eighteenth Amendment are usefully invoked by commentators as a parallel for exclusionary moralizing in politics, but that is an analytical frame supplied by TIME and not evidence that Trump made the quoted statement [4].
1. No primary source in the supplied reporting shows the quoted Truth Social post
An exhaustive reading of the supplied reporting uncovers archived Truth Social material and multiple contemporaneous summaries of Trump’s posting habits, including a searchable archive of his Truth Social posts (trumpstruth.org) and accounts of marathon posting sessions, but none of those items in this dataset quote or document a post characterizing America as “full of raging alcoholics” or demanding a revival of the Eighteenth Amendment [1] [2] [3].
2. Why commentators mention Prohibition: a historical analogy, not proof of a Trump post
Writers sometimes draw a through-line between moralizing political rhetoric and the temperance movement’s success in enacting the Eighteenth Amendment; TIME explicitly uses that historical example to warn about how exclusionary rhetoric can produce sweeping policies like Prohibition and the 1924 Immigration Act, but that is an analytical comparison rather than a transcript of a Trump message calling for Prohibition [4].
3. Trump’s platform and posting behavior make misattribution plausible
Trump’s principal public platform, Truth Social, is his own private forum whose posts are archived and widely redistributed, and he has a documented pattern of rapid-fire, late-night posting that has produced both accurate claims and demonstrably false or misleading statements; this environment increases the likelihood that a provocative line might be paraphrased, exaggerated, or misattributed in downstream reporting or social media [1] [2] [5].
4. Legal and censorship framings often color reporting on his speech but do not substitute for source verification
Much of the press coverage about Trump’s social output is framed through debates about free speech, executive orders, and the limits of government action—contexts that shape how speech is interpreted (for example, disputes over stopping federal funds for protests or the scope of First Amendment protections)—yet such legal framing should not be conflated with documentary evidence of a specific claim about nationwide alcoholism or a call for Prohibition [6] [7] [8].
5. If the claim exists elsewhere, common failure modes explain the gap in these sources
If a Truth Social post with that language exists outside this dataset, plausible explanations for its absence here include selective archiving, rapid deletions or edits on the platform, misquotation in secondary outlets, or amplification of a paraphrase rather than a verbatim post; the First Amendment scholarship and platform analyses in these sources also note that private platforms’ moderation and archives can be inconsistent, complicating retrospective verification [9] [1] [10].
6. Bottom line and recommended next steps for verification
Based on the supplied reporting, one cannot substantiate the claim that Trump posted on Truth Social that “America was full of raging alcoholics” and demanded reinstatement of the Eighteenth Amendment; the archives and reporting included here document his prolific posting and the historical analogy of Prohibition but do not contain that specific post [1] [2] [4]. To move from uncertainty to confirmation, consult primary-source archives of Truth Social posts (including timestamped entries), reputable news outlets that quote the exact Truth Social text, and independent archival services that capture deleted or edited posts [1] [3].