In one more of his social media posting sprees, President Donald Trump despatched out a wide range of wildly inaccurate and sometimes conspiratorial claims about elections and different topics. Trump shared a video titled “California Governor PANICS as Walmart Shuts Down 250+ Stores Across State.” The video, echoed by the textual content in one of many posts Trump shared, claimed that Walmart is making ready to close down these stores as a result of the retailer can’t afford California’s “$22” per hour minimal wage. But California’s statewide minimal wage is $16.90 per hour, not $22 – and Walmart informed NCS on Thursday morning that it isn’t conducting a large retailer closure in California for any purpose.
“This isn’t accurate information,” a Walmart spokesperson stated. “In reality, we truly only in the near past opened a brand new supercenter in California.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s workplace in a social media publish expressed disbelief that Trump had promoted the false claim about Walmart. Walmart’s 303 stores in California are open,” Newsom’s workplace wrote . “We cannot believe we have to say any of this out loud. We cannot believe this is real life. And we truly cannot believe this man has the nuclear codes.”
The phony claim about Walmart shutting tons of of California stores was beforehand posted on a YouTube account that seems to have been dedicated to sensational however inaccurate movies attacking Newsom. On Thursday, Newsom’s workplace offered NCS with a screenshot from the YouTube account, which an aide stated was taken Wednesday evening, that confirmed the account had posted quite a few extremely related latest movies making sensational false claims about life in California underneath Newsom. By Thursday morning, virtually all the anti-Newsom movies had been deleted from the account.
Multiple posts from Trump made false claims about elections, together with conspiracy theories in regards to the 2020 election the president wrongly insists was stolen from him. One of the posts Trump shared outlined a false vote-flipping conspiracy involving former President Barack Obama, the FBI, the CIA, China and Italian officers. Other posts made claims that had been extra easy, however no much less false. For instance, Trump shared posts claiming that Wisconsin has greater than seven million registered voters, thousands and thousands increased than its whole variety of adults. One of the posts stated, “This is not a glitch; it is election fraud waiting to happen!” But Wisconsin doesn’t have anyplace near seven million registered voters. The web site of the Wisconsin Elections Commission stories, “The State of Wisconsin had 3,602,958 active registered voters on January 1, 2026.”
The fee informed NCS on Thursday that the state additionally has about 4.6 million inactive voters – individuals who died; moved away and registered in one other state; had been convicted of a felony; had been adjudicated incompetent to vote; or had been purged from the voter rolls because of inactivity – however that “inactive voters are not considered registered voters” and “would have to re-register before voting.”