Trump Appears To Mix Up Brazil’s Presidential Election With India’s As He Calls U.S. Voting ‘Corrupt’
Trump later corrected the post to Brazil after citing 125.27 million valid votes and using the example to attack U.S. vote counting.
- On Monday, President Donald Trump criticized U.S. election counting speed, comparing it unfavorably to Brazil's rapid results. He claimed American counts take weeks to process.
- Brazil's recent election, which took place on Sunday, sent President Luiz and Senator Bolsonaro to a runoff. Trump noted that results emerged soon after polls closed.
- Trump alleged that in Detroit, Philadelphia, and California, vote counts take weeks despite smaller numbers. He initially wrote "Rig" in his post, later correcting it to "calculate."
- His post concluded, signed as President DJT, with the declaration "Voting in America is CORRUPT." The post provided no evidence for these claims about U.S. counting.
- Courthouse News reported that the about 124.5 million turnout figure Trump cited is close to the actual total. The post appeared as Trump boarded Air Force One at Chicago's Hare International Airport.
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The President of the United States, Donald Trump, on September 28, 2026 Kevin Lamarque/Reuters The President of the United States, Donald Trump, quoted on Monday (5) the Brazilian presidential election and used it as a good example to say, in contrast, that "the vote in the United States is corrupt" and to criticize the delay in democratic cities to determine results. Trump said that democratic cities delay in obtaining and "fraud" votes. The sp…
Trump mixes up countries in late-night election meltdown
President Donald Trump, 80. had another late-night accident after referring to Brazil as India. According to Trump, he believes that American elections are fraudulent because Brazil can get results faster than the U.S.First, Trump flubbed his own data point, claiming that India had an election with 125 million people. It has since been deleted after Indian news sites caught the flub, the Daily Beast observed. India is a country of nearly 1.5 bil…
Trump Appears To Mix Up Brazil’s Presidential Election With India’s As He Calls U.S. Voting ‘Corrupt’
Trump’s ally Flávio Bolsonaro topped the vote count in Brazil with 47% of the vote, advancing to the runoffs where incumbent president Lula da Silva received 45.1%.
Frothing Trump mistakes Brazil for India in midnight tirade calling US elections 'corrupt'
President Donald Trump launched yet another attack on how elections are conducted in the US by insisting in a midnight tirade that they should not be trusted.With his eye on Brazil's first-round presidential election on Sunday, which is headed to an Oct. 25 runoff between President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro, he ramped up the familiar grievance."125 Million People voted today in the first round of Brazil's Presidential Electi…
Trump Cites Indian Election That Didn't Happen to Call US Electoral Process ‘Corrupt’
In an apparent faux pas, US President Donald Trump mentioned India in a social media post to claim that the electoral process in the US was "corrupt", when there were no elections in India, and the post clearly appeared to be
President Donald Trump mistakenly commended the Indian authorities for the rapid organization of the vote by confusing the country with Brazil in his recent publication. The American politician posted a message on the social network True Social, where he noted the speed at which the results were taken, TASS sends the TASS. The geographical error was quickly noticed by Newsweek journalists. "Today 125 million people voted in the first round of th…
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