Trump Amplified Foreign-Based Accounts This Weekend
One account boosted by Trump promoted banning Ilhan Omar from office. The account is based in Africa.
Written by J.D. Wolf
Over the weekend, Donald Trump amplified posts from pro-Trump X accounts that the platform identifies as operating from outside the United States. Two of the four accounts were identified as potentially masking their true location through VPNs.
The posts come as X introduced new profile labels indicating the country an account is posting from, along with warnings when the platform or its partners believe a user may be connecting through a proxy.
On Saturday, Trump boosted “TRUMP ARMY @TRUMPARMY_,” a self-described fan account that X lists as based in South Asia, after it celebrated a supposed Trump victory at the Supreme Court.
On Sunday, he shared a screenshot from “MAG 🔫 1775 🇺🇸 @realMAG1775,” which argued that Democratic senators cannot tell the military to ignore the commander-in-chief.
Although X currently displays the account as U.S.-based, it also includes a prominent disclaimer: the location may be inaccurate because a partner detected proxy or VPN use that could be obscuring the account’s true origin.
Trump also posted a link to an AI-generated video from the account “DeepFakeQuotes,” which called for the arrest of Democratic senators who urged the military not to follow unlawful commands.
X similarly warns that this account may be routing through a VPN and that the displayed country may not reflect its actual location.
And in a fourth example, Trump elevated “@DonaldTrumpnq,” a commentary account posting a graphic of Rep. Ilhan Omar and Minnesota Sen. Omar Fateh while asking whether foreign-born citizens should be barred from elected office.
Ironically, that account pushing for Trump’s agenda is labeled by X as operating from Africa.
Despite the recent X labels, Trump spent the weekend amplifying political messages originating from these accounts that X itself identifies as foreign or potentially foreign-based.
The debut of these new X location labels has exposed just how deeply foreign actors are embedded in the American political conversation, and how often they amplify pro-Trump, pro-MAGA narratives designed to divide Americans and distort our democracy. What the platform once treated as speculation is now visible in plain sight: accounts based overseas, or masking their origins, are pushing incendiary political content that Trump himself is now elevating to his millions of followers.
It’s a stark reminder that foreign influence isn’t limited to election cycles or coordinated hack-and-leak operations; it’s woven into the daily flow of social media posts that shape public opinion. As foreign-based accounts pose as grassroots voices, the burden falls on all of us to stay vigilant, question the source of what we’re seeing, and recognize when outside actors are trying to manipulate and fracture the American public.
The GOP must be held responsible for not pushing back on Trump’s insanity as he takes the U.S. down the rabbit hole he’s descending into!
Trump is a foreign puppet. Lock him up. Tish James did nothing wrong! She is a brave black woman defending democracy from fascism. I wrote a poem for her, inspired by her bravery: https://democracydefender2025.substack.com/p/tish-james-did-nothing-wrong