Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas are legends.
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Strict ScrutinySep 15, 2026
The Truth Social post of September 15, 2026 (preserved by the American Presidency Project) reads 'Justices Alito and Thomas, legends both,' and multiple outlets (Reuters-style coverage, Yahoo, NBC, The Hill) confirm Trump called Alito and Thomas 'legends' in that post.
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… they are and I think it's enthusiastically on board with the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act, the destruction of real multiracial democracy, they're not fully on board with this sort of blatant election interference. I just want to add: late breaking, we got a True Social post from the president reacting to this since we sat down, and, yeah, in which he refers to Thomas and Alito as, quote, "legends," both um of his appointees. That's a T-shirt. That is a T-shirt. We gotta, we gotta get that T-shirt for ourselves, of the justices he appointed who ruled against him. He says, quote, "These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court. …
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Supports. The American Presidency Project's archive of Trump's Truth Social posts for September 15, 2026 contains the text 'Justices Alito and Thomas, legends both,' directly matching the claim.[2]
Supports. The Hill reports that in the same Truth Social post criticizing the court, Trump praised Alito and Justice Clarence Thomas as 'legends,' noting their dissent.[3]
Supports. NBC News and Yahoo News both report Trump called the dissenting justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas 'legends' in his Truth Social post on the mail-in ballot ruling.[4][5]
Context. Reuters reports Trump's Truth Social criticism of the court's appointees without naming justices, and the post's broader 'shell of their original selves' remarks were directed at the court's majority rather than Alito and Thomas.[1]
Sources
5 sources: 1 fact-checker, 1 primary, 1 tier 1, 1 tier 2, 1 not rated
- 1Trump lashes out at Supreme Court justices after ballots ...reuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2Truth Social Posts of September 15, 2026presidency.ucsb.edu · primary source · cited for: supports
- 3Alito on Trump’s praise of him, criticism of fellow justices: ‘I put all of that out of my mind’thehill.com · tier 1 · cited for: supports
- 4Durbin criticizes Patel's leadership at the FBInbcnews.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 5Trump slams Supreme Court justices he appointed over mail voting rulingyahoo.com · not rated · cited for: supports
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