On Monday, President Donald Trump vowed to “lead a movement” to eliminate mail-in ballots and would sign an executive order to “help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections.”
Trump’s latest push to abolish voting machines and mail-in voting comes days after telling Fox News that he’d received a warning from Russian President Vladimir Putin during their Alaska summit that the practice makes “honest elections” impossible.
He told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Friday: “Vladimir Putin, smart guy, said you can’t have an honest election with mail-in voting.”
Taking to Truth Social just hours before a follow-up meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and top European leaders, Trump raged that the voting methods allowed Democrats to “CHEAT AT LEVELS NEVER SEEN” and promised to “bring HONESTY” to the 2026 midterms as he outlined his new plans:
I am going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, and also, while we’re at it, Highly “Inaccurate,” Very Expensive, and Seriously Controversial VOTING MACHINES, which cost Ten Times more than accurate and sophisticated Watermark Paper, which is faster, and leaves NO DOUBT, at the end of the evening, as to who WON, and who LOST, the Election. We are now the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting. All others gave it up because of the MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD ENCOUNTERED. WE WILL BEGIN THIS EFFORT, WHICH WILL BE STRONGLY OPPOSED BY THE DEMOCRATS BECAUSE THEY CHEAT AT LEVELS NEVER SEEN BEFORE, by signing an EXECUTIVE ORDER to help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections. Remember, the States are merely an “agent” for the Federal Government in counting and tabulating the votes. They must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them, FOR THE GOOD OF OUR COUNTRY, to do. With their HORRIBLE Radical Left policies, like Open Borders, Men Playing in Women’s Sports, Transgender and “WOKE” for everyone, and so much more, Democrats are virtually Unelectable without using this completely disproven Mail-In SCAM. ELECTIONS CAN NEVER BE HONEST WITH MAIL IN BALLOTS/VOTING, and everybody, IN PARTICULAR THE DEMOCRATS, KNOWS THIS. I, AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, WILL FIGHT LIKE HELL TO BRING HONESTY AND INTEGRITY BACK TO OUR ELECTIONS. THE MAIL-IN BALLOT HOAX, USING VOTING MACHINES THAT ARE A COMPLETE AND TOTAL DISASTER, MUST END, NOW!!! REMEMBER, WITHOUT FAIR AND HONEST ELECTIONS, AND STRONG AND POWERFUL BORDERS, YOU DON’T HAVE EVEN A SEMBLANCE OF A COUNTRY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!! DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
The allegations of a stolen 2020 election were repeatedly and exhaustively investigated and litigated, with judges dismissing claims of illegal voting as baseless.
Trump’s announcement marks a sharp return to an old MAGA position after a short departure when, in 2024, Trump’s own campaign launched “Swamp the Vote USA,” encouraging Republicans to embrace early and mail-in voting after years of the president pushing against the practice.
Two companies that manufacture voting machines, Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic, were targets of baseless conspiracy theories accusing them of rigging the 2020 election. Each company filed major defamation lawsuits against multiple media companies, all of which were ultimately settled.
