No, Trump didn’t suggest we replace Pride month with veterans month

President Donald Trump’s administration has purged government programs focused on the LGBTQ+ community, but has he also proposed swapping out Pride month?

"Donald Trump just suggested replacing pride month with veterans month in honor of those who served. What do you think?" read a March 26 Facebook post with more than 146,000 likes.

"I think it's the most wonderful idea!!!" read one comment, "YES!!" read another, "Our Veterans are Our treasures, not all the lunatics who don’t know what they are." 

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Other Facebook and X posts shared the same claim. Some even attributed a quote to the president: "We should replace Pride Month with Veterans Month to honor the heroes who served our country," Trump supposedly said, according to the posts. 

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PolitiFact found no evidence that Trump has proposed such a swap. We searched Nexis news archives and Google for any reference to this statement and found no credible news coverage that Trump said this. There is also no record of this statement on his X account,  Truth Social profile or in White House press releases.

And, the U.S. already has a month to honor veterans in November. 

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Starting in 2017, during his first presidential term, Trump declared November "Veterans and Military Families Month." Every year since, including during Biden’s tenure, The White House has proclaimed November as a month to honor veterans. 

Pride Month, which celebrates the LGBTQ+ community, happens in June each year.

During Trump’s first term he never issued an official proclamation acknowledging Pride Month, but in 2019 he tweeted, "As we celebrate LGBT Pride Month and recognize the outstanding contributions LGBT people have made to our great Nation, let us also stand in solidarity with the many LGBT people who live in dozens of countries worldwide that punish, imprison, or even execute individuals … on the basis of their sexual orientation." 

Every year of Biden’s presidency, the White House declared June Pride Month. 

We rate the claim that Trump "just suggested replacing pride month with veterans month in honor of those who served" False.

PolitiFact Researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.