President Donald Trump once again found himself under online scrutiny after an off-script moment spiraled into a confused, detail-stuffed response that left viewers questioning how closely his version of events matched reality. The backlash intensified after Trump falsely claimed — again — th at he had won Minnesota in three presidential elections, but viewers say it wasn’t just the claim itself. It was the way he kept embellishing the story, layering on new details that pushed it further from the basic facts. U.S. President Donald Trump takes questions from members of the media during a meeting with oil and gas executives in the East Room of the White House on January 9, 2026 in Washington, DC. Trump is holding the meeting to discuss plans for investment in Venezuela after ousting its leader Nicolás Maduro. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) During a roundtable with more than a dozen oil executives, including leaders from Chevron, ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips, where Trump took questions from reporters on unrelated topics ranging from energy policy to a deadly shooting involving an ICE agent. When pressed about whether the FBI should be sharing evidence with Minnesota state officials in an ongoing investigation, Trump veered sharply off topic, launching into a personal attack on state leadership and an extended tirade about corruption. ‘He F—d Up!’: Trump Moves to Take Control, Everything Collapses in a Split Second — and the Exact Moment Rubio Realizes He’s in Trouble Is the Clip Everyone’s Replaying CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked Trump whether he was aware that Minnesota officials had said the FBI was not sharing evidence in a way that would typically be expected during a joint investigation, and whether he believed the bureau should be cooperating more fully with the state. “Well, normally I would, but their crooked officials, I mean Minneapolis and uh, Minnesota, what a beautiful place, but it’s being destroyed. It’s got an incompetent governor — a fool, I mean he’s a stupid person,” Trump replied. From there, Trump pivoted to a lengthy and misleading discussion of fraud cases in Minnesota, referencing real prosecutions involving pandemic-era misuse of public funds but conflating them with broad, unsupported claims about immigrant communities and voting behavior. “It looks like the number could be $19 billion dollars stolen from a lot of people but largely people from Somalia … they buy their vote they vote in a group they buy their vote uh… they sell more Mercedes-Benz’s in that area than almost,” Trump said. “Can you imagine you come over with no money and then shortly thereafter you’re driving a Mercedes-Benz the whole thing is ridiculous so they’re very corrupt people it’s a very corrupt state.” Trump then made the claim that dominated reaction to the event: that he had won Minnesota repeatedly, despite every official election result showing otherwise. “I feel that I won Minnesota, I think I won it all three times. Nobody’s won it since Richard Nixon won it many, many years ago … it’s a corrupt state, a corrupt voting state and the Republicans ought to get smart and demand on voter ID,” Trump said, continuing without pause. “They ought to demand maybe same-day voting … But I won Minnesota three times, and I didn’t get credit for it.” As Trump continued, he continued to add more details one less true than the other. “I did so well in that state every time. The people were… they were crying everytime after.” View on Threads Trump’s insistence that he “feels” he won the state, despite never doing so, became the focal point of online reaction, with critics ridiculing the logic and questioning the president’s mental fitness. One response mocked the reasoning outright: “I feel like I won the lottery last year. I didn’t get any money since I didn’t have any of the numbers, but it still feels like I won.” Others were more blunt, with one person exclaiming, “He’s deeply unhinged. And someone should tell him that his “opinion” is irrelevant.”  “This guy is so detached from reality, so aggressive, so powerful, and so unchecked that he’s gonna get us into World War III,” one wrote. “He’s completely out of his mind. I think we’re just a few days away from drooling,” another comment read. “Seriously the mental incapacity is pretty f—king clear,” another said. View on Threads Some reactions framed Trump’s remarks as evidence of a deeper detachment from reality rather than a political tactic. “He needs to be put away in a room where he can live out his imaginary world in privacy,” one commenter wrote. “What a sick man,” wrote another. Another response focused squarely on shutting down Trump’s false premise.  “You don’t get to ‘feel’ you won things. You do or you don’t, and you didn’t. You lost Minnesota soundly three times in a row.” Trump went on to describe Minnesota, California and other states as “crooked,” before asserting that he won the 2024 election because it was “too big to rig.” “The last time i won uh… ’24, the one that just took place, I won because it was too big to rig, you couldn’t rig it, it was too big to rig,” he said, before returning once again to Minnesota. “But I won the state of Minnesota, it’s a corrupt voting system with an incompetent governor.” Protests are getting larger in Minnesota.Donald Trump needs to arrest and charge Jonathan Ross, he should have done it on the day it happened. pic.twitter.com/FobY2AJ7zy— BladeoftheSun (@BladeoftheS) January 10, 2026 The claims directly contradict publicly available election results. Minnesota has not voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 1972. Hillary Clinton carried the state in 2016, defeating Trump by roughly 44,700 votes. President Joe Biden expanded that margin in 2020, winning Minnesota by more than seven percentage points. According to the Minnesota Secretary of State’s website, Democrats Kamala Harris and Tim Walz won the state’s 2024 general election with nearly 51 percent of the vote, while Trump and his running mate JD Vance finished with just under 47 percent. ‘What?!’: Trump Goes Off the Deep End, Loses Track of His Imaginary Story — Then Casually Adds Details As If It’s True and Viewers Say This Slip Is Worse Than Anything They’ve Seen ...read more read less