Fact Check: Did Trump say his ear started 'regrowing' the day after he was shot?
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WASHINGTON, DC: Recently, in 2026, an old screenshot has started making the rounds again.
It showed what looked like a post from President Donald Trump on Truth Social, where he talked about recovering after getting shot during his reelection campaign on July 13, 2024.
The screenshot first started spreading back in July 2024. In it, Trump supposedly wrote on X that a bullet completely took off his ear, but somehow it began 'regrowing' the next day.
Trump claimed that his ear started 'regrowing' after a bullet took it off
In July 2024, after President Trump was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt, a screenshot began circulating on social media platforms like X and Facebook and Threads purporting to show a post from Trump.
The text in the image said, "It took my entire ear off. The whole ear. But I went to the doctor, and he said and this is true, he said, 'You heal faster than anyone I've ever seen. Nobody is healthier than you.' And the next day, my ear was growing back, and the doctor said, Nobody regrows ears like that, and it's a really remarkable thing, regrowing an ear like that; most people can't do it. And I know that because it's not me saying this, it's the doctor; it's everybody saying, Just, you're the best at regrowing ears."
Variants of the image were shared hundreds of thousands of times, often accompanied by commentary expressing disbelief or mockery about the supposed regrowth.
Fact Check: The post was not real; there is no evidence of it
Snopes checked it out and confirmed the post was fake.
Investigators dug through Trump’s official social media accounts and didn’t find any trace of that screenshot.
There was nothing new since August 2023 on his verified X account, which was way before the assassination attempt.
On top of that, Trump’s campaign put out a medical letter explaining exactly what happened to his ear when the bullet just barely missed him.
The letter, signed by US Rep Ronny Jackson, who served as Trump's White House physician, stated that Trump sustained a gunshot wound to the right ear that came 'less than a quarter of an inch from entering his head and struck the top of his right ear.'
The bullet track 'produced a 2 cm wide wound that extended down to the cartilaginous surface of the ear. There was initially significant bleeding, followed by marked swelling of the entire upper ear.'
Trump was injured in July 2024 when a gunman opened fire at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
