Trump Votes By Mail Just One Month After Calling It ‘Inherently Corrupt’

President Donald Trump speaks at Rockland Community College, Friday, May 22, 2026, in Suffern, N.Y. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

President Donald Trump voted by mail in the upcoming Republican Party primary in Florida, reported Politico on Monday.

According to local voting records, Trump mailed in his ballot in late July, and it was recorded on August 13th ahead of Tuesday’s Florida primary elections. Trump voting by mail raises eyebrows as he has long criticized the practice, going so far as to call it “inherently corrupt” just last month.

Trump has voted by mail for years, as have many of his top officials and allies, all the while insisting that mail-in ballots are a key part of his long-held, but baseless, claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him.

The White House told Politico in a statement that reporting on Trump voting by mail is a non-story, despite his years of attacking the practice. “As President Trump has said, the SAVE America Act has commonsense exceptions for Americans to use mail-in ballots for illness, disability, military, or travel — but universal mail-in voting should not be allowed because it’s highly susceptible to fraud,” White House spokesperson Olivia Wales told the outlet, adding:

As everyone knows, the President is a resident of Palm Beach and participates in Florida elections, but he obviously primarily lives at the White House in Washington, D.C. This is a non-story.

Notably, Republicans hold a supermajority in the Florida Legislature as well as the governor’s mansion, but have not moved to restrict mail-in voting as Trump has long demanded. Trump has long irked Republican political operatives with his fury at mail-in voting, which is often the preferred method for elderly voters, who make up one of the GOP’s key constituencies across the country.

CBS News fact-checked Trump’s claim that mail-in voting is “corrupt” in mid-July, deeming it “False,” and writing, “There is no evidence of widespread mail-in ballot fraud or corruption in states where no-excuse absentee or universal vote-by-mail is offered. The Brookings Institute found an ‘average total mail voting fraud percentage across the 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022 general elections of only 0.000043%, or about four cases of mail voting fraud out of every 10 million mail votes.’”

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