No, Michael Moore is not supporting Trump’s 2024 candidacy

Michael Moore, a liberal filmmaker, did not announce his support for President Donald Trump in the 2024 election. A 2016 video of Moore telling Donald Trump supporters in Ohio not to vote for Trump has been misleadingly edited. 

In a Instagram reel from January with text that reads "Michael Moore Supporting Trump," Moore speaks to an audience and says, "Whether Trump means it or not is kind of irrelevant because he’s saying the things to people who are hurting and it’s why every beaten-down, nameless, forgotten working stiff who used to be part of what was called the middle class loves Trump." 

Moore also says that  disenchanted voters will Nov. 8 "put a big f- - - ing yes on the box by the name of the man who has threatened to upend and overturn the very system — that has ruined their lives — Donald J. Trump." The video clip ends with Moore saying, "Trump’s election is going to be the biggest ‘f--- you’ ever recorded in human history and it will feel good." 

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The video was taken from Moore’s 2016 documentary, "Michael Moore in TrumpLand," during which he delivered a stand-up special in Ohio to persuade Trump supporters not to vote for Trump. 

Trump reposted the edited version of the video to his Truth Social account in April with no caption. 

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But a longer version of the video shows Moore saying that Trump voters will regret their decision. 

"So, when the rightfully angry people of Ohio and Michigan and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, find out after a few months in office that President Trump wasn’t going to do a damn thing for them, it’ll be too late to do anything about it," Moore said. "But I get it, you wanted to send a message. You had righteous anger, and justifiable anger. Well, message sent. Good night America, you’ve just elected the last president of the United States." 

An Feb. 27 article by The Nation says Moore has supported Democratic candidates since 2002. On an episode of his podcast "Rumble with Michael Moore" that aired Feb. 27, Moore said he voted for Joe Biden in 2020 and encouraged Michigan voters to cast their ballots for "uncommitted" in the 2024 Michigan presidential primary to protest the Biden administration’s support of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. 

In the podcast, Moore emphasizes that he doesn’t support reelecting Trump in 2024.

"President Biden, this is what’s really upsetting us, is that you are risking putting Trump back in the White House," Moore says. "What is wrong with you?"

We rate the claim that Moore is supporting Trump in the 2024 election False.