What the viral post claims

A post that circulated on October 23, 2026, claims President Donald Trump has just announced that George Soros and his entire network will be investigated under RICO charges, alleging Soros is behind the funding, training and radicalization of young people to fuel terror and extremism. The post is framed as breaking news.

What Trump actually said — and when

The remarks at the heart of the post are more than a year old. On August 27, 2025, Trump wrote on Truth Social that Soros and his son Alex Soros should be charged with RICO over alleged support for violent protests across the United States; contemporaneous reporting noted he offered no evidence of wrongdoing. In mid-September 2025, Trump said on Fox and Friends that his administration would look into Soros because he believed it was a RICO case involving real agitation. Reporting from the New York Times later described a Justice Department directive asking several US attorneys offices to examine whether Soros-funded organizations had ties to domestic terrorism, while Attorney General Pam Bondi said only that everything was on the table and did not confirm an investigation.

Why the claim is misleading

No new announcement in October 2026 matches the wording of the viral post. The post takes genuine 2025 statements and presents them as a fresh decision, and it goes further than those statements by asserting as fact that Soros funded, trained and radicalized young people for terrorism — allegations Trump's own remarks do not establish. The Open Society Foundations has denied funding or supporting violent protests, describing such accusations as false. Scrutiny of Soros-linked organizations is real and documented, but it is not new, and calling it a just-made announcement misleads readers about when and what happened.