Fact check: Olivia Wilde stated, "I Despise Donald Trump With All My Guts. What A Pathetic, Petulant, Dishonest P1g He Is."

Verdict: mostly true — Trust Score 65/100

The post accurately attributes the quote "I Despise Donald Trump With All My Guts. What A Pathetic, Petulant, Dishonest P1g He Is." to Olivia Wilde. This statement was originally made by Wilde in an Instagram post in August 2017 and is currently being widely discussed and reported in news outlets in 2026..

mostly true verification card — Trust Score 65/100
Platform
threads
Original post
https://www.threads.com/share/_mYW5m-er/
Verified on
August 5, 2026
Verification ID
ZmmJ_NwLkydFaOggdPs4KQ

Original content reviewed

Platform: THREADS --- Caption/Description --- A simple…”well, I didn’t vote for him”…would have done better. We are not interested in hearing about your lack of upbringing and lack of education and finesse. You have lost the moment you uttered your despicable choice of words. --- On-Screen Text (OCR) --- MIX Olivia Wilde: “I Despise Donald Trump With All My Guts. What A Pathetic, Petulant, Dishonest P1g He Is.” Evan El-Amin / shutterstock & Colleen Stutevant / wikipedia CC BY 4.0 ---VERIFICATION_SUMMARY--- Platform: THREADS --- HOW TO VERIFY THIS (provenance-first) --- 1. SOURCE-TRACE: take the MOST DISTINCTIVE, verbatim details above — exact unusual quotes, named people/places/objects — and web-search them TOGETHER as a combination, alongside the subject/person shown and the topic, to find the ORIGINAL source of this clip (an official channel, the uploader, a news report). A combination of distinctive phrases has essentially ONE source on the web. 2. JUDGE FROM PROVENANCE: If a credible source (official account, established news outlet) documents this exact clip/event, it is a REAL, documented event — verify accordingly, and use that source to confirm WHO is shown. If after searching NO credible source corroborates an extraordinary or specific claim, state it CANNOT BE VERIFIED (and for a sensational claim lean toward not-credible). Do NOT default to "verified" on tangential, generic facts. 2b. PARTIAL PROVENANCE IS A RED FLAG, NOT A PASS: finding news coverage of the BACKGROUND event (the place, the deployment, the crisis) while NO source documents the SPECIFIC scene the video depicts is the signature of a synthetic/satirical video grafted onto a real news moment — today's most common misinformation format. When the depicted scene is also extraordinary or absurd (joke unit names on vehicles, food as crowd control, officials in meme-format actions), conclude the video is AI-generated/satirical: say so DEFINITIVELY in aiDetection and the verdictSummary, and grad

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  1. verified: Olivia Wilde stated, "I Despise Donald Trump With All My Guts. What A Pathetic, Petulant, Dishonest P1g He Is."
    Multiple news sources and social media discussions from 2026 confirm that Olivia Wilde made this statement. The quote originated from an Instagram post by Wilde in August 2017.

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