A rumor that spread online in August 2025 claims that US President Donald Trump and the Republican Party plans to act federally to reduce the age of sexual activity or minimum marriage age, up to 14 – state -controlled issues. Snopes received a search for readers, asking if this rumor was faithful.
The posts of consumer posts, which are alleged that Trump and Republicans have pursued this issue to protect the president in order to face accusations related to his activities with a deceased financier and convicted sexual criminal Jeffrey Epstein, more about the unproven allegations that the undisclosed government files that he is engaged in sex with minor girls. Previously, Trump denied the knowledge and involvement in Epstein’s crimes.
In one of the most famous examples of users who share the claim, on August 11, content creator Monte Mader (@montemader) published a three-minute video (archived) on his more than 1.5 million followers on Instagram. The video received over 2.3 million views. Madra also posted the video on Facebook (Archived), Tiktok (Archived) and YouTube (archived), collectively earning nearly 700,000 additional views. Mader, the only person to speak in the video, made many claims, including the memory of Trump’s press conference on August 11, announcing his absorption at the Washington Police Department.
This partial transcript emphasizes Mader’s basic claims, which include a statement about state governments in Missouri, New Hampshire, West Virginia and Wyomoming prepares legislation to allow 14-year-olds to marry adults:
Donald Trump and Republicans are trying to reduce the age of marriage consent to the age of 14. In his press conference this morning, before federally seizes DC, he claims that there are works by violent teens causing crime and that every person at fourteen fourteen years or up must be judged as an adult. But they also change the laws so that a 14-year-old girl is eligible for marriage and this would change how sexual crimes are pursued.
There are four states – Wyoming, Missouri, New Hampshire and West Virginia – who have already written laws on children’s marriage to allow at the age of 14 to marry an adult adult and any age that would be accused of being a sexual crime will no longer be a crime.
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And how convenient now that we know that Trump is in Epstein’s files, they are trying to legalize the age of the girls we know with that he has slept because there are victims who have testified to it.
However, the search for Bing, Duckduckgo, Google and Yahoo do not have any media that reliably confirming any developments for Trump and Republicans who seek to reduce the age of sex or marriage to 14. Review Trump’s publications on his own truth.
In addition, such searches did not create documentation for governments in the four above -mentioned countries that prepare legislation to allow children to marry adults at 14 years of age. On the contrary, retail outlets report that in recent months or years Missouri, New Hampshire, West Virginia and Wyoming have been banned or tightened restrictions related to marriage for persons under 18 years of age.
The content creator Vitus “V” Spehar, which manages the Under Desk news organization, also shared videos promoting this statement on Facebook (archived), Instagram and Tiktok, collectively receiving about 4 million views. Other users also share posts about Bluesky’s statement, Facebook, Instagram, Threads (Archived), Tiktok (Archived) and X (archived).
In an email to the Snop, the White House called the rumors “fake”. GOP National Press Secretary Kirsten Pels also said, “”This spreading is a screaming lie, pushed by extremely left -wing media propagandists. No country in the United States allows 14 -year remnants to marry adults, and the false claim that Republicans are trying to change, which actually has a zero basis. Mader and Spehar via email and instagram messages to request evidence to support their claims and update this story if we receive more information.
Trump’s Truth Social Publication on Pursuit of Teens
Madra’s claim, which claims Trump said at his press conference that he sought to pursue suspected criminals of the age of 14 and more as adults, refers to Trump’s remarks from the Social Post of Truth of the previous week. On August 5, Trump published (archived), partly:
Crime in Washington, Colombia County, is completely out of control. Local “youths” and gang members, some only at 14, 15 and 16 years old, randomly attack, enchant, cripple and shoot innocent citizens, while knowing that they will be released almost immediately. They are not afraid of law enforcement because they do not know that nothing happens to them, but it will happen now! The DC law must be amended to pursue these “minors” as adults and lock them for a long time, starting at the age of 14.
Politifact reported some of Trump’s claims about the “entirely out -of -control” crime in Washington, including the fact that he did not mention a decline in killings from 2023 to 2024 – a year with the largest number of killings from 2019, according to Crime, organized on the Website of the Capital Police Department of Washington.
For further reading, a previous article to verify the facts consider the allegation Trump has signed a law effective on August 1, which has been driving couples who have been in relationships for five years automatically legally married. Another story reported Trump really once called Epstein a “great man” and added, “It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the more married side.”
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