Source: Express on Facebook
Claim: Multiple Facebook posts and a blog, Daily Excessive, claim that President Donald Trump ordered the deportation of the children of Nigerian politicians in America and the sale of private jets and luxury properties owned by Nigerian politicians in the U.S.
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In his second term as the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump has intensified efforts to deport illegal immigrants from the US. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) revealed that it has identified 3,690 Nigerians among the 1.4 million immigrants to be deported from the US.
As nations prepare to receive their nationals, fake news, misinformation and disinformation began to spread on the subject.
Recently, there have been several Facebook posts claiming that President Trump has ordered the deportation of Nigerian politicians’ children in America.
The posts read: “Breaking News: “I have ordered the deportation of all Nigerian politicians’ children back to Nigeria, including those studying here, starting with the President’s children.
“You can’t destroy your own country and then come here looking for a better life in a well-run nation. It doesn’t work that way—believe me,” Trump stated”.
Such post can be found here, here, here and here.
Further check showed that the post emanated from a blog, DailyExcessive, with all the Facebook posts with the claim pointing to a link that leads to the blog.
Daily Excessive claimed that the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, has ordered the sale of all private jets and luxury properties owned by Nigerian politicians in the U.S. and called for the deportation of their children studying in America.
Screenshot of the post on Daily Excessive
The report was published on January 28, 2025.
Given the relevance of the claims to Nigeria and Trump’s mass deportation of illegal immigrants from the U.S., we conducted this fact-check.
Verification
We checked Donald Trump’s official social media handles here and here but such a directive was not found on his accounts.
Although, some reports here, here and here confirmed that the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) urged Trump to return to Nigeria the proceeds of corruption traced to Nigerian officials, there is no evidence to support the claim that Trump issued specific orders regarding Nigerian politicians’ assets or their children.
Meanwhile, our visit to Daily Excessive blog shows that the blog thrives on falsified information to generate traffic.
We found several posts on it misleading, making it more suspicious. Several sponsored adverts kept popping up and the blog constantly requested permission to use visitors’ data.
Screenshot of the blog
Conclusion
The claim that U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered the deportation of Nigerian politicians’ children in America and the sale of their private jets and luxury properties in the U.S. is false.
There is no official statement, credible news report, or verifiable evidence to support this claim. The source of the claim, Daily Excessive, publishes misleading and unverified information to drive traffic and possibly phish visitors’ data.
