Trump shares a media post on Truth Social
Trump truth Social post containing 2 videos. Video transcript It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in.
WASHINGTON D.C. — Truth Social post containing 2 videos.
Video transcript It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
Donald J. Trump shared a video post on Truth Social featuring Theodore Roosevelt‘s famous “Man in the Arena” quote on October 12, 2026 at 10:25 AM ET. Roosevelt originally delivered the passage during his “Citizenship in a Republic” speech at the Sorbonne in Paris on April 23, 1910.
Truth Social post containing 2 videos.
Video transcript It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs, who comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming, but who does actually strive to do the deeds, who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
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