President Donald Trump has repeatedly denounced the practice

of mail-in voting, calling it “corrupt” and a form of “cheating” in

elections. As recently as Monday, the president characterized

mail-in voting as “mail-in cheating.”

However, a Washington Post report reveals that despite

Trump’s pronouncements against mail-in voting, the president

recently voted by mail in Tuesday’s special election in Palm

Beach, Florida.

The report cites voter records on the Palm Beach County

Supervisor of Elections website that show Trump voted by mail

in Palm Beach County, where he resides at his Mar-a-Lago

estate and beach club outside of the White House. The

Washington Post report also revealed that Trump has been

registered to vote in Florida since 2019 and that he mailed his

ballot at least one other time in 2020.

The revelation that Trump voted by mail is a clear contradiction

of his public statements and his big push for Congress to pass

the SAVE America Act, which would require proof of citizenship

to vote and restrict voting by mail. During a roundtable in

Memphis on Monday, Trump also falsely claimed that the United

States is the only country that allows mail-in voting. At least 34

countries allow voters to mail in their ballots.

“It’s not surprising that he’s utilizing something he’s waging war

on. It’s the hypocrisy, but that is what he’s always done,”

political commentator Reecie Colbert told theGrio.

Democratic strategist Antjuan Seawright said President Trump’s

efforts to end mail-in voting are intended to sow doubt about its

practice ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, in which his party

is expected to suffer major losses.

“It’s clear to me that the president is afraid of people voting, and

he’s certainly afraid of people exercising their ability to cast a

vote in disagreement with him, and we’ve seen unlimited

flirtation and attempts to try to not only rearrange the

conversation around voting and people participating, but also

we’ve seen measures trying to go forth to prevent people from

voting in elections to come,” Seawright told theGrio.

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments for a

consequential case on the future of mail-in voting, which could

have repercussions for access to the ballot for Black and Brown

voters in states where advocates say Republican leaders are

trying to suppress their vote.

“I think with Black people, we have to understand the

assignment. And the known in the equation is that they’re going

to cheat. The known in the equation is that they’re going to

suppress our votes. And so what we have to do is we have to

be the unknown in the equation, which is what we do has to

exceed what they’re trying to do,” said Colbert.

The host of Sirius XM’s “The Reecie Colbert Show” told theGrio

that Republicans are making the “calculation” that their voters

are higher propensity voters and therefore the “roadblocks”

placed to deter Black and Brown voters will still result in

Republicans “going to vote anyway.” She explained, “I don’t

think that that’s necessarily a smart calculation, but that’s what

they’re banking on.”

Colbert added, “We know the table has been set. It’s incumbent

upon us to make sure that our votes are not disenfranchised.

And that’s not fair…but those are the cards that were dealt. So

we have to make sure that we vote out of cheating distance of

them.”

Seawright, who advises many national Democratic campaigns,

said President Trump and Republicans will turn to “unlimited

measures and attempts to try to silence and suffocate the

voices” of voters, whether Black or not.

“At one point in time, some of us thought that it was just African-

American voices that they wanted to silence and suffocate, and in some cases exterminate. Now, it’s pretty much anyone who may stand in disagreement with the extreme agenda that has come out of this modern-day Republican Party,” said Seawright.

Colbert pointed out one other irony to the revelation that Trump

voted by mail in a state that still restricts access to voting for

convicted felons.

“Florida has waged war on felons voting, and yet the felon, 34-

time convicted felon president, still is voting in Florida elections,”

she said.