Fact-checking Trump's claim the U.S. is the 'only country' that uses mail

Fact-checking Trump’s claim the U.S. is the ‘only country’ that uses mail-in voting Politics Aug 18, 2025 6:50 PM EDT

This article originally appeared on PolitiFact .

President Donald Trump vowed to take action against voting by mail, which he said makes the United States an outlier.

“We are now the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting,” Trump wrote in an Aug. 18 Truth Social post .

His post echoed grievances about mail-in voting he had aired days earlier in his interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity. After meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Aug. 15 in Alaska, Trump told Hannity that Putin said the 2020 U.S. presidential election was “rigged” because of mail-in voting. It wasn’t. Trump lost that election. Officials in his own administration told him t