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An Oct. 17 Threads post (direct link, archive link) claims former President Donald Trump has backed out of numerous events in the final weeks of the 2024 presidential campaign. 
“Trump has canceled: Second debate with Harris, CNN town hall, 60 Minutes, NBC interview, NRA rally, CNBC appearance,” reads the post. “Am I missing some?”  It was reposted more than 70 times in a week. Other versions of the claim spread widely on Facebook, Instagram and X, formerly Twitter.  
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Trump canceled some of the events mentioned in the post, but he never agreed to participate in others. 
The claim came amid questions from Democrats surrounding Trump’s age and fitness for the presidency. Politico’s Playbook newsletter reported on Oct. 18 that Trump backed out of numerous events because of “exhaustion,” a claim his spokesperson KarolineLeavitt told the outlet was “unequivocally false.”  
But the list in the social media post isn’t entirely accurate. While Trump did cancel some of the named appearances, others were never scheduled.
Here’s a rundown:
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USA TODAY has debunked an array of claims pertaining to presidential campaign events, including false assertions that Harris backed out of a Sept. 4 debate with Trump and that Biden backed out of debating Trump in May.  
USA TODAY reached out to the user who shared the post for comment but did not immediately receive a response. Trump’s team did not answer questions about whether each of the events was a scheduled appearance or about the circumstances of the event cancellations.
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