Trump warns ‘hell to pay’ if Honduras alters presidential election results
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President Donald Trump threw himself into the middle of Honduras’ razor-thin presidential race on Monday, warning that “the payoff will be very bad” if election officials change the results.
Writing on Truth Social, Trump accused Honduras of “trying to change the results” without providing evidence.
Trump said, “If they do this, there will be a heavy price! The people of Honduras voted overwhelmingly on November 30.” he said.
The president’s remarks came just hours after Ana Paola Hall, head of the National Electoral Council, wrote on
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US President Donald Trump makes a statement during his meeting with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani at the White House Oval Office on November 21, 2025 in Washington DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Their counts showed a close race between two conservative candidates, Nasry Asfura of the National Party and Salvador Nasralla of the Liberal Party, with Asfura narrowly ahead by just a few hundred votes. Democratic socialist LIBRE candidate Rixi Moncada trailed by nearly 20 percentage points.
LIBRE candidate Rixi Moncada is a well-known lawyer, financier and former Minister of National Defense. (RELATED PRESS)
“It is imperative that the commission finish counting the votes,” Trump wrote. “Votes of hundreds of thousands of Hondurans must be counted. Democracy must prevail!”
Officials said the count would continue but did not say when updated totals would be released, and parts of the city’s online system appeared to be down.
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Just before the freeze, Trump supported Asfura, calling him “the only Honduran candidate his administration will work with” and saying he would fight “narco-communists” alongside the United States.
National Party presidential candidate Nasry Asfura shows her inked finger after voting in the general election in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Both leading candidates cited the close numbers as evidence that they were ahead; However, both candidates did not hesitate to declare victory.
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Trump’s announcement that he would pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who is currently serving a 45-year prison sentence in the United States, also attracted great attention in the race and underlined how US politics can intervene in the country’s politics.
Liberal Party presidential candidate Salvador Nasralla shows his ballot during the general election in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Trump’s latest warning adds new pressure to an already hostile post-election environment. The outcome will determine whether the Latin American country will drift away from the ruling LIBRE party and have profound implications for its future relations with Washington.
