Okorie v. Trump

• Court: District Court, District of Columbia
• Decided: November 5, 2025
• Docket: Civil Action No. 2025-3428
• Status: Published

Opinion

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

NDUKA COLLINS OKORIE, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) Civil Action No. 25-03428 (UNA) ) ) DONALD JOHN TRUMP, ) ) Defendant. )

MEMORANDUM OPINION

This matter, brought pro se, is before the Court on review of Plaintiff's complaint ECF No.

1, and application for leave to proceed in forma pauperis (IFP), ECF No. 2. For the following

reasons, the Court grants the IFP motion and dismisses the case. See 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B)(i)

(requiring immediate dismissal of a frivolous suit).

Plaintiff, a resident of Ontario, Canada, alleges that President Donald Trump “has not paid

any of his debts owed to me to the tune of” $3,462,000. Compl., ECF No. 1 at 5. The alleged debt

is for $462,000 worth of “art work services” rendered during the “presidential elections in

November 2016” and “translation services for Paul Trump, [alleged] brother of the defendant

costing U.S. dollar 3000000[.]” Id. at 4.

Complaints, as here, lacking “an arguable basis either in law or in fact,” Neitzke v. Williams,

490 U.S. 319, 325 (1989), or “postulating events and circumstances of a wholly fanciful kind,”

Crisafi v. Holland, 655 F.2d 1305, 1307-08 (D.C. Cir. 1981), are appropriately dismissed as

frivolous. A separate order accompanies this Memorandum Opinion.

2025.11.05 10:21:27 -05'00' _____________________ TREVOR N. McFADDEN Date: November 5, 2025 United States District Judge