Just FYI, Trump Never Called Republicans "The Dumbest Group Of Voters" In America
It’s a big fat fake.
With Donald Trump now the official Republican presidential nominee, this meme about how he called his party's members "the dumbest group of voters in the country" is making the rounds again. It's a fake.
The fake quote has been floating around the internet since about the time Trump announced his presidential bid in 2015. It has been widely shared on Twitter and Facebook by people eager to expose the businessman-turned-politician as a hypocrite for seeking the nomination of a party he once, allegedly, mocked.
"If I were to run, I'd run as a Republican," the fake quote reads. "They're the dumbest group of voters in the country. They believe anything on Fox News. I could lie and they'd still eat it up. I bet my numbers would be terrific."
It's attributed to an interview he supposedly did with People magazine in 1998. But People's online archives, going back several decades, don't include an interview with Trump from that year.
The image for the meme is taken from an interview Trump did with Oprah in 1998, a full decade earlier than the supposed quote about stupid Republican voters.
People