14) I’d say his politics were wrong on that issue, so I don’t find a lot to celebrate with this quote. In fact, I’d find the quote to be a sad tale of him standing on the wrong side of history.īut lest we think that conservatives are the only ones with bad memes out there, alas this problem affects liberals as well, and perhaps much worse. Some liberals flatly make up memes with no basis in fact. The problem? Trump never said those words. Ever.ĭon’t get me wrong, I can’t stand Trump, but these words are a flat out lie.
According to ,ĭespite People‘s comprehensive online content archive, we found no interview or profile on Donald Trump in 1998 (or any other time) that quoted his saying anything that even vaguely resembled the words in this meme. Trump appeared somewhat regularly in the magazine’s pages before he came to star on The Apprentice, but the bulk of the magazine’s celebrity-driven coverage of him back then centered on his marriages to, and divorces from, Ivana Trump and Marla Maples.
