“Donald Trump said in a 1998 People magazine interview that Republicans are the 'dumbest group of voters' and would believe anything he said.”

The claim that Donald Trump told People magazine in 1998 that Republicans are the 'dumbest group of voters' is a widely circulated fabrication. Multiple independent fact-checking organizations, including Snopes, FactCheck.org, and CNN, have investigated this claim since it first appeared online around 2015. People magazine has explicitly stated that they conducted an exhaustive search of their archives and found no record of such an interview, quote, or profile of Donald Trump in 1998. Furthermore, the quote contains anachronistic references, such as mentioning 'Fox News' in a context that does not align with the media landscape or Trump's public statements from that era. The quote has been consistently debunked as a viral hoax.