We constantly receive requests for quotes. This also applies to an alleged statement by US President Donald Trump from 1998.
Strictly speaking, it is a sharepic of the young Donald Trump and a text that is said to have been published in People Magazine in 1998:

If I were to run, I'd run as a Republican. 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.
“If I run, it will be as a Republican. They are the stupidest group of voters in the country. They believe everything on Fox News. I could lie and they would still believe it. I bet my results would be incredible.” Donald Trump is said to have said this in a 1998 interview with People Magazine.
The fact check
Donald Trump didn't say that.
The colleagues from Snopes and Factcheck had already reported on this in 2015. People Magazine also researched its archives. The result: The magazine did not conduct an interview with Trump in 1998.
Conclusion:
As colleague Jens wrote some time ago:
Donald Trump says a lot when the day is long, sometimes more than is acceptable in the morning on an empty stomach, without anesthesia, but, although it may even sound like him, he didn't say that, neither in 1998 nor in any other year .
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A user at Factcheck said:
“This shows once again that not everything on Facebook is the truth set in stone and that you should always check your sources.”
A statement that we can only completely agree with. Even if it's on the internet, that doesn't mean it's correct and you should always check the sources.
Trump doesn't do that and therefore often backtracks, such as his tweet about the statistic that most white people in the USA are killed by perpetrators of color, but the statistic is fake. Trump then said it wasn't his tweet, he just retweeted it and that the graphic came from a credible source, so did he have to check every statistic? – Well, dear Donald, what’s the old saying? “Don’t trust any statistics that you haven’t falsified yourself.”
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