You’ve probably seen the meme crop up in your news feed – a picture of a young Donald Trump’s slimy rich-boy face, with a really horrible quote under it.

Trump sneers, ‘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.’

Obviously, the combination of that quote and that face is enough to make any sane person feel vomit rising in their throat – but there’s one problem.

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It’s not real, according to hoax-busting site Snopes: not only does People magazine not have any record of him having said it, but it doesn’t fit with Trump’s political profile.

Trump said on CNN in 1999, ‘I’m a registered Republican. I’m a pretty conservative guy.’