Donald Trump Falls for Fake Donald Trump Quote Because of Course

Luke O'NeilJun 10th, 2014, 12:41 pm
 

Donald Trump has never had the greatest relationship with the concept of truth or factual information, as we’ve seen over the year’s with his obsession with President Obama‘s birth certificate and basically every other thing that’s ever come out of his mouth. But one thing he does do better than anyone else is self-aggrandizement.

Last night sportswriter David Roth tweeted a series of jokes about Trump, including gems like “Donald Trump dictates his memoirs while eating steak on a toilet. ‘Too many people these days don’t care about winning. I call them losers.’” which wouldn’t have been too notable otherwise, if not for the fact that a certain business mogul and human septic tank was taking time out of his busy schedule of closing good business deals and doing money stuff to search for his own name on Twitter:

Roth concocted this satirical quote of Trump’s, apparently pulled from a book called “Winning”, which Trump did not write himself, and does not exist. That didn’t stop our man from RTing it anyway:

So basically what we have here is Trump searching for himself, finding a quote attributed to him that he did not ever say, thinking to himself, “This sounds like the type of good-as-hell maxim I would think”, then passing it off as his own. It’s pretty much the most Trumpian thing you could imagine. You couldn’t make this stuff up, although if you did, I know a guy who would probably fall for it.

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>> Luke O’Neil is a journalist and blogger in Boston. Follow him on Twitter (@lukeoneil47).

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