Donald Trump in Washington on June 18. - Chris Kleponis / Pool via CNP / AdMedia // Z-ADMEDIA_adm_061820_Trump

“I had a great mother. I loved my mother and she loved me, which ... is probably not easy to do, "said Donald Trump to Fox News on May 8, a few days before Mother's Day in the United States.

A collusion that seems to be contradicted by a statement wrongly attributed to Mary Anne Trump, the mother of the American head of state. She would have launched, about her son: "Yes, he is an idiot who has no common sense or ability to evolve in society, but he is my son. I just hope he never gets into politics. It would be a disaster. "

The quote appears on social media in the form of a press clipping, accompanied by a photo of Mary Anne Trump and her son.

There is no evidence that Mary Anne Trump, Donald Trump's mother, made these comments. - Twitter screenshot

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No source or date of this purported statement appears on the image. We found no trace of this statement. The Snopes site, which also verified the authenticity of the statement, found no trace of it in newspaper archives.

Mary Anne Trump died in 2000. As the American fact-checking sites Factcheck and Politifact point out, if Donald Trump's mother had said such words, they would most likely have surfaced during the campaign for the presidential election. of 2016, which was not the case.

The photo accompanying the questionable quote appeared in a 2016 article in The New Yorker magazine . There is no mention of this alleged statement in the article.

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