On the Internet, a statement attributed to the mother of the US president attributed to the Internet. Mary Anne Trump allegedly said that her son is an idiot without communication skills, who, she hopes, will never be engaged in politics. We checked whether she said something like that.
The fully disassembled quote sounds like this: “Yes, he is an idiot without common sense and social skills, but he is my son. I just hope that he will never go into politics. That would be a disaster. " Such an unflattering assessment, supposedly given by Trump his mother, is found at entertainment portals, in social networks (Facebook, X, Threads, Telegram, "VKontakte") And services questions and answers. Many publications are accompanied by the image of newspaper clipping with black and white photos of Trump and his mother and corresponding to a quote in English.
Mary Ann Trump (in the girlishness of McLeod) was born in 1912 in Scotland, and at the age of 17 emigrated to the United States. There she met the entrepreneur Fred Trump, who married in 1936. Six years later, Mary Ann received American citizenship. Being the wife of a successful businessman, she led Active social life was engaged in charity, but at the same time managed to become the mother of five children (Donald - the fourth in a row). She died in 2000, not having survived to the success of her son in politics, although at the same time he had the first Attempts Ride in the presidency. Apparently, Donald and Mary Ann had a good relationship. At least in his autobiography "The art of returning”, Published in 1997, the politician speaks of his mother with great respect and even admiration. Trump notes that his mother was “damn smart” and that he was very lucky to have parents such as Fred and Mary Anne.
Not a single publication, where a resonance quote is given, “verified” found an indication of the date and/or circumstances in which Trump's mother uttered her. According to the reverse search service by the Tineye image, the earliest surviving publication of photographs, usually accompanying posts with a disassembled statement, is a biographical article About Mary Ann Trump in the New Yorker magazine on June 24, 2016 (although the photo itself was obviously taken much earlier). There are no quotes about an idiot without common sense and social skills, as well as other assessments of the heroine of an article about his son. The signature to the photo indicates that it was taken from the Getty Images photo agency base, however, at the time of writing, this picture could not be detected there, so “verified” it cannot say exactly in what year and under what circumstances the photo was taken. However, it could be chosen to illustrate the quote by accident.
The analyzed quote indicating the authorship of Mother Trump is popular not only in the Russian -speaking, but also in the English -language segment of the network. However, “verified” it did not find it in authoritative English -speaking sources - for example, in the publications of large media or biographical books. The factor of the American portal Snopes twice (in 2019 and 2025) Tried To trace the source of the statement, but both times could not find confirmations that Mary Ann Trump had ever said something similar about her son. The same conclusion was reached by a factor Reuters And Politifact.
“Verified” failed to find a single publication with this statement about Trump until 2019. Then on the network for the first time Started appear posts With that very black and white photo, but they looked just like a picture with a quote. Gazeta clipping appeared Later, in 2020. This gives another reasonable reason for doubts about the authenticity of the quote: by the time of its spread, Trump's mother was almost 20 years old. If she really said something like that, the opponents of the politician would surely find and began to replicate this statement earlier-for example, during his first election campaign in 2016. The fact that the quote was additionally framed as a clipping from an old newspaper, and after the first wave of distribution, also indicates in favor of the version that it was invented by the ill -wishers of the politician.
Thus, “verified” could not find any evidence that Mary Anne Trump ever publicly called her son Donald an idiot and said that if her son goes into politics, it would be a disaster. The statement began to spread almost 20 years after her death, which in most similar cases indicates an incorrect attribution of the quote. In addition, not any publication is specified where, when, when and under what circumstances, Mary Anne Trump gave her son such an unflattering characteristic. By the aggregate of these factors, we can conclude that Trump's mother has nothing to do with a viral quote, but in fact, apparently, the politician’s opponents invented her in a bad light.
Photo on the cover: @Whitehouse / X
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