Despite
People's comprehensive online content archive, we found no interview or profile on
Donald Trump in 1998 (or any other time) that quoted his saying anything that even vaguely resembled the statement "Republicans are the dumbest group of voters." Trump appeared somewhat regularly in the magazine's pages before he came to star on
The Apprentice, but the bulk of the magazine's celebrity-driven coverage of him back then centered on his marriages to, and divorces from, Ivana Trump and Marla Maples.