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In the months after the 2016 U.S. presidential election, a popular Internet meme suggested that the newly-elected Donald Trump had said in the 1990s that politics is boring and unprofitable: We searched Newspapers.com archives and found no major newspaper in the 1990s that quoted Trump saying such a thing, nor did we find the quote in any major publication with an Internet archive. Further, it's unlikely that Trump would have held the untrue belief that there's no money in politics. The famed businessman, who has donated more than $1.5 million to both Democratic and Republican politicians, likely would have been aware that there is indeed money in American politics and that the net worth of individuals tends to increase after holding the office of the presidency. Around the time the meme became popular, Trump's 1990 interview with Playboy magazine gained attention for quotes articulating opinions that would later become cornerstones of Trump's presidential campaign. When asked about which political party he would join if he ran for office, Trump picked the Democratic party — but only because at that time he perceived it to be the party of average American worker: He also made comments about trade and criminal justice: So remarkable were the similarities between Trump's positions on topics like trade, wealth inequality, and law and order that the New York Times in 2016 called the interview in Playboy a glossy time capsule:
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