Claim:  A meme that claims Donald Trump has been in the public eye for 30 years and was never accused of racism before running for president has gone viral on social media. 
Verdict: REFUTES

Retrieved passages:
title: /r/The Donald
text: Donald Trump during his presidential run." The subreddit has grown to be known for frequent posting of memes, especially Pepe the Frog, and frequent use of slang terms such as "centipede" (a reference to a popular Trump highlight reel featuring the Knife Party song "Centipede"), "MAGA," "nimble navigator," "no brakes," "cuck," "4D Chess," and "SJW." Furthermore, users on the site refer to Trump as "God Emperor." For a significant period of time, the subreddit repeatedly posted an image of Hillary Clinton kissing Robert Byrd, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan. The image was accompanied by a photoshopped picture

title: Racial views of Donald Trump
text: to the lowest level in twenty years, one-third of the level recorded in 1998. In response, the Anti-Defamation League issued a statement: In November 2018, Facebook, NBC, and Fox News withdrew a controversial political campaign ad which was backed by Trump after critics described it as racist. Shown prior to the midterm elections, the ad focused on a migrant caravan currently traveling through Mexico with hopes of immigration to the U.S., and Luis Bracamontes, an undocumented immigrant who was convicted of killing two sheriff’s deputies in California in 2014. Donald Trump has been accused of "inflaming racial, ethnic and religious

title: Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign
text: that had been posted from a parody bot created by "Gawker": "It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep". When informed that the source of the quote was 20th century Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, Trump responded that the origin of the quote made no difference because "it's a very good quote." On July 2, 2016, Trump tweeted a picture originally created as a meme by white supremacists. The tweet featured a photo of Clinton next to a star-shaped badge saying "Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!" with a background of $100 bills. The

title: Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign
text: to his audience is unprecedented as a campaign tool. On November 22, 2015, Trump retweeted an image containing racially charged and inaccurate crime data between blacks and whites, cited to a non-existent group. According to "Newsweek", the image appeared to originate with a neo-Nazi Twitter account. When later asked by Bill O'Reilly about his sharing of the image, Trump confirmed that he had personally retweeted the image and said that it came from "sources that are very credible." The Annenberg Public Policy Center's FactCheck.org reported that the image was a "bogus graphic." On February 28, Trump re-tweeted a Mussolini quote

title: Racial views of Donald Trump
text: "Birtherism" conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama was not born in the US, and he repeated the claim for the following five years. He was accused of racism for maintaining, as late as 2016, that a group of black and Latino teenagers were guilty of raping a white woman in the Central Park jogger case, although an imprisoned serial rapist had confessed in 2002 to raping the jogger alone, and DNA evidence confirmed his guilt. Trump launched his 2016 presidential campaign with a speech in which he stated that Mexican undocumented immigrants are criminals, rapists, or people who bring in

title: Protests against Donald Trump
text: "Trump is a racist! Trump is a liar!" Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, awarded to the host of "The Apprentice" in 2007, has been vandalized numerous times and destroyed twice - once in 2016 before the election, and once in 2018 when he was president. Street performer Francisco Javier reported in April 2016 that people often showed disrespect to the star, sometimes defacing it with paint or letting their dogs relieve themselves on it. One person put a sticker over Trump's name. After Trump's nomination as the Republican candidate in July 2016, the artist Plastic Jesus built

title: Social media in the 2016 United States presidential election
text: lots of memes targeting a candidate might. The Trump presidential campaign benefited from large numbers of supporters who were active on social media from the beginning of the campaign. Donald Trump was perhaps one of the most provocative presidents in recent times, creating a strong divide within the country as there seemed to be very few people who felt only moderate feelings for him. With such a large divide created, it is no surprise that issues would arise on the Internet from both the supporters, who would call themselves "Centipedes" online and the liberals (who sometimes refer to each other

title: Racial views of Donald Trump
text: rapist confessed to the jogger's rape, which was confirmed by DNA evidence, and the convictions of the five men were vacated. They sued New York City in 2003 for malicious prosecution, racial discrimination, and emotional distress. Lawyers for the five defendants said that Trump's advertisement had inflamed public opinion. The city settled the case for $41 million in 2014. In June of that year, Trump called the settlement "a disgrace" and said that the group's guilt was still likely: "Settling doesn't mean innocence. [...] These young men do not exactly have the pasts of angels." In October 2016, when Trump

title: /pol/
text: Daily Stormer"; the "Stormer"s editor, Andrew Anglin, concurred. Many /pol/ users favored Donald Trump during his 2016 United States presidential campaign. Upon his election, a /pol/ moderator embedded a pro-Trump video at the top of all of the board's pages. Much of the content on /pol/ relies heavily on memes to further spread ideas. One of the most popular memes found on the board is that of Pepe the Frog, which has been deemed as a white supremacist symbol by some media outlets due to it being shown in uniforms, places, and people associated with Nazism, the Ku Klux Klan,

title: Racial views of Donald Trump
text: Racial views of Donald Trump Donald Trump, the President of the United States, has a history of making racially controversial remarks and taking actions widely seen as exacerbating racial anxieties in the United States. Trump has denied accusations of racism, saying, "I am not a racist. I'm the least racist person you will ever interview". In 1973, Trump and his company Trump Management were sued by the U.S. Department of Justice for housing discrimination against black rentersa lawsuit which, according to Trump, he settled without an admission of guilt. In 2011, Trump became the leading proponent of the already discredited

title: Pepe the Frog
text: a frog holding a magic wand. Cheong credits Carl Benjamin, who uses the pseudonym Sargon of Akkad on YouTube, for popularizing the meme. Benjamin claimed that Kekistanis could technically classify as an ethnic group for the British census, and contacted the Office for National Statistics to request that it be added, but was unsuccessful. During the 2016 United States presidential election, the meme was connected to Donald Trump's campaign. In October 2015, Trump retweeted a Pepe representation of himself, associated with a video called "You Can't Stump the Trump (Volume 4)". Later in the election, Roger Stone and Donald Trump

title: Donald Trump on social media
text: "Lie of the Year" badge to Trump's entire presidential campaign. The fake statistics were first posted by a neo-Nazi Twitter account. An image posted by Trump on July 2, 2016 called Hillary Clinton the "Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!" and featured a six-pointed star reminiscent of the Jewish Star of David; the image first appeared in a June 15 tweet by "@FishBoneHead1," a Twitter account described by the Associated Press as being known for "anti-Clinton and right-leaning messages and images" and by "Mic" as promoting "violent, racist memes," before making its way to 8chan's /pol/ on June 22. Trump's social media

title: Donald Trump on social media
text: consumers, but rather "are intended to rally his base" of supporters. During his 2016 campaign, Trump posted a number of ads on his Facebook page, attacking Hillary Clinton. The ads included parodies of "Pokémon Go" and "Ms. Pac-Man", portraying Hillary Clinton as a Pokémon and as Ms. Pac-Man. He also used the platform to issue an apology for the Donald Trump "Access Hollywood" tape. As president, he received criticism for posting a news story about a purported Kuwaiti travel ban similar to Executive Order 13769; Kuwait's foreign minister confirmed that no such ban existed. A series of accusations which happen

title: Donald Trump
text: that alleged housing discrimination against black renters. He was accused of racism for insisting that a group of black and Latino teenagers were guilty of raping a white woman in the 1989 Central Park jogger attack, even after they were exonerated by DNA evidence in 2002. He continued to maintain this position as late as 2016. Starting in 2011, Trump was a major proponent of "birther" conspiracy theories alleging that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, and questioned his eligibility to serve as president. Trump later took credit for pushing the White House to release the "long-form" birth certificate from

title: Social media in the 2016 United States presidential election
text: analyst and media strategist, the video marked a crucial turning point in the campaign for the Republican nomination. Political analyst Michael Barone regarded the ad as a key moment in Trump's political rise. The "San Francisco Chronicle" described the ad as pivotal in transforming Instagram from a personal photo-sharing app that some celebrities and politicians used to enhance their images, into a propaganda tool. "The Great Meme War" was an Internet campaign conducted by supporters of Donald Trump and opponents of Hillary Clinton between June 2015 and November 2016 in an effort to sway the election. During this time period

title: Donald Trump on social media
text: phone calls afterward. Trump often gives opponents nicknames such as "Lyin' Ted". Trump has been criticized for his practice of retweeting or copying material from social media accounts posting antisemitic, racist, or false information, such as claims exaggerating the number of crimes committed by black people. PolitiFact singled out as particularly obviously false an image retweeted by Trump that claimed that 81% of white murder victims are killed by black people. Politifact noted that, besides being a five-fold exaggeration, the claim was sourced to the non-existent "Crime Statistics Bureau, San Francisco"; it later highlighted this retweet when awarding its 2015

title: Racial views of Donald Trump
text: significant factor than economic issues in determining voters' party allegiance. Racial views of Donald Trump Donald Trump, the President of the United States, has a history of making racially controversial remarks and taking actions widely seen as exacerbating racial anxieties in the United States. Trump has denied accusations of racism, saying, "I am not a racist. I'm the least racist person you will ever interview". In 1973, Trump and his company Trump Management were sued by the U.S. Department of Justice for housing discrimination against black rentersa lawsuit which, according to Trump, he settled without an admission of guilt. In

title: Campaign advertising
text: conducted by Forbes, political memes containing the word “MAGA” (the political campaign slogan of presidential candidate Donald Trump “Make America Great Again”) went from being mentioned once in January 2016, to 12,294 times in January 2017 with a 1,224,800% increase. Compared to other trends during that same period, it was one of the biggest growing tendencies. This also goes to show how such methods of political attack have changed and adapted so quickly. Internet memes also tend to favor a certain political candidate or party over another. In the same study, it was found that as the 2016 election date

title: Donald Trump
text: Hawaii, and he stated during his presidential campaign that his stance had made him "very popular". In September 2016, he publicly acknowledged that Obama was born in the United States, and falsely asserted that the rumors had been started by Hillary Clinton and her 2008 presidential campaign. According to an analysis in "Political Science Quarterly", Trump made "explicitly racist appeals to whites" during his 2016 presidential campaign. Trump launched his campaign with a speech in which he stated: "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. ... They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists, and some, I

title: Racial views of Donald Trump
text: to ALL Americans!" Critics contended that the wording "all types of racism" could be seen as a veiled defense of white nationalists, similarly to his "both sides" remarks on the rally. In 2012, controversy arose when it was charged that Senator Elizabeth Warren had used a claim of Native American ancestry early in her career to gain hiring preference. Warren denies that she ever claimed to be a minority to secure employment, and a review of her employment history and interviews of her past employers has been unable to find anything that supports the charge. Picking up on the controversy,