‘Scumbag Steve’ is taking on Donald Trump. Here’s why.

For years, Blake Boston (it’s his real name) has been known around the Internet as the man pictured in the viral meme, “Scumbag Steve.”

But the Marlborough resident, who has accepted his unwarranted online attention and embraced the characterization based on his appearance in a single photo taken when he was 16, has been vehemently telling people on social media that there’s at least one person more deserving of the adjective in his moniker than he is: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

“I’ve been around some pretty unsavory characters, and I’m telling you, Trump is as bad as they come,” said Boston in a recent interview over e-mail.

Boston unwittingly rose to Internet fame around five years ago after someone plucked from MySpace an image of him wearing a puffy jacket with a fur-rimmed hood, and backwards, tilted New Era cap with a faux Louis Vuitton pattern, and turned it into a meme known as “Scumbag Steve.”

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