Nova’s Fitzy reveals he’s copped ‘ridiculous’ amount of abuse from Trump supporters after fake tweet

Nova FM radio host Ryan ‘Fitzy’ Fitzgerald pranked listeners on Monday with a fake ‘retweet’ from President Donald Trump.

And the 43-year-old funnyman has since revealed he’s copped a ‘ridiculous’ amount of abuse from Trump supporters in the U.S.

Speaking on Fitzy & Wippa on Tuesday, he encouraged trolls to do their worst. 

‘For all you haters from America who thought I stitched up Trump yesterday with my tweet, come at me. Go at me again,’ Fitzy said. 

He added that the response to his prank had been mixed, with some saying it was funny while others were angry because they’d fallen for it. 

‘It’s ridiculous, the amount of people from the States,’ he said. 

‘But it’s on both levels… people are praising me going, “Well done, you stitched up Trump, he replied to you.”

‘We doctored it up… People have been sucked in and then there’s others that are getting really angry with me.’

Ryan then joked he’d given up on ever having a political career, saying: ‘I’m out mate!’

On Monday, Ryan appeared to get a ‘retweet’ from Trump on Twitter.

Taking to his own Twitter account, Ryan shared a tweet which read: ‘Hey Trumpy, working hard or hardly working?’ 

It looked as though Donald replied, when he wrote: ‘Thank you, Ryan. Working hard!’

However it was fake and Photoshopped, after Trump actually replied to founder and co-chairman of @TrumpStudents, Ryan Fournier. 

The trick even appeared to trip up Nova’s newsreader Matt De Groot, who momentarily thought the retweet was genuine. 

Replying on Twitter on Monday, one fan told Fitzy: ‘You joker! I actually had to look that up.’

Another said that he has good Photoshopping skills, while one fan shared a GIF of Barack Obama doing a mic drop.