EXCLUSIVE — The Democratic National Committee is launching a new advertising campaign mocking former President Donald Trump’s failed attempts to usher a large-scale infrastructure investment through Congress.
The campaign’s launch video opens with statements then-candidate Trump made on the 2016 campaign trail promising a nationwide infrastructure overhaul and was released on the four-year anniversary of the unveiling of Trump’s $1.5 trillion infrastructure proposal. That legislation, released shortly after Trump’s first State of the Union address, was quickly overshadowed by the resignation of former White House staff secretary Rob Porter, who had been accused of physical abuse by two of his ex-wives, and Trump’s repeated “Infrastructure Week” declarations began to be treated as somewhat of a joke.
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