An anti-Donald Trump super PAC released a new web ad designed to take the Republican front-runner down a peg. Make America Awesome, whose name lampoons Trump’s familiar slogan “Make America Great Again,” has produced an ad that it self-describes as “weird.”
The ad shows a narrator choosing a box of cereal with Trump’s image on it. When the contents of the box are emptied the narrator finds “single-payer healthcare” and “huge debt” inside.
“As voters finish their ‘shopping’ for a candidate, we’re highlighting that if you ‘buy’ Trump, you’ll get a lot of crap you never wanted,” said Liz Mair, Make America Awesome strategist, in an email. “Four bankruptcies, a record setting number; even more huge, new, crippling debt, as a result of his spending plans; big government, since Trump’s policy agenda is almost identical to your average liberal Democrat’s; single-payer health care, which Trump advocates while praising Canada’s health care system; and things like government watchlists, to boot. The ad deliberately avoids the glitz and slick editing that many political ads utilize, to emphasize the stark message: Buyer beware; the Trump ‘package’ contains a lot of stuff you didn’t bank on, and you really don’t want.”
Mair said the ad is designed to engage right-of-center Americans in Iowa and New Hampshire, but that it should be of interest to conservative voters in all 50 states.
While several presidential candidates have lambasted Trump, few have gotten the better of the reality television star running for the Republican presidential nomination. Mair has not shied away from publicly slamming Trump, who finishes second in the Washington Examiner‘s newest GOP presidential power power rankings.
