A few thoughts on Trump’s first TV ad

Published January 4, 2016 8:04pm ET



Donald Trump’s long-awaited first televised TV ad was released on Monday, and it reiterates the Republican presidential front-runner’s best-known and most controversial statements and policy ideas — on the Islamic State, Muslim refugees and immigration.

The ad begins with a narrator saying, “The politicians can pretend it’s something else, but Donald Trump calls it ‘radical Islamic terrorism.'” Actually, the politicians with whom Trump is vying for the Republican nomination all use the same language. But Trump is reminding voters that President Obama and likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton refuse to use the term and thus, according to Trump, fail to understand or acknowledge the true nature of the threat America faces.

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