'The epitome of the swamp': Brutal new attack ad turns Donald Trump Jr's comments against the president
‘There’s no enthusiasm, he cant get people to show up at a rally,’ says president’s eldest son
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Your support makes all the difference.Donald Trump Jr.’s attacks on presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden have been used to denounce Donald Trump in a new advert.
It sees Trump Jr’s comments on Mr Biden used to denounce the US president as “incompetent” instead.
The video also includes criticism over the United State’s coronavirus death toll, Trump administration nepotism, and supporters “who don’t want him [Donald Trump]”.
“This guy is the epitome of the swamp,” says Trump Jr. in the advert. “The entire family have enriched themselves”.
Titled “Bye Don Jr”, the advert was posted online on Monday night by the progressive political action committee, MeidasTouch.
The advert’s creators said in a statement that Trump Jr. was among “the most vile and cancerous individuals to ever disgrace the United States of America.”
“Everything Don Jr. says is a projection to cover up the criminal activity he and his family engage in on a daily basis,” said MeidasTouch.
“Whenever he opens his mouth, it isn’t that Don Jr. is so much speaking, as spewing hate and conspiracy garbage from his face in [a] failed effort to win his daddy’s praise while demeaning the intelligence of Americans,” they added.
President Trump’s comments on coronavirus “going to be very good” come alongside Trump Jr.’s criticism over “sheer incompetence” in the video.
Trump Jr’s attacks on Mr Biden’s stutter are used to show president Trump struggling to pronounce words such as “anonymous”.
“There’s no enthusiasm, he cant get people to show up at a rally. They don’t want him on the stump. Honestly they don’t want him on the teleprompter because he can’t even get that right,” says Trump Jr.
The video ends with Trump Jr.’s claim that Democrats can do one thing, say the other, and never get called on it. It’s asinine”.
Those words, which were turned to comment on Republican actions, end with a statement that says “enough hypocrisy”.
More than three million people have now watched the video, which caused #ByeDonJr to trend on Twitter overnight.
MeidasTouch published a video last month that attacked the president’s eldest daughter and adviser, Ivanaka.
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