Is Trump Buying Ads In South Florida Just So Baby Can See Himself On TV?
Or is it that AND ALSO something else?
From the Department Of It Should Be Illegal For A Man Like This To Run For President:
There might be concerns that donations to the Trump campaign are going into a confusing “black hole” under the purview of Trump, his family, and his close buddies, with donors having little understanding exactly what they’re getting for their investment. (No sympathy: If those morons don’t know by now not to give him money, they should spend the rest of their retirement funds on Truth Social stock.)
But at least $47,000 of it is accounted for!
They’re buying ads in the media market surrounding Mar-a-Lago — a safe Democratic district in a fairly safely red state — so the baby and the baby’s friends can see the baby on TV. Otherwise the baby gets mad, and you know what happens when the baby gets mad.
Spend the donor money on ads, or spend the donor money on ketchup. At least there’s already a line on the FEC forms for “ads.”
Sam Stein reports at The Bulwark that it’s not just Baby Trump who wants to see Baby Shark, Doo Doo, Doo Doo, Doo Doo on TV at Mar-a-Lago, and gets mad if they’re not there. (But not Baby Battery! That would be scary.) It’s also for the Palm Beach donors who, the boss feels, need to see Baby Shark on the TV in Palm Beach County.
“This is more about keeping the donors happy than the principal. There’s a lot of donors in Palm Beach,” said a campaign insider, who noted that Trump himself would not be in Palm Beach much this week. “If spending $50k gets us $5 million, that’s good ROI. If it makes the boss happy, too, then good.”
Keep putting lipstick on that pig, she looks beautiful.
Stein says the $47,000 spend is for a 15-second ad, and reminds us that Trump has done this before, like back in 2020 when Trump’s campaign bought $400K worth of ads in the famous swing state of DC. They had a halfway reasonable-sounding excuse for that one, too:
“We want members of Congress and our DC-based surrogates to see the ads so they know our strong arguments for President Trump and against Joe Biden,” then-spokesman Tim Murtaugh said at the time.
Uh huh. No other way to get that info to them, and it definitely had nothing to do with Trump getting excited when he saw his face on the TV, especially if there was also a mirror in the room, where he could also see his face. (Also because he was pretty obviously losing to Joe Biden at the time.)
Of course, it’s entirely possible the Trump campaign is buying ads in south Florida because “Baby Shark, doo doo, doo doo, doo doo” AND ALSO because they’re suddenly shit-scared they could lose Florida. Stein points to a tweet from Democratic consultant Kevin Cate almost two weeks ago, responding to polls showing Florida might be getting closer than we imagine the Trump campaign is comfortable with:
Cate responded to his tweet yesterday, with this news of this week’s Trump South Florida ad buy.
If he starts buying Florida ads in media markets that don’t include Mar-a-Lago, you’ll know they’re shitting their pants.
Like, even more than usual.
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One of Donald Trump's allies is being ridiculed online after claiming that he has a "friend" who told him that Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign is "imploding" from the inside because of the candidate's reluctance to do a one-on-one interview.
For the past several weeks, MAGA has attempted to craft a scandal around the fact that Harris hasn't done a sit-down interview the way Trump has with Fox and other right-leaning media.
Former Acting Director of the United States National Intelligence Richard Genell posted on X, "The Kamala campaign is imploding. I just heard from a Democrat friend that the infighting has reached a boiling point. (She has been/is a key advisor to many Democrat campaigns)."
It didn't go well for him.
Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann quipped: "lol. You don't have any FRIENDS."
"Keep telling yourself this lol," laughed lawyer and Trump antagonist George Conway.
Conway later added, "Brutal, epic battles erupting on the Harris-Walz campaign about how to decimate Trump with the half-billion dollars they’ve raised in a matter of weeks, over betting pools on how big their convention bump will be, and about just how weird Trump is. Really hard to watch."
Writer Michael Freeman claimed that the phrase "'I just heard' is synonymous for 'I'm making it up.'"
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We go now to Quentin Tarantino:
"I'm going to vote for her f–king anyway no matter what she says in the stupid f–king interview, so don't f–k s–t up,"
"I think, it's all about winning the f–king election. The easiest path to winning the election is … Look, you can talk about maybe she should have had more guts about this or that or the other, but we're the f–king president," Tarantino said. "And Trump's not the president, and we're the f–king president, and now it's going to be about this. This is about f–king winning."
"What most people don't give the Democrats enough credit for, but we give the Republicans credit for, is like, no, sometimes it's just about f–king winning. And it doesn't matter how we look at this moment. It's about f–king winning. This is about f–king winning. It's a mad f–king dash and she is running and she's not stopping to stumble."
^^^
What that guy said.
Tim Walz will hold the ladder for you.
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