A brand new TV advert by an anti-Trump political motion committee likens former President Donald Trump to dictators all through historical past.
The 60-second advert, put out by the Republican Accountability PAC, titled “Dictator Donald,” compares Mr. Trump to Italy’s Benito Mussolini, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, Chile’s Augusto Pinochet and Hungary’s Viktor Orban.
“Trump said he would terminate the Constitution so he could be president again,” the advert’s narrator says. “Do you know who else did that? Mussolini, Chavez, Pinochet. All of them shelved their constitutions to centralize power.”
“Trump is planning to purge tens of thousands of civil servants and replace them with loyalists,” the advert says. “Authoritarian Viktor Orban used the same tactic to dismantle Hungary’s democracy.”
The Trump marketing campaign didn’t reply to a request for remark concerning the advert marketing campaign.
The advert is a part of the political motion committee’s new six-figure advert marketing campaign. It will run nationally on CNN and MSNBC within the battleground states Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin on the Hallmark Channel and through TBS’ “A Christmas Story” marathon beginning Friday.
“Donald Trump‘s chances of winning are very real. The alarm is going off. Everyone needs to wake up. We have a choice between protecting our democracy or letting Trump destroy it,” the advert says. “It’s time to get off the sidelines. We can’t let Donald Trump get close to the Oval Office again.”
Gunner Ramer, the PAC’s political director, stated that “not enough people have internalized that Trump is cruising to a third nomination.”
“He’s become even more conspiratorial, more dictatorial, more authoritarian — and he has a real chance of being the next president of the United States,” he stated. “It’s time to start confronting the problem head-on.”
