They say the strongest political attacks are the ones that play into a candidate’s already existing weakness – and it only takes one slip up to expose that weakness and let the attack ad floodgate fling open. Take Hillary Clinton for example. Her weakness was her perceived lack of trustworthiness – her slip up was using a private email server.
For President Donald Trump, he and his administration’s weakness is handling the truth – their slip up is “alternative facts.”
This ad from the Democrats, titled “Alternative Facts: What Will They Lie About Next,” opens up with Chuck Todd’s Sunday morning interview with Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway. In an effort to defend Spicer, Conway calls his demonstrably false claims “alternative facts.”
“Wait a minute,” Chuck Todd chimes in, nearly doubled over in laughter, “Alternative facts? … Alternative facts are not facts. They are falsehoods.”
The ad then goes down the list of other “lies” from the six days Trump has been in office – everything from inaugural crowd sizes and Trump’s reception by the CIA, to the unsubstantiated claim that “three to five million people could have voted illegally.”
The ad ends with what will likely become the rallying cry for the Democratic Party during the Trump Administration: “What won’t they lie about?”
For President Donald Trump, he and his administration’s weakness is handling the truth – their slip up is “alternative facts.”
Beware of ‘Alt-Facts’
What may someday be dubbed as “alt-fact-gate” started in the days following President Trump’s inauguration. By any objective measure, there was less people at Trump’s inauguration than President Obama’s, or the Women’s March the day after. But apparently alternative facts are born in an alternative reality, because on the first full day of the Trump Administration, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer insisted that “This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period.”/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/7856435/vox_inaug_comparison.jpg){kind=link}
This ad from the Democrats, titled “Alternative Facts: What Will They Lie About Next,” opens up with Chuck Todd’s Sunday morning interview with Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway. In an effort to defend Spicer, Conway calls his demonstrably false claims “alternative facts.”
“Wait a minute,” Chuck Todd chimes in, nearly doubled over in laughter, “Alternative facts? … Alternative facts are not facts. They are falsehoods.”
The ad then goes down the list of other “lies” from the six days Trump has been in office – everything from inaugural crowd sizes and Trump’s reception by the CIA, to the unsubstantiated claim that “three to five million people could have voted illegally.”
The ad ends with what will likely become the rallying cry for the Democratic Party during the Trump Administration: “What won’t they lie about?”