Trump pitches a fit over the Lincoln Project's latest ad

[smulder]

@joey_bladb

any legal actions against himself, his enterprises, and his children will create riots

At this point the “raids” and confiscations just make him look weak, and make his supporters look around for the new flavor

[Tribune]

@VeronicaConnor

Who will be the new figurehead king? DeSantis?

What does the Lincoln Project think about DeSantis? I can see them going all in for Liz Cheney but I don’t know about DeSantis.

[Lorayo]

@jlw

I thought they ran away to the asylum after their last catastrophic campaign, with charges made against them that were big time sleaze, and me getting many millions more votes in 2020 than I got in 2016," he wrote

He continued… “And I had cornflakes for breakfast and I watched YouTube and also my dad is a fireman”

Shut the fuck up Donnie.

[Slide]

“Every dollar you sent him paid to keep his shaky business empire and lavish lifestyle going”

That is a pretty strong statement. It could be shown to be false if just one dollar went towards whatever he promised instead. Let’s hope he hasn’t stumbled into a win.

[smulder]

The only wins that matter are the elections of 2016, 2020, and 2024, and so far he’s 1 for 2

[AJinNH]

If you don’t see the con, you’re the mark.

[ficuswhisperer]

@Malarkey

This is why I don’t share Lincoln Project videos and memes. They’re inside the tent, pissing out, for now. But, when all of this is over, they will be outside the tent, pissing in.

Yup, I mean the Lincoln Project ads are clever – no doubt about it, but I hesitate to amplify anything they say. We may have a shared enemy, they are not and never will be our friends.

[Otherbrother]

@ficuswhisperer

@Malarkey

This is why I don’t share Lincoln Project videos and memes. They’re inside the tent, pissing out, for now. But, when all of this is over, they will be outside the tent, pissing in.

Yup, I mean the Lincoln Project ads are clever – no doubt about it, but I hesitate to amplify anything they say.

If the purpose of their ad it to provoke a reaction from Trump then I guess it worked. If the purpose is to try to persuade Trump voters to drop their support of him then I’m not sure that explicitly calling them “suckers” does much besides make them mad at the Lincoln Project. Don’t get me wrong: anyone who willingly voted for that guy and/or gave him money is absolutely a sucker, and much worse. But explicitly insulting the people whose minds you’re trying to change generally doesn’t work well in advertisements.

[hecep]

@RickMycroft

Considering the strip mall lawyers now handling his nuclear secrets problem, imagine what the ones for a side show like this would be like.

A la collectible baseball cards, I expect cards to be released of Strip Mall Lawyers, stats and all. No longer in the shadows, with offices situated alongside laundromats and nail salons. Finally. This is their time.

[hecep]

Fuck. Has a liminal space ambiance… but with a person in — no, there is no person there. Pure liminal space. Creepy.

@Malarkey

This is why I don’t share Lincoln Project videos and memes. They’re inside the tent, pissing out, for now. But, when all of this is over, they will be outside the tent, pissing in.

@cnlblgrg

A scam organization (The Lincoln Project) that uses the fear to enrich the people running it, accusing another political organization of using fear to enrich the person running it is fucking rich. Both groups are terrible.

@ficuswhisperer

Yup, I mean the Lincoln Project ads are clever – no doubt about it, but I hesitate to amplify anything they say. We may have a shared enemy, they are not and never will be our friends.

When fighting Fascism, one must use and encourage the use of any weapon that comes along.

[RickMycroft]

Okay, now let’s add real nightmare fuel.

Imagine if Cyriak had done it.

[hecep]

@RickMycroft

Imagine if Cyriak had done it.

GULP

[mennonot]

I agree that it is significant that Fox News is airing it. I’d be curious if they have run Lincoln Project ads before.

Also: The Lincoln project is getting better at trolling the King Troll himself. Trump threatens lawsuits all the time though. If they could get him to actually suit them, that would be the real “Streisand Effect” coup.

[ficuswhisperer]

@Otherbrother

But explicitly insulting the people whose minds you’re trying to change generally doesn’t work well in advertisements.

Which often makes me wonder who these ads are really for.

[Adrian_Hillier]

I’ve just got home from seeing Arcade Fire in London, it’s 3.30am, and I’ve just watched that video.
I must be out of my fucking mind!

[Shuck]

@hecep

Even now, there may still be one or two competent lawyers out there willing to hold their noses, shut their eyes, and jump in… unpaid.

It really doesn’t sound like it, though. He’s reportedly been largely failing to find any half-way decent representation lately, which is why the judge in the documents case had to do his lawyers’ job for them and act as an advocate (e.g. by bringing up legal arguments his lawyers had failed to do).

[catsidhe]

To be fair, with a judge like that, he didn’t need lawyers.

[jarnsaxa]

@hecep

When fighting Fascism, one must use and encourage the use of any weapon that comes along.

Yup!! Even if some of them are scuzzy.

The Lincoln Project basically just enjoys provoking Trump - that has been half of the fun for them all along.

And face it, if someone is still a Trump supporter at this point, they are absolutely unpersuadable otherwise. They’ll either stay in the cult or they’ll have to make up their own minds to get out.

[DrearyUrbanite]

Don’t fool yourself into thinking that the members of the Lincoln Project are anything other than the absolute scum of the earth. They are just a slightly less repugnant scum of the earth than Trumpists.

[anon15383236]

Nicely done, except that the maker(s) could’ve gone further and depicted him without the fancy hair. He might well have trouble maintaining that in prison.