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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,863 posts)
Mon Jul 1, 2019, 11:44 AM Jul 2019

Trump 2020 Campaign Uses Stock Photo Models in New Political Ads

It has emerged that a stock image agency is being used to portray supporters of President Donald Trump in his 2020 campaign bid. Trump's re-election campaign is in full swing, and features one television advertisement citing a blonde woman who, at first glance, appears to be one of his supporters.

She is in a video, shared on YouTube, which opens with an image of waves crashing against a beach, and the disembodied radio voice of Trump saying, "The national motto, in God we trust."

In the next frame is a woman walking along a beach, although it is not clear it if is the same one, captioned, "Tracey from Florida."

A woman's voice is then heard saying, "President Trump is doing a great job, I could not ask for a better president of the United States of America."

To a soundtrack of guitar strings, a caption in capital letters asks the viewer, "Do you agree with Tracey? Take the official survey," before the graphic of Trump's campaign emerges again, with the slogan "Make America great again!" and calling on people to text "Trump 45" to 8802.

However, as Popular Info reported, Tracey is not an actual Trump supporter and is simply a model from a video purchased on istockphoto.com titled "summer beach beauty walking."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-2020-campaign-uses-stock-photo-models-in-new-political-ads/ar-AADH8pB?li=BBnb7Kz

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Trump 2020 Campaign Uses Stock Photo Models in New Political Ads (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2019 OP
They can't get real supporters and only paying for stock footage bigbrother05 Jul 2019 #1
I hate judging people based on looks Tech Jul 2019 #2
Who is surprised by this? Gothmog Jul 2019 #3
"When we can't find real supporters, we just invent fake ones" struggle4progress Jul 2019 #4

bigbrother05

(5,995 posts)
1. They can't get real supporters and only paying for stock footage
Mon Jul 1, 2019, 12:07 PM
Jul 2019

Am sure the company producing these ads are charging premium prices to the campaign.

MAGA donor money hard at work.

Tech

(1,770 posts)
2. I hate judging people based on looks
Mon Jul 1, 2019, 12:22 PM
Jul 2019

But most ads feature "beautiful" people. They are using television ads. I guess they don't want the people at the rallies to be in their ads. For some reason.

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