Trump Camp Runs Ads on D.C. Cable to Ease the Boss' Anxieties and Buck Up Congressional GOPers

[highplainsdem]

Source: Daily Beast

With their boss growing increasingly agitated with the state of his re-election campaign and with the efforts of Republican critics to undermine it, President Donald Trump’s team hatched a plan. They’d run a series of hard-hitting ads and place them on networks that they knew the president and congressional Republicans would watch.

And so, over the past month, the Trump campaign has spent slightly more than $400,000 on cable news ads in the Washington, D.C., area, buying time largely on Fox News but with some smaller buys on CNN and MSNBC as well, according to filings with the Federal Communications Commission. The ads began running in late May and are scheduled through June 23. It is, on a purely electoral level, a remarkably quixotic use of campaign cash. The purchases have no real shot of moving D.C., Maryland, or Virginia into the Trump column.

But that wasn’t the point. The Trump campaign said the ad buys were an attempt to reinvigorate and reassure the president’s supporters in the nation’s capital. “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,” wrote Tim Murtaugh, the campaign’s communications director, in an email on Monday.

But two knowledgeable sources—one a Trump campaign adviser, the other an individual close to the president—said the D.C.-area ads had another purpose as well: to put the president himself at ease.

-snip-

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-camp-runs-ads-on-dc-cable-to-ease-boss-anxieties-and-buck-up-congressional-republicans

---

Those sources told the Daily Beast that the ads are not only to "put him at ease that his formidable political machine is hard at work defending him and attacking his enemies" but to "counter-program recent ads by critics that have driven the president to public outbursts" -- the Lincoln Project ads. Which, according to Lincoln Project co-founder George Conway, got the idea for targeting DC cable news with their ads after seeing he Trump campaign do so.

[underpants]

1. My God.

So they are doing this to appease him?

[highplainsdem]

3. Yep.

[smb]

18. Wouldn't It Be Cheaper To Just Get Him A Binkie And A Blankie? nt

[Kid Berwyn]

20. Mustn't make Anthony angry.

[mpcamb]

2. Keep pimpin' 'em, Bunker Boy: It's somebody else's money anyway!

Let's get an accounting sometime, tho.

[cos dem]

4. Wow, what a baby.

So infantile they have to misuse campaign funds to keep the tantrums to a minimum.

Most people grow out of the "world exists for me, me, me" by about the age of 2.

[louis-t]

5. God Almighty, they're spending a fortune to keep

Donnie's asshole from puckering.

[modrepub]

6. Burning Through The $$$

I'd suggest buying stock (if possible) with any political add makers for the GOP. They got some deep pockets to be spending big bucks just to sooth their leaders egos.

If bozo suffer "humiliations galore" in November, it will be interesting to see how the insiders write about the last few weeks of this administration. Will be more depressing than the Fall of Saigon (from the Republican perspective).

[highplainsdem]

7. Another Lincoln Project founder is amused by this. Tweet from John Weaver:

Link to tweet

Not only is @ProjectLincoln renting space in the addled mind of @realDonaldTrump The low travelers at Trump HQ has to spend $ to offset our juju @reedgalen @TheRickWilson @gtconway3d

[flibbitygiblets]

8. The more $ they spend on useless ads to pacify Bunker Baby,

the less they'll have to spend in the battleground states. IOW, please proceed.

[George II]

9. "Buck up" or "Fuck up"?

[C Moon]

10. The Emperor Has No Clothes.

The king is in the altogether, the altogether, altogether as naked as the day that he was born.

[NonPC]

11. A Drug Change Would Be Cheaper

How about cutting back the Adderal and getting some Xanax or Prozac instead?

[tanyev]

12. LOL, couldn't they just get Vanky or Hope to shake a ring of keys in front of his face?

The big brightly colored plastic ones are da bomb.

[Marie Marie]

16. Or they could hang one of those baby mobiles over his golden toilet.

If nothing else, the distraction could make for some even crazier tweets.

[LiberalBrooke]

13. They are doing it to try to ramp down his tantrums. He wants to see himself on tv.

Lol, let them waste their money. Better than in a state that’s in play.

[machoneman]

14. Wow, this also means he is too frikken stupid to change the channel. That or supremely lazy!

[TheFourthMind]

15. Speaking of teams easing a freak's pain in a mansion, anyone watch the Epstein doc on Netflix? n/t

[BootinUp]

17. go to sleep... go to sleep... put your lil tweeee terrrrr down

[Firestorm49]

19. The ads that I've seen center on China, which in my opinion is not a central issue.

Yes, China and our trade problems are important, but much farther down the scale than the rampant incompetence and graft of this administration.

In my opinion, I hope they keep it up - running ads that do little more than pump up the grade school ego of what’s his name. We’ll concentrate on the real issues while Trump continues to play with his crayons.

[MissMillie]

21. I can't imagine any ad that would simultaneously

make HIM feel better and win him any votes. He has nothing to be proud about--and most voters know this.

[highplainsdem]

22. Joe Lockhart:

Link to tweet

[kimbutgar]

23. I saw one of those ads on tv and I changed the channel

[Hugin]

24. This is probably where the BS jobs numbers and other pablum is coming from, too.

Straight from the desk of Wilbur Ross. Did anyone check for a letterhead on the news releases?

[Nancy Waterman]

25. Saw one on MSNBC last night

from Maryland, DC suburbs. All about how great the economy was under Trump and how he is now bringing it all back. Well done ad, if you are completely ignorant of reality.