Trump parody on Fox News

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Paul Alan Levy <plevy () citizen org>
> Date: December 12, 2016 at 3:20:33 PM EST
> To: "dave () farber net" <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Trump parody on Fox News
>
> We are running this parody of a Trump campaign ad
> Public Citizen Parody Ad – to Run Tuesday on Fox News – Turns Trump Campaign Rhetoric on Its Head 
>
> Ad Will Air Tuesday Morning on Fox & Friends 
>
> Dec. 12, 2016
>
> Contact: Angela Bradbery, abradbery () citizen org, (202) 588-7741
> Don Owens, dowens () citizen org, (202) 588-7767
>
> WASHINGTON, D.C. – President-elect Donald Trump’s hypocrisy in selecting wealthy corporate elites for his future 
> administration is highlighted in a parody ad to air Tuesday morning on Fox News.
>
> Scheduled to run between 7 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. EST during “Fox & Friends,” the ad likely will be seen by millions of 
> voters who believed Trump’s boast that he would “drain the swamp.” On the contrary, he’s stuffing his administration 
> full of CEOs, corporate lobbyists and major billionaire campaign contributors.
>
> The parody video juxtaposes Trump’s final “Argument for America” campaign ad about draining the swamp with his 
> corporate Cabinet picks, highlighting the extent to which his “anti-establishment” supporters got played.
>
> For instance, while Trump says “Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment,” images 
> show a headline that says, “Trump dives into ‘the swamp’ for Cabinet picks” and a picture of Wilbur Ross, Trump’s 
> pick for U.S. Department of Commerce secretary, with captions saying “billionaire investor” and “king of bankruptcy 
> schemes.”
>
> “Candidate Trump said he would end corruption, cronyism and corporate insider dealmaking,” said Robert Weissman, 
> president of Public Citizen. “But President-elect Trump is embedding corruption into his administration and handing 
> control of the government over to corporate interests.”
>
> A longer version of the ad, which Public Citizen posted on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube last Thursday, has reached 
> more than a million people on Facebook and nearly half a million people on Twitter.
>
> “Trump voters should feel betrayed,” Weissman said. “We hope the president-elect will be watching.”
>
> Trump’s Cabinet picks include:
>
> Rex Tillerson, Exxon Mobil CEO, to be secretary of state. This would blur the line between diplomacy, national 
> interests and corporate interests.
> Goldman Sachs executive Steven Mnuchin for Treasury secretary. Mnuchin has been described in some reports as an “an 
> investor with so much Wall Street blood in his veins.”
> Betsy DeVos, a conservative billionaire who favors vouchers, to head the U.S. Department of Education.
> Fossil fuel ally and Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to be administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection 
> Agency. Pruitt is an EPA critic and noted skeptic of climate change science.
> Elaine Chao, former labor secretary under George W. Bush, Wells Fargo board member and spouse of Senate Majority 
> Leader Mitch McConnell, to run the U.S. Department of Transportation.
> Fast food franchise owner Andrew Puzder, a critic of worker protections and opponent of a minimum wage increase, to 
> be U.S. Department of Labor secretary.
> Visit Public Citizen’s Trump resource center.
>
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>
> View this release on our press page.
>
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