Trump Vows To "Quickly Cut The Head Off Isis And Take Their Oil" In First TV Ad
“The world is laughing at us, at our stupidity,” Donald trump told the Washington Post, in an interview on Sunday. “It’s got to stop. We’ve got to get smart fast — or else we won’t have a country.”
Those comments came as the GOP frontrunner gave the Post an exclusive look at his campaign’s first television spot, which is set to debut on Monday.
Trump has thus far run what one might call an “unconventional” campaign. While rivals spent millions on television ads only to see their poll numbers drop, Trump relied on... well, on being Trump. The bombastic billionaire’s fiery stump speech (which, while short on substance, lacks nothing when it comes to conviction) has resonated with large swaths of the American electorate that are fed up with business as usual inside the Beltway.
With his first ad, Trump is sticking with what’s worked. That is, he’s doubling down on the same controversial messages that have both surprised and captivated the political punditry who now exist in a perpetual state of shock thanks to the fact that Trump is rewriting the rules of what candidates can and should say on the campaign trail. Here’s WaPo with a description of the new spot:
Donald Trump’s ad begins with a shot of President Obama and Hillary Clinton. Then comes a U.S. battleship launching a cruise-missile strike. From there it moves swiftly through an explosive montage: The suspects in the recent California terrorist attack. Shadowy figures racing across the U.S.-Mexico border. Islamic State militants.
The narrator, a deep-voiced man, speaks ominously: “That’s why he’s calling for a temporary shutdown of Muslims entering the United States, until we can figure out what’s going on. He’ll quickly cut the head off ISIS and take their oil. And he’ll stop illegal immigration by building a wall on our southern border that Mexico will pay for.”
The spot closes with the image of Trump thundering at one of his rallies, “We will make America great again!”
The script for Trump's first TV ad https://t.co/YtoJ7aaeRm pic.twitter.com/jvgTycBESY
— Robert Costa (@costareports) January 4, 2016
"Trump has vowed to spend at least $2 million a week on the ads — an amount that will be amplified by the countless times they are likely to be played on cable news and across social media," WaPo continues, adding that "Trump has six to eight ads in production [which] he hopes will impress upon undecided voters that the country has become 'a dumping ground.'"
Notably, Trump is doubling down on the Muslim ban message just days after that very same message turned up in an al-Shabaab propaganda video. Of course that shouldn't surprise anyone. Trump isn't one to backtrack and hey, "if it aint broke..."
And yet even as short a spot as that described above reveals what certainly appears to be a lack of understanding when it comes to policy specifics. For instance, one cannot "take" Islamic State's oil. It isn't theirs for Trump to take. That oil belongs to Syria and Iraq. Additionally, Trump seems certain that Mexico will be willing to fund the construction of a giant border fence. It's not at all clear why he believes that.
In any event, if Trump's television spots are anything like his campaign trail rallies, we're in for some epic trolling of America's entrenched political aristocracy and also of the liberal media. We'll close with WaPo's amusing account of the moment when the final cut of the first ad was played in the candidate's 26th-floor suite at Trump Tower:
One afternoon last week in the candidate’s 26th-floor suite at Trump Tower here, the fiery depictions of global terrorism flickered on Trump’s face as he stared down at campaign manager Corey Lewandowski’s laptop computer to watch the final cut of the ad.
“Play it again,” Trump told Lewandowski, nodding approvingly. “I love the feel of it.”
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ISIS only steals oil from Iraq and Syria. It has no oil of its own.
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Looney ;-)
Oh geez....did the Don finally spend some money?
Did he get a loan from Jeb?
Trump
Hitlery
No Difference.
(You didn't really think you had a 3rd choice, did you? Dialectics only work with opposites)
If he truly intends to tackle the leadership behind the ISIS proxy, then this may be his first excursion down the geostrategic rabbit hole. BUCKLE UP, Mr. Trump......
"Please allow me to introduce myself: I'm a man of wealth and taste."
Trump's an idiot, and so are his 'followers.'
How is he gonna take their oil? Another invasion? So Donnie takes whatever he likes, like a punk ass robber or bankster? And won't that sort of behaviour spawn yet another ISIS? And isn't this kind of behaviour EXACTLY what the US has done over the past 60 years since WW2?
Yeah....an idiot with a personal 757 airplane.....with gold fixtures.
So what do you fly around in?
I'm a pilot and I would NOT fly a 757 with Rolls Royce RB211 engines! Google aerotoxic syndrome!
You judge people favourably differently because they own (or lease) a 757? So Obama is your true hero then right, because he flies a 747? Or what private jet does Jamie Diamond have? These are all great folks, because they have private jets?
p.s. the banksters OWN Donnie, just like they own Trump's real estate and probably also 'his' 757 thanks to ZIRP. You honestly think Bald Donnie will bite the hands that feed his real estate 'empire' when he is elected preee-zooo-dent?
I can't believe that the so-called "well educated readers of ZH" swallow the fairytales of this modern day Piper of Hamelin.
Less government interference is the answer, not another cowboy who is hard-pressed to plunge the US into more wars and act like the NSA by "shutting down parts the internet." http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-wants-to-shut-down-parts-of-...
Penalty flag on the play......10 yards for talking to yourself.
It does you good to be mad.....Don is smoking everyone's ass.....apparently your candidate is one of them.
I haven't decided if I'm going to vote for him....I'm too busy laughing my ass off right now.
Trump is the only person who will save America from its own greed and short sightedness. His words are wise and worth listening too.
“The world is laughing at us, at our stupidity,”
These are not wise words. The world is laughing at us because we keep doing stupid things like fucking around in places that don't concern us. "Cutting the head off" saddam and "taking their oil" is what got us into this mess in the first place, its what created ISIS. Doing more of the same will only result in more of this nonsense. If trump was so smarl he would realize that the failed policies of the past 15 years will not magically work just because he is in charge of them. This is nonsense. He may be a different kind of candidate because he says things a career politician never would, and there is truth to some of it, but when he says this kind of shit, he is just playing into the neocons hands, and by saying these things, he is telling us his actions in the MENA region would be no different than those of obama and bush.
But Soweto said Americans are "exceptional."
Oh Donny you are the greatest!
At Least He Admits it's "Their Oil" and Not as my Neo-Con Buds say, "Our Oil"
Dear Incredibly Dense ZHers:
Have to spell it out for you?
Trump "will take ISIS' (stolen) oil (away from them a la Putin's bombing and cruise missile campaign so they can't sell it to finance their operation).
Smart deal.
Destroying ISIS' income is the most effective way to "cut the head off ISIS."
Note the lack of boots needed to devastate ISIS' (stolen) oil (operation). It's the obvious way to shut ISIS down - no money, no ISIS. Only a troll can fail to grasp the obviously correct policy decision.
Speak for yourself.
US could have done this for the last 2 years. They did not and instead bombed sand dunes and pretended to target ISIS. US enjoyed the cheap oil, NATO Turkey got richer, Russia's economy got destroyed and the american sheeple applauded cheap gas prices, a few beheadings are just a small price.
If you want cheap gas give Scooby a can of Alpo!
A rhoo rhoo! Scooby Doo!
I agree with your sentiment and was going to post the same. It's not exactly what he said however and most Americans will take it literally including his fans. I believe that it only means that he will take ISIS access to stolen oil and stolen profits away from them...but..what I believe and what he said are still two different things.
In any case, on the one hand if he ultimately prevents Jeb or Hillary from being the servants of the oligarchs and as a result their days are ruined that would be a small joy. On the other, he could initiate policy that would force manufacturing back into this country.
He will not ultimately do anything about the Fed Reserve or its owners. He will not alter the policy of acting in behalf of Israel as their servant to world conquest. He will not stop the MIC. He will continue the role of world war monger and conqueror as policy of the US.
Unknown is if he would reduce the endless agency power apparatus of the Fed and the unelected bureaucrats that run them, initiate and enforce rules and policy on us all. Probably not. This is assuming he were actually elected. There may be plans by the oligarchs to make that a physical impossibility?
The US military created ISIS.........there, fixed it for ya.
Groundskeeper - yes. Trump is part of the 'free money' crowd, who's theft was enriched with cheap money -particularly real estate.
Trump says nothing about ISIS weapons supply coming via US and Ankara. US can de-arm ISIS shut down weapons flow.
Trump, if elected - doubtful and who cares really - will take his orders from the banksters as well - CFR, TriLateral, and Wall Street. He is a judas goat, and is sent to collect more prey. But it is interesting to watch it play out.
A lot of the people that made this comment section great have left. It started with all the pro-Putin posts here, and now the invasion of the Durdgeots, they're causing the rest to leave. The early days here involved actual deep discussions of the topics and was a great place to learn and debate, but those days are long gone.
Chicken vs egg .. ZH content has become driven by ad revenue; much like the AM dial.
We should let this guy go.....he's served his usefulness.
Like the latter days of Rome...
Just make sure you are prepared and then just enjoy the show...
No, it started way before the Putin ass lickers arrived. It started when all the dumbasses were blind to an obvious parabolic rise in gold and silver, were blind to any green shoots, and finished every sentence with the expression "Bitchez". Bitchez.
er.. what parabolic rise in gold and silver? The one we've seen from 2010 till now, when it's gone from $1,800 to $1,100?
Some left, and some were executed- er I mean kicked off. Some have returned under different aliases, and have learned to keep a lower profile. The same truths are metioned, just with more subtlety, so as to confuse the Stasi.
If you don't want ads, get adblocker. It's like listening to crickets instead of the freeway.
As for Trump vs Hitlery, well, if Trump is a fascist, then Hillary is a Communist. The truth is, Fascists kill fewer of their own people than do Communists.
Lesser of.
Too bad we can't have a constitutional republic. But I can always wish.
@ Bokkenrijder
Yeah, like Reagan gave us less government?
#1 trickle-down myth
#2 star wars (drop a payload of nuts and bolts into specific orbits and no`moar satellites) http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/OrbitsCatalog/ and please don't talk the 'Misty-eye in the Sky stealthy thingy!
#3 iran-contra and all latin america
#4 Pakistan's Nuclear Program on a silver platter
#5 al Qaeda/ ISIS... the nascent darwinian progenitor of the Taliban
#6 Neo-Con Frankenstein lab featuring Nixonian throwbacks[?], aka, BUSH #41, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and the biggest Freak of Nature 'Baby Bush #43
I could go on forever, but what's the sense in wasting my breath on a dumb fuck like yourself
fuckOFF
This is why there has been -0- criticizim of jews/fed from the Donald. he may be an idiot with a jet, but hes not stupid
"Cut the head of ISIS and take their oil." Ya, take their oil right after the nuclear war with Russia. I disagree with you. He is stupid.
he doesn't want to get the "Gary Oldman" special...
Bokken, you are confused so let me help you. ISIS and the rest of the Muslim groups don't want to be left alone. They want to bring their version of religion to you, me, and everyone else in the world. Their goal is to either convert or kill us. Given this info, they are no different than the threat than Nazi Germany posed in the 1930s-40s.
Taking Saddam Hussein, Ghadafi, and the other snake handlers out of power has made the situation worse as now the snakes are out of the bag but someone needs to put them bag in the bag before they multiply to the point to where getting them under control isn't possible.
I hope this helps you undertand what we are dealing with.
Get the fuck out of here with that Nazi fearmongering bullshit.
Fucking Hasbara trolls, you're the scum of the internet.
Dear NS:
You got a better analogy? Enlighten us.
Until then, GFY.
Trump hates banksters. Said so himself. They schlonged his companies.
We live in the age of Reaganite/Thatcherite TINA
(TINA - There is no alternative)
Latina Lover
Blind
No difference.
Dude! Trump is orders of magnitude different than Hillary. Are you part of the criminal progressive infestation? I wonder how you can make such a blatantly wrong statement.
Love your avatar by the way. I tried hard with the latina's but it was not to be.
Grimaldus
"The Donald has my respeck."
He'll chop off their heads and invade and take their oil ... and make THEM pay for the invasion instead of the USA taxpayers!
Deez Nutts
The "oil paying for the invasion" has a familiar ring to it, no ?
“There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.”George W. Bush
I heard Trump is a self-proclaimed “ardent Zionist” and longtime supporter of Israel.
http://www.ibtimes.com/donald-trump-big-israel-endorses-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu-1017172
Yeah big fucking surprise ... a real estate developer in joo yawk city would have to be by default.
From the Times of Israel;
"NEW YORK (JTA) — Among the expansive field of Republican presidential candidates on display in the party’s first debates Thursday night, Donald Trump may be the most closely connected to the Jewish people. Trump is from New York, works in professions saturated with Jews and long has been a vocal supporter of Israel. His daughter and two grandchildren are Jewish, the executive vice president of his organization is Jewish — and Trump certainly has chutzpah."
http://www.timesofisrael.com/when-it-comes-to-jewish-ties-no-gop-candida...
curbjob, if you look at my past posts you will see I am not an apologist for jewish criminals..fed banks msm..
but it does not bother me to see Trump with jewish friends and family- many times I have said, show me a criminal and I will call them such..
I do not call all jews criminal..I am like Trump i work with jews, and have jewish friends and relatives ..but I can also see criminal actions and call them that.
Trump cannot be attacked for just knowing Jews, unless of course you are a anti jew nut case.. then it is your problem not his.
Normalcy bias much ?
I get it, Trump provides you with HOPE ... now when was the last time an electorate voted on that emotion and, were they disappointed ?
The idea that ours is a system that can be fixed from the inside is laughable at this point . An opinion which at one time defined the commentary on ZH.
I heard Trump is a self-proclaimed “ardent Zionist”
I've heard Trump sacrifices little kids and drinks their blood for the adrenochrome over at Al Gore's house.....not sure if it's true....but that's what I've heard.
If Trump is elected he will not deviate from the globalist NWO plan.
If Hillary is elected, she will not deviate from the globalist NWO plan.
If Sanders is elected he will not deviate from the globalist NWO plan.
If Bush is elected he will not deviate from the globalist NWO plan.
If Cruz is elected, he will not deviate from the globalist NWO plan.
I think we are beginning to see a pattern here...
Only Ron Paul would have had a chance of deviating from the globalist NWO plan. But those days are past, and will not return.
Pay attention to Burns, Ore. Whatever happens there will be our future.