The ad is called ‘Limburger,’ a cheese known for its pungent odour
The Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump PAC, released a foul ad doubling down on allegations that former president Donald Trump smells.
Claims around the former president’s alleged odour erupted earlier this week when former Illinois Republican representative Adam Kinzinger tweeted, “I’m genuinely surprised how people close to Trump haven’t talked about the odor. It’s truly something to behold. Wear a mask if you can.”
The Lincoln Project seized upon the resulting social media firestorm with a video advertisement on Saturday, with the caption: “Is that you Donald? #TrumpSmells.”
Of all the things that are likely to effectively separate him from his base, this is the best angle I think we’ve seen taken since 2015.
Appeals to their better nature haven’t worked because they simply do not have one.
He’s also an egomaniac that can’t handle even the smallest forms of mockery. Remember “baby hands”? It got under his skin like crazy. This could actually tank his campaign, even though it feels extremely childish for politics
can’t handle even the smallest
Are you saying his hands are small? I have it on his authority that trump has the biggest hands. Yuge. Such big hands you’ve never seen before. People tell me all the time, they say, “Donald has such big hands, I’ve never seen hands so large.” I bet he could palm two basketballs at once. World leaders won’t shake his hand because they’re afraid their hands will look like tiny baby hands by comparison.
“I’ve had no complaints, believe me”
Which of course either means that he’s lying, which he usually is when telling people to believe him, or being a rich, powerful, thin-skinned and impossible narcissist have stop people from complaining or insulting him to his face.
Yep! It is kind of funny too because petty insults is all they have, but they seem extremely sensible to them themselves. Trump has a nickname for virtually everyone, and they think it’s the best thing ever, but point out that he’s an insecure man wearing ungodly amount of makeup and they immediately get weirdly offended by it. “OrAnGe MaN bAd”. The funny thing is, as Trump would say, there is a lot of subject matter with his overall presentation, ironically.
The guy wears clown makeup on a daily basis, I don’t think they’re going to care what he smells like.
Counterpoint: things like this drive him so crazy that he lashes out, further embarrassing himself.
Also, I don’t think they believe he wears makeup. Ex’s mom believed his tan was natural. You’re right that they won’t really believe or care, but I don’t really think it’s about convincing his voters at this point.
Counterpoint: things like this drive him so crazy that he lashes out, further embarrassing himself.
I don’t think that’s possible.
I don’t think they believe he wears makeup
And they won’t believe that he smells.
I don’t really think it’s about convincing his voters at this point.
What is the point, exactly? Other than pouring contributions down the toilet for laughs?
Nah, try it some time. Just start making fun of Trump supporters; try to make them embarrassed.
Shame is fundamental to why they believe what they do. Exposing that shame is extremely painful.
That’s incredibly naive. If they were ashamed they would simply stop doing it. They’re quite the opposite, I promise, and not going to suddenly be ashamed that their representative smells bad, after all the simply deplorable things he has done and said.
It’s so stupidly petty and has nothing to do with what actually makes Trump a shitty candidate (the whole fascism and insurrection thing and everything else), but it will probably bother Trump the most out of anything precisely because of how self-conscious it’ll make him.
Right? You know who often doesn’t smell great? Old guys. Other people who sometimes stink include fat guys. And if you live in a hot, humid area you have to be more attentive to your hygiene.
Orange Dump is an obese geriatric living on swamp land, hitting the trifecta. I’d put good money on odds of his ass stanking something fierce.
That’s exactly my thoughts. Throughout the whole Trump candidacy and presidency, I’ve generally avoided criticism about what he looks like or the inconsequential things he does. If he were a decent president, or even a decent human being, it wouldn’t matter about his orange skin, weird hair, strange posture, weird smell, fast food diet, or any of that kind of thing. It’s the fact that he tried to overthrow the government, likely gave away or sold national secrets, raped women, installed cabinet members who intended to dismantle the organizations they were in charge of, etc. etc.
But ironically, he and his base are totally fine with those things, it’s the inconsequential and superficial stuff that might actually cost him votes.
It would be somewhat funny if that was his downfall instead of all the heinous, traitorous shit he did
heinous, traitorous shit he did
Maybe he did it in his adult diaper and that’s why he smells…
This is one of those headlines that reminds us of how deeply unserious the society we made is. We’re throwing around playground insults because inciting a coup and causing mass desth through subpar covid measures made him MORE popular.
Im beggin people to realize Trump is not the endgame, the voters behind him are and they do not change, and will find a better smarter and more electable fascist to rally behind. Meanwhile the Dems have done nothing but try to stop ‘Trump the individual’, not ‘Trump the culmination of fascist citizens desires’.
Yeah, I like to say Trump is a symptom of what we let the GOP and DNC turn America in to.
The GOP and DNC didn’t do shit – they’re symptoms of complacency.
The uncomfortable truth is as a species we’re tribalistic, short sighted, and selfish. The worst of us eventually find positions of power, and they’ll use/create “crisises” to do so. None of this shit is new.
If half the people in the country are too fucking dumb to understand basic level stuff, we just gotta go to playground insults
That’s the level of education we’ve got going on here. If it works to get a fascist out, fantastic. On the other hand, the Democrats are, in the end, no damn different from the Republicans. A bunch of racist old white people who don’t actually care as long as they get their money. Both parties should be taken out and this should be more than a two party system
As funny as this is, The Lincoln Project wants to turn neoliberal democrats into DINO republicans since the GOP have been turning from neoconservativism into full on right wing dictators since the war on terror. They need the trickle down classic and the founder tried sucking up to AOC by saying he can be trusted because he believes in tipping the bartender.
