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.”

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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.

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You can be happy with the Lincoln Project for attacking Trump and still not support them…

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Yep. They do seem to know their target audience with this one, though - the con brain reacts to “gross” things more than normal brains do. So by telling the cons about StinkyDon is probably going to work on a few of them.

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The Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump PAC, released a foul ad doubling down on allegations that former president Donald Trump smells.

This is just sad and childish and they should be embarrassed. Leave the shitty political jokes to SNL.

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Seeing that some people voted for him because he told Marco that he was packing on the debate stage, if some people withdrawal support because he smells like limburger, I’m not going to stand in their way.

That being said, I’m glad no org that I’m supporting is wasting their dollars here.

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Well I won’t pretend to understand how these morons’ brains work.

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Fwiw, I’m not a downvoter in general, and your comment was no exception. I hope it’s clear that I agree this is a childish waste of money.

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Nah, it’s hilarious and probably bothers Trump a ton. He smells like shit.

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It’s an invaluable American resource.

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As the online incels would say, that’s “based”

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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.

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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.

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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

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“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.

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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.

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I bet those huge baby hands smell like baby shit

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The guy wears clown makeup on a daily basis, I don’t think they’re going to care what he smells like.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Counterpoint: things like this drive him so crazy that he lashes out, further embarrassing himself.

Also, by responding to the criticism, he validates it.

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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?

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If logical political attacks don’t work because his base is too fucking stupid to understand them, then use illogical ones against the fat, smelly, tiny-handed, well-done steak eating piece of orange crap traitor.

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Now I’m hopeful for the tiny hands campaign

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But how many of his supporters have had covid so many times that they can’t smell shit if it’s up their own noses at this point?

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You know, chances are, if he was using his bathroom for a document storage closet…. He probably wasn’t using it for bathing.

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As if he only has one bathroom…

He could probably bathe in a different bathroom every day for a year without even borrowing one

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Wait a minute… if my top secret documents are in the bathroom… what’s in my office safe… ?

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The safe is usually the first place law enforcement look. And then the hidden safe.

I suggest having 2 hidden safes. One behind a picture of dogs playing poker, the other behind a picture of cats playing poker.

Nobody would think you go for the same kitsch joke twice, right?

Edit: at a guess Trump keeps his emergency stash of hamberders and Diet Coke in the office safe.

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