The Trump Campaign is fast ruing the day that his surrogates like his daughter-in-law went on the airwaves, saying that the country was better off four years ago with her father-in-law running the country than President Biden.
It has not taken long for commentators in the world of nonfiction (this writer included) to refute that assertion and the Biden/Harris Campaign, which is flush with cash compared to the 'I have to pay my lawyers and put up half a billion bond' Trump one, wasted no time producing a digital ad for social media, reminding people of the historical reality.
The ad starts with Trump asking Ronald Reagan's historic question on social media: "Are you better off now than you were four years ago."
The ad then shows empty store shelves at the height of the Coronavirus Pandemic this time four years ago when the supply chain fractured and people could not buy food products or essentials like toilet paper.
The piece then shows people in the background lining up to take Coronavirus tests, people going to food banks and isolated from their families in hospitals, Mr. Trump advocating for the injection of disinfectant to help combat the COVID-19 virus and rating his handling of the pandemic a ten.
When a clip of dead bodies in the background, the ad broadcasts a reporter asking, "What do you say to Americans who are watching you right now who are scared," Trump responds, "I'd say you're a terrible reporter. That's what I'd say."
The next clip shows Mr. Trump saying, "I don't take responsibility at all." With clips of dead bodies being gathered, he says "I think we're doing really, really well."
Someone, probably a journalist, asks, "How? A thousand Americans are dying a day."
Trump insensitively responded, "They're dying. That's true. And it is what it is."
The Biden/Harris Campaign, in their statement that released the ad, offered some additional statistical data, further reminding people of how bad it was in 2020, including:
- "In 2020, U.S. life expectancy fell by nearly two years — the largest one-year drop since World War II.
- Nearly 10 million Americans lost their jobs, almost doubling the number during the 2009 economic crisis.
- 2020 saw Black and Hispanic unemployment skyrocket to nearly 10%.
- Under Trump’s watch, poverty spiked to 3.2 million more Americans than the year before.
- An estimated 9.4 million small businesses shuttered.
- And U.S. manufacturing hit a historic low."
Biden-Harris 2024 Spokesperson Ammar Moussa also commented:
“Let’s talk about four years ago: under Trump’s egregious mismanagement, hundreds of thousands of Americans died who didn’t have to, crime shot up, our economy crashed, he fomented violence in the streets, and he even told us to inject ourselves with bleach.
“Americans remember March Madness, proms, weddings, and celebrations being canceled, waiting in line for toilet paper and essentials, businesses shutting down, and losing loved ones – all because Trump failed to prepare for and then couldn’t lead when we needed him the most.
“The only thing to happen four years ago to make Americans’ lives better was Donald Trump losing to Joe Biden.”
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