Trump’s TV Campaign Ad
A TV ad from the Donald J. Trump for President campaign committee praises Trump’s first 100 days, but it stretches the facts on some of his accomplishments.
The ad exaggerates the president’s record on job growth, giving Trump credit for jobs created under President Barack Obama. It suggests that the Keystone Pipeline will help make the country more “energy independent,” but experts told us the pipeline’s potential impact in that regard would be very small. And it makes the unsupported claim that Trump’s tax cut plan is the “biggest tax cut in history.”
The ad, a $1.5 million TV ad buy that ran in major markets and online, starts with a narrator saying, “Donald Trump, sworn in as president one hundred days ago. America has rarely seen such success.” That’s opinion. But a few of the metrics the ad cites as proof of that success aren’t supported by the facts.
CNN has refused to run the ad because of a graphic in the in a statement: “The mainstream media is not fake news, and therefore the ad is false and per policy will be accepted only if that graphic is deleted.”
