Speaker 1: We start today with a very, very
rough campaign. Ad This is one of the roughest I've seen. Eric Swalwell, Democratic congressman
who's been a guest on this program. He has put out a new ad depicting Donald Trump essentially
at a sort of memory unit, nursing home type thing where people with dementia or Alzheimer's
would be. And what's incredible about the ad is that the man who portrays Trump says things
that Trump has actually said, and the actors respond as concerned caretakers who say, okay,
okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, kind of in this, let's humor him to keep him calm type of situation.
The
ad is brutal. It's actually an ad that people who have had family members that have struggled with
dementia, Alzheimer's, said felt very real. Now, I want to play the ad for you and then we'll
talk about is it appropriate, is this in some way inappropriate or offensive? But this is
getting a lot of attention. Let's take a look. Speaker 2: We were so worried there eating
the dog. She wasn't making any sense. People come in and maybe the cats and he just kept
getting worse. They didn't notice. That's what they call them. Dumps, big, massive dumps.
Gross In Michigan, in Pennsylvania, all over. We had to do something. They will take the life
of the child in the ninth month, even after birth. They'll execute the baby. You sound crazy right
now. Then a friend told us there was somewhere he could get the help he so desperately needed.
Called a place for Trump. Person. Woman. Mad Camera TV. Now he has round the clock support
and can enjoy the things he loves, like eating cheeseburgers and rage posting at 3 a.m..
I know
windmills very much and they're driving the Wales, I think a little batty. Sure. So this November
let's vote to put him in a place for Trump because we all know he belongs in a home. Just not this
one. I have concepts of a plan. Of course you do. Speaker 1: So a lot of people are furious
about this, saying that it is trivializing Alzheimer's and dementia. It's ridiculing
something that is very serious. You know, I don't this is a rough ad. There's no doubt that
this is edgy stuff. And and I'm interested in the conversation that likely took place behind the
scenes at Eric Swalwell's congressional campaign. But what I think is accurate about this ad is it
contextualizes the insanity of what has become normal. You know what? On yesterday's show, we
played a clip of an interview with Chris Sununu, the governor of New Hampshire.
Asked about Trump's
comments regarding Hitler did some good things. And Sununu essentially said, yeah, I mean, listen,
obviously, I don't agree with praising Hitler, but it's all kind of baked in. Trump says stuff
like this We expect extreme stuff to be said by Trump. We expect extreme stuff to be said about
Donald Trump. And it was really a testament to the hyper normalization that we've all suffered from.
We've all suffered from it. So I suffer from it. Anybody who follows this stuff has suffered from
it because it's been so long now.
It's been eight, nine years and it's gotten crazier and crazier
and crazier. If in 2015, when Trump came down the golden escalator and said many Mexicans
are rapists, if back then I had said, Hey, next month Trump is going to be saying Hitler
did some good things. None of us would have believed it. None of us would have believed that
it would be tolerable, that an electorate would hear that and still potentially vote the guy
in. It's a different world. We have all been, to a degree, desensitized. So the appropriateness
of the video, is it offensive? I don't know. It's offensive.
Always feel like feels like sort
of such a weak rebuttal or critique. What I can tell you is that it puts in very stark relief.
What are we doing here? If we put a guy who is so clearly deteriorating into not a nursing home
but into the Oval Office, it doesn't make any damn sense. That's very clear. So I think the
ad is interesting in that way.
I can't tell for sure. But I think that this Trump impersonator
is the guy who's a fan of the show, whose name I unfortunately forget. But this is this is a risky
ad in a way, and there are people who are upset. But I think the primary point of the ad, which is,
hey, you're about to do something really dangerous by potentially making this guy president. That
comes through. So I want to hear from you. What was your reaction when you saw the ad? Good ad,
bad ad, effective? Not what does it do for you?.
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