September 28, 2023

"I am Batman."

A new ad for Trump... featuring many celebrities who are made, against their will, to look like they love Trump.

109 comments:

The Crack Emcee said...

I haven't laughed that hard since - yesterday.

Yancey Ward said...

The only really amusing thing about that ad is that the celebrities in it will be exploding in anger at seeing it, so it gets a B+ from me.

JayG said...

Probably produced externally, so he can deny any legal exposure to the use of copyrighted footage and music.

So it repeats many of Trump's well-known attributes: theft, deceit, and cowardice.

cassandra lite said...

Kind off genius to get all these people whom Trump's fans despise screaming about being used.

Kind of pathetic that Trump's campaign is entirely a cult of personality built on marketing.

lamech said...

At the minute mark ... Roddy Piper!
in "They Live"

Obey, consume, conform, submit, don’t question authority, watch TV, stay asleep, no imagination, no independent thought...

PM said...

Lame.

tommyesq said...

Funny ad, but what about copyright infringement? Admittedly he took only small bits of much longer works, but given the number of judges that lose their minds when Trump is in the dock this seems risky.

Bob Boyd said...

Fantastic! Self-important heads are going to be exploding all over Hollywood today.
I just wish they had made room for Rob Reiner in there somewhere. Maybe it's better they didn't. He'd probably have a stroke.

Sydney said...

LOL! I loved the Deniro shot. He’s so obnoxious with his politics he deserves to be in that ad.

Beth B said...

Well, that's certainly a Fuck You, if ever I saw one. Cue the meltdowns! 5...4...3...2...1...

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

ugh. Embarrassing. God complex much?

MB said...

And if (when) they complain, people will just think, here's an example of what the ad was talking about - people who are acting on emotion rather than judging him by what he has done.

Leland said...

Most upbeat ad I've seen in awhile.

I'm sure more lawsuits to follow for using various likenesses.

Gusty Winds said...

Love that he uses De Niro. Great actor, but a total liberal prick.

wildswan said...

I guess the celebs will start screaming with rage which will amplify the point the ad is making - that many have been trained like Pavlov's dogs to react with fear and rage when they hear Trump making jokes or explaining policies. People don't ask themselves anymore why they get so angry or fearful. They fling themselves headlong into it as if no control over emotion was a virtue, as if it were a shining path to overcome all the past got wrong.

Yancey Ward said...

Bob Boyd,

I was thinking the exact same thing as I watched it- I hoped Rob Reiner was in there somewhere.

wild chicken said...

Oh dear, I get a kick out of him but this charismatic shit over the top.

He's running for God.

Breezy said...

Master class troll.

Rabel said...

Seems to have hit a nerve. Several nerves.

tim maguire said...

JayG said...Probably produced externally, so he can deny any legal exposure to the use of copyrighted footage and music.

So it repeats many of Trump's well-known attributes: theft, deceit, and cowardice.


You don’t have the slightest clue what licensing arrangements he’s made. So you repeat many of Trump’s critics’ well-known character flaws.

While I don’t know what arrangements he’s made either, a fair-use argument would probably win the day anyway.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

btw - whoever promises to deport each and every illegal entrant - they get my vote.


(these are not "migrants" as the hack press insist - they are here illegally. Period.)

Gusty Winds said...

Blogger Leland said...
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I'm sure more lawsuits to follow for using various likenesses.

Thing is, by using all those liberal actors in their movie roles, he's not using "them". He's using the image of the character they play. That's not Alec Baldwin. It's the dad from Beetlejuice.

Maybe the Dad from Beetlejuice would be a Trump supporter.

Gusty Winds said...

Blogger Hunter Biden's tax payer funded Hooker said...
ugh. Embarrassing. God complex much?

Come on. You gotta love how Trump is trolling all these Hollywood shitheads.

Bob Boyd said...

While Americans are seeing endless clips of all the other Republicans helping each other look awful at the debate last night, Trump puts this out.

Compare, for example, the voter takeaway on Chris Christie from the debate is what? He said something about Donald Duck. Fucking hopeless.


Lilly, a dog said...

Alec Baldwin, Ellen Page before transitioning, DeNiro. Even Little Miss Sunshine. Someone had way too much fun putting together most of the actors that hate him.

Ann Althouse said...

Most interesting is the use of pre-transition Elliot Page.

Ann Althouse said...

Fair use. Satire.

There are defenses and clearly he doesn’t care. Anyone who complains will enhance his vitality.

Ann Althouse said...

The satire is that he’s showing love where in real life, there is hate.

Lilly, a dog said...

It also has Kurtwood Smith as Boddicker from the "Bitches Leave" scene in Robocop!

Rabel said...

The humorless scolds don't get the comic aspect of the ad. Because they are humorless scolds.

Aggie said...

This was a terrific spurt of creativity, using the Stars that go the Craziest with TDS, harvesting their past footage in dramatic roles, and re-encapsulating it as adoration for Trump. Freakin' genius, and I conclude this because I can't believe somebody didn't think of it before, when one considers all that material out there from various Stars, various careers. Whatever organization is doing this, I hope they keep doing it all the way through the season. If nothing else, the entertainment value watching privileged heads explode and egos deflate will be without parallel.

Aggie said...

I mean, just look at the first few comments: Several of the blog's left-leaning 'usual suspects', triggered and sputtering over something as innocuous as a Trump political advertisement that was clearly done tongue-in-cheek.

gilbar said...

are y'all getting these you tube commercials? from the RNC*?
They start out with an actor saying: "Trump was the Best President in my life...BUT!"
And then continue with the actor saying: "But Trump is the ONLY person, that can't beat Biden.."
And then they leave unsaid: "SO VOTE FOR BIDEN!!!!"

I get those EVERY TIME i open You tube. It's curious that so called conservatives (like, for example Hunter Biden's Tax Paid Hooker, or what ever it calls it self) are HORRIFIED at the thought of TRUMP, and are running MILLIONS of dollars of ads combating him.
The latest says:
"Trump is the favorite of the MAJORITY of Americans.. Polls show him Beating Biden by OVER ten points..
If we nominate Trump the republicans will lose both the House and the Senate.. VOTE AGAINST TRUMP!"

I figure SOON, they will switch to openly saying: The RNC DEMANDS that You Vote For BIDEN!

Can someone in on the game explain how this makes sense? Tax Payer Hooker? You're a whore for Biden, maybe YOU can explain how Trump winning in a landslide would hurt the republicans?

the RNC* actually Americans for Prosperity Action, which is a bunch of Koch sucking whores

Bob Boyd said...

Trump is sampling, just like hip hop artists do, to create something new and original.

I love how Trump showed himself doing some of things that have irked his deranged critics the most, like pushing through the European leaders to stand in front and loudly slurping his diet coke. Like a bitter ex, it's the little things that really piss them off.

Kai Akker said...

... cowardice.

Yes. And it's about time someone pointed this out about Donald Trump.

While the nation could be thriving with President Biden, Trump spends his time coping with a future of financial ruin, life imprisonment, and the threat of assassination from crazed leftists on any given day. I think we should give that coward a gag order so we don't have to hear him cracking jokes about all that. It can really get to you.

wendybar said...

Hilarious, and all the Never Trumpers are all wee-wee'd up, as usual.

Mason G said...

"While I don’t know what arrangements he’s made either, a fair-use argument would probably win the day anyway."

To be fair, the rules for Trump are different.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

Hollywood turns me off no matter what. Why would I be impressed if some Hillarywoodlanders are used to showcase fake-love for Trump?

Again - cultural crapola. all while our nation swirls down the drain.

In NYT - an entire Hotel is filled with illegal migrants. 1025 rooms completely booked with illegals. (this is just one of many - btw)
The Roosevelt Hotel in mid-town - every single room is occupied by an illegal entrant at a cost of 6,000/ month per family = 75 million. The hotel is owned by the Pakistani government.

The Crack Emcee said...

cassandra lite said...

"Kind off genius to get all these people whom Trump's fans despise screaming about being used.

Kind of pathetic that Trump's campaign is entirely a cult of personality built on marketing."

Entirely? Are you really going to tell me it's impossible for you to see someone as able to know him, his history, warts and all, and still come away impressed by his performance under pressure? I have personally never seen the slings and arrows being thrown at a single person like this in my life. The political class has called him a traitor, and said he was peeing on hookers in Russia for Putin, a point the comedians ran with like it was fire and they were auditioning for the Olympics. Any normal man would've hung it up a long time ago, if he wasn't already crushed.

Nah, this isn't a cult of personality based on marketing. Trump is the real thing.

Original Mike said...

It is pretty funny.

On a serious note, Gutfeld's voice over is exactly right; the left's reaction is over the top emotionalism, like so much of what they do. That gives the ad more depth than just the funny vignettes.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

I care about swamp draining.

I do not give a hot crap about Hollywood actors.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

His fans love him. Nobody else does. Not sure what this accomplishes.

robother said...

What a great ad! The satire as Althouse points out, contrasting the fictional love with the real hate. In the case of the Hollywood types, the only reason anyone pays attention to their personal views is the star power derived from their fictional personae. Karma, indeed is a bitch.

Dogma and Pony Show said...

I think it's brilliant. Everyone's focusing on the film clips, but the footage they used of Trump is the key. It shows him doing all sorts of weird and quirky things that never would make it into a normal politician's tv commercials. And that's the point! It's saying, Trump is a character - he's entertaining to some, annoying to others. But as the voiceover explains, "the key is separating your emotional reaction to this character from his objective accomplishments as president" (paraphrasing). IOW, you have permission to hate him and his antics. Turn off your set if you don't like his act. You have other entertainment choices, such as these movies we keep cutting to. It's ALL entertainment at some level, but it would be nice to have a president who gets things done, no?

Bill Owens said...

Trump is entertaining, if nothing else. Is there another candidate who can capture the satirical humor as displayed in this ad? I cannot think of one. That doesn't mean that Trump is best qualified because of his sense of humor. It does, however, separate him from the rest of the boring, insipid candidates that cannot capture anyone's imagination or tickle a funny bone or two. Boring people to sleep is fine when you are already in office; not before.

Drago said...

Ann Althouse: "Fair use. Satire.

There are defenses and clearly he doesn’t care. Anyone who complains will enhance his vitality."

There are no doubt prosecutors in leftist controlled DA offices that are looking into dragging the makers of this ad into a New Soviet democratical court somewhere, anywhere, with a 100% dem "jury"...and when that happens conviction will be guaranteed...

...followed by disbarment hearings for the defense attorneys.

planetgeo said...

I guess they're going to have to conjure up a few more indictments to intimidate him enough to not fight back, huh? The half-dozen so far aren't quite doing it.

Tank said...

He is the fun, entertainment candidate.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

Campaign is all about "hitting nerves"?

How does "hitting nerves" gain support?
It rallies his supporters. little else.

lonejustice said...

Anyone who compares himself to Jesus Christ has a God complex.

rhhardin said...

I am Leviticus.

urpower said...

As the video says, it is made by Damon Inami, a comedian in Iran. Trump often posts "memes."

rhhardin said...

I didn't recognize a single actor, except for Barron, a scene I remembered for the commentary predicting Barron as the nation's first home-school shooter.

jim said...

My god he is an asshole.

gspencer said...

Loved that they douched that DeNiro douchbag.

Rusty said...

jim said...
"My god he is an asshole."
Yep. So am I.

n.n said...

That's not funny. #IndictHim... for something

Capitol (sic) punishment?

Crazy World said...

Love it and the vision of exploding heads, thank you.

tommyesq said...

The satire is that he’s showing love where in real life, there is hate.

Strictly speaking, parody can be a fair use, but satire rarely is. The bigger question for me is whether the ad used so little of the films/tv shows as to evade infringement, and whether the name "Trump" will impact the ability of judge and jury to fairly evaluate this factor.

n.n said...

God complex

A wicked soluti... sense of humor. All's fair in lust and abortion.

#InStorkWeTrust #MengeleToo

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Trump got somebody with talent?

Their name is anonymous probably.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Oh, remember the guy who put together the Trump re-election for ever clip?

It was that guy that made this. I bet anybody a couple bucks.

Noah Bawdy said...

Sweet.

TickTock said...

At this point, what is one more lawsuit? I think Trump is all in at this point; which is probably a correct understanding of his situation.

He will be the next President, or he will be in jail (one way or the other) on a conviction that no US Supreme Court can get him out of.

I, of course, will vote for him if only on the principle that the Left cannot get away with what they have done.

Ann Althouse said...

“ There are defenses and clearly he doesn’t care. Anyone who complains will enhance his vitality”

Oops. I meant virality.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

"Anyone who complains will enhance his vitality."

Althouse prolly meant virality.

TickTock said...

Crack Emcee,

You are a whacko, but when you are right, you are right!

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

I don't remember anybody ever winning a debate by not showing up.

The love/hate is real.

TickTock said...

Ann, I thought the line on defenses read correctly the first time.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Rh said... "I am Leviticus."

Link to Trump tweet

Gunner said...

How long until all the actors, and the executors of the dead ones' estates, complain to the media?

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Free Manure While You Wait! said...

" JayG said...
Probably produced externally, so he can deny any legal exposure to the use of copyrighted footage and music."

Shorter JayG: Imma make shit up to conform to my preconceptions.

Full Disclosure: I haven't voted in 20 years and the clarity of focus it provides is absolutely stunning. Every politician has one goal and one goal only. Fucking you up the ass for power and wealth.

Free Manure While You Wait! said...

" lonejustice said...
Anyone who compares himself to Jesus Christ has a God complex."

He didn't. Well, inside your head he did, but in reality, he didn't. You are the very butt of the joke here.

JAORE said...

While the nation could be thriving with President Biden...

"... could be....".

But, apparently you admit, is NOT thriving. [Bidenomics, Yee haw.]

So what has Trump done from a position of no official power done to halt the great Bidenomcs juggernaut?

Feh.

Maynard said...

Politicians hide the annoying and unlikable aspects of their personality in a variety of dishonest ways.

Trump celebrates those aspects of his personality.

Gotta like the guy for that.

BTW, Lee Greenwood singing in the background is so overused that it's new again. Chokes me up.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

omg, it's even better the second time around. Watching it I mean.

i want to nick pick the comercial, because I don't want to set myself up for disappointment. They are not going to let him win. It will take a miracle even bigger than the first miracle.

Mason G said...

Entirely? Are you really going to tell me it's impossible for you to see someone as able to know him, his history, warts and all, and still come away impressed by his performance under pressure? I have personally never seen the slings and arrows being thrown at a single person like this in my life. The political class has called him a traitor, and said he was peeing on hookers in Russia for Putin, a point the comedians ran with like it was fire and they were auditioning for the Olympics. Any normal man would've hung it up a long time ago, if he wasn't already crushed.

Nah, this isn't a cult of personality based on marketing. Trump is the real thing.


He's not wrong, you know.

Rabel said...

The sleeper car is all booked up but there are still a few seats available on the Trump Train, April.

We're the ones having all the fun.

Just walk towards the light.

NCMoss said...

Lauren from the Truman Show was a nice touch - she recognized how the media was exploiting him.

Rabel said...

"Oops. I meant virality."

No you didn't. That was Mr. Freud's slip showing.

Tim said...

That's brilliant. If you fight it, you blow it up. If you don't fight it, it's funny enough it hangs around until the election. And meanwhile, Trump is still living rent free in their heads! YouTube and Facebook will no doubt ban it. But Twitter is not likely to. Which means YouTube and Facebook are going to spend 1000s of hours removing videos.

JIM said...

Lefties heads emotionally exploding across America is my feel good story of the day.

lonejustice said...

I think Donal Trump is almost like John Lennon, although Lennon said the Beatles were more popular than Jesus Christ. Trump at lease concedes that the only person in the universe who is more popular than Trump is Jesus Christ. He is so fucking humble.

MadTownGuy said...

They could have pasted in some of the exploding people from the 10-10 climatista video that was taken down from YouTube. I'm sure it's out there somewhere.

Drago said...

Hunter Biden's tax payer funded Hooker:"His fans love him. Nobody else does. Not sure what this accomplishes."

Team GOPe does not like this ad...but has had zero to say about the RNC using a leftist Univision "reporter" as a moderator or the insane series of dem-aligned questions from the DeSantis-supporting Murdoch controlled reporters, nor DeSantis blaming Trump for all the inflation issues and giving the dems/GOPe-ers a complete pass on that issue.

DeSantis' comment is now the star component of a new Biden ad campaign because of course it is.

Another day ending in "Y" for Team GOPe.

gadfly said...

You have got to be shitting me. This is from the rapist and the whoremonger who just threatened General Mark Milley.

gadfly said...

Donald Trump will star on television from the Fulton County courthouse.

gadfly said...

rhhardin said...
I am Leviticus.

Hello, Levi.

lonejustice said...

I have been a Republican ever since I first crossed party lines for the rest of my life and voted for Ronald Reagan. But House Republicans today who have launched a formal impeachment hearing on Biden have all agreed that there is no basis or evidence to impeach Joe Biden. So what the hell are we doing this for? Why are the hearings about Hunter Biden instead of Joe Biden? At least the Clinton impeachment hearings had a semen stain on a blue dress that implicated Clinton. My concern is that just like the public viewed the Clinton impeachment hearings as a partisan political ploy by Republicans, they will also view these impeachment hearings on Biden as a partisan political ploy. This will not help Trump or the Republicans in the upcoming elections.

rcocean said...

trump is really quite incredible. and we're going to miss him when he's gone. I can't think of anyone else in my lifetime who's taken so much hate, so much shit, so many threats, and just kept on trucking and standing strong.

He could go to Jail. He has judges trying to destroy his businesses. He's had the DHS, the FBI, and probably the NSA wiretape him, search his house, and jail and threaten his friends and associates. Yet he keeps on trucking and stays strong. And positive.

It really is quite remarkable.

Freeman Hunt said...

I will not vote for him if he is the nominee, but I still laughed. He is the incontestable King Troll. They should give him one of those big, shiny belts like in boxing.

Jim at said...

But House Republicans today who have launched a formal impeachment hearing on Biden have all agreed that there is no basis or evidence to impeach Joe Biden.

They did no such thing.

Drago said...

Althouse: "Oops. I meant virality."

Isn't that 80's song for a One Hit Wonder group?

Drago said...

LLR lonejustice: "Anyone who compares himself to Jesus Christ has a God complex."

Free Manire While You Wait!: "He didn't. Well, inside your head he did, but in reality, he didn't. You are the very butt of the joke here."

I feel bad for LLR lonejustice. LLR C**** drug his pathetic arse onto Althouse for pro-dem rhetorical support, immediately discovered LLR lonejustice could not keep up with the pack, and then quickly found a replacement in LLR Rich.

LLR lonejustice is thus relegated to hanging about on the periphery and only once in awhile popping back in with a mischaracterization or outright lie to try and regain his former LLR status.

Its rather sad really.

Lets see what happens next.

Narayanan said...

many celebrities who are made, against their will, to look like they love Trump.
=======
don't knwo details but phrase come to mind > a love that cannot be named!

Original Mike said...

"But House Republicans today who have launched a formal impeachment hearing on Biden have all agreed that there is no basis or evidence to impeach Joe Biden."

Sigh…

Really? When did they do that?

TaeJohnDo said...

"But House Republicans today who have launched a formal impeachment hearing on Biden have all agreed that there is no basis or evidence to impeach Joe Biden."
Sigh…
Really? When did they do that?

They didn't say that. I know it is a shock to find out the msm is twisting words and distorting the truth...

From Mediaite: "...Jonathan Turley took the witness stand at the the House impeachment inquiry hearing into President Joe Biden on Thursday, where he endorsed the inquiry itself but stressed that articles of impeachment were not justified by the evidence known at this point.

“This is a question of an impeachment inquiry. It is not a vote on articles of impeachment,” explained Turley. “In fact, I do not believe that the current evidence would support articles of impeachment. That is something that an inquiry has to establish.”

According to Turley, the “threshold for an impeachment inquiry” had been met because Biden had misrepresented facts about his son’s foreign business dealings, because “he was the focus of a multimillion dollar influence-peddling scandal, and because he “may have benefited from millions of dollars as part of that scheme.”

Original Mike said...

Blogger lonejustice said..."I have been a Republican ever since I first crossed party lines for the rest of my life…"

Yeah, that role is already taken here.

TaeJohnDo said...

"A new ad for Trump... featuring many celebrities who are made, against their will, to look like they love Trump."

Good.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

correction:

In New York - an entire Hotel is filled with illegal migrants. 1025 rooms completely booked with illegals. (this is just one of many - btw)
The Roosevelt Hotel in mid-town - every single room is occupied by an illegal entrant at a cost of 6,000/ month per family = 75 million. The hotel is owned by the Pakistani government.

AndrewV said...

I assume that the production team paid the license fees and kept the receipts. That way when the celebrities wont be able to do anything other than cry about it.

Jamie said...

lonejustice, what are you smoking? Congressional Republicans have all agreed that there's no evidence to warrant an impeachment inquiry, AND Trump is literally comparing himself to God? Honey. You can be the "loyal opposition" without being a looney.

Kai Akker said...

This is not a new video, fyi. The producer Damon Imani originally posted it in October 2020, according to his other postings. Trump linked to it in 2022 and then apparently again this week. It has been taken down and disabled in some of its postings.

Drago said...

LLR lonejustice: "I have been a Republican ever since I first crossed party lines for the rest of my life and voted for Ronald Reagan. But House Republicans today who have launched a formal impeachment hearing on Biden have all agreed that there is no basis or evidence to impeach Joe Biden."

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

It's so very, very, perfectly "LLR", isn't it?

Original Mike said...

I believe lonejustice has declared himself a retired prosecutor, or some other DOJ official (please correct me with your exact position if I'm wrong, lonejustice). Isn't it dismaying, though hardly surprising in our current world, to see such dishonesty in such a person?

Drago said...

Original Mike: "Isn't it dismaying, though hardly surprising in our current world, to see such dishonesty in such a person?"

Your initial operating assumption in dealing with "LLR's" should always be to expect the pro-democratical least in terms of honesty.

But only always.

Rusty said...

Original Mike said...
"I believe lonejustice has declared himself a retired prosecutor, or some other DOJ official (please correct me with your exact position if I'm wrong, lonejustice). Isn't it dismaying, though hardly surprising in our current world, to see such dishonesty in such a person?"
A former prosecutor. Really? You'd think he'd be more intelligent.

mikee said...

Parody being a protected fair use of previous art, any complaints will achieve nothing other than virtue signalling.