rumitoid

President Donald Trump’s campaign was caught again engaging in the careless use of stock photos, this time posting an image of Russian fighter jets in a “support our troops” ad.

The ad from Trump’s fundraising committee ran Sept. 8-12, including on the 19th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Politico reported. It said “SUPPORT OUR TROOPS” and depicted soldiers in silhouette in the foreground with aircraft behind them.

But the aircraft are Russian.

“That’s definitely a MiG-29,” Pierre Sprey, who helped design both the F-16 and A-10 planes for the U.S. Air Force, told Politico. “I’m glad to see it’s supporting our troops.”

Trump and his campaign have had repeated issues with misusing stock images over the years. In 2015, early in his p**********l campaign, Trump shared an image of himself with troops inside the U.S. f**g, except the troops in the image were N**i soldiers from WWII.

In 2016, Trump posted a video supposedly showing U.S. military veterans, only the video was from a neo-N**i account on Twitter and the troops were Soviets.

The stock photo flubs go beyond military issues. Earlier this year, then-campaign manager Brad Parscale shared an image supposedly of Air Force One flying over a NASCAR event; the image was really from 2004.

An attempt by the Trump campaign in 2016 to show undocumented immigrants swarming over the U.S. border actually revealed migrants crossing a border in Morocco. And last year, Trump campaign ads that intended to look like testimonials from real Americans featured foreign models from stock photos.

Ed Mazza
HuffPost September 15, 2020, 1:06 AM MDT
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/trump-russian-jets-ad-070607325.html

Smedley_buzkill

Try again. The F-15 and the MiG 29 are quite similar. More than similar enough to convince someone who h**es Trump that one is the other. Any suggestion is apparently evidence enough. At any rate, do you ACTUALLY THINK that ANY president personally approves all these ads? Even if some ad jockey made a mistake, how is that Trump's fault?
I have looked at the pics and I think that the jets are F-15s. They are very similar to the MiG 29, and wishing they were indeed MiG 29s can cover all sorts of discrepancies in the mind of the wisher.

rumitoid

Unreal. Did you read the whole article of the many avoidable flubs by the WH? And I never said the president had anything to do with it. But Trump and those around him have a careless disregard for facts and do not focus. A little research for t***h appears to take too much effort. Say, like ask one of his Air Force generals. A few seconds.

I wouldn't know a MiG 29 from the Wrights brother's first plane. It does not take h**e to read an article pointing out the mistake. No wishes it was so because it is just so.

Jlw Loc: Wisconsin

How about biden s countless flubs