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President Donald Trump did not take kindly to a new political ad put forth by a group of anti-Trump Republican operatives that calls themselves The Lincoln Group, leading to a flurry of 1 a.m. tweets that included a number of personal and playground taunts.
The 60-second spot was published yesterday and paints the White House reaction to the coronavirus pandemic in the least charitable way. It opens with the phrase “It’s mourning in America,” which is a play off of President Ronald Reagan’s famous television spot in 1984 which opened with “It’s morning in America.”
Trump dismissed the group behind the spot as “a group of RINO Republicans who failed badly 12 years ago, then again 8 years ago, and then got BADLY beaten by me, a political first-timer, 4 years ago,” before claiming they had “no imagination” by copying Reagan’s famous line.
What follows is not so much a defense of his own leadership amid a coronavirus outbreak that has,
Trump’s resolution to “They’re all LOSERS” sort of sums up his political position on this, but he also took a particular hit at George Conway, husband to White House adviser Kellyanne Conway. “I don’t know what Kellyanne did to her deranged loser of a husband, Moonface, but it must have been really bad.”
Moonface “is a medical sign in which the face develops a rounded appearance due to fat deposits on the sides of the face.”