Former President Donald Trump’s campaign featured Georgia’s beautiful mountain ranges in a new campaign ad.
The only problem was that the footage was from Georgia.
The Telegraph was first to report that the campaign confused Georgians and used a stock photo showing the views in Upper Svaneti, in the Caucasus Mountains in northwestern Georgia – the view in Europe.
“ATTENTION Georgia: I humbly ask you to stop what you are doing and check your voter registration status,” read a sponsored Trump post. “Only a handful of votes will decide this election. We can stop inflation, secure our borders, cut taxes, and make America great again!”
The ad then read, “Register to vote Trump,” with a scenic view of the mountains.
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign used a photo of Georgia, the country, instead of Georgia, the state, in paid social media ads
The Telegraph was the first to report that the mountains shown in this GOTV ad for Georgia are actually in Georgia, the country
The error comes as former President Donald Trump returned to Georgia on Tuesday to deliver an economic speech in Savannah
Although parts of the Blue Ridge Mountains are part of the state of Georgia, the landscape there looks different.
The ad blunder came as Trump returned to Georgia on Tuesday, where he delivered a speech on the economy in downtown Savannah, a part of the state that leans more Democratic.
The former president still managed to fill the Johnny Mercer Theatre Civic Center with his MAGA fans.
During his 82-minute speech, Trump boasted that his economic plan was aimed at stealing jobs from other countries.
“Under my leadership, we’re going to take other countries’ jobs,” Trump said. “Your only concern is which jobs you’re taking,” he promised his supporters to loud cheers.
Trump said he would entice companies to produce products in the US by threatening them with import duties if they refused.
“I’ll give you the lowest taxes, the lowest energy costs, the lowest regulatory burden, and free access to the best and biggest market on the planet,” he said. “But only if you make your product here in America.”
Former President Donald Trump filled the Johnny Mercer Theatre Civic Center in downtown Savannah, Georgia, with his MAGA loyalists on Tuesday
Harris’ campaign had tapped billionaire Mark Cuban just before Trump’s economic speech, telling reporters via Zoom that the Republican “says things off the top of his head that are often ridiculous, if not insane.”
Cuban then explained why some of Trump’s proposed economic policies wouldn’t work.
During his stop in Savannah, Trump said he wanted German car companies to become American companies. That conversation quickly turned to his distaste for electric cars. He did, however, compliment Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who supported him.
“Elon Musk is great. He makes a great car. And he supported me at a level you wouldn’t believe,” Trump said.
From there, the ex-president warned about the cars of the future: hydrogen vehicles.
“The new thing — and I’m sure Elon will get it if it’s good — but it has one little problem: It explodes,” Trump said. “Hydrogen. “They say the new thing is hydrogen cars. But they have a problem. If it explodes, you’ll end up about seven blocks away and you’ll be dead.”
Trump said he would not allow Japanese company Nippon US Steel of Pittsburgh to buy the company, which is currently under the supervision of a US national security commission.
He then gave an update on the state of affairs surrounding the 2024 race.
Trump boasted that he hosted more events than Harris and that he had won the debate in Philadelphia against Harris earlier this month.
“We are absolutely outpacing the opposition,” the 78-year-old former president said. “She was so bad,” he added of Harris’ debate performance, despite most polls showing her as the clear winner.
“We completely destroyed her,” Trump claimed.
‘He continued to emphasize in his remarks that Harris was not entirely correct.
“We’re talking about cognitive issues. She has bigger cognitive issues than he does,” he said at one point.
“If you saw her the other day with Oprah, or if you saw some of these interviews, there’s something going on up there. We’ve just had four years of that. We can’t have another four years. It’s not going to happen,” Trump said at another point.
The former president also explained how Winfrey, who hosted a Hollywood special for Harris in Michigan last week and spoke at the Democratic National Convention, “loved” him before he entered politics.
Trump told supporters that Winfrey called his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida “the most beautiful place I’ve ever seen” and how the talk show host convinced the real estate developer to hold a funeral for their friend, the late CBS CEO Roger King, in 2007.
“She loved the key lime pie,” Trump said of Winfrey’s time at Mar-a-Lago.
The former president also falsely claimed that Harris had made up stories about her working at a McDonald’s as a college student.
Former President Donald Trump stands beneath the graph he credits with saving his life, as he turned his head to look at it as Butler, Pennsylvania gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks fired his shot. “I sleep with that graph every night. I kiss it. I love it,” Trump said in Savannah
“She lied about McDonald’s. She said, ‘I worked at McDonald’s and I stood over the fries,'” Trump said. “I’m going to go to a McDonald’s for the next two weeks and I’m going to stand over the fries because I want to see what her job really didn’t look like.”
“She never worked there, it was a lie,” he told the crowd.
He thought long about the two attempts on his life.
Trump credited God for his rescue in Butler, Pennsylvania, and said of West Palm Beach, “I’m telling you, God was looking at that, too.”
The former president also referred to the immigration card he saw in Butler when gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks fired his shot.
“I sleep with that card every night. I kiss it. I love it,” he said.
The audience cheered when the graph was shown.