Lincoln Project ad looks to spook Donald Trump, says ‘rats’ are all around him
Former President Donald Trump appears in court for his arraignment, Tuesday, April 4, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Steven Hirsch via Pool)

Trump Indictment
Rats! The Lincoln Project has a birthday gift for Donald Trump.

For his birthday, Donald Trump is getting something from The Lincoln Project aimed at getting under his skin.

Rats is the new spot the MAGA-skewering political action committee is airing on the Fox News channel covering the Bedminster, New Jersey, market where the former President is now holed up. Alas, even in his summer haven’s stately halls, there’s no escaping the garbage-feasting rodents, the one-minute advertisement tells him.

“So many rats, Donald,” the woman narrator intones, after Special Prosecutor Jack Smith is pictured announcing the federal felony charges Trump was arraigned for the day before. Smith fades into a dark picture showing the outline of a writhing band of rodents and the narrator’s voice drops to a whisper: “They’re everywhere.”

The theme of betrayal is played up as shots of the teeming rats turn into quick flashes of familiar figures from Trump’s world: Attorney General Bill Barr, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Senior Advisor Stephen Miller.

“So many people turning on you, after all you’ve done for them,” the narrator says, in a normal voice. But then she reverts to a whisper, “Stabbed you in the back.”

The ad continues by arguing the people around Trump are lying to him while making deals with prosecutors, showing flashing images of his legal tormentors Smith, Fulton County Prosecutor Fani Willis and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

The ad will run multiple times a day for several more days, covering Trump’s birthday celebrations that might stretch into the weekend, a spokesman from The Lincoln Project said.

The spot’s background tinkling music continues, as does the appeal to the Aggrieved-in-Chief.

“It’s hard to know who to trust,” the narrator says, after pointing out that all owe Trump for making their careers and fortunes.

Then, the voice drops again to a whisper, “Snitches.”

All are watching Trump and are potential informants, the narrator tells Trump.

“Even your family,” the whisperer says.

All that’s left is him and the rats. “So. Many. Rats.”

Anne Geggis

Anne Geggis is a South Florida journalist who began her career in Vermont and has worked at the Sun-Sentinel, the Daytona Beach News-Journal and the Gainesville Sun covering government issues, health and education. She was a member of the Sun-Sentinel team that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Parkland high school shooting. You can reach her on Twitter @AnneBoca or by emailing [email protected].


7 comments

  • Thomas Kaspar

    June 14, 2023 at 2:59 pm

    Who would want to side with cofounder of Lincoln Project John Weaver ?

    • Dont Say FLA

      June 14, 2023 at 3:12 pm

      Casey, if her plan to land Elon Musk falls as short as Rhonda.

  • PeterH

    June 14, 2023 at 3:17 pm

    …. And the rats carry diseases Donnie …… make sure your overpaid criminal valet, Walt Nauta ….. has plenty of hand sanitizer!

  • Earl Pitts American

    June 14, 2023 at 3:53 pm

    Good afternoon America,

    Dook 4 brains nuttless RINO Lincoln Project Members are trying to spook The Donald – HA HA HA HA HA HA HA… 10 minutes pass …HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.

    Thank you America,
    Earl Pitts American

    • Elliott Offen

      June 14, 2023 at 4:18 pm

      He’s cooked his goose, roasted his duck, fried his chicken, baked his quail, and smoked his turkey you retarded harasser. You’re a pro crime sociopath and you gonna get a SMACK on of these days I know the type.

    • Florida Is Bereft If Dignity,

      June 15, 2023 at 4:32 am

      Dumb Qristian Dimmy45 is 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩 hit pull-ups.

      Casey is as well, Ron is off to a California jail cell for trafficking.

      • Dont Say FLA

        June 15, 2023 at 7:50 am

        How does the “They’re coming after you, so they arrested me for the things I did” line even work?

        I didn’t rob the bank.

        I didn’t play a shell game hiding classified documents including nuclear secrets and war plans.

        I didn’t kidnap & traffic migrants. Thrice and counting.

        Why would Trump and Rhonda say the feds are coming after ME for the shit Trump and Rhonda did?

        Why would I believe those two any more than I would believe the bank robber if the bank robber says the police are coming after me for the bank robbery? I didn’t even drive the getaway car. I don’t know anyone involved. I only bank at another branch of the same bank but in a different state!

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