In a brilliant move by Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, her campaign has turned to the iconic 1964 “Daisy” ad to cast doubt on Republican Presidential candidate, Donald Trump’s, ability to handle nuclear weapons.
Monique Corzilius Luiz, the original “daisy girl” from the Lyndon B. Johnson campaign ad, appears in Clinton’s new ad and helps drive home the idea that Trump is entirely too unstable to have any handle on nuclear warheads. Luiz states:
“This was me in 1964. The fear of nuclear war that we had as children, I never thought our children would ever have to deal with that again. And to see that coming forward in this election is really scary.”
Though the original ad only aired once in 1964, the implications it presented that steered America’s fear of a Goldwater presidency took to the media like wildfire. Hillary Clinton is making the same statement about Trump.
During this tumultuous election, Trump has shown that he not only holds little to no understanding of military policies and strategy, but he has also pushed nuclear war as a solution to international policies. Trump went on record when talking to Joe Scarborough about nuclear war, saying:
“I want to be unpredictable.”
Unpredictability is not the kind of trait you want to have in the person with their finger on the button of a nuclear arsenal. Though the Trump campaign shrugs the ad off as a desperate attempt to shift the media’s attention, over 50 of his own party members, believe that putting Trump in the Oval Office would mean putting America at risk.
On top of all of the damning evidence to Trump’s inability to be trusted with any weapon let alone a nuclear one, in October, ten former nuclear launch control officers signed an open letter stating:
“Donald Trump should not be the nation’s commander-in-chief. He should not be entrusted with the nuclear launch codes. He should not have his finger on the button.”
It is very clear that Donald Trump would be an extremely dangerous and unpredictable dictator in the Oval Office and this new ad brings the threat of nuclear war to our doorsteps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYvF1FtoZu4
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