Lincoln Ad Roasts Trump and Republicans in New Ad about His Cognitive Decline

The Lincoln Project, a prominent anti-Trump Republican political action committee, released a devastating ad which efficiently humiliated both the former President and a roster of Republican officials and conservative commentators in about 60 seconds.

The topic of the ad concerned Trump’s cognitive decline, an increasingly visible—and discussed, at last—element of his reelection campaign.

The ad begins with a recent clip of irritated Trump ally Sean Hannity attempting to do damage control about Trump’s mental state: “I can tell you he’s as sharp now as he was when I first met him 30 years ago!”

This immediately transitioned into a recent clip of Trump telling the crowd that he “won an election” against former president Barack Obama.

Trump, in fact, won an election in 2016 against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is famously not Obama.

You can imagine the pattern of the next 60 seconds: each boast from various right wing figures, including Hannity and Republican Congresspeople Ronny Jackson and Nancy Mace, was refuted in turn by Trump’s own words.

Some of the gaffes the Lincoln Project referenced included Trump’s confusion of Obama with President Joe Biden; Trump’s confusion of Jeb Bush with his older brother, President George W. Bush; Trump’s confusion of Sioux City, Iowa with Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and Trump declaring Biden will trigger a second world war, forgetting that World War II concluded in 1945.

President Biden’s numerous gaffes have been a weakness exploited by right wing critics and Republican rivals. Despite Trump’s own history of verbal blunders, Democrats, their allies, and Trump’s Republican primary opponents have been slow to draw attention to them.

In recent weeks, however, both Democrats and Republican challenger Ron DeSantis have stepped up attacks on Trump’s mental fitness.

A September poll found that nearly ¾ of Americans consider the President too old to be reelected whereas 50% believe the same of Trump.

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