Trump Believes Goya Makes Good Politics

[left-of-center2012]

The Trump campaign seems to think that if it’s Goya Foods, it’s good politics, releasing new Spanish-language ads on the controversy involving the brand.

After the New Jersey-based company’s CEO, Robert Unanue, said the U.S. was “truly blessed” to have Trump as president, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, former HUD Secretary Julián Castro and composer Lin-Manuel Miranda, among others, called for a boycott, leading Trump supporters to counter by calling for people to buy more Goya.

President Trump's re-election campaign has spent $4.9 million on television and radio ads in nine states through Friday, with the lion's share in Florida.

In a TV ad airing in Florida, popular Cuban actress Susana Pérez says, in Spanish with subtitles in English, “The left has launched a smear campaign against Goya, the brand we love, simply because Goya is working with President Trump ..." A similar radio ad features a woman telling her friend that “the Democrats didn’t like that the company’s CEO met with Trump and now they want to shut down Goya.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-22/trump-remains-socially-distant-from-fauci-campaign-update?srnd=politics-vp

[dchill]

1. How do you spell "tone deaf?"

[Moostache]

4. I'll take history's greatest imbeciles for $1,000, Alex...

This man is widely recognized as the worst of America's 45 presidents and also known for his tone deaf pronouncements...

"Who is Trump?"

Correct...choose again!

[Moostache]

2. I will consciously avoid EVER buying anything "Goya" forever. (n/t)

[NCjack]

6. I'm a NeverTrumper and NeverGoya'r

[Under The Radar]

3. It is just a distraction tactic. He knows it is wrong but needs a diversion from COVID-19

[TheBlackAdder]

5. Goya -- Isn't that Jared's pet Yiddish nickname for Ivanka?

[tanyev]

7. I predict GOYA is going to learn ETTD first hand.

Oh, there might some Trump humpers checking out the brand that never bought it before, but they won’t keep coming back. GOYA doesn’t make the kind of food they like to eat and all those Spanish words on the packaging has to make them angry.