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Trump Will Have a Full Blown Mental Breakdown When He Sees Rep. Eric Swalwell’s Newest Ad

Eric Swalwell has a different idea of what kid of house Trump belongs in.

You know those times after you’ve been in an argument with someone, and it’s like, an hour later and suddenly your brain comes up with the perfect thing that you SHOULD have said to them at the time?

As it turns out, some of us don’t suffer that curse. Some of us, in fact, think of the perfect thing to say right in the moment. And one of the most famous people like that is Eric Swalwell, the 43-year-old Democratic Congressman from California’s 14th District.

Only Swalwell, notorious for trolling Trump specifically, isn’t just good at coming up with his own comebacks. He’s good at coming up with the stuff we wish we’d thought of ourselves. And while this particular instance isn’t something nobody’s said before — since it’s rooted in reality, and we all observe things like this about Trump every day — this IS the first time someone’s turned it into a campaign ad.

The new ad makes me wonder what Swalwell is watching on late night TV. Everyone knows that they show commercials for gold on Fox News, they show commercials for Depends™ during the ad breaks for Murder, She Wrote, and they show that nursing home commercial advertising “A Place For Mom” in two places: The Hallmark Channel and during episodes of shows that middle-aged guys watch right when they’re starting to get tired of their in-laws being crazy old coots.

It’s that last commercial that Swalwell saw that inspired his own ad spot. How do I know? Because the spot is literally called “A Place For Trump,” and it’s about putting the elderly fascist into a nursing home.

It’s a timely joke, since talk about Trump’s cognitive decline has never been more common. His verbal gaffes, confusion, and angry outbursts are at an all-time high, suggesting some serious mental impairment issues, if not outright dementia.

If you already have the “Sure, Grandma” meme in your head, you’re on the right track. If not, let me help you out:

Swalwell’s ad is far more clever than that, though. He intersperses actual quotes of Trump’s real statements with an Oscar-worthy performance of a family who has to live with Grandpa Trump as he grows increasingly crazier. The actor who plays Trump delivers real, honest-to-God verbatim quotes as just plain conversational statements, and it’s hilarious.

Mind you, a lot of the hilarity in this ad comes from just knowing that the quotes Swalwell picked for the ad are real. One in particular about “Big, massive dumps” was my cell phone ringtone for like a year because it’s so funny.

Anyway, here’s the ad. See if you can spot the one part of this that’s fake:

YouTube video

JUST KIDDING. Nothing but the acting is fake. One more time: All of the quotes are real. Everything you see the actor playing Trump saying in this video is a thing that the actual Donald Trump said, including that thing about windmills driving whales “batty.”

But it’s the end of the ad that really does it for me. The narrator is ready to wrap things up, and she does the standard commercial call to action. But instead of “buy our product,” she tells you that you know what to do.

“So this November, let’s vote to put him in… A Place For Trump. Because we all know he belongs in a home. Just not this one,” she says, as the picture switches to the White House.

Eric Swalwell wins the campaign ad cycle this year.

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Andrew is a dark blue speck in deep red Central Washington, writing with the conviction of 18 years at the keyboard and too much politics to even stand. When not furiously stabbing the keys on breaking news stories, he writes poetry, prose, essays, haiku, lectures, stories for grief therapy, wedding ceremonies, detailed instructions on making doughnuts from canned biscuit dough (more sugar than cinnamon — duh), and equations to determine the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow. A girlfriend, a dog, two cats, and two birds round out the equation, and in his spare time, Drewbear likes to imagine what it must be like to have spare time.

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