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‘America is great! Trump is disgusting’ message appears in California sky
Skywriters scrawled a message for Republican front-runner Donald Trump over Friday’s Rose Bowl Parade. “America is great! Trump is disgusting” was written out in skywriting for onlookers. “He’s a despicable man”.
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The messages pointed people to a website “anybodybuttrump.us”, from the Tuscaloosa-based group “We the People Foundation” that’s directed by Pate. Similar messages flew over other bowl games, too – Sugar, Orange and Cotton.
“If we’ve learned anything from Donald Trump in the last nine months its the value of earned media – of free press – and how to manage that, how to manipulate that, how to take advantage of that”.
On Friday a message in the sky read, ‘America is great.
Daut reached out to the Trump campaign for a comment but he did not hear back.
Thompson said that Pate was not new to this kind of messaging, having called for Alabama Gov. Bob Riley’s impeachment through a banner over an Alabama-Texas football game in 2010.
Political campaigning continued even after the parade, when a papier-mâché float resembling Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders rolled down Colorado Boulevard. In an interview later that year, Pate said the banners cost him “a few thousand dollars”, adding “people are still talking about it”.
Pate said he could see himself voting for Hillary Clinton but hasn’t decided yet.
His New Year’s Day assault on Trump is also not the first time that Pate has used a public event to express his opinion on the Republican presidential candidate.
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The backlash against Donald Trump has taken to the air, with the GOP front runner’s opponents skywriting messages attacking the billionaire mogul.