'We're going to advertise how bad drugs are for you': Trump vows to launch anti-drug campaign

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: USA Today

Published 3:55 p.m. ET Dec. 22, 2024 | Updated 3:55 p.m. ET Dec. 22, 2024


President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday he will launch a new anti-drug advertising campaign to show the physical impact of taking drugs like fentanyl and repeated his threat to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations.

"We're going to advertise how bad drugs are for you. They ruin your look, they ruin your face, they ruin your skin, they ruin your teeth," Trump said at a conference of the conservative group Turning Point in Phoenix, Arizona.

Trump gave few concrete details about the ad campaign, which he does not appear to have mentioned before and that he likened to running a political campaign. He said his administration would spend "a lot of money" on the program but that it would be a "very small amount of money, relatively." The Trump transition team did not respond to a request for further information.

Trump's plan has echoes of the "Just Say No" anti-drug campaign, led by Republican former first lady Nancy Reagan in the 1980s to encourage young Americans to refuse drugs.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/12/22/trump-anti-drug-ads-cartels-terrorists/77155314007/

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. So he's going to put huge warnings on packs of cigarettes?

No more tobacco branding at NASCAR races?

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

2. Ladies, you won't look pretty

That’s the most important thing, right?

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Item #1: Fentanyl: You won't look ugly. You'll look dead. Big difference.

Item #2: Look in your own household:

[eShirl]

4. I want to avoid whatever drugs TSF has been on.

[tanyev]

5. LOL, you gonna make Elon and Don Jr. the poster boys?

[vapor2]

18. Plus Gaetz?

[Astraea]

6. Which drugs make you look like an Oompa Loompa?

Those are the ones I want to steer clear of.

[IcyPeas]

7. Drugs bad... just ask Matt Gaetz who donald wanted as attny general.

[Aristus]

8. He's obviously not concerned that "Just Say No" made Nancy Reagan look like a clown.

After all, he’s already a clown.

[Jack Valentino]

9. They going to print "this is your mind on drugs" T-shirts with Trump's picture on them??

[JohnnyRingo]

10. Are we sure he doesn't mean medicine?

Kennedy might be behind this with Musk throwing in to end Medicare. haha

[SCantiGOP]

11. This would be a good effort

for Matt Gaetz to lead.

[usonian]

12. The "war on drugs" led to selective persecution of minorities.

"Almost" as if it was the true intent.

Hint: IT WAS.

No new ideas from the party of racism.

The rich are exempt.

[republianmushroom]

13. Will he enlist Juniors or Gaetz to help in this ?

[SunSeeker]

14. That will kinda clash with RFK Jr claiming heroin helped him in college. nt

[jvill]

15. So, like what the US did in the 80s but failed spectacularly? This is MAGA? Seems stupid and wasteful.

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[LudwigPastorius]

16. Does that include crushed and powdered Adderall, Mr. Sniffy?

I mean, "President-elect Sniffy".

[nilram]

17. Well, he _is_ speaking from personal experience.

"They ruin your look, they ruin your face, they ruin your skin, they ruin your teeth" ...

Sometimes it's good to have a negative role model.