Trump Facebook Ads Use Models

July 3, 2019 5:54 am

NEW YORK (AP) – A recent series of Facebook video ads for President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign is using models to portray actual supporters.  The ads show a young woman on a beach in Florida, a Hispanic man on a city street in Texas and a bearded hipster in a coffee shop in Washington, D.C., all making glowing, voice-over endorsements of the president.  But the people in the videos are actually models in stock footage produced in France, Brazil and Turkey, and available to anyone for a fee.  Though the videos include a disclaimer that says “actual testimonial, actor portrayal,” they raise the question why a campaign that can fill arenas with supporters would have to buy stock footage of models to portray them.  Trump’s campaign did not respond to requests for comment.