WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s first television campaign ad features dark images of the San Bernardino shooters, body bags, and images of masked men and sets a tone of unapologetic strength.
The ad is the billionaire businessman’s first foray into the world of television advertising after spending 2015 dominating polls and headlines while largely avoiding major spending.
“The politicians can pretend it’s something else. But Donald Trump calls it radical Islamic terrorism. That’s why he’s calling for a temporary shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until we can figure out what’s going on,” a narrator says.
The ad continues by saying that Trump will “quickly cut the head off ISIS and take their oil,” using an acronym for the Islamic State group. “He’ll stop illegal immigrants by building a wall on our southern border that Mexico will pay for.”
It ends with Trump, at one of his rallies, vowing to “make America great again.”
The ad will begin airing in Iowa and New Hampshire on Tuesday, Trump’s campaign said in a statement.