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(144,167 posts) Mon Dec 23, 2024, 03:49 AM Monday

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

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/

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'We're going to advertise how bad drugs are for you': Trump vows to launch anti-drug campaign (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Monday OP

So he's going to put huge warnings on packs of cigarettes? mahatmakanejeeves Monday #1

Ladies, you won't look pretty iwillalwayswonderwhy Monday #2

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

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

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

Plus Gaetz? vapor2 Monday #18

Which drugs make you look like an Oompa Loompa? Astraea Monday #6

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

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

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

Are we sure he doesn't mean medicine? JohnnyRingo Monday #10

This would be a good effort SCantiGOP Monday #11

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

Will he enlist Juniors or Gaetz to help in this ? republianmushroom Monday #13

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

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

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

Well, he _is_ speaking from personal experience. nilram Monday #17

mahatmakanejeeves

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