Multiple planes have taken to the skies in California to lampoon US presidential hopeful Donald Trump in a series of skywriting messages, including: “America is great! Trump is disgusting.”
Six skywriting planes were used in the anti-Trump stunt above the annual Rose Parade in Pasadena.
Other messages hitting out at Mr Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican nomination for the White House, included: “Anybody but Trump,” “Trump loves to hate” and “Trump is delusional.”
Skywriting company AirSign claimed credit for the stunt, and CBS News said an Alabama businessman, Stan Pate, was behind the airborne protest.
A CBS reporter interviewed Mr Pate after the parade, who said he considered the billionaire candidate to be despicable, and that “this is just the start”.
Mr Pate said he had paid for anti-Trump messages at the recent Cotton Bowl, Sugar Bowl and Orange Bowl college football games.
“Other candidates can’t get in the gutter with him,” Mr Pate said.
“I can and I will if that’s where he wants to continue to go.”
CBS reported Mr Pate, who like Mr Trump is a real estate developer, has donated to Democratic and Republican candidates in the past.
In the current primary campaign leading up to the November 2016 presidential election, he has contributed to the campaign of Republican White House hopeful Marco Rubio.
The images have proved popular on social media, with one user tweeting the messages were “the greatest use of skywriting ever at the Rose Parade” and saying that witnesses were cheering.
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Probably not a popular opinion, but I partially blame the over politically correct nature that our society is leaning towards, for Trumps popularity.
It seems like people are a little tired of the same bland rhetoric that a)fails to achieve anything and b)restricts "perceived" personal freedom by censoring out a lot of th unsavoury opinions, and those that are aired are called racist/bigoted.
Trump appeals to a lot of people, and you have to ask yourself why? He doesn't have charisma, he's not trustworthy (ok granted no pollies are)...he's not likeable, but the masses are going for him. I think people are sick of walking on eggshells in fear of outraging and offending others. I think they want someone who will at least say what he is thinking. I think people are sick of feeling like America, the "lucky" country, is going down the tube, and they'll cling to anyone who promises to restore it. Trumps draw card is the same "hope" people voted Obama in for , Trump has just repackaged it.
There's really not many good options this time...,maybe Rubio/Carson? It looks like a Clinton/Trump standoff to me. Whichever of those two who win, it's going to be ugly and scary regardless. I'm worried for my grandchildren.
It's handy for Bush. If Donald Trump wasn't carrying on like a pork chop, and hogging anti-Repubs' attention, they'd have to rely on Cruz's "machine gun bacon" to hold the attention. Meanwhile, Jeb doesn't have to work so hard on an exhaustively long campaign (he's under less scrutiny) and there's no voters' fatigue from overexposure. Election time, he's fresh and working more up-to-date policies than those who've had to be spruiking all along.