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Fresh off a post-election Twitter rant about President Obamas re-election, Donald Trump is raising more eyebrows with his latest ad for Macys department store.
In the ad, featuring other Macys brand personalities including Taylor Swift and Martha Stewart, Trump interacts with movie clips of Edmund Gwenn, who played Kris Kringle in the classic film Miracle on 34th Street. Trump, who demanded to see President Obamas birth certificate and college transcripts, plays the role of the skeptic, questioning whether Santa Claus is real or not, the New York Times reported.
Trump reportedly asks Gwenns character, Whats with the get-up Kris? Gwenn responds that he is Santa Claus, prompting Trump to insist, Let me see for myself, then yanks on the actors beard.
Although Martine Reardon, the chief marketing officer for Macys, told the Times that Trump was given the role because he typically delivers the one-liners in the holiday ads, using the businessmans birtherism as a joke could backfire. A petition circulated by MoveOn.org pushing for the store to Dump Trump had gathered nearly 19,000 signatures by Saturday.
http://tv.msnbc.com/2012/11/10/macys-birther-trump-ad-prompts-petition/
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