Trump’s 1980s newspaper ads are being vindicated, administration official says during Lansing tour
U.S. Small Business Administration Administrator Kelly Loeffler wants you to remember the ads that President Donald Trump put in newspapers in the 1980s. No, not the 1989 ads in which Trump called for the return of the death penalty in response to false accusations against the since-exonerated Central Park Five. Loeffler was instead referring to a newspaper ad from 1987, in which Trump criticized Japan and pushed for tariffs from allies in the context of a Iran-Iraq flare-up involving oil shipping in the Middle East, which prompted American military convoys to escort tankers from Kuwait and included U.S. military strikes against Iranian oil platforms.
