New Harris Ad Attacks Trump’s ‘Horrible City’ Milwaukee Comment
'Milwaukee vs Trump', voiced by Doc Rivers, will air during Sunday's Green Bay Packers game.
A screenshot of ‘Milwaukee vs Trump’ Harris for President ad
“In this town, we’ve seen our share of hard times, heard our share of big promises.“
Milwaukee Bucks coach Doc Rivers is the voice behind a new Harris for President ad that will air in the Milwaukee media market starting during Sunday’s Green Bay Packers game.
The ad, “Milwaukee vs Trump,” was first released exclusively to Urban Milwaukee. It hammers Donald Trump for his “up to 13,000 jobs” pledge about Foxconn and his more recent “horrible city” comment about Milwaukee.
“Empty promises don’t build cities; we do with grit, sweat and cold beer,” says Rivers.
The Racine County Foxconn plant, which Trump called the “Eighth Wonder of the World” during its 2018 groundbreaking, has only delivered approximately 1,000 jobs and has been largely supplanted by a Microsoft data Center.
Much more recently, Trump was said by many to have called Milwaukee a “horrible city” during a June meeting with House Republicans. Multiple members of Wisconsin’s congressional delegation who were present for the meeting didn’t deny the former president made the remark, only that it was about crime or elections. Trump himself didn’t deny that he said it initially. “I think it was very clear what I meant. I said we are very concerned with crime,” he told Fox News. Then he started denying it later in the day.
“We know talk is all he’s got,” says Rivers, who has endorsed Kamala Harris and appeared alongside her husband at a campaign rally Thursday. He cochairs Athletes for Harris. River has known Harris since He was the coach of the Los Angeles Clippers and she was California’s attorney general.
“This is what we’ve got,” says Rivers. The closing shots of the 30-second commercial are of the lakefront and Giannis Antetokounmpo holding up NBA Finals MVP trophy at the 2021 celebration event.
Rivers, who has only been the Bucks coach since January, has an extensive history with the Cream City. He played three years of college basketball for Marquette University before embarking on a 14-year NBA career. His now ex-wife is a native of the Milwaukee area.
“Under Trump’s watch, Wisconsin lost 6,000 manufacturing jobs and over 120,000 jobs in total,” said a campaign representative to Urban Milwaukee. “If Trump gets a second term, his Project 2025 agenda would place a nearly $4,000 a year sales tax on everyday goods and ship thousands of jobs overseas while doling out tax breaks for the ultra wealthy.”
Rivers won the 2008 NBA title while coach of the Boston Celtics. On Saturday, the team’s starting center, Kendrick Perkins, was in Mequon for a Hoop It Up To Vote event and endorsed Harris. Perkins is now an ESPN commentator.
The commercial is expected to run on Fox Sports, CBS Sports, Sling and other advertising platforms.
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“If Trump gets a second term, his Project 2025 agenda would place a nearly $4,000 a year sales tax on everyday goods and ship thousands of jobs overseas while doling out tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy.”
You may have important issues, but when you mislead – you lose creditability and votes.
Did Master Lock move their factory to Mexico? What would have happened if a cost was associated with moving factories out of the country? Are you talking about a TARIFF or a sales tax?
How does a TARIFF help the ultra-wealthy? Who got rich when production was moved to the cheapest location? Ask those who worked at Master Lock what happened to their paychecks when the factory was closed down. Federal tax dollars were “given” (not a low-interest loan) to Harley Davidson to develop battery motorcycles. Harley-Davidson is moving part of its production to Thailand. (Ford Rangers purchased by the US Government to equip the Afghan National Army were also made in Thailand.)
The higher levels in Master Lock or Harley Davidson, did their wages go down? What happened to the people working on the factory floor? How long do you get unemployment when the factory moves to another country?
Was there a problem with lead pipes Detroit? Detroit – In 2024, there were 804 non-fatal shootings in Detroit and 252 Homicides. Milwaukee lead pipes and non-fatal shooting 2023 838 and 169 homicides. Do these sound positive? What about graduation rates? I like Milwaukee. But, I do believe there are problems and room for improvement.
It is scary to believe that everything is perfect. Let’s not talk about the problems, let’s not find solutions, let’s not hold people accountable. AGAIN IT IS SCARY TO BELIEVE THAT EVERYTHING IS PERFECT. WE NEED TO FIND SOLUTIONS, not put our heads in the sand and talk about how great everything is.
Should I talk about the drug problem, or MS 13, or human trafficking, or . . . the national debt?
There are problems, and the answer is to find solutions. So, what is being proposed? Both parties seem to spend their time sending me messages asking for money.
Where are the articles on how Representative Fitzgerald votes in Congress? Where is the reporting on what our Senators are doing? How did the Superintendent of the Milwaukee Public Schools earn more than $300,000 a year with a graduation rate of . . . It would be great if the paper went out to UWM and allowed Journalism Students to write factual stories about what is happening in Congress. Who owns all of the newspapers? What hedge fund?
Two hedge funds own three of the most essential newspaper chains in the United States. Over half of the 1,326 dailies in the top 10 chains are owned or influenced by hedge funds or private equity firms. As newspapers close, local corruption increases along with political polarization and voter apathy.
I have to get back to work. Can’t help but wonder?
Good to see an ad about the Foxconn boondoggle. Most Republicans in the past 5-10 years have objected to selling American farmland to foreign countries. The “eighth wonder of the world?.” Hardly. Not a peep out of them about selling 1,200 acres to a China based company…as will as giving them $3 billion in taxpayer money to do so (whether it was in cash or in tax credits). And of course, TRUMP stood there with that “oh look at what a good boy am I” expression when he used his pretty golden shovel along side other Republicans like Scott Walker to dig into American soil. Does that mean that they (again) flippy flopped on a subject they stand for…or was there a personal incentive to sell the US to another country for their own political or monetary gains?
One thought that doesn’t make me too happy is that a tariff could lead to other countries simply buying factors in the United States.
Who owns the Miller Brewery? The New York Military High School, which former President Trump attended, was purchased by a Chinese Company.
As pointed out, there is Foxcom. Why does the United States have to beg a Chinese (Taiwan) to come to the United States and build a plant to make flat screens? We don’t have anyone in the United States that is smart enough to build a flat screen?
The Republicans in State Government don’t believe that we need to spend more money on Engineering Schools.
Sad!