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Women's Group To Troll Trump During Bedminster Visit This Weekend

UltraViolet, a women's advocacy group, will use a digital truck billboard and Snapchat to show "Abortion Access is More Popular than Trump."

BEDMINSTER, NJ — Not everyone is happy with President Donald Trump's impending visit to the Trump National Golf Course in Bedminster this weekend.

Beginning on Thursday night, UltraViolet — a women's advocacy group — will promote its “More Popular Than Trump” campaign by saturating the Bedminster media market with all things that are more popular than Trump.

“Since Donald Trump is so obsessed with his own ratings and popularity, prioritizing them over issues that actually impact the American people, we could think of no better way of trolling him than surrounding his golf course where he’ll vacation all summer with a clear message: America rejects Trump and his agenda,” said Shaunna Thomas, co-founder of UltraViolet. “Among the many things that are more popular than Trump are abortion access, the Affordable Care Act and policies that would guarantee paid family leave for employees more than they support the President. After countless weekends vacationing at his many golf clubs, we hope this ad campaign let's Trump know — that even as he hides in Bedminster — he’s still not popular.”

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The campaign will run through Monday, May 8, where UltraViolet has commissioned a digital truck billboard to circle Bedminster declaring “Abortion Access is More Popular than Trump.”

The campaign will then continue all summer-long during each of Trump's visits to Bedminster and will feature TV ads, standing billboards along the motorcade route, and snapchat filters pointing out that things like the Affordable Care Act, abortion access, paid family leave and even the infamous band Nickelback are more popular than the president.

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Starting on Thursday night, the digital billboards will be on I-78, to troll Trump as he heads from New York City to Bedminster. See the digital billboard ads by CLICKING HERE.

UltraViolet has also commissioned a Snapchat filter that will be available for use at Trump Bedminster golf club. The filter points out that abortion access is more popular than Donald Trump. See the Snapchat filter by CLICKING HERE.

Ultra Violet's campaign kicked off in Palm Beach in March, as Trump visited his Mar-A-Lago country club. At the time UltraViolet placed billboards around Palm Beach, flew planes and took out newspaper ads in Washington, D.C., and Snapchat filters at Trump rallies with the same “More Popular Than Trump” theme.

(Image via UltraViolet: An ad that will be displayed on a digital truck billboard that will circle Bedminster beginning Thursday night through Monday during Trump's visit.)

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