Mexican TV Network Uses Trump to Hype Soccer Showdown With U.S.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/10/world/americas/mexican-tv-network-uses-trump-to-hype-soccer-showdown-with-us.html

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Seeking to promote its broadcast of an important soccer match between the United States and Mexico next month, a Mexican television network has remixed Donald J. Trump’s comments about the death of the American dream into a commercial mocking the chances of the United States team.

The ad, produced by TV Azteca ahead of a one-game playoff between the two nations on Oct. 10 for a place in the next Confederations Cup, uses excerpts from Mr. Trump’s remarks when he announced his candidacy for president in June. “Sadly, the American dream is dead,” he said that day, when he also suggested that many Mexican migrants to the United States were drug users and rapists.

Those comments earned Mr. Trump infamy across Mexico, and the new ad seeks to channel that distaste for the man seen as the quintessential ugly American as a way to stir nationalist passions ahead of the game.