Trump campaign confuses key swing state for a country in ad blunder

Former President Donald Trump's campaign depicted Georgia's beautiful mountain ranges in a new campaign ad. 

The only problem - they were visuals from the country of Georgia. 

The Telegraph first reported that the campaign confused the Georgias and used a stock image that depicted the views in Upper Svanetic, in the Caucasus mountain range of northwestern Georgia - the one in Europe. 

'ATTENTION Georgia: I am humbly asking you to stop what you're doing and check your voter registration status,' a sponsored Trump post read. 'Only a handful of votes will decide this election. We can stop inflation, secure our borders, lower taxes, and make America Great Again!' 

The ad then said 'register to vote for Trump' over a picturesque mountain scene.   

While the state of Georgia includes portions of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the terrain has a different look. 

The ad snafu came as Trump returned to Georgia Tuesday, making an economics-themed address in downtown Savannah, a more Democratic-leaning part of the state. 

The former president was still able to fill the Johnny Mercer Theatre Civic Center with his MAGA faithful. 

During his 82-minute address, Trump boasted that his economic plan involved stealing jobs from other countries.

'Under my leadership, we are going to take other countries' jobs,' Trump said. 'Your only worry will be which job to take,' he promised his supporters to loud cheers. 

Trump said he would entice companies to produce products in the U.S. by threatening them with tariffs if they refused. 

'I will give you the lowest taxes, the lowest energy cost, the lowest regulatory burden and free access to the best and biggest market on the planet,' he said. 'But only if you make your product here in America.' 

The Harris campaign had rolled out billionaire Mark Cuban in the hours ahead of Trump's economic speech who told reporters over Zoom that the Republican 'says things off the top of his head that tend to often be ridiculous, if not insane.'

Cuban then proceeded to explain why several of Trump's proposed economic policies wouldn't work.  

At his Savannah stop, Trump talked about how he wanted German car companies to become American companies - but that talk eventually segued to his detest of electric cars - though he carved out a compliment for Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who endorsed him. 

'Elon Musk is great. He makes an excellent car. And he endorsed me at a level you wouldn't believe,' Trump said. 

From there, the ex-president warned about the cars of the future - hydrogen-powered vehicles. 

'The new thing - and I'm sure Elon will get it if it's any good - but it's got one little problem: it explodes,' Trump said. 'Hydrogen. 'They say the new thing is hydrogen cars. But they're having a problem. If it explodes you end up about seven blocks away and you're dead.' 

Trump talked about how he wouldn't allow the Japanese company Nippon to buy the Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel, which is currently under review by a U.S. national security panel.

And then from there, he spoke a bit about the state of the 2024 race. 

Trump boasted that he was holding more events than Harris - and that he won the Philadelphia debate against Harris earlier this month. 

'We're definitely outworking the opposition,' the 78-year-old former president said. 'She was so bad,' he added of Harris' debate performance, despite most polls showing that she was the clear winner. 

'We absolutely destroyed her,' Trump claimed.

'Throughout his remarks, he pushed that Harris wasn't quite right. 

'We talk about cognitive problems. She's got bigger cognitive problems than he does,' he said at one point. 

'If you saw her with Oprah the other day, or if you saw some of these interviews, there's something going on up there. We just had four years of that. We can't have another four years. Not going to happen,' Trump said at another.

The ex-president also explained how Winfrey, who hosted a Hollywood-filled special for Harris in Michigan last week and spoke before the Democratic National Convention, 'loved' him before he entered politics. 

Trump told supporters how Winfrey called his Florida estate Mar-a-Lago 'the most beautiful place I've ever seen' and how the longtime talk show host convinced the real estate developer to hold a funeral at the property for their friend, the late CBS CEO Roger King in 2007.

'She loved the key lime pie,' Trump said of Winfrey's time spent at Mar-a-Lago.

The ex-president also falsely claimed that Harris made up that she worked at a McDonald's as a student.    

'She lied about McDonald's. She said, "I was a worker at McDonald's and I stood over the French fries,"' Trump said.  'I'm going to a McDonald's over the next two weeks and I'm going to stand over the French fries because I'm going to see what her job really wasn't like.' 

'She never worked there, it was a lie,' he told the crowd. 

He spent a lengthy amount of time recalling the two attempts on his life. 

Trump credited God for being responsible for saving him in Butler, Pennsylvania and said of West Palm Beach, 'I'm telling you God was watching there too.' 

The ex-president also heralded the immigration chart he was looking at in Butler when shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks took his shot. 

'I sleep with that chart every night. I kiss it. I love it,' he said. 

The audience cheered as the chart was displayed.