Secret Service’s Super Bowl Ad Features Trump Assassination Attempt Photo
A one-minute walk through history provided the visuals for a recruitment ad for the U.S. Secret Service that aired at Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans Sunday night. Hollywood director Michael Bay, who directed…
A one-minute walk through history provided the visuals for a recruitment ad for the U.S. Secret Service that aired at Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans Sunday night.
Hollywood director Michael Bay, who directed “Transformers” and “Armageddon,” put together the piece in less than two weeks.
This was “a rapid timeline for a busy Hollywood hitter like Bay and typically slow-moving government agencies — indicating the importance of the ad to the Secret Service,” CNN reported.
The ad showed major events in history, including George Washington crossing the Delaware River during the Revolutionary War, former President Abraham Lincoln on a Civil War battlefield, former president John F. Kennedy saying “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country” and former President Ronald Reagan declaring, “Tear down this wall.”
A more recent historical moment happened last year when then-presidential candidate Donald Trump was shot at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The ad cost about $2 million to produce, two unnamed sources said, per CNN.