{"id":1055482,"date":"2025-08-05T17:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T21:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1055482"},"modified":"2025-08-05T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T21:00:41","slug":"dnc-launches-ad-campaign-to-seniors-slamming-trump-for-going-after-social-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-launches-ad-campaign-to-seniors-slamming-trump-for-going-after-social-security\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC Launches Ad Campaign to Seniors Slamming Trump for Going After Social Security\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"449\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png 1101w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=300,132 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=768,337 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=1024,449 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In response to the DNC launching a digital ad campaign calling out the Trump administration for its plan to privatize Social Security, <\/em><strong><em>DNC Senior Advisor for Messaging, Mobilization, and Strategy Tim Hogan released the following statement:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Trump administration finally said the quiet part out loud: they\u2019re going after Social Security. Apparently, kicking millions of Americans off their health care and taking food assistance away from kids and families wasn\u2019t enough for Donald Trump \u2014 his administration admitted that their billionaire-first budget also includes a \u2018backdoor\u2019 to privatize Social Security. Democrats are fighting back against this grift and working to make sure every American knows just how much damage this administration is doing to their hard-earned benefits.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DNC is launching a digital ad campaign calling out Donald Trump for creating a \u201cbackdoor\u201d to privatizing Social Security after promising he wouldn\u2019t touch these hard-earned benefits \u2014 targeting seniors in Michigan, Maine, and New Hampshire on senior dating sites, online magazines, and YouTube channels.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E6jMmbXALXk\"><strong>WATCH<\/strong><\/a>:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXeOQScSac1mPC-bApWYbo3-uRF3KxYC6C_CeqoKNMKjEnAVzymo6zz2M5YUz6je7zTIV8lqEOBC2KEilhN1z8fl7kLh5C8k4ekVjLTtDM9oWMT4jTXtgtLtAGgpe_busyQJO0Te?key=fueZC-9lbwvZMp6hMOIFlw\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the DNC launching a digital ad campaign calling out the Trump administration for its plan to privatize Social Security, DNC Senior Advisor for Messaging, Mobilization, and Strategy Tim Hogan released the following statement:&nbsp; \u201cThe Trump administration finally said the quiet part out loud: they\u2019re going after Social Security. Apparently, kicking millions of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DNC Launches Ad Campaign to Seniors Slamming Trump for Going After Social Security\u00a0 - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-launches-ad-campaign-to-seniors-slamming-trump-for-going-after-social-security\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-05T21:00:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1101\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"483\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Adrianna Tomasello\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Adrianna Tomasello\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-launches-ad-campaign-to-seniors-slamming-trump-for-going-after-social-security\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-launches-ad-campaign-to-seniors-slamming-trump-for-going-after-social-security\/\",\"name\":\"DNC Launches Ad Campaign to Seniors Slamming Trump for Going After Social Security\u00a0 - 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