sometimes they worked sometimes people
saw right through them but they are
certainly all memorable welcome to
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down our picks for the top ten political
publicity stunts before we begin we
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for this list we’re looking at stunts
that either made a political statement
or were used to promote or distract from
a politician’s goals or image number 10
Justin Trudeau’s photobombs
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
has been captured in a number of
supposedly random photos involving
ordinary people but some seem to have an
element of staging in them for example
Trudeau was photographed jogging past a
group of teens at their prom in
Vancouver while others in the pictures
may not have known what was going on you
can bet the Trudeau’s official
photographer who snapped the shot
certainly did photos like these garnered
him international headlines as the
photobombing p.m. but at least some were
really political publicity stunts and
very effective ones – number 9 this is
crack in political stunts props can be
an asset and President George HW Bush’s
staff made sure he had the right prop on
hand when pitching his escalated war on
drugs to the American people in 1989
this this is crack cocaine during a
televised address from The Oval Office
Bush held up a bag of crack cocaine
acquired a few days earlier at a park
located across the street from the White
House Bush later admitted his
administration had specifically ordered
a sting to take place in that location
undercover agents lured dealers to a
spot they didn’t usually work in just so
the president would have the perfect
prop for his show-and-tell
number 8 Christ the Redeemer Greenpeace
is known for their political stunts and
particularly their banner drops the
environmental group outdid themselves in
2002 when five activists scaled the
Christ the Redeemer statue overlooking
Rio de Janeiro Brazil to hang a banner
reading Rio plus 10 a second chance they
were protesting the lack of progress at
the Johannesburg climate summit which
had just concluded and how it failed to
build on a similar Summit in Rio ten
years earlier while the Archdiocese
reowww owns the statue the activists
wanted to make it clear they were not
protesting the church number seven
mission accomplished
the Bush family sure loves to use props
in their political stunts and this is
just one case of the son outdoing the
father president george w bush landed on
an aircraft carrier in a fighter jet
while wearing a flight jacket to address
the media naval officers stood behind
him as a giant banner reading mission
accomplished hung overhead you’d usually
expect presidents to give this type of
speech from the White House and Bush
might regret not having done so the
mission accomplished banner would
continue to haunt him being held up to
ridicule while major combat operations
in Iraq dragged on for years afterwards
number 6 Bill Clinton on Arsenio Hall
presidents former presidents and
presidential candidates appearing on
entertainment talk shows is par for the
course in our current political
landscape but it took a stunt to make it
a reality in June 1992 Bill Clinton had
the Democratic nomination locked up but
faced competition in the general
election from both incumbent President
George HW Bush and businessman Ross
Perot
he needed to do something unique that
would get him noticed and playing the
saxophone on the Arsenio Hall Show
proved to be just that not only did
Clinton play two songs with the band he
also sat down for an interview with haul
something presidential candidates had
previously only done with serious
journalists speaking I watched your
drummer son what he said if this music
thing doesn’t work out you can always
run for president number five
Sean Spicer at the Emmys some
politicians and political figures like
to disguise their publicity stunts as
spontaneous moments but former White
House press secretary Sean Spicer didn’t
bother when he surprised the audience at
the 2017 Emmy Awards
[Applause]
to witness and Emmys period both in
person and around the world after being
called to the stage by host Stephen
Colbert Spicer parodied his most
infamous moment behind the pressroom
podium by declaring the assembled crowd
and those watching at home to be quote
the largest audience to witness an Emmys
period this was the largest audience to
ever witness an inauguration period
what Spicer wanted to accomplish was
clear to put his controversial past
behind him and start the next phase of
his career a process he continued by
schmoozing backstage and at after
parties number for drinking Fukushima
water we’ve all heard the expression
about putting your money where your
mouth is in 2011 Japanese MP Yasuo
Sanada took things to another level by
putting his mouth where his mouth was
arguing that government decontamination
efforts around the Fukushima nuclear
plant were working following a major
earthquake journalists were still
skeptical so Sanada decided to drink
some of the water collected from puddles
under to reactor buildings himself after
getting their attention he stressed that
real safety wasn’t proven by a stunt but
rather through the facts and figures he
was presenting number three Donald
Trump’s birther movement if your
political publicity stunt runs long
enough it just might make you president
and I just say very simply why doesn’t
he show his birth certificate Donald
Trump didn’t start the birthers a fringe
conspiracy movement that’s not 2d
legitimate President Barack Obama by
falsely claiming he was not born in the
United States however Trump picked up on
the controversy and promoted the lie
relentlessly we’re not gonna be able to
solve our problems if we get distracted
by sideshows and carnival barkers Obama
publicly released his birth certificate
from Hawaii but Trump didn’t let’s solid
proof prevent him from continuing to
repeat the lie it became a running joke
for TV talk show hosts one that even
Obama himself touched on tonight for the
first time I am releasing my official
birth video
it also solidified Trump’s credibility
with the American far-right a group that
would help him land in the Oval Office
you don’t believe President Obama’s
birth certificate but because you’ve run
your fingers along a raise
ceil on a document you believe it’s real
number two Kathy Griffin’s severed Trump
head even when a political stunt
succeeds in getting its desired
attention they can still be consequences
Kathy Griffin found this out the hard
way when she posed with a fake severed
head meant to resemble president Trump
covered in fake blood the comedian was
trying to make a statement about Trump’s
comments on megyn kelly
but many felt she had crossed a line
Griffin lost her job as co-host of CNN’s
New Year’s Eve show and had to cancel
her tour she would even be placed on the
no-fly list though she initially issued
an apology
she later retracted it saying her
critics took the matter too far number
one Mike Pence NFL appearance at the
height of president Trump’s war of words
with NFL players symbolically taking a
knee during the national anthem to
protest police violence vice president
Mike Pence attended an Indianapolis
Colts game they were hosting the San
Francisco 49ers the team whose former
quarterback Colin Kaepernick had kicked
off the anthem protests predictably some
players took a knee during the anthem
and just as predictably pence walked out
while his subsequent tweet made his
departure seem like a spontaneous
reaction the fact that he had his press
pull wait in the van expecting a quick
departure told a different story as a
subsequent Trump tweet made clear it was
a planned political stunt orchestrated
by Pence’s boss footing the travel bill
for Pence’s brief visit the American
taxpayer to the tune of more than
$240,000 do you agree with our picks
check out these other great clips from
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saw right through them but they are
certainly all memorable welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top ten political
publicity stunts before we begin we
publish new content every day so be sure
to subscribe to our Channel and ring the
bell
to get notified about our latest videos
for this list we’re looking at stunts
that either made a political statement
or were used to promote or distract from
a politician’s goals or image number 10
Justin Trudeau’s photobombs
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
has been captured in a number of
supposedly random photos involving
ordinary people but some seem to have an
element of staging in them for example
Trudeau was photographed jogging past a
group of teens at their prom in
Vancouver while others in the pictures
may not have known what was going on you
can bet the Trudeau’s official
photographer who snapped the shot
certainly did photos like these garnered
him international headlines as the
photobombing p.m. but at least some were
really political publicity stunts and
very effective ones – number 9 this is
crack in political stunts props can be
an asset and President George HW Bush’s
staff made sure he had the right prop on
hand when pitching his escalated war on
drugs to the American people in 1989
this this is crack cocaine during a
televised address from The Oval Office
Bush held up a bag of crack cocaine
acquired a few days earlier at a park
located across the street from the White
House Bush later admitted his
administration had specifically ordered
a sting to take place in that location
undercover agents lured dealers to a
spot they didn’t usually work in just so
the president would have the perfect
prop for his show-and-tell
number 8 Christ the Redeemer Greenpeace
is known for their political stunts and
particularly their banner drops the
environmental group outdid themselves in
2002 when five activists scaled the
Christ the Redeemer statue overlooking
Rio de Janeiro Brazil to hang a banner
reading Rio plus 10 a second chance they
were protesting the lack of progress at
the Johannesburg climate summit which
had just concluded and how it failed to
build on a similar Summit in Rio ten
years earlier while the Archdiocese
reowww owns the statue the activists
wanted to make it clear they were not
protesting the church number seven
mission accomplished
the Bush family sure loves to use props
in their political stunts and this is
just one case of the son outdoing the
father president george w bush landed on
an aircraft carrier in a fighter jet
while wearing a flight jacket to address
the media naval officers stood behind
him as a giant banner reading mission
accomplished hung overhead you’d usually
expect presidents to give this type of
speech from the White House and Bush
might regret not having done so the
mission accomplished banner would
continue to haunt him being held up to
ridicule while major combat operations
in Iraq dragged on for years afterwards
number 6 Bill Clinton on Arsenio Hall
presidents former presidents and
presidential candidates appearing on
entertainment talk shows is par for the
course in our current political
landscape but it took a stunt to make it
a reality in June 1992 Bill Clinton had
the Democratic nomination locked up but
faced competition in the general
election from both incumbent President
George HW Bush and businessman Ross
Perot
he needed to do something unique that
would get him noticed and playing the
saxophone on the Arsenio Hall Show
proved to be just that not only did
Clinton play two songs with the band he
also sat down for an interview with haul
something presidential candidates had
previously only done with serious
journalists speaking I watched your
drummer son what he said if this music
thing doesn’t work out you can always
run for president number five
Sean Spicer at the Emmys some
politicians and political figures like
to disguise their publicity stunts as
spontaneous moments but former White
House press secretary Sean Spicer didn’t
bother when he surprised the audience at
the 2017 Emmy Awards
[Applause]
to witness and Emmys period both in
person and around the world after being
called to the stage by host Stephen
Colbert Spicer parodied his most
infamous moment behind the pressroom
podium by declaring the assembled crowd
and those watching at home to be quote
the largest audience to witness an Emmys
period this was the largest audience to
ever witness an inauguration period
what Spicer wanted to accomplish was
clear to put his controversial past
behind him and start the next phase of
his career a process he continued by
schmoozing backstage and at after
parties number for drinking Fukushima
water we’ve all heard the expression
about putting your money where your
mouth is in 2011 Japanese MP Yasuo
Sanada took things to another level by
putting his mouth where his mouth was
arguing that government decontamination
efforts around the Fukushima nuclear
plant were working following a major
earthquake journalists were still
skeptical so Sanada decided to drink
some of the water collected from puddles
under to reactor buildings himself after
getting their attention he stressed that
real safety wasn’t proven by a stunt but
rather through the facts and figures he
was presenting number three Donald
Trump’s birther movement if your
political publicity stunt runs long
enough it just might make you president
and I just say very simply why doesn’t
he show his birth certificate Donald
Trump didn’t start the birthers a fringe
conspiracy movement that’s not 2d
legitimate President Barack Obama by
falsely claiming he was not born in the
United States however Trump picked up on
the controversy and promoted the lie
relentlessly we’re not gonna be able to
solve our problems if we get distracted
by sideshows and carnival barkers Obama
publicly released his birth certificate
from Hawaii but Trump didn’t let’s solid
proof prevent him from continuing to
repeat the lie it became a running joke
for TV talk show hosts one that even
Obama himself touched on tonight for the
first time I am releasing my official
birth video
it also solidified Trump’s credibility
with the American far-right a group that
would help him land in the Oval Office
you don’t believe President Obama’s
birth certificate but because you’ve run
your fingers along a raise
ceil on a document you believe it’s real
number two Kathy Griffin’s severed Trump
head even when a political stunt
succeeds in getting its desired
attention they can still be consequences
Kathy Griffin found this out the hard
way when she posed with a fake severed
head meant to resemble president Trump
covered in fake blood the comedian was
trying to make a statement about Trump’s
comments on megyn kelly
but many felt she had crossed a line
Griffin lost her job as co-host of CNN’s
New Year’s Eve show and had to cancel
her tour she would even be placed on the
no-fly list though she initially issued
an apology
she later retracted it saying her
critics took the matter too far number
one Mike Pence NFL appearance at the
height of president Trump’s war of words
with NFL players symbolically taking a
knee during the national anthem to
protest police violence vice president
Mike Pence attended an Indianapolis
Colts game they were hosting the San
Francisco 49ers the team whose former
quarterback Colin Kaepernick had kicked
off the anthem protests predictably some
players took a knee during the anthem
and just as predictably pence walked out
while his subsequent tweet made his
departure seem like a spontaneous
reaction the fact that he had his press
pull wait in the van expecting a quick
departure told a different story as a
subsequent Trump tweet made clear it was
a planned political stunt orchestrated
by Pence’s boss footing the travel bill
for Pence’s brief visit the American
taxpayer to the tune of more than
$240,000 do you agree with our picks
check out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and be sure to subscribe and
ring the bell to be notified about our
latest videos
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