The 'miner' in Trump's 'Working in America' ad isn't American

You can’t get anything past those eagle eyes at BuzzFeed, who have spotted something not so red-white-and-blue about one of Donald Trump’s America-themed ads.

Two Trump ads running on the Politico website declare that “a working America is a winning America.” Both ads feature a photo of miner in a hard hat — presumably one of the coal miners that Trump and Hillary Clinton have been arguing over.

But that miner isn’t a member of the West Virginia Coal Association, which endorsed Trump in May.

He’s Dutch model Jan Jonkhout dressed up as a miner, BuzzFeed reports. And the photo was taken by a Dutch photographer based in the Netherlands.

The photo is a stock picture found on the Shutterstock website.

BuzzFeed was also the first to report something awry in one of Marco Rubio’s political ads during the Republican primaries earlier this year.

A “Morning Again” ad that called to mind Ronald Reagan’s “Morning in America” slogan featured a city skyline — of Vancouver, Canada.

This story was originally published July 22, 2016 at 9:31 AM with the headline "The 'miner' in Trump's 'Working in America' ad isn't American."