--- title: Jeb Bush Backers Bought a Billboard to Troll Donald Trump description: Not everyone thinks it was a good use of money. canonical: https://time.com/4172077/jeb-bush-donald-trump-billboard/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-07T22:07:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T13:53:17.109Z article:section: Politics og:title: Jeb Bush Backers Bought a Billboard to Troll Donald Trump og:description: Not everyone thinks it was a good use of money. og:url: https://time.com/4172077/jeb-bush-donald-trump-billboard/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jeb Bush Backers Bought a Billboard to Troll Donald Trump twitter:description: Not everyone thinks it was a good use of money. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Jeb Bush Backers Bought a Billboard to Troll Donald Trump by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Jan 7, 2016 10:07 PM UTC by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Jan 7, 2016 10:07 PM UTC A super PAC supporting Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush bought a billboard ad in Iowa to take a swipe at frontrunner Donald Trump. The ad, paid for by Right to Rise USA, features a red billboard that reads, in white letters, “‘Donald Trump is unhinged’ —Jeb Bush.” > [](https://twitter.com/murphymike/status/685192363942137856) Politics Twitter responded after the tweet from Mike Murphy, the head of Right to Rise, [Bush’s $100 million super PAC](http://time.com/3951931/jeb-bush-super-pac-fundraising/) that has been [spending](http://time.com/4171491/jeb-bush-marco-rubio-2016-election-iowa-super-pac-ad/) [cash](http://time.com/4163491/jeb-bush-chris-christie-john-kasich-ad/) on [ads](http://time.com/4163089/jeb-bush-marco-rubio-ad/) to bolster the lagging candidates visibility in early voting states. > [](https://twitter.com/OrwellForks/status/685204184677937152) > [](https://twitter.com/owillis/status/685211708835672065) > [](https://twitter.com/amandacarpenter/status/685207521628434432) > [](https://twitter.com/jesseberney/status/685206383281717249) > [](https://twitter.com/AG%5FConservative/status/685208655109570561) **Read Next:** [_7 Campaign Ads Voters Said Crossed the Line_](http://time.com/4171665/campaign-ads-attack-negative-controversy/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4172077/jeb-bush-donald-trump-billboard/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4172077/jeb-bush-donald-trump-billboard/"},"headline":"Jeb Bush Backers Bought a Billboard to Troll Donald Trump","datePublished":"2016-01-07T22:07:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:53:17.109Z","description":"Twitter users have mocked the ad","url":"https://time.com/4172077/jeb-bush-donald-trump-billboard/","keywords":["jeb bush","2016 Election topic","Donald Trump","campaign ads"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel White","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-white/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/jeb-bush/","name":"jeb bush"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4172077/jeb-bush-donald-trump-billboard/","name":"Jeb Bush Backers Bought a Billboard to Troll Donald Trump"}}]}] ```