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'Super Trump' Billboard Takes Flight in Times Square

By Ben Fractenberg | September 13, 2016 6:21pm

MIDTOWN — A new animated ad featuring Donald Trump as Superman went up in Times Square — though it took a while for the cartoonish billboard to get noticed by passersby.   

The 55-foot digital ad framing the Republican presidential candidate as "Super Trump" played for about 15 seconds on a loop every few minutes Tuesday on Broadway near the corner of West 47th Street.

The ad was paid for by the Committee to Restore America's Greatness, a Super PAC created by former Trump adviser Roger Stone, who told the New York Post it cost $25,000.

It will run in Times Square from Tuesday through Friday before showing on the I-4 Corridor in Florida, the paper reported. 

Texas tourist and Trump supporter Judy Wolf said she was sitting beneath the billboard for about 15 minutes before she saw it.

“[There’s] so much sensory overload,” said Wolf, 73, of the ad being surrounded by similar billboards.

When she finally noticed it, she said she “loved it” and described Trump as a populist who speaks the truth, regardless of political correctness.

A tourist from India also did not see the ad until it was pointed out to him.

“Oh my God, it has to be captured,” said Sid, 26, while taking out this phone to snap a picture. “It was so funny.”

The digital video debuted after Mayor Bill de Blasio said "conspiracy theorists" were trying to push the idea that Hillary Clinton was having a health crisis after she nearly fainted during a 9/11 ceremony after contracting pneumonia. 

"And if we're really going to have a conversation about health then it should be a level playing field," the mayor added. "Trump should disclose just as much as she has and that hasn't happened."