Unilever's Pot Noodle Bashes Trump With Ad Suggesting Literally Anyone Can Be President

Even Gary the bricklayer!

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The task of poking fun at Donald Trump continues to fall to non-American brands.

Following a Lebanese nut brand's blunt front-page newspaper ad on Inauguration Day, Unilever-owned Pot Noodle, based in Wales, has unleashed a comic commercial showing the rise to power of "Gary" the bricklayer—a man whose public antics closely mirror Trump's.

Check out the spot here, from agency Lucky Generals: 

You can even be British and become U.S. president now, evidently.

Trump has not weighed in, sadly, even though this is the second Unilever brand to come out against him—Ben & Jerry's, of course, being the first. 

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