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Donald Trump gets special message from office linebacker Terry Tate

Lester Speight, the actor who plays Terry Tate, Office Linebacker, in Reebok commercial, is runing for government. Ricardo Dearatanha/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

‘Terrible’ Terry Tate is bringing the pain train to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in a new parody video by Funny or Die.

You may recall Tate, the Office Linebacker, from a series of Reebok commercials which first debuted in 2002. The character was played by Lester Speight.

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In the commercials, Tate was brought in courtesy of Reebok to Felcher & Sons to help increase productivity.

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When an employee celebrated a win in computer solitaire, Tate delivered a crushing blow and yelled, “You want to play games Gene? When it’s game time it’s pain time baby!”

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Tate’s commercials ran until 2005 and he disappeared from the screen until 2008 when a series of videos ran urging Americans to vote.

The office linebacker returns in “Terry Tate makes American Great” as he takes issue with Trump’s “locker room talk.”

The scene begins with the infamous 2005 Trump tape where he can be heard talking to Billy Bush on a bus.

The video continues to roll in normal fashion until Tate makes a trademark crushing tackle on Trump before saying, “That’s how Terry Tate makes America great baby.”

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He then asks, “what kinda locker rooms you been hangin’ out in Donnie?”

 

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