Little Miss Cleveland Approved Messages are a collection of brief videos crudely modeled after muted social media advertisements. Using re-purposed video footage originally shot in 2012, the addition of revisionist subtitles creates an ambiguity that allows the viewer to imagine the subtext. Despite their absurdity, the messages become eerily pointed in the context of a political system where the disillusionment of American voters had been brewing for years, bubbled over during the recent U.S. Presidential election, and straddled both sides of the political system. Inverting Trump’s documented misogyny and borrowing from the celebrity-turned-politician trend, Little Miss Cleveland reminds us that the promises of a political campaign have come to be as meaningful as gibberish. These videos were released between 2016 and 2018. The original footage was shot by Brandon Miller.