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Just a second, Kenneth Langone, who was involved in founding Home depot is a fantastic conservative and is a supporter of Donald Trump.

Years back I chronicled here on FR my experience with Mr. Langone. He is a great guy!

You might want to do a little more research before you paint Home Depot as some kind of liberal company:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/10/us/day-laborer-battle-runs-outside-home-depot.html

This topic has even been discussed here in 2008:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2061498/posts?page=20

One of the coolest things I have ever experienced is chatting with Kenneth on the phone. He is a trip!

Two points need to be made regarding these ads and the people who pay for them.

Advertising on a big TV event such as the Super Bowl is hugely expensive; those companies and their ad agencies who create the ads want to reap as much of a return on their investment as possible. That means appealing to the largest share of the viewing audience, not a narrow segment.
CEOs of public corporations sometimes have political views so radical that, if expressed fully, it would bring untold damage to their company's sales, earnings, growth, employee morale and productivity. The smart executive tests the water before diving into the political cesspool. Stupid ones go in head-first.

Now, we all have our favorites among home-improvement stores. We shop for value, convenience, product availability, many other factors including how well we're treated by the store's employees.

I like Home Depot because it's close to where I live, has a good selection of tools and hardware and it's open late when I most often need something like a toilet flapper or a new mop. Whether the CEO of Home Depot is a Republican or a Socialist is a question I've never even thought to ask, and now that I know it will have absolutely no bearing on whether I continue to shop at Home Depot.

My guess is 75-80% of the public is like me in that respect. It doesn't matter. (Ben and Jerry's on the other hand, is on my Don't Ever Buy list.)

Now, how would you feel about 84 Lumber if you learned that the CEO who authorized and spent money for their Super Bowl commercial was a life-long Democrat who supported Hillary, 0bama before that and Gore, Clinton, Dukakis and all the other rats back to the 1960s?

Would that be sufficient cause to not buy anything there if it had been your preferred lumberyard?

Well, surprise, surprise!

The owner/CEO of 84 Lumber backs Trump on the big, beautiful wall, although she somehow thinks there will also be a “big, beautiful door in the wall so that people can come into this country legally.” That may be a stretch.

We will soon learn if the politicians who claim to be against illegal immigration really mean it, or mean something else.