Donald Trump wakes up each morning with one thought: How can I profit today?
Who needs bilateral trade agreements when you can sell branded Bibles to gullible cultists? Earlier this year, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) noted Trump had launched 168 new products between the election and inauguration.
That’s 168 more than any previous president.
Imagine if Joe Biden was hawking a “victory cologne” before taking office.
Trump 2.0 isn’t a presidency — it’s the Home Shopping Network.
Blankets? Guitars? Sneakers? Memecoins? NFTs? Mug shot posters? A Bling Clutch for $550 (all prices U.S.)? An “18 Karat Rose Gold Bracelet & Black Dial Trump Warrior” watch for $799?
MAGA, that’s a lot of Miller Lite and Pizza Pops.
CREW stated the obvious: “It’s not normal for a president to profit off of the presidency, but Trump has done so blatantly before and even more unabashedly this time.”
The latest grift was announced this week.
The Trump family is getting into wireless service and smartphones. The president’s nepo babies, Don Jr. and Eric, heralded “Trump Mobile.” The service will offer 5G, which might alarm those in MAGAville who believe fifth-generation cell towers are an evil plot by a cabal of baby-eating globalists who want to replace them with communist cyborgs who speak Spanish.
I gave up on trying to reason with the red hats. They remain convinced Dear Leader is fighting for them when all evidence suggests he is fighting for the superrich. Why has Trump pocketed billions since taking office while the price of eggs goes Swarovski? Why are taxpayers paying millions for his golf outings as their own essential services are on the chopping block? Try to find a functioning restroom in a public park this summer and then remember the big guy prefers to do his business on a gold toilet.
Let them eat cake. Let them pee in the woods.
Make America Great Again? This is about making Trump’s Wallet Fat Again.
What this new mobile plan — CAN YOU HEAR ME GETTING SCAMMED NOW? — proves is that Trump is doing doughnuts on a street named Corruption and daring anyone to stop him.
A president getting into telecom is like a doctor selling cigarettes.
It’s a conflict of interest.
But Trump is emboldened. He knows he can sell anything to his fans, whether it’s a swatch of his ill-fitting suit or a prayer candle with his face. Hey, MAGA, here’s a $500 bag of carbon dioxide the first lady exhaled after a buying spree on Fifth Avenue. Take a whiff. You can smell the Burberry! Hey, MAGA, for the low price of $99.99, plus shipping and handling, now you can own a Trump Garden Gnome that shoots water out of its eyes at passing liberals.
If the red hats don’t care about getting duped, they should balk at the hypocrisy.
The nepo babies said they will also release a $499 “T1 Phone” in August: “It is a sleek, gold smartphone engineered for performance and proudly designed and built in the United States for customers who expect the best from their mobile carrier.”
Really? A $499 smartphone with features that rival the iPhone? Available in eight weeks even though there is no word on a single T1 factory? What about the needed components?
As Apple Insider noted: “Clad in a gold-colored (sic) casing, the T1 is said to have a 6.8-inch Punch-Hole AMOLED display, with an under-screen fingerprint sensor and an ‘AI Face Unlock.’ All of these parts will need to be imported for the phone.”
The red states don’t manufacture AMOLED displays. They’d be hard-pressed to make a cup-and-string phone.
Another expert observed the T1 specs are strikingly similar to the Wingtech REVVL 7 Pro, which is made in China. My guess? The guts of the T1 will be assembled in Zhengzhou and then shipped to New York in burlap sacks where Don Jr. and Eric will stick on the gold cases and shove them in tacky boxes emblazoned with a brazen lie: “Made in America.”
Surprised? Don’t be. According to NBC, Trump Ties were made in China. Those ill-fitting suits? Indonesia. Eyeglasses? China. Mugs? Thailand. Crystal decanter? Slovenia. Golf hat? Bangladesh. Fleece vest? Pakistan. Pullover? Vietnam.
Even Trump Vodka was bottled in the Netherlands and then Germany.
If Trump ever releases a MAGA GUAC, it is coming from Mexico.
Are you really blind to this double standard, red hats? Tariff Man is wreaking havoc on the global economy and driving up the price of everyday items. That is, assuming you can even find those items when store shelves are barren. And, yet, in his own business history, this lunatic has consistently outsourced manufacturing to the lowest foreign bidder.
He is now selling a smartphone and the ringtone says, “Grift.”
America First? This was always a con. It is Trump First.
