Trump’s deals to sell Bibles, sneakers and perfume are unprecedented for a presidential candidate, experts say

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  1. Don’t forget those digital trading cards that are worthless now.

  3. He also cut up his suit into little pieces and sold the pieces. And he sold photoshopped NFTs of himself with a six-pack. Trump is a grifter.

  4. I cannot imagine voting for a guy that debases himself like this. Granted, these products are a step up from some of his shit… but that only makes it worse. It’s like voting for the guy that cast himself in his own fail to be funny midnight commercial for his used carpet warehouse.

  5. “There is no precedent for this level” of business activity during a presidential campaign, Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig told CNBC, though “the trend has been building for many years.”

    Brendan Fischer, deputy executive director of money-in-politics watchdog Documented, agreed. “I can’t think of any other modern example of a presidential candidate hawking an array of goods for their private benefit,” Fischer said.

    For an average candidate, that activity might trigger a campaign finance investigation — but it likely won’t for Trump, who has been selling branded goods long before he entered politics, according to Fischer.

    “Trump is a unique case,” he said.

  6. I have some ‘Trump brand’ shirts that I bought 25 years ago prior to taking a cruise – wonder what I could get for them?

  7. How many people want to look or smell like Donald Trump? It can’t be all that many.

  12. It is also the first time a former president is running for Emperor of the USA. He is still telling all of his base to “stand down and stand by” for later. But now he has added “stand up an buy” to his collection of slogans.

  13. He has been and always will be a con man. He knows no other way. He’ll peddle his snake oil and the rubes will buy it.

  14. He’s 5 minutes away from trying to suck his own dick on OnlyFans.

  15. I wonder how true Christians feel about a man, who does not know what time mass is, attempts to hawk his version of the Bible.

  16. Proving he’s nothing more than a shady second hand car salesman.

  17. He’s for sale. He always has been. He cares about profiting and enriching himself. Nothing else. He has no shame, no morals, and will put his name on literal shit if there’s a buck in it for him.

  18. Not a fan of the American flag with his mug on it. Isn’t that giving flag decorum the middle finger?

  20. Does this need an expert to tell us that? Republicans made Jimmy ducking Carter divest his peanut farm into a private trust.

  21. I think Donald Trump just kind of generally sucks as a person, to be honest.

  22. You forgot about the beans he was selling *from his white house office desk* ?

  23. Bibles arrived shipped to your door, upside-down.

  24. Yeah, no shit. You don’t need to be an “expert” to know that.

  25. “…experts say”… You need to be an expert to see the first president to openly grift?

  26. don’t think many people needed an expert to tell them this

  27. Even if you somehow liked him and agreed with his policy ideas (insomuch as he has any policy ideas), how can anyone not see that these stunts are just trashy and beneath the dignity of the office?

    It’s embarrassing. Do Trump supporters not have any self-respect?

  28. Did we really need “experts” to weigh in on this, lmao?

    I think the absence of Bill Clinton Sex Panther cologne, George W. Bush bibles, and Air Obama sneakers on the market kind of makes it obvious.

  29. This is a perfect weekend for this powerful argument that should be deployed widely by liberals and moderates.

    “Christ is the father of liberalism… through his creation of the politics of compassion.

    “And the right-wingers of his day had Him killed to shut Him up.

    “You can’t vote for a right-wing party that is mean-spirited and hateful of the weakest among us and retain God’s grace.

    “All civil rights, protection of the poor and those who are suffering, Wise Stewardship caring for His Creation flow from Christ being the father of liberalism.”

    (It has the virtue of being true, which makes it all the more cunning in an election year… Have a blessed Easter, everyone.)

  30. Running for president mainly so that he can pardon himself is unprecedented

  31. Maybe because he’s not really a presidential candidate as much as the manifestation of America as a corporation and not a government for and by the people ?

  32. You are seeing his true colors…for a person to claim he is soooo rich he is left to beg for money….how can this man even hold office??

  33. Well this is the man who used the oval office to sell tins of beans.

  35. Perhaps the one crowning achievement this idiot will have when he dies, alone, unloved and hopefully in jail, is that he set a bunch of embarrassing records and precedents.

  37. Don’t need an “expert” to point this out

  38. Well thank the lord we have “experts” otherwise we’d never have known this….

  39. Experts say? Who are these genius experts that have figured this out?

  40. I’ve been telling people… he’s a game show host and getting tons of flack for it… even though it’s true. Now I can say he’s a shoe salesman and a Bible salesman… even better!

  42. And you need experts to tell you that?!
    Where do I sign up to become one of the ‘experts’? What’s the pay like?

  43. But not for lowlife that want money he says he doesn’t have money and what money he has. He’s only gonna use it for himself. He’s not gonna use it to pay bills don’t buy his junk.

  45. Remember when conservatives were outraged at Obama for wearing a tan suit and asking for Dijon mustard? 

    But I guess shilling bibles, tacky gold shoes, worthless NTFs, cologne, etc to pay for your sexual assault & fraud judgements is totally okay.

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