As he closes in on the Republican presidential nomination, former President Donald Trump made a highly unusual stop Saturday, hawking new Trump-branded sneakers at “Sneaker Con,” a gathering that bills itself as the “The Greatest Sneaker Show on Earth.”
Trump was met with loud boos as well as cheers at the Philadelphia Convention Center as he introduced what he called the first official Trump footwear.
The shoes, gold lame high tops with an American flag detail on the back, are being sold as “Never Surrender High-Tops” for $399 on a new website that also sells Trump-branded “Victory47” cologne and perfume for $99 a bottle. He’d be the 47th president if elected again.
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Biden-Harris 2024 Communications Director Michael Tyler slammed the appearance, saying: “Donald Trump showing up to hawk bootleg Off-Whites is the closest he’ll get to any Air Force Ones ever again for the rest of his life.”
What the fuck is any politician doing at a convention for sneakers? If I was at this Sneaker Con, I’d be pretty pissed that this was where my admissions money was going since I paid for a fucking sneaker convention. Just because he brought a sneaker line to a sneaker convention doesn’t mean he should be let in.
And this is fucking rich considering all of the names around the extremely lazy and uncreative (as we’ve come to expect from Trump) product:
The website states the new venture “is not political and has nothing to do with any political campaign.”
That disclaimer goes further, saying it has no connection to Trump or his businesses, and that they simply licensed his image.
Which, given his direct promotion of the product, appears to be simply one more of the lies we’ve come to expect with anything to do with Trump.
Lots of voters there, why not?
Yes, I know that’s why Trump wanted to be there.
Why should the convention have agreed?
Because the convention organizers make money from every person who walks in the door and they prob don’t care about politics.
Hence my saying-
If I was at this Sneaker Con, I’d be pretty pissed that this was where my admissions money was going since I paid for a fucking sneaker convention.
It would sure as hell make me less likely to walk in the door the next time the convention happens and if I didn’t know he was going to be there, I would have demanded a refund.
Maybe they shouldn’t assume all the people who went there were excited to see a rapist traitor who says he wants to be a dictator. Considering he was booed, that seems like something they should have considered.
There were a number of voices in the crowd booing him during his “presentation”.
It’s the same reason you see army recruitment at comic cons, they want to grab young, and impressionable people
He must have taken “Sneaker Con” literally.
He gets confused a lot…
Don’t you mean “CON-fused”?
That was bad and I feel bad.
Oh, please…CON-trol yourself! Don’t CON-cern yourself with his fragile little snowflake CON-servative feelings. CON-tinue on.
CON-gratultions on a well written post.
Maybe you’ll feel better in the long run now that you’ve gotten that out of you.
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You would think by now AML investigators from every corner of the globe would be watching this guy’s accounts like a hawk with a microscope.
I know that sometimes tracing cashflow is a delicate art, but it can definitely be done, especially if you are working with government-level resources
I don’t think this type of scheme is even illegal which is the main problem.
There are indeed many forms of money laundering which are considered illegal in America, and it is absolutely illegal if someone is accepting funds derived from illicit activity or sanctioned entities (like Russia). The government and most financial institutions generally take the stance that there are very few good reasons to obscure the ultimate source of funds, and so tend to be very risk-averse with such activity.
The trick is in confirming anything illicit is going on when there are potentially dozens of steps and borders in between the source and the recipient.
Biden-Harris 2024 Communications Director Michael Tyler slammed the appearance, saying: “Donald Trump showing up to hawk bootleg Off-Whites is the closest he’ll get to any Air Force Ones ever again for the rest of his life.”
Rekt
Let me guess…
Made In China
You guys understand that these are for laundering money to his defense funds, right? Nobody actually buys these.
Instead, his illicit contacts in Russia and other extremist groups, will buy a fuck ton and let them rot just to feed money into his pocket ‘legally’
It’s very obvious. Also surreal.
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WI have completely lost the ability to distinguish satire from reality. I’m assuming this is real but damn if we don’t live in the worst timeline.
Hell. We’re all dead, and this is Hell.
Uh so what did the kids do?
Depending on the denomination, dying as a kid when you don’t accept Jesus as your savior is sufficient for damnation.
What about most of the rest of the world who believe in other stupid religions?
I’m not sure I understand the question.
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I don’t know. Everyone talks about worst timeline…but what about worse scenarios? Like, don’t jinx the rest of us, dude!
We are living in a simulation that has gone off the rails and the admins have stopped the auto-rollback several times because they can’t stop laughing.
When I heard of Trump branded shoes, I thought “what are they like gold and tacky?”
Yes, because of course they are.
They will be available for pre-order and they will take your money and you will never receive the shoe. I’m calling it.
Of course. Why pay the $3.50 to actually produce it? The people who buy this garbage clearly don’t mind being fleeced
Once a con man always a con man. I don’t feel bad for the people who worship him and lose their money.
They won’t produce it, and it will still somehow be all made in China
I just want to know where they are made.
I assume in China where all of his other stuff is made. MAGA people don’t notice or if they do, they don’t care, because it’s okay when he does it.
And if non-white children are making it, that’s a bonus.
Will this be used for money laundering?
To donate to a presidential campaign, you must be a US citizen, and there’s a $3,300 cap. Anyone can buy sneakers, though, and they can buy as many as they want.
Like with the ghostwritten books where the RNC buys them up to give out as gifts?
No, never /s
Gonna paraphrase another shoe salesmen with this one:
“The shoe has a pliant heel with a cork filling whereas [Trump] is a giant seal with a pork filling”
That slanders both giant seals and pork fillings.
Junior and
UdayEric have to pay $4 million each. With interest the entire sum is actually $464 million. It was a very bad day for the Trump crime family.Is it spelled “hawking,” like the bird? I always thought it was “hocking” like a loogie.
Edit: Huh, TIL.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_(trade)
Like the bird, but nothing to do with the bird.
It’s to hawk, to sell out in the open as a hawker would. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_(trade)?wprov=sfla1
I thinking “hocking” refers to selling things to a pawn shop, yeah? Because, when you get enough money, you can “get my [thing] out of hock.”
Seems like that’d be hawk too according to the other comments, I guess hock is only for ham and loogies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation
Like the radiation, but nothing to do with the radiation.
Wow, those shoes look trashy as fuck. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.
I read there’s also a disclaimer that the shoes you get may not be exactly what you see on display there lmao. $400 and you might not even get that version of hideous
For $400 you’ll get whatever the cheapest sneakers they could source from China with one coat of the cheapest gold spray paint.
