As he closes in on the Republican presidential nomination, former President Donald Trump made a highly unusual stop, hawking new Trump-branded sneakers at “Sneaker Con."

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.”

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    832·
    9 months ago

    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.”

    • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      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.

        • SpeedLimit55@lemmy.world
          836·
          9 months ago

          Because the convention organizers make money from every person who walks in the door and they prob don’t care about politics.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
            292·
            9 months ago

            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.

            • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
              2·
              9 months ago

              There were a number of voices in the crowd booing him during his “presentation”.

      • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
        61·
        9 months ago

        It’s the same reason you see army recruitment at comic cons, they want to grab young, and impressionable people