As surely as Donald Trump sought to cash in on his various criminal indictments, so the former president turned Republican presidential nominee began to sell merchandise commemorating his attempted assassination in Pennsylvania last weekend.
In Butler county on Saturday, a rooftop gunman wielding an AR-15-style rifle fired shots at the stage. Trump was wounded in one ear. One rally-goer was killed and two injured. The gunman, who was killed by a sniper, was discovered to have had an explosive device in his car.
Despite such traumatic events, 45Footwear, a company which has sold $399 golden Trump-branded sneakers, swiftly offered a new range of high-tops.
Rather more pricey than unofficial assassination merch churned out in China, the $299 white shoes were emblazoned with the US flag, an image of Trump with fist raised and face bloodied and the words “Fight Fight Fight” – his instant reaction to being shot.
a man died. this orange piece of shit didnt even attend the funeral … and here he is extending his grift.
incredibly disgusting
e. he changed his mind
Imagine your spouse taking a bullet intended for Trump, then watching him sell shoes to commemorate and profit from the event. Imagine witnessing these things occur as any person, and still thinking Trump deserves a donation or a vote.
Edit - I know that no one likes comments about downvotes, but I just wanted to say that nothing confirms my expectations of Republicans more than the knowledge that some butthurt maga read what I wrote above, and disagreed strongly enough to downvote it rather than pause for one moment to consider what that would feel like if someone they cared about were shot.
It was like 10 minutes ago. Did the funeral even happen yet?
Speaking of which, how the fuck did they even get this product out so fast?! I mean, I realize it’s most likely just a miracle of modern on-demand/just-in-time manufacturing and logistics, but I’ll be damned if the conspiratorial part of me isn’t thinking this lends credence to the notion that the assassination attempt was a false flag planned in advance.
It is super easy right now to make these quickly, if you put up more cash for a rush job and air freight. And at $300 each, they have plenty of margin to cover that.
The rational part of me is aware of that, but it’s still hard to believe, you know?
He started selling these on Monday. He didn’t call the victim’s wife until Tuesday.
If he is allowed to grift off of it, then we can make all the jokes we want
JD Vance was sure as hell joking about political violence last night in his acceptance speech. Fair game.
What is it with this guy and hawking fugly feetwear? Is this his equivalent of Clinton playing sax and Bush painting?
Why can’t DEMOCRATS stop Fanning the Flames of Violence?
There’s only 5 stars and five stripes on that flag.
[insert incoherent conspiracy rant here]
You see, that represents the fifth of May, the day next year that he will lock up the lizard cabal, clone Hilary, and Hunter’s big swinging cock. 5/5/25.
Alternatively, 5x5=25 therefore Project 25 confirmed.
That’s not even the good picture. Who is in charge of this shit? They should have used the one from below with the flag overhead.
I hate it, but the one from below is the fucking money shot. You almost couldn’t pay for a better picture. Except the only reason I can think that they’re not using it is that the photographer or organization he works for wouldn’t license it to him.
