https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-merchandise-black-friday-deals-b2875040.htmlPresident Donald Trump offered his supporters exclusive Black Friday "deals" on MAGA merchandise - but they appeared to be more expensive than the regular prices listed on his website.In emails, that went out to his mailing list from November 24, the president touted special deals on items including a Christmas tree ornament of a red MAGA hat; a 2026 MAGA calendar, and wrapping paper decorated with a fist-pumping Trump in a Santa hat.The emails, first reported by Meidas Touch Network, noted that the president feels “extra thankful” for his supporters and encourages them to “snag” the deals now.The Black Friday offer email touted the MAGA hat ornament for $37. Yet, on the official Trump Merchandise Store website, the same decoration costs $30. Similarly, a promo for the Trump 2026 calendar boasts of a “new low price” of $32. The same calendar sells for $25 on the official merch site.Follow-up emails, sent in the days leading up to Black Friday and again on November 29, announced that the offer on both products had been “extended,” though did not say until when. The White House directed The Independent to the Trump Organization for comment about the president’s merchandise prices.Supporters were also offered a “new low price” on a festive MAGA hat - featuring the words “Make America Great” with Christmas lights and trees - which was reduced to “just $35” via email. The same hat appears to retail for $28 on the official merchandise store.A large number of Americans have said they plan to tighten their holiday spending budget this year in the face of widespread economic uncertainty.Two in five U.S. consumers (42 percent) said they intend to spend less on Christmas shopping than in 2024, according to a recent Economic Impact Survey commissioned by insurance company Nationwide.
Despite a relative easing of inflation, costs of essentials like groceries, utilities, and rent remain high, leaving many to prioritize bills instead of shelling out on luxuries.Trump has claimed that he has almost eliminated inflation completely. “We have almost no inflation. We’re down now to 2 percent,” Trump said at an event earlier this month. “Inflation is almost nonexistent.”The Trump administration’s tariffs are also having an impact, particularly on lower-income households which spend a larger share of their earnings on goods, many of which are imported, according to the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.The Christmas items are the latest attempt by Trump to cash in on the presidency after he has previously sold guitars, gold high-top sneakers, branded watches and even Bibles, among other products.The president also launched a new cryptocurrency – $TRUMP Coin – on the day he returned to office, and is one of the forms of payment accepted online for merchandise.Trump’s 2025 seasonal deals are reminiscent of last year, when he also bombarded supporters with emails advertising branded items and encouraging people to donate to the Trump National Committee, a joint fundraising effort of the Never Surrender PAC and the Republican National Committee.The 2024 Trump holiday gift guide, which promised to “make the holidays that much greater,” included $150 sequin shirts, a $550 “bling” clutch and $95 baubles in the shape of Mar-a-Lago.Other gifts included Trump advent calendars, $22 candy cane socks, $72 pajamas, a $180 pickleball paddle, tie clips, belts, sunglasses, and, of course, a whole range of MAGA hats.
>>1461426>The Christmas items are the latest attempt by Trump to cash in on the presidencyWhy is this allowed?
>>1461430Because our Supreme Court basically said the Hatch Act doesn't exist. Carter should've just kept his fucking peanut farm.
>>1461425This sets a precedent that all future republican electees and nominees will be grifters and will line their own pockets, making the presidential election a bid for wealth instead of political justification. Trump really was a democrat all along, single handedly destroying the republican party from the inside. I voted for this!
>>1461430It isn't, it'll be up to next democratic president to grow some balls to not only prosecute trump, but seize any money he made off the prescidency and then tell the republican supreme court to fuck themselves when they try to declare republicans committing crimes is legal.
>>1461442>Pelosi becomes rich in politics>Obama gets rich off of politicsMUH FUGGIN' GRUMPF!!!What a biased turdburger you are, faggot.Perhaps it's time to turn your critical lens at Democruds.
>>1461446What do you personally think about Donald Trump being as corrupt as Pelosi and Obama and enriching himself off his office like they did?
>>1461447I'm just expanding on your viewpoint.Trump was always a name and Trump is an US institution. Essentially he's been doing business forever.Obama takes speaking engagements, as a name and brand all his own.I'm pretty sure Pelosi is a geriatric stripper with those glorious hoo-ha's on her chest. Would fucking motorboat.And, I don't care if money is made by people selling their name.However, you do, but you're really focused on Trump. Shouldn't you be holding your own to the same standards?That's my question.
>>1461449>Um, akshully I don't even care and think both sides are bad, but why are you talking about Trump in a thread about Trump!? WHY AREN'T YOU TALKING ABOUT OBAMA OR PELOSI!?!?!?!? STOP TALKING ABOUT TRUMP AND TALK ABOUT OBAMA!!!!!1!!!!!
>>1461454Yes, whatabout? It shows you literally don't care and you're just griping about gRumpf.I know you lust for power so thirstily that you forget to look inside, but the consequence is you look like an absolutely disingenuous turbo faggot.
>>1461449>>1461456Pelosi trading stocks isn't the same as Trump having a christmas catalog. And Obama never did it while president (neither did any other president). The Hatch Act used to mean something before Trump started ignoring laws he didn't like.
>>1461456>Yes, whatabout?So you're aware your entire thread derailment tactic is nothing but whataboutism, but you're still not only sticking with it but advertising it.It's an interesting strategy. Not a good one, but an interesting one.
>>1461457>The Hatch Act of 1939, An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities, is a United States federal law that prohibits civil service employees in the executive branch of the federal government,[2] except the president and vice president,[3] from engaging in some forms of political activity.Still means something. You just don't know what it means.> local Democratic Party politicians used employees of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the congressional elections of 1938 provided the immediate impetus for the passage of the Hatch Act. Criticism centered on swing states such as Kentucky,[5] Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. So, uh, lusting for power without knowledge or scrupulous behavior over there is really winning my heart and mind, and not making you look stupid as fuck.
>>1461459It's led to a discussion in which at least one stupid fucking faggot, probably (You) got owned.See >>1461460
>>1461465Absolutely seethingYou broke the first rule of shilling: never get emotional
>>1461440>I voted for this!Then do the only honorable thing left and kys
>>1461466>emotionalWho's emotional?
>>1461465>probablySo in all probability it's those who were never never taken in by a glorified orange conman who get to keep their money and it's a bunch of cultists who are now poorfags just to 'own the libs'.So who are the ones that are 'owned', again?
>>1461456Has anyone else noticed that chuds are the only ones who call him drumpf or grumpf?
>>1461475>So who are the ones that are 'owned', again?The ones who bought Trump phones.
>>1461460Pelosi et al are just typical dirty politicians that feeling that they are not getting paid enough in our entitled to skim off the surface to get more money , Trump is a fucking mafioso who's burning down the joint to get insurance money
>>1461480I'm laughing at you every time I do it too.
>>1461475>Bought some shitty merch>Now poorHow much do you believe Trumpfags spend on memorabilia? And why are you so concerned?Leftist sped too much on Legos does anyone really complain?
>>1461446>WhataboutYou make it sound like I wouldn't want them all prosecuted. That's the problem with far right conservatives projecting their beliefs onto everyone.And what makes it pathetically funny how actual liberals have no problem throwing the clintons under the bus if it means finally getting rid of that pedophile trump
>>1461499>You make it sound like I wouldn't want them all prosecuted.But you don't. And they've done nothing wrong (well, nothing illegal anyway) really so you can't.I'm sort of sick of disingenuous liars acting like "both sides" faggots.
>spedBut enough about >>1461498 who is terminally online. Spend some time outdoors, it'll do you good. Or if you need to be indoors, I suggest taking English classes.
>>1461503>But you don'tBecause we have a right wing uniparty that pushes conservative interests.If we didn't we'd still be in a shutdown showing what a monster your side is by intentionally starving children because they couldn't steal healthcare from people.This is why you're scared shitless of actual liberals and do everything to fearmonger and smear them, because they clean out all your cancer in both parties.
>>1461507>Because we have a right wing uniparty that pushes conservative interests.Well, yes, and better healthcare subsidies for unemployed people who make 60k or more a year was part of those "conservative interests". Feeding corpos tax money has been the Democrat platform for nearly 3 decades now.Dem voter? Literally too retarded to figure it out.So, because Insurance companies weren't able to continue grifting givernment funding Democrat attempted to starve their own voters before Thanksgiving.Perhaps you haven't thought this through?
>>1461509>Democrats start to go far right wing under Clinton>They become corperate whores tooShockingGod forbid we go back to a 90% tax rate on the rich and nationalize healthcare saving trillions of dollars in the process, but of course you'd pro billionare as a conserative and want to starve children, going so far as to ignore the courts to do it.But ooga booga socialsim! Madami's win once against exposed the far right wing uniparty that controls America, and what it takes to defeat you.
>both parties>a Democrat recently elected>someone referred to that recently elected Democrat - loathed & detested by supporters of the diametric opposite to him - as 'A very rational man' when they met in the Oval Office>would he have said that if he didn't like that recently elected Democrat?The 'communist' Mamdani is liked by Trump. You voted for the latter, cultists.
>>1461510>God forbid we go back to a 90% tax rate on the rich and nationalize healthcare saving trillions of dollars in the process, but of course you'd pro billionare as a conserative and want to starve children, going so far as to ignore the courts to do it.>But ooga booga socialsim! Madami's win once against exposed the far right wing uniparty that controls America, and what it takes to defeat you.Tickle down works. The 90% tax shit caused decades of inflation and high interest rates, cured by Reagan.Nationalizing healthcare is retarded when better regulations and less government funding is what's required.In the end, your stupid fantasy about nationalizing healthcare will create an NHS-like shitty healthcare system with a ridiculous tax burden.
>>1461510>God forbid we go back to a 90% tax rate>there was a top tax rate of 91% - but that didn't stop a Republican electorate voting in twice a Republican president - during a time the rightists today 'want to go back to'Pick one, MAGAts.
>NHS>who planned that during WWII, thus created itA bust of that creator is in the Oval Office because the current resident admires him so much, certainly everything he stands for or he wouldn't have that bust there. So either (check one)[ ] Trump is right, thus can never be criticized about anything. So much as thinking about doing so, and you're a traitor to Trump[ ]Trump is more than wrong about everything he says, does & thinksChoose wisely, cultists.
>>1461514What?
>>1461515Are these bot posts or are you literally mentally ill?
>>1461516What?>>1461518Rajnesh, fix your bots. They're too mentally ill to understand anything.
>>1461513What?
>>1461425That's hilarious. God, they're so fucking dumb.
>>1461425Guess they had to raise their prices to offset the tariffs kek.Also anyone buying this trash deserves to get ripped off.
>>1461528Shit's gonna be worth tens of thousands in 20 years.
>>1461531tens of thousands of what, melania coin?
>>1461532USD, faggot.
>>1461513>Tickle down works. >Tickle down works for the rich and literally no one else. Fixed that for ya, bucko.
>>1461533us? no, just my dollar
>faggotBut enough about >>1461533's deviancy.
>>1461534interesting thought. Is that why Democrats beg Amazon to open warehouses in their cities in exchange for huge tax breaks?Tell me more about your mantras being fake and gay.
>>1461539What do these odd posts even do? They're so strange. Must be some Indian bot shit.
>>1461541What?
>>1461538Source?
>>1461551>>1461538 larps as Senator Armstrong. His 'source' is he made it the fuck up.
>>1461513>Trickle down worksThe last 50 years proves it's a total failure. We need to get corporate greed out of all fields. Not only should we national healthcare, but also utilities, telecoms, safety and transportation. It would save the taxpayers trillons in wasted money that just go to the billionaires and leeching shareholders who's boots you lick.
>>1461533No one will give two fucks about Trump in 5 years, let alone 20But I'm sure your Trump vodka, steaks, cell phones are totally going to increase in value. Right, faggot?
>>1461567We actually had like 15 good years before Clinton fucked everything up.
>>1461613>weAnon.
>>1461571>No one will give two fucks about Trump in 5 yearsIncorrect. Trump's the new Reagan.By which I mean he's a massively destructive blowhard actor with brainrot that has ruined the country and worsened the Republican party to which Republicans will be tied on both sides until they invariably start throwing him under the bus in 40 years so he can't be used against whatever rotten vegetables they're running then.
>The Art of the Deal>If it ever delivers like Trump Phone
>>1461425Thank you President Trump. Just ordered a new Christmas MAGA hat
>>1461695What was wrong with the old MAGA hat?
>>1461709If it's anything like the MAGA flags my boomer neighbor has been flying since 2018, it's cheap Chinese crap that has to be replaced every six months when it falls apartI've never been able to put into words the feeling of watching someone fly a flag that represents their devotion to someone who is actively ripping them off with the very flag they're flying.
>>1461709It isn't Christmas themed and Christmas is coming up
>>1461668400,000 people gave him 100usd deposit and got stiffed. the fucking president of the united states. And they'll find a way to mentally be ok with it. unbelievable.
