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Initech

(100,059 posts)
Mon Jul 27, 2020, 11:13 AM Jul 2020

Has anyone seen Trump merchandise tents pop up in their area?

I've seen at least four that I know of where I live, and I'm sure there's more. They also seem to lack customers. I want to know - where are these coming from? And what purpose do they serve?

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blueinredohio

(6,797 posts)
2. When my sister came over on Friday she said there were
Mon Jul 27, 2020, 11:23 AM
Jul 2020

people on Main Street selling Trump paraphernalia. When I went that way on Sunday it wasn't there. I was hoping they would be there and ask if I want something I would tell them I just bought toilet paper. My bil said he would like to buy a Trump flag and burn it.

Initech

(100,059 posts)
13. I passed at least 3 yesterday while running various errands.
Mon Jul 27, 2020, 01:21 PM
Jul 2020

Needless to say, a certain finger came out at a few of them!

global1

(25,239 posts)
3. Where Do You Live? What State? And....
Mon Jul 27, 2020, 11:25 AM
Jul 2020

Is Trump selling the "I Survived The Pandemic Of 2020" t-shirt yet?

or how about "Fishin' Accomplished"

Zoonart

(11,845 posts)
4. Yes... in Lower hud Valley, NY.
Mon Jul 27, 2020, 11:33 AM
Jul 2020

In the parking lot of a local luncheonette. I pass it all the time and I just want to throw a bucket of red Kool-Aid out the window at them.

in2herbs

(2,945 posts)
5. There's a trump store in my town and quite a few trump bumper stickers. I would love to engage
Mon Jul 27, 2020, 11:35 AM
Jul 2020

them in an intelligent conversation about current events but an intelligent conversation involving an R is an oxymoron.

Initech

(100,059 posts)
12. Nah, I think that ship has sailed.
Mon Jul 27, 2020, 01:20 PM
Jul 2020

My MAGA neighbors and former neighbors are very much on the side of Trump and their minds won't be changed. My one former neighbor is giving up his Angels season tickets because we had players who kneeled and painted BLM on the pitcher's mound. You cannot persuade people like that.

d_r

(6,907 posts)
6. Yes
Mon Jul 27, 2020, 11:37 AM
Jul 2020

In Tennessee and Central Florida. Selling Trump flags, Confederate flag, gadson flags. It is like it is people who have so little to feel good about themselves that they think it is an investment in home improvement to show off a trump flag or something. Same people when would fly a bama flag but never set foot on campus.

lanlady

(7,133 posts)
8. Yes!
Mon Jul 27, 2020, 12:57 PM
Jul 2020

In a parking lot next to a farmer's market in Leesburg, Va. Two or three guys flying a huge Trump 2020 flag from a pickup truck and selling red hats and other junk.

It was on a scorching hot day a week or so ago - the kind of day when you can practically feel the asphalt melting. There they were, in tanks and shorts sans masks, of course. But no one was paying any attention to them. The town of Leesburg is not exactly Trump country. I think these guys get out there just to thumb their noses at the libs.

 

HotTeaBag

(1,206 posts)
11. I haven't seen any, but I doubt there's anything nefarious about them.
Mon Jul 27, 2020, 01:13 PM
Jul 2020

Just Trump supporters selling cheap stuff to make money - hell, if I lived in a red area I'd open one myself, I'd gladly take MAGAT's money - be awesome to buy a MAGA hat from China for $1.20 and sell it for $25.00 or have idiots pay me to take a photo with a Trump cutout.

In the right area you could make quite a tidy sum.

Totally Tunsie

(10,885 posts)
14. We have an actual store nearby, but there are rarely
Mon Jul 27, 2020, 01:23 PM
Jul 2020

any cars parked outside. It features a life-sized blow-up of a waving Chump in the lot. I was dismayed when it first opened, but now I'm pleased to see so little activity.

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