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Former President Trump is hawking Trump sneakers, but the fine print on the website says Trump doesnt actually have the shoes.
Here is the fine print: Trumps shoes arent shipping until July or August of 2024, so he got booed at Sneaker Con and didnt even have the shoes. Imagine if you went to buy a new pair of shoes, and when you picked out the pair you wanted, the store said that will be $400, but we dont have your shoes, but we promise well send them to you later after they are ordered.
Link to tweet
That is what Trump is doing. The shoes arent out of stock or backordered. There is no stock. Trump is taking orders for a product that, given his history, he may never deliver.
Anyone who buys or walks around in a pair of Trump shoes is outing themselves as a potential fascist with a lot of issues, but the people buying these might be even more gullible than the MAGAs who are donating to a GoFundMe to pay the $355 million fraud judgment against Trump. Never ever take anything Trump says or does at face value. He may have shown up in Philadelphia with a pair of shoes, but that doesnt mean that he actually has the shoes.
https://www.politicususa.com/2024/02/19/trump-sneakers.html

ecstatic
(35,075 posts)after being personally swindled.
ChoppinBroccoli
(3,900 posts)...........remember THAT fine print said that even if you paid the money, you may not actually get your scrap. This will probably be like that. Just another scheme to separate fools from their money.
chicoescuela
(3,080 posts)ChoppinBroccoli
(3,900 posts)I said, "They won't ship until July 2024 because they aren't made yet. He's waiting to see how many orders he gets before he has his Chinese manufacturers start making them."
I'm also predicting that these will be exactly like all those right-wing books that hit the best sellers lists immediately, in that some big mega-donor will buy them in bulk so it will LOOK like they're selling really well, but he'll be giving them away for free at rallies before summer is over.
struggle4progress
(126,147 posts)SeattleVet
(5,903 posts)here's a deep dive into the grift and crooks behind it:
DemocraticPatriot
(5,410 posts)until July or August......
Well, the Confederate Army was often without adequate shoe-ware---
so it is poetic justice that the neo-confederate army should be likewise lacking for a couple of seasons....
(even if they have paid for it)
---except this isn't the 1860s anymore. Pretty goddamned pathetic
for one of "the Greatest Businesses EVER"!
Sogo
(7,191 posts)Demobrat
(10,299 posts)Hell take the money, never come through, and if anyone complains hell blow them off or call them names.
And his supporters will take his side. Because they are just that brainwashed.
Emile
(42,289 posts)Blue Owl
(59,099 posts)EarnestPutz
(2,843 posts)......even with a big endorsement deal.
Demobrat
(10,299 posts)Im willing to bet they feel like walking barefoot on cement. And fall apart in the rain. Flashy but with no substance at all. Just like him.
Emile
(42,289 posts)🤮🤮🤢
malaise
(296,098 posts)Taken more money from the MAGAts and changed the topic from his fall from his Tower of supposed greatness in New York.
leftyladyfrommo
(20,005 posts)were only 1000 pairs. And they don't exist yet.
Old Okie
(221 posts)That is a quick $400,000 although we don't know his cut. Easy way for rich donor to give him cash without breaking the law.
kimbutgar
(27,248 posts)A creative do it yourself could have some fun with those shoes decorating them as anti TFA!
bmichaelh
(1,181 posts)In a prior Curb Your Enthusiasm episode, Larry David would wear a MAGA hat to get out of some social obligations in LA.
Donald Trump did not get the satire and praised the episode.