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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump touts manufacturing jobs with video of workers making coins with his face.
Really.
A new video has been posted on the YouTube account for President Donald Trumps reelection campaign, one in which happy citizens thank the president for the opportunity to make coins with his face on them.
The video opens with a clip from Trumps June announcement that he would expand apprenticeships and vocational training. Although the executive order is described as intended to help Americans develop fruitful careers about which they can be passionate, the video soon makes it clear that the ad isnt promoting run-of-the-mill jobs it is specifically showing ordinary citizens manufacturing Make America Great Again coins.
With Trumps face engraved into the front and an American flag on the back, the coins can be purchased online from the Trump re-election campaign store for $45.
Although some brief lip service is paid to plumbers and other occupations unrelated to creating Trump-branded merchandise, the majority of the video shows off either the coins being made or people talking about the honor of being able to make them. One man tells the camera that he takes pride in the fact that the coins are made in the United States and sold in the United States. A woman says that working for the company is kind of like living the dream.
The video opens with a clip from Trumps June announcement that he would expand apprenticeships and vocational training. Although the executive order is described as intended to help Americans develop fruitful careers about which they can be passionate, the video soon makes it clear that the ad isnt promoting run-of-the-mill jobs it is specifically showing ordinary citizens manufacturing Make America Great Again coins.
With Trumps face engraved into the front and an American flag on the back, the coins can be purchased online from the Trump re-election campaign store for $45.
Although some brief lip service is paid to plumbers and other occupations unrelated to creating Trump-branded merchandise, the majority of the video shows off either the coins being made or people talking about the honor of being able to make them. One man tells the camera that he takes pride in the fact that the coins are made in the United States and sold in the United States. A woman says that working for the company is kind of like living the dream.
http://www.salon.com/2017/09/06/donald-trumps-campaign-releases-an-unintentionally-orwellian-commercial/
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Trump touts manufacturing jobs with video of workers making coins with his face. (Original Post)
The Velveteen Ocelot
Sep 2017
OP
I'm a machinist by profession but I'd absolutely refuse to make those butt-ugly coins...
Rollo
Sep 2017
#1
He's probably lowered the intrinsic value of whatever cheap metal the coins are made from...
Rollo
Sep 2017
#5
Also wonder how many tax dollars are getting funneled into this mother of all boondoggles...
Rollo
Sep 2017
#6
At least we can be assured that Donald Trump will never appear on any actual currency.
PubliusEnigma
Sep 2017
#9
Rollo
(2,559 posts)1. I'm a machinist by profession but I'd absolutely refuse to make those butt-ugly coins...
With Assholini's mug on each one of them... I'd need an air-sickness bag every hour on the hour...
Trump can go fuck himself.
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htuttle
(23,738 posts)2. This sounds like something out of a dystopian Dr Seuss book
He's going to fix the economy by having people make fake coins with his face on them?
Does he think he's Caesar?
marybourg
(12,631 posts)4. Well put. lol. nt
Rollo
(2,559 posts)5. He's probably lowered the intrinsic value of whatever cheap metal the coins are made from...
TeapotInATempest
(804 posts)3. What is he, a Roman Emperor?!
How disgusting.
Rollo
(2,559 posts)6. Also wonder how many tax dollars are getting funneled into this mother of all boondoggles...
And how much Trump, Inc. is profiting from it...
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spartan61
(2,091 posts)7. Why doesn't trump concentrate on
doing his job as president instead of campaigning for the 2020 election? I think he likes the art of the campaign instead of the actual job he is campaigning to get. He loves the adulation he gets at a rally. How narcissistic.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)8. Holy shit, I thought this had to be fake
but the video appears to be real and it's true you can get it from Dump's reelection site for the low low price of $45!
PubliusEnigma
(1,583 posts)9. At least we can be assured that Donald Trump will never appear on any actual currency.