Donald Trump sells cut-up pieces of suit he wore in mugshot - for $5,000

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Donald Trump sells cut-up pieces of suit he wore in mugshot - for $5,000
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I’d be willing to bet even if you pay the 5,000 you wouldn’t be getting fabric from that actual suit. Donald Duck is such a grifter even his grifts are grifts

Don't call this POS Donald Duck. Donald Duck canonically is a War Vet with PTSD that constantly was griping at Scrooge for not helping the community enough. Donald Duck is based AF.

Plus he didn't have pants to cut up

Is this a real comic panel?

As far as I'm aware. I read the comic it's a part of. They went to Egypt to try to excavate a tomb IIRC, but I'm probably conflating two different comics.

In the 90s there were enough “pieces of the Berlin Wall” going around to build the Great Wall of China. I suspect it will be something similar.

There's a little monument in my city that has a piece of the Berlin Wall on a stone pedestal. There's a plaque commemorating the fall of the wall. Underneath is a smaller, newer plaque that says "this is not a real piece of the Berlin Wall"

I wonder if they got grifted by one of those fakes in the 90s, that would explain it

There are legitimate pieces of the Berlin Wall. You just need to have a picture of it before it came down and you can identify it by the graffiti.

Not to mention, he never actually had a mugshot.

Wow, just looked it up you appear to be correct 👍

Although from what I see he did have a mugshot taken in Fulton county but the famous one is fake

If only Donald was larger than 6'3" and 215 lbs he might have more suit pieces to go around!

This was my first thought. No way donnie would give up one of his cheap ass suits for this.

People who downvoted this comment can lick my taint. What keeps you on lemmy when everyone trashes your guy? Slurp that shit like a porno, make it tingle.

$1,000 says that:
a) that's not the actual suit he wore
and
b) there's a lot more than a single suit worth of fabric up for sale.

The former president has released a series of digital trading cards priced at $99 each and anyone who buys all 47 will receive a physical card containing a piece of the “priceless” navy suit and be invited to a gala dinner at Mar-a-Lago.

They aren't even selling the suit. They're selling digital trading cards, LMAO. Collect em all and get a piece of garbage and cheeseburder.

If I thought there was actually a dinner at the end of it and that I could talk to him I would go just to be like

“Yo, you’re the guy on the cards. I didn’t know you actually existed”

“I wish I looked as good as I do on those cards, that I can tell you,” the former president says in the video.

“They give me muscles where, believe me, I don’t have them.”

This may be the most honest and down-to-earth thing he's ever said

to be fair its trumps suit there has to be a lot of fabric to cover his fat ass

They're not well fitted either, gotta hide his figure. Also why does his dang tie hang halfway to his knees?

Also why does his dang tie hang halfway to his knees?

Covering his balls?

I wonder how many in his base might legit think he has abs like those absurd cartoon images of him.

And c) his dumb fuck supporters will buy it all up anyway

This is literally turn-of-the-20th-century huckster bullshit lol

How do his people fall for this

His entire voting base are ignorant hicks.

They aren't though. He won 51% of the white, college-educated vote.

Those are the people falling for this, somehow.

As all legitimate billionaires do.

It's weird how we don't see Gates, Musk, Zuckerberg, etc., hawking NFTs of themselves.

i mean, you can’t stay rich by spending your own money. plus, he’s got some monitor that yells when he spends money he didn’t ask to spend.

losers going to con.

I suspect money laundering or illegal donations. It'll sell out, just like his NFT playing cards. Not because people like my dad are clamoring for it, but because people that can't give him money publicly will buy them.

Aren't there more effective ways to do this, like $10000 a night stays at mar-a-lago?

This stuff does seem, at least, to be aimed at the shit munchers

I would think that this is less trackable. Trump is under a microscope in several courts and if they found that 100 people stayed in the same suite on the same night and nobody actually showed up then it's a bright red flag. But selling chunks of suit in the mail? It's unorthodox by design.

What I mean is that, at $10000 a night, you can book a 10 day stay and fork over $100k for what looks like a regular stay at a hotel resort.

Buying 10000 pieces of suit in the mail is... Well, okay, I don't know what that is. You're right about unorthodox, JFC.

I laugh a bit every time I think of some teabagger dumbass falling for donnie's "never surrender" nonsense when it's an actual picture of him surrendering.

I wouldn't call it surrendered until he's actually in jail with no bond. At this point he could still very well find a way out of the country if he's even convicted.

And judging by the shit show the courts have allowed thus far, I'm sadly not holding my breath.

I mean, point taken. He's not properly locked up like he should be. I'm just saying the mugshot is taken during his literal surrender - the fourth time he did this year, by the way. But he tells his idiot base "never surrender" and sells them pics....of actual evidence of his surrender. It's beyond idiotic.

I hope everyone that bought such a t-shirt, mug, etc...is reminded that their little memorabilia is a replica of his surrender.

Unfortunately I think it's the government flirting around a possibility they know is very real because we saw it once -

You lock up Trump and the justice department will come under siege immediately by his voters, and you either let them win and they win, or you use violence against the violence against the government and they win (because self defense is tyranny to them.)

I mean the govt has been known to use the military against civilian protests.

Don't remember which president it was but he ordered the army* to open fire on civilians protesting on the white house lawn. Also police bombing buildings. It's funny when fellow Americans act like we don't live in a country where the govt will actively kill you if you go against their wishes enough.

*I don't remember if it was the army or the national guard

I wonder how many suits could be made with all the sold pieces.

Out of the regular suit?

Because there's no way he'll stop selling pieces claiming it came from that suit. I'd be surprised if any are honestly, I bet Rudy (or some other idiot) found a bag of scraps at a tailorshop and that's what they're selling.

It's this the presidential version of Belle Delphines bath water? It's Trump getting an onlyfans next?

“I wish I looked as good as I do on those cards, that I can tell you,” the former president says in the video.

“They give me muscles where, believe me, I don’t have them.”

Hey look, he actually can tell the truth.

"he's so broke, he has to literally sell the clothes off his back."
-defense attorney in ny state fraud trial

The ones who argued his public mugshot would lose him supporters were idiots. Always got my comments buried for saying rhat and how the first thing he'd do was market his mugshot and exploit it for his political brand yet here we are.

I remeber you.

I knew you were right. I downvoted you because I didn't want you to be right. It was a Farnsworth "I don't want to live on this planet anymore!" downvote. I do not apologize.

I do not apologize.

upvoted for the defiance

Yeah, that's just not how cults work. Especially when the idol is supposedly "counter culture" due to the "deep state" having it out for them.

The more you (deservedly) vilify him, the harder the zealots chant.

It's the same as in 2016 how Trump supporters would share clips and compilations of reactions to him from liberal media personalities, and how Hillary invented the "deplorable" slogan for them. His political brand was built by reactions to him largely from liberal media.

I actually got to think that way and was surprised that he's unashamedly using his mugshot to his benefit.

But I don't care. That mugshot is a delight to see. A US president's mugshot? A corrupt one? I'm loving it!

Nothing says “I’m so rich” like a fundraiser selling pieces of your clothing.

Given Trump's penchant for grifting and fraud, I'm wondering if he kept the suit, had someone buy a series of similar looking suits as cheaply as possible, and then cut those up to sell. Why would he care if the hunk of fabric that he SAID came from his suit actually came from some thrift store find?

Why would he even have to cut a suit. Knowing this fraud piece of shit, he probably just sourced the cheapest fabric that looks like the fabric of his suit and sells chunks of fabric that was never part of anything.

He truly does love America because a not insignificant portion of the population are absolutely dumb as bricks and will gleefully join a cult that fleeces them.

I'm mostly wondering how long it takes until he sells his piss or bath water.

I only support his grifting because it's taking away money that would otherwise be going to reelecting Republicans.

I wonder when the idiots he preys on run out of money.

Amazingly, a new sucker is born every day. It will never happen.

Never before washed

Edit: as an aside, it was super funny to me to watch Trump deny he's obsessed with Golden Showers by saying he's a germaphobe.

Its like, dude, you and I both know full well that urine is sterile. What say u now?

My take on his obedience to Putin: The problem with the Moskau piss video was not the pissing - it was the age of the pissers.

Even Trump could not get unharmed out of a CP trial.

If this video actually existed, how would it not have been leaked by now?

It's much more worth neatly stowed away in a safe in Moscow. Trump will always hop through every hoop that Putin has for him.

To Putin it is.

But he can’t be the only one with access to it.

Wait till Putin dies or until Putin no longer holds trump as his pet.

How great would that be? Like terrible for the girls but God I wish that shit took a leak [all over him]

Sterile-ish

If he was a true germaphobe, I doubt he would be having sex with anyone ever.

I think his whole germaphobe schtick is more of a "polonium tea avoidance"

Nah, he eats fast food like it's going out of style. Food prepared in back kitchens by people he can't see in sanitary conditions he can't verify.

I always thought his "germaphobia" was a cover for why he didn't like shaking hands with certain people.

Like yes, but also, he's known to frequent huge chains with well-established+enforced standarized practices.

Could be bullshit, his diet is uncannily similar to mine and that disturbs me but I think its an interesting line of inquiry for sure that potentially has more than one answer. I do buy into the Russian sabatoge angle even if its a cover for another adversary setting it up lile that. He's fucked a lot of people

Mighty charitable of you to assume he knows that.

Oh my gawd, you're damn correct. LMFAO, I think I simultaneously vastly overestimate him and under-under-estimate the fuck. He's got a lot of other smart people totally incapacitated in terms of evaulating what the hell is this guy and what is the level of sentience underlying it

His father must have been an absolute fucking monster. Also, I do strongly believe he hypnotizes the easily-hypnotizable or those who can be hypnotized at all

I’m surprised they aren’t selling his urine as a cure for Covid.

That illustration in the video is bonkers. Looks like someone asked an AI to make a mashup of Putin and Trump. Is that what Donnie thinks he looks like?

I remember under the Obama admin, how Putin made the teabaggers just about swoon. Several would even use him shirtless on that horse as their avatar and talk about how much more manly Putin was as opposed to Obama (who, in the RW imagination, is simultaneously a dictator and also very weak and unmanly), how he's making Russia great with all the anti-gay, pro-xtian, pro-white stuff he is doing there.

Donnie diapers, or at least someone he has doing the real work, have to know how much Putin excites the teabaggers in their swimsuit areas, so maybe that explains this image.

Note that Trump announced his campaign super early because he wanted to paint the legal cases against him as political. This actually restricts how much he can fundraise from a given person.

So rather than try to expand his political appeal he is "selling" NFTs and tiny pieces of clothing for thousands of dollars to people who have already donated the maximum amount.

Trump's happy retirement, long dreamed of, where no one expects him to be anything but a grifter.

Oh, one more thing that comes to mind every time I see donnie diapers hawking his stupid wares to slack-jawed yokels. I'm reminded of "Bob". It's like someone took some of the satire of the Church of the Subgenius and made it a real thing. To wit, here are some famous quotes from "Bob":

Make them pay as much as they think they can afford.

You won't appreciate it if you don't pay for it.

You'd PAY to know what you REALLY think.

I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to!

Act like a dumbshit and they'll treat you like an equal.

Don't just eat that hamburger, eat the HELL out of it!

Everyone here is stupid.

You know how dumb the average person is? Well, by definition, half of 'em are even dumber than THAT.

I always lie . . . and I'm always right.

I mean, all of the CotS was about making fun of cults and religion, but...donnie's cult looks not that much different, except w/o any satire and without any humor. Especially when you add in the Qtarded stuff. Q reads like someone who tapped into CotS (or the Illuminatus Trilogy, etc.) and just did not get the joke, much like idiots that thought the Colbert Report was actually done to support right wingers...

I read the Illuminatus trilogy when I was 23 (yeah I know) and for about 50 pages I almost believed it. Then I read the rest of the book and quickly realized it was satire (the golden submarine and Nazi Zombies are pretty big clues).

"Bob" has Slack. Trump has delusions of adequacy. They are not the same.

I read that as "cut up pieces of shit" at first and fully expected his fans to buy it.

Grifters going to grift... Can we stop fucking around and put this dude and his cronies behind bars. Common people see it, but he just keeps getting preferential treatment.

Dimes to donuts that is just another old suit he grew out of.

When people start trying to figure out what part they got they will find out they all got a piece with no seams and the collective area is 3 standard rolls of suit fabric.

Can't he just sell cut-off pieces of himself? I guess many of his MAGA-heads would love to have a pound of their idol at home. Just like people in medieval times took fingers of people that were hanged as trophies...

I can totally seeing him pull a Ferengi after he dies and sell off dessicated pieces of his body. Except it will turn out they're fake.

Can you imagine what the finger he used to grab her by the pussy is worth?

Im not even mad. I wish I had idiots who would buy scraps of my suit for 5k a peice.

It's not that it's annoying that I have to fact check these things because they sound plausible.

It's that things are dumb enough now I don't even have to bother because yeah, sure, that's probably a thing that's happening.

How Fluxus. Yoko Ono would be proud.