I mean, the NFTs worked pretty fucking well. Dude sold 45,000 of them for $99 a pop in under 24 hours. Obviously, they're a blatant grift, and anybody who bought one is a blithering idiot, but they were incredibly successful regardless. Turns out, a whole lot of blithering idiots love him and can't wait to give him their money for whatever useless bit of tat he deigns to throw at them.
As if to demonstrate the point, the gaudy monstrosity in that picture is already sold out, and they were listed at $399.
It’s just laundering Russian money
And Saudi money.
This is the issue. Sure, we can laugh about all the ridiculous things Trump is grifting, but the fact of the matter is that they're working. Even if they're just money laundering schemes for foreign parties, as people seem convinced they are, they're still selling out in hours, which is a huge win for Trump. And honestly, I know of several republicans who would gladly spend their entire paycheck on some random trump-related thing just to "own the libs." I really think that most of these sales are legitimate, which is a very sobering window into how sad our country is right now.
A huge win in a PR sense, but nowhere near enough to cover all of his legal fees. And it's not like his campaign fees take precedent to him.
These look like a spray painted prop from a really bad B-version of the Wizard Of Oz.
Trump thinks gold is classy but he has the shittest taste ever.In case anyone didn't know.
Gold is tacky as fuck ... Especially anything that isn't classy jewelry or a watch. Even in those cases it can look extremely dated.
Your gold xxxx makes you look trailer fab.
His taste is pretty much anything an 8 year old thinks a rich guy would have.
Seriously though let’s forget for a second who’s hawking these shoes, the sneakers are sooooo ugly by themselves. No sense of style, aesthetics, or design. Who is going to wear these and not feel like a goober?
MBS can order a million of these and not violate campaign finance laws.
FSB just put in an order for $380m of them
I kinda feel that way about a lot of niche sneakers tbh...
It's an easy way to identify the lower IQ/more gullible GOP members. (Quark would love and exploit this feature [RoA#74: Knowledge equals profit])
Low IQ GOP members is a redundancy - unless you're an uber-wealthy direct beneficiary of their grifts.
Same people that vote for Trump without feeling like a goober, I'd imagine.
Let's not forget how popular Kanye "I loooooooove Hitlerrrrrr" West's shoes continue to be - and most of them look like the product of a 3-way between nanna's teach cosy, a Tesla, and an inflatable life raft.
Yeezy shoes continue to make profit for Adidas because they’re produced cheap enough, but that’s not the same as Yeezy being popular anymore. Data: https://legitcheck.app/stats/yeezy/
Someone in another comment chain mentioned that Trumkers (trump sneakers) look cheaply made. Would someone with an eye for shoes be able to elaborate?
It does not matter. It's a way for people to mass purchase these and allow them to circumvent campaign contribution limitations.
Just buy 20 containers for resale and then let them rot in a warehouse while trump sells more to his MAGAts.
Yep, it's the old book deal con except with shoes. Either the Russians or the American idiot class, or both.
I mean, the gold looks like it was spray painted on.
It will start to crack when drying after it encounters the first bit of rain.
The stitching on those look amateur as fuck. The uneven stitch line on the soles is garbage. These are likely Walmart quality shoes with his name stamped on
I don't know that anyone expected anything different.
These are made in China most likely, correct?
The only thing more American than "Made in the USA" is "Made in China" lol
Maybe China, I think more likely is Indonesia or Cambodia. This is absolute bottom-tier product
I've been waiting for someone who actually knows about sneakers to tell us the quality of these shoes. It's what I thought, but I'm glad to have it confirmed. Thank you.
Someone told me on another thread that I was bad for judging anyone who would wear $400 shiny gold shoes.
And yet, I still judge anyone who would wear $400 shiny gold shoes.
You are bad for judging people based on their choice of clothes ...
But not as bad as someone who wears $400 shiny gold shoes! Heyo
Glad the SneakerCon folks boo'd this.
This will be the first sneaker to be reverse scalped.
Oddly I think the phrase is take a haircut
Gold and T makes me think of Mr T tbh.
I'm not encouraging violence or anything but... if I saw someone who was getting jumped wearing these, I'd pretend I didn't notice.
Does laughing count as encouraging?
They sold out in the first hour
To the RNC most likely
My guess is on the Russians doing a fair bit of money laundering
There’s a lot of magats on TikTok extolling them like they’re the greatest trainers ever produced
Or Trump at least made it seem like they sold out.
The first 20 or so may just be sold to his associates just so he could claim they were selling like hotcakes.
Nice pimp shoes. How appropriate.
I would rather shit in a sock, put my foot in it, let it harden, and use that as a shoe than wear that ridiculous pile of piss-like footwear.
He could spray paint a bottle gold, fill it with piss and they'd buy it.
Who. Russia?
Make in GINA
Bet they are elevator shoes like the shoes Trump always wears.
Cool, I know exactly which shoes to spit on now
At least it has the correct number of stars for the number of states where he's going to win the popular vote in after being a convicted traitor.
He's selling his stupid xshitter clone for nearly 10 billion and he has a 50ish percent stake. That's the real grift here. No one in their right mind would pay 10 billion for that platform. It's got fewer than one million active users and the rest are bots. THAT is the bribe.
