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[–] Tremble@sh.itjust.works 114 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

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

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 71 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] SCB@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

Plus he didn't have pants to cut up

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[–] Octavio@lemmy.world 42 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

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.

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[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 89 points 2 years ago (4 children)

$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.

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] PwnTra1n@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago

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

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[–] TheJims@lemmy.world 54 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As all legitimate billionaires do.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] SCB@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

How do his people fall for this

[–] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

I mean, just look at religion. People are stupid.

[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

His entire voting base are ignorant hicks.

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[–] geekworking@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

There's a new sucker born every minute.

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] NewPerspective@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] NewPerspective@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

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.

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[–] MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago

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

[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] TheJims@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Quark is like “hey Donnie bump it down a notch”

[–] banneryear1868@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] TechyDad@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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?

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 12 points 2 years ago

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.

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[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

How much for the diaper he wore?

[–] cunning_bolt@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

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

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Never. They live off of our rent.

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Because that's what totally normal people do.

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[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

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?

[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] TalesFromTheKitchen@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago

Looks like something 'obvious plant' would sell as a joke. Someone really needs money.

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So I could go to a thrift store, buy a blue suit for $20, cut it up and sell the pieces on Ebay?

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago

You'd never get it to smell that gross.

[–] agitatedpotato@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

What, like on his OnlyFans or something?

[–] TheRealLinga@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When he dies are his family going to auction off vacuum-sealed discs of his remains?

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[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago

Ah, more dumb grifts, for dumb people.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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?

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[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This can't be right, there is like hundreds of thousands of pieces of this suit.

pieces them all together

Welp, guess he's just a fat ass.

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