Tuesday, October 29

Trump’s mugshot spawns merchandise frenzy

A day after former President Donald Trump turned himself in to Georgia authorities, his marketing campaign shortly capitalized on the previous president’s historic mugshot taken on the Fulton County jail with a flurry of merchandise bearing the well-known picture.

T-shirts, bumper stickers, espresso mugs and koozies that includes the previous president’s defiant mugshot stare are on the market on his marketing campaign’s on-line merchandise storefront.

Win Red, a Republican Party fundraising platform that Mr. Trump makes use of as his official marketing campaign web site, is promoting quick and long-sleeve t-shirts and the opposite objects bearing Mr. Trump’s mugshot below the slogan, “NEVER SURRENDER!”



The merchandise ranges from $12 to $34.

Other on-line retailers are promoting their very own merchandise that includes Mr. Trump’s mugshot, the primary ever taken of a former president.

The on-line craft retailer Etsy has 60 pages of various merchandise that includes Mr. Trump’s mugshot in all types of value ranges and geared toward each pro-and anti-Trump customers.

His mugshot is featured on espresso mugs and t-shirts, some with jail bars imposed over his face.

A $25 espresso cup on the market on the positioning options his mugshot and his inmate quantity: P01135809, one other superimposes his mugshot over a listing of the legal prices he now faces in 4 separate instances.

Mr. Trump is already fundraising off his transient journey to the Fulton County jail, the place along with offering a mugshot, he was fingerprinted and processed by the sheriff’s workplace.

Mr. Trump posted a hyperlink to Win Red on his personal social media platform and he reemerged Thursday evening on X, previously Twitter, for the primary time since getting kicked off the platform in January 2021.

Mr. Trump posted his mugshot on X, cropping out the sheriff’s workplace insignia and including the message, “ELECTION INTERFERENCE, NEVER SURRENDER!” The tweet additionally included his marketing campaign web site handle, the place he offered “a personal note,” about his journey to Fulton County.

“Today, at the notoriously violent jail in Fulton County, Georgia, I was arrested despite having committed no crime,” the notice reads. “The American people know what’s going on. What has taken place is a travesty of justice and election interference.”

The message says that he “walked into the lion’s den with one simple message: I WILL NEVER SURRENDER OUR MISSION TO SAVE AMERICA.”

In a re-election marketing campaign electronic mail, donors might snag a t-shirt with Mr. Trump’s mugshot and the NEVER SURRENDER caption, all for a $47 donation.

The Lincoln Project, a political motion committee based in 2019 by average Republicans who’re anti-Trump, have their very own number of merchandise on the market that includes the highly-anticipated mugshot. Visitors can buy a $15 shot glass on their web site that has the mugshot on one aspect and the abbreviation for the phrase “f**k around and find out” printed on the again with the Lincoln Project emblem.

The group can be promoting six shot glasses that function the mugshots of Mr. Trump and a few of his extra well-known co-conspirators within the Fulton County case, together with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who served as an advisor to Mr. Trump. 

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