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  #3287090 27-Sep-2024 17:19
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Trump is slapping his name on watches for what he hopes is a quick dollar.

The most expensive watch is tourbillon watches; It shares many of Trump's disadvantages:
  • The watch like Trump is fragile: it is more delicate and very susceptible to damage

  • It has no practical benefit. Invented in the 1801, anything more modern is much better and more practical.

  • the watch like Trump requires much more maintenance, meaning having one around means money wasted.

  • lastly the weight adds extra inertia, high energy consumption and shorter power reserve.

  • it's just tacky, and a fine example of conspicuous consumption
Raw Story: 'How can anyone do this to supporters?' Expert gives $100K gold Trump watch brutal review

A menswear fashion expert has no time for former President Donald Trump's new line of watches.

Derek Guy, a menswear expert who has contributed to the Washington Post and Esquire, publicly shamed Trump for shilling a $100,000 watches he described as an obvious scam.

"I don't understand how anyone can do this to their supporters," Guy wrote on X. "They play you as a sucker."
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Guy argued this was a blatant attempt to exploit the halo effect, a marketing tactic that creates a false assumption of quality in lower cost items through association to similar high-price ones.

"This crappy $100k watch is a halo product to sell even crappier $500 and $800 non-Swiss steel and gold-plated watches with a cheap automatic movement," Guy wrote.

"The goal here is just to make money, not treat people with respect and offer them something of genuine value."

Guy — who has made a reputation explaining complicated men's fashion in straightforward terms while gently critiquing high profile male fashionistas — changed his tone when it came to discussing Trump.

"Buy watches from established watch brands or independent watchmakers who care more about watches than money," Guy told his followers. "This sort of behavior is genuinely disgusting."
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  #3287101 27-Sep-2024 17:47
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How much is VVP paying Trump to spout this garbage. 

 

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/350430540/donald-trump-says-ukraine-dead-and-should-have-made-concessions-russia?dicbo=v2-jC7j0Bs

 

I wonder if Trump would stand back in the name of peace and allow anyone to appropriate a large part of one of his golf courses?





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  #3287110 27-Sep-2024 18:22
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Technofreak:

 

I wonder if Trump would stand back in the name of peace and allow anyone to appropriate a large part of one of his golf courses?

 

 

No, because that would impact him personally. If it's happening to someone else, it's their problem, not his - apparently.


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  #3287255 28-Sep-2024 10:34
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kingdragonfly: Trump is slapping his name on watches for what he hopes is a quick dollar...

 

 

And some people are already trying to sell the Trump Watch 1.0, sold back in 2005 through Macys at US$225 each, quickly put on eBay for US$10k... And ugly as ever: Donald J. Trump Watch(2005) *Goes Up For Auction At 19:00 Est 9/29 If Not Sold | eBay

 

 





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  #3287259 28-Sep-2024 10:50
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Current sneakers and $100,000 watch sold as by a company that's LLC, limited liability company, under a "paid license agreement" "which license may be terminated or revoked according to its terms”, with the warning on the website that the watch is being sold for entertainment only, not as an investment.

Just a way to laundering a donation to the Trump campaign, while staying anonymous and giving a corrupt payment to Trump.

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  #3287319 28-Sep-2024 17:47
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freitasm:

 

kingdragonfly: Trump is slapping his name on watches for what he hopes is a quick dollar...

 

 

And some people are already trying to sell the Trump Watch 1.0, sold back in 2005 through Macys at US$225 each, quickly put on eBay for US$10k... And ugly as ever: Donald J. Trump Watch(2005) *Goes Up For Auction At 19:00 Est 9/29 If Not Sold | eBay

 

 

 

 

The current watches apparently can be shipped anywhere in the world, you can buy them with cryptocurrency and don't have a firm shipping date. Everything about it looks like a way to launder in funds from international interests and funnel it to Trump or Trump controlled businesses.


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  #3287523 29-Sep-2024 12:04
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Varkk:

 

The current watches apparently can be shipped anywhere in the world, you can buy them with cryptocurrency and don't have a firm shipping date. Everything about it looks like a way to launder in funds from international interests and funnel it to Trump or Trump controlled businesses.

 

 

This is frikken' hilarious:

 

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/everything-you-never-wanted-to-know

 

The Bulwark dissects Trump's latest sca...er...grif...er...money making scheme, with such pertinent questions as:

 

If I buy a Trump watch, will I get it in time to wear to the next insurrection?

 

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  #3288038 30-Sep-2024 10:55
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Interesting...





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  #3288050 30-Sep-2024 11:12
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Quotations from Chairman Trump

 

The NY Times - Election Live Updates: Trump Repeats Insults of Harris After Rebukes From Both Sides

 

today

 


Former President Donald J. Trump repeated his insulting suggestion that Vice President Kamala Harris was “mentally impaired” during a rally in Pennsylvania on Sunday, after members of both parties and the American Association of People with Disabilities rebuked him for his demeaning remarks. ...

 

Trump called concerns about the environment “one of the greatest scams of all time” ...

 

He pushed an emerging falsehood in his attempt to blame Vice President Kamala Harris for the opioid epidemic. “She even wants to legalize fentanyl” ...

 

He called illegal migrants “savage criminal aliens” and claimed that 150 million to 200 million people would illegally enter the United States - which has a population of about 331 million people - if Vice President Kamala Harris wins the election.

 





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  #3288056 30-Sep-2024 11:26
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New Yorkers have been cursed with the Trumps longer than any other city.

To know Trump is to hate Trump.

Fred Trump was sued successfully multiple times for racial discriminations, against blacks, Puerto Ricans and anyone on welfare. This included lying about no vacancy (estimated 90%) or doubling rents if no whites applied.

His father was involvement with questionable groups in the 1920s, including claims that he was arrested at a KKK rally.


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  #3288180 30-Sep-2024 13:41
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His father was involvement with questionable groups in the 1920s, including claims that he was arrested at a KKK rally.

 

The arrest is not a claim. It is a fact reported by multiple outlets:

 

Washington Post: In Queens, 1,000 white-robed Klansmen marched through the Jamaica neighborhood, eventually spurring an all-out brawl in which seven men were arrested.
One of those arrested was Fred Trump of 175-24 Devonshire Rd. in Jamaica. This is Donald Trump’s father.

 

Donald Trump denies all claims of his father's KKK sympathies and denies his father was even arrested in the face of documented police evidence. A Donald Trump denial is worth absolutely nothing. This was the second wind of the KKK which was active in the 1920s. In the KKK's earlier incarnation they were predominantly violent anti-black racists. The 1920's KKK added Catholics and Jews to that list.


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  #3288187 30-Sep-2024 13:58
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The article also notes Trump's father was arrested again in 1976 for building code violations.


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  #3288418 1-Oct-2024 09:06
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Related:

 


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  #3288442 1-Oct-2024 09:48
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In technical terms: Trump's watch is shady as f__k.

At best, any buyer of this watch would not care since Trump is infallible. At worst, the buyer is corrupt and depends on this payout being anonymous.

Shocking new secrets of Trump watch scam revealed

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  #3288465 1-Oct-2024 10:27
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Trump is indeed "Circling the Drain"





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