Donald Trump sells cut-up pieces of suit he wore in mugshot

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?
  
  My bad 😂
- 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
- It's a time-honored tradition:
  https://www.vice.com/en/article/jmbwzg/the-weird-and-fraudulent-world-of-catholic-relics-456
- 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!
  
  He's probably larger than one of those dimensions.
- 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.
  
  Grabs bag of coke. Step right up folks, step right up!

$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?
  
  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
- Edit: didn't read a comment that said basically the same thing.

This is literally turn-of-the-20th-century huckster bullshit lol
How do his people fall for this
- I mean, just look at religion. People are stupid.
- There's a new sucker born every minute.
- 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.
- Oh, my sweet summer child...

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.

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.
- 12 baskets full

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.)

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

He's part Ferengi.
- Quark is like “hey Donnie bump it down a notch”

“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!

How much for the diaper he wore?

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. They live off of our rent.

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?
- It's not completely sterile, there is some bacteria: https://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/systems/kidney-urinary/urine-sterile.htm
  
  Sterile-ish
- 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.
  
  How great would that be? Like terrible for the girls but God I wish that shit took a leak [all over him]
  
  If this video actually existed, how would it not have been leaked by now?
- 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"
- 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

Because that's what totally normal people do.
- You mean the selling, or the buying?
  
  Yes

Selling relics. "Not a cult."

So I could go to a thrift store, buy a blue suit for $20, cut it up and sell the pieces on Ebay?
- You'd never get it to smell that gross.
  
  Half of this forum: “Hold my beer…”

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

What, like on his OnlyFans or something?

We can start calling it the Surrender Suit.
- Exactly.
  "I don't like losers. I like people who weren't captured."

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

Ah, more dumb grifts, for dumb people.

When he dies are his family going to auction off vacuum-sealed discs of his remains?
- I hope they start before he dies.

Next up, vials of Trump bath water. $50 a vial
- Dude, I just threw up in my mouth a little. What an awful thought.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

No source of authentication

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

I'll gladly buy a piece of his orange suit for much more!

How desperate for money is he?
- 91 indictments desperate
- I could easily be that desperate. Heck, I'd sell you the whole suit for $5K.

What a sad pathetic cult
- It's like a piece of the Shroud of Turin for the teabaggers.

If that doesn't reek of despair...

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.

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.
  
  Fake like everything coming from him, indeed.
- Can you imagine what the finger he used to grab her by the pussy is worth?
  
  Don't care, as long as someone cuts it off.

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.

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.