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
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.
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.
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?
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
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?
Maybe China, I think more likely is Indonesia or Cambodia. This is absolute bottom-tier product
The only thing more American than “Made in the USA” is “Made in China” lol
Someone in another comment chain mentioned that Trumkers (trump sneakers) look cheaply made. Would someone with an eye for shoes be able to elaborate?
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.
Why wouldn’t they be manufactured as cheaply as possible? The entire point is the grift.
That’s fair, but my pleather shoes keep leaking after 6 months and I’m mostly trying to figure out how to pick better shoes while engaging in the time tested tradition of trump taunting.
What’s your preferred style and budget?
Casual sneakers or ankle-high boots made of brown pleather or a comfortably pliable leather that can go with a variety of outfits. Not those specifically, it’s just immensely difficult to find pics online these days. I’d go up to 150 for shoes that I can actually wear for a few years. Any tips on seeing material defects would be immensely helpful after an unexaggerated decade of short-lived shoes I’m too stubborn to let die.
Rose Anvil on YouTube does tear-downs of boots to show what brands have quality materials and good support versus what are just garbage. Recommend looking though his videos.
I really hate shoes with pointy ends. It squeezes your big toe out of shape and can give you bunions.
Trump taunting aside, Merrell brand boots and shoes are the best. Long wearing and comfortable.
Pleather is a terrible material in basically every way possible
I just buy Skechers and wear them until they disintegrate, so I dunno. Extra points for alliteration
I second alliteration
Alliteration’s always adored
Astounding
I second Sketchers, hard to find wide shoes that fit to begin with.
Skechers are so damn comfortable and they last.
My first pleather shoes were skechers and they died after 3 months, sadly. :’(
Bah that sucks!
I’ve been wearing Skechers for a good 20 years now. I buy a new pair maybe every 3 years and they’re cheap, so that’s fine.
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.
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.
Cool, I know exactly which shoes to spit on now
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
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.
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.
It’s just laundering Russian money
And Saudi money.
I can make 45,000 fake wallets and sell some NFTs to myself to make it look like there’s demand too.
Exactly
Or just lie and say they sold out no one’s actually checking.
Make in GINA
He could spray paint a bottle gold, fill it with piss and they’d buy it.
