$100,000!! This is obviously an attempt to garner campaign contributions from wealthy individuals or corporations while skirting campaign finance laws.
We'd have to depend on journalists to uncover whether Russians buy his crap to fund his campaign...that doesn't look like it will happen since they've normalized every dastardly deed he's done....sad
Will Putin Buy A DJT Gold-Plated, and Diamond Encrusted DJT Watch? If Putin buys one, will DJT send the Proceeds to Ukrainian Charities for War Orphans?
Campaign contributions? Do you really think that money will ever go to anyone's campaign? My guess is either it goes straight into his bank accounts or for his legal debts.
Yes tacky! Like everything he projects to his Maga minions. Exactly as Mary has been saying. He is sooo narcissistic, he has this belief, this insane idea that he has the power to lead everyone to following him in whatever he professes to do and say. He's become very dangerous. This is why I feel there will be hell to pay if he doesn't win this time around.
I’ll take that hell over the hell of a 2nd Trump presidency. The Harris campaign is savvy. They’ve lawyered up, and this will be the most closely monitored election in history. What we have to do is get out the vote and not become complacent. Not going back!
Indeed. Remember I'm so rich he could fund his own campaign? Yeah, that went away as soon as the money came in from his "marks". Honestly, even if you are a dim bulb as many appear to be, even they could figure it out if they took the time to think about it. UT they are locked in emotionally and no daylight will illuminate these dark .inds. of course there are the other opportunists in corporate offices and DC...
Yeah, and it was supposed to mean that he couldn't be bought. I think we should all be able to have access to his tax returns to see for ourselves what is on them. After all, he was our employee, like it or not.
Amen. He was broke, AGAIN when he was running in 2015. The real tax records would be interesting just like his CFO's " two-books" Donald Trump business practices. Amazing what this guy gets away with.
I was just thinking that very thing. After watching more than I could stomach of his “press conference” following his meeting with Zelenskyy, the thought arose that there is no bar so low he can’t slime and slither his way under it.
I don’t think they fall for his grift. I think they manipulate him and are supporting him so if he wins (God help us), they can get whatever they want from him as President. Think the indicted mayor of New York. Rich people got what they wanted from him. Bought and paid for access to the Oval Office is the oligarchs con.
Not sure they “fall” for his tactics as much as they believe in their own tactics. They are, I think, pretty sure they are waaaaay smarter, ahead of the game and on a whole different layer of the food chain from Donald.
Bull! His purpose has always been stealing from the poorest of the poor and GIVING it to himself, his greedy family, and any other wealthy soul who he fawns on.
This looks like it’s set up as a straight-up licensing deal, so outside of any campaign finance laws. However it’s set up, as a straight fee for using the trump name or with a more sophisticated dynamic fee escalation based on marketing aspects or milestones, it looks like it’s free and clear of FEC rules. I don’t think there are any laws prohibiting ordinary business transactions by candidates running for office. It’s just that the trust level for the integrity of this particular candidate is well below the Ick Level.
I used to report on the jewelry industry. Let's take the Orange Shitgibbon at his worthless word that the stupid $100,000 watch actually is "made with almost 200 grams of gold and more than 100 real diamonds." LOL. A little lazy Googling reveals that 200 grams of gold is worth about $17,000 today, but of course we don't know how many karats this gold is, i.e., what its quality is, so the 200 grams of gold purportedly in the Shitgibbon Watch might be worth far less than that dollar figure. As for the diamonds, whaddya wanna bet they are "bort," or shards of non-gem-grade diamond, and minuscule at that?
Any rich fools who buy the Shitgibbon Watch deserve to be parted from their money.
I've never heard of a shitgibbon, but I have to say that the real gibbons I've seen are wonderful animals. I don't know of any animal that wouldn't be insulted by being included in a name for trump. I wouldn't even insult hellbenders (aka "snot otters") with that.
Thank you, Martin. I've seen people refer to him as several animal that to me are beautiful, which I routinely object to, because he isn't, never was, and never will be.
I was trying to think of a disgusting animal that would be an analogous symbol of him, and honestly could not think of one that I would insult like that. Seems to me, even a venomous snake is simply being what it is created to be. PO #1135809 is so far from being what human beings were created to be, there is no animal that could be analogous. I would have compassion for him - he is truly a sad human being - if he were not so hellbent on destroying all that is good in our country and the world. We must sit him down in a corner where he is not able to do even more harm.
Venomous snakes are not slimy, and my husband and I have had some interesting (fun) encounters with a couple of species of rattlesnakes. I chose hellbenders because they are slimy, and they look disgusting to me. But I have to agree that he is very far from what a human being is supposed to be, and I would love to see him in solitary confinement in a real prison.
Katie, whilst I agree with you, no animal really should be denigrated by comparison with this venal excuse of an alleged human being, he does rather bear an uncanny resemblance to the bottom-feeding sucker fish!
No animal whatsoever deserves to be brought low by comparing them in any way to trump. Any one of them serves a purpose with a purity of integrity in the ecosystem that the pustule that is trump will ever do. I don’t see anything of value in the pustule’s offspring either.
You and me both, Cass. I have been learning how very intelligent so many animals are (there are a few exceptions like ostriches and giraffes). And we could learn a lot about caring about others and about children from creatures like Bison. Animals tend to not be greedy the way humans are.
❤️ Funny how animals know so many human words, yet so many humans can't understand animal languages. My cat and my son's dog are fluent in demanding, begging, and playing.
Cass, you remind me of the time I was visiting my parents and wanted to get their cat, Xerox into the house. I knew he responded to "you wanna eat?" when my parents said it, so I said "Xerox, you wanna eat?" He thought about it for about 30 seconds, and made a mad dash for the house. He figured out that the same words with a different voice still meant the same thing. I've also been impressed with the words other animals understand. The funniest one (from "The Zoo") is when they were doing a trunk wash on Patty, the elephant, to test for tuberculosis. They put liquid into her trunk, had her raise it, then lower it, and they had a bag waiting for the liquid when she did so. Then they told her to "blow", and she did. We've been watching that episode about monthly since the start of the pandemic and it still makes me laugh in amazement every time. Also from the zoo, when a mama bison knows her calf needs to stay in the corral they are in while she goes, she touches it on the nose, and the calf goes to lie down, so the keepers don't have to worry about just letting the mama through the door. Animals clearly know how to communicate well.
❤️ Xerox. And poor Patty, to go through that procedure. So touching and heartwarming with the bison mama and baby. Their sense of timing- Toc (adult son named him Taco, a dumb name for a Rhodesian ridgeback) starts whining at 7:45p because he knows his boy will be coming home at 8p. I once read, then lost a science article about how trees communicate through their root systems and they know when know when a neighbor is dying. The article might be on liveScience.com. Highly recommend their free newsletter. 💕💙
Be sure to keep the originalpackaging and squirrel it away, it will be an investment grade asset in 50 years. Same with the golden sneakers( aptly named) that golden bible, the nft’s and the recently released silver coin for a mere $100.
It takes a better person than me to work up an ounce of compassion for the dopes who buy this useless shit. Anyone who doesn’t know by now he is a lying, cheating, grifting criminal hasn’t been paying attention.
You can buy an 18 carat solid gold Rolex for 90k. I'd sport that gorgeous bling and laugh at Mr. Trump's pos. Which is the better investment? His hawking is getting more and more pathetic with every new grift. He reminds me of someone who digs under car seats, chairs and couch (haha) cushions for money to buy a coffee.
The Meidas Touch made a post on X concerning this "product". The address of the company is for a porn shop (no, I am not kidding). The "manufactuting" company was formed about two weeks ago. The ad specifies that the product may not look like the picture. I suspect sales will come from overseas individuals with money going into his pockets. "For entertainment purposes only."
Mary, you did make me laugh, which was welcome. And I’ve run out of sympathy for his supporters who choose to believe his lies despite years of being debunked by reputable people. But I still get a bit angry and disgusted by his antics. He sucks oxygen from the environment. I want it back. I want something resembling sanity to resume once again. Not perfection, but just sanity.
Very well said, Martha. I, too, want something that resembles sanity again. I long for the days when people simply accepted the results and didn't concoct inane conspiracy theories to explain and dispute their loss.
Maybe his backer Miriam Adelson will buy a bunch to give out as Las Vegas souvenirs. She seems to be solidly behind him despite his train wreck of an appearance at her fund raiser a week ago ("It will be the fault of the Jews if I lose....")
I don’t get it. When I lived in Vegas a friend of mine who owned a pressure washing company did a lot of business with the Adelsons, said they were wonderful people. And she certainly sounds like she’s done so much good. But how does she think that supporting Trump dovetails with her support for Israel? He’ll only support Israel as long as it looks like Israel will win. And what he said about the “Jews” was awful, just awful. If I’d been sitting in the audience I would have got up and left.
That’s exactly what it is for. A way for wealthy donors to bypass donor laws that limit how much one person can give directly to candidates. Adelson, Murdoch, Musk, Theil, etc. buy 20 hundred thousand dollar watches, expect not to get the actual items, but have given 2 million to Trump’s so-called campaign without having to disclose their donation. And a few victims buy it thinking its a collectible, and get something close to the photo.
You mean they can claim a tax deduction??? No wonder Trump pays less personal tax than I do 🙄🙄 We probably both collect Social Security. The difference is I have to live on mine--and pay taxes on it too. Trump probably sticks it in his legal fund and claims a tax deduction.
The point is to contribute big sums without having to disclose it to the government. They know they're not buying a watch -- they are buying influence.
$100,000!! This is obviously an attempt to garner campaign contributions from wealthy individuals or corporations while skirting campaign finance laws.
Exactly. Look for mega sales to Russian oligarchs.
We'd have to depend on journalists to uncover whether Russians buy his crap to fund his campaign...that doesn't look like it will happen since they've normalized every dastardly deed he's done....sad
Never thought about that although I have heard it.
Will Putin Buy A DJT Gold-Plated, and Diamond Encrusted DJT Watch? If Putin buys one, will DJT send the Proceeds to Ukrainian Charities for War Orphans?
“A” watch? He will buy the entire inventory of them so he can help fund his “employee’s” campaign and assure his unlimited access to the WH.
Campaign contributions? Do you really think that money will ever go to anyone's campaign? My guess is either it goes straight into his bank accounts or for his legal debts.
So tacky.
oh, has he started paying his lawyers now?
they've wised up a little and started asking for their money up front.
🤣 That’s hilarious.
Hell no, they do it because they think he will reward them...IDIOTS, he rewards nobody but himself.
He pays his legal fees from campaign contributions. I don’t know how that is legal.
Yes tacky! Like everything he projects to his Maga minions. Exactly as Mary has been saying. He is sooo narcissistic, he has this belief, this insane idea that he has the power to lead everyone to following him in whatever he professes to do and say. He's become very dangerous. This is why I feel there will be hell to pay if he doesn't win this time around.
I’ll take that hell over the hell of a 2nd Trump presidency. The Harris campaign is savvy. They’ve lawyered up, and this will be the most closely monitored election in history. What we have to do is get out the vote and not become complacent. Not going back!
And more help to pay if he does
Well, he *does* lead all his followers in whatever he professes to do or say.
Politics has been his most successful long con.
He can probably grift more if he loses the election which might explain his inexplicable campaign behavior.
Indeed. Remember I'm so rich he could fund his own campaign? Yeah, that went away as soon as the money came in from his "marks". Honestly, even if you are a dim bulb as many appear to be, even they could figure it out if they took the time to think about it. UT they are locked in emotionally and no daylight will illuminate these dark .inds. of course there are the other opportunists in corporate offices and DC...
Yeah, and it was supposed to mean that he couldn't be bought. I think we should all be able to have access to his tax returns to see for ourselves what is on them. After all, he was our employee, like it or not.
Amen. He was broke, AGAIN when he was running in 2015. The real tax records would be interesting just like his CFO's " two-books" Donald Trump business practices. Amazing what this guy gets away with.
I recall that...funny. if you want the truth about just invert whatever he says.
I was just thinking that very thing. After watching more than I could stomach of his “press conference” following his meeting with Zelenskyy, the thought arose that there is no bar so low he can’t slime and slither his way under it.
Which is amazing because of all that Super PACs can get away with. The Colbert/Stewart bit about them is enlightening
Not just "individuals", but perhaps "international individuals" (if you get the grift)
Amazing to me that some WEALTHY individuals fall for his scheming tactics... Wonder how many Elon Musk has bought?...
Wealthy looking for those tax breaks.
I don’t think they fall for his grift. I think they manipulate him and are supporting him so if he wins (God help us), they can get whatever they want from him as President. Think the indicted mayor of New York. Rich people got what they wanted from him. Bought and paid for access to the Oval Office is the oligarchs con.
Not sure they “fall” for his tactics as much as they believe in their own tactics. They are, I think, pretty sure they are waaaaay smarter, ahead of the game and on a whole different layer of the food chain from Donald.
John Riley, my thought exactly. Then I started wondering how I can write off the $100,000 on my taxes. There has to be a way…
Bull! His purpose has always been stealing from the poorest of the poor and GIVING it to himself, his greedy family, and any other wealthy soul who he fawns on.
Vote Blue!
Get tRump in prison where he belongs.
Not campaign contributions. Grift money goes straight to his personal account. He doesnt contribute much, if anything, to his own campaign.
Nailed it. Isn’t this the purpose of all of his “products”?
But it's not worth the money their asking!
Poor Jack Smith. His head must be exploding. "Fongool! Yet ANOTHER indictment I have to get!"
What are these 'laws' of which you speak?
This looks like it’s set up as a straight-up licensing deal, so outside of any campaign finance laws. However it’s set up, as a straight fee for using the trump name or with a more sophisticated dynamic fee escalation based on marketing aspects or milestones, it looks like it’s free and clear of FEC rules. I don’t think there are any laws prohibiting ordinary business transactions by candidates running for office. It’s just that the trust level for the integrity of this particular candidate is well below the Ick Level.
The uneducated is not giving enough to help him. 🤣🤣
Basically money laundering 😡
I used to report on the jewelry industry. Let's take the Orange Shitgibbon at his worthless word that the stupid $100,000 watch actually is "made with almost 200 grams of gold and more than 100 real diamonds." LOL. A little lazy Googling reveals that 200 grams of gold is worth about $17,000 today, but of course we don't know how many karats this gold is, i.e., what its quality is, so the 200 grams of gold purportedly in the Shitgibbon Watch might be worth far less than that dollar figure. As for the diamonds, whaddya wanna bet they are "bort," or shards of non-gem-grade diamond, and minuscule at that?
Any rich fools who buy the Shitgibbon Watch deserve to be parted from their money.
I suppose few of his followers understand what 200 grams means.
Silly, everyone knows someone with a Gram. We just need to be able to get 200 of those nice old ladies on a bus to Mar el Lardo.
🤣🤣🤣
I've never heard of a shitgibbon, but I have to say that the real gibbons I've seen are wonderful animals. I don't know of any animal that wouldn't be insulted by being included in a name for trump. I wouldn't even insult hellbenders (aka "snot otters") with that.
It's just an online coinage for the Orange Menace. Yeah, I don't like insulting pigs by calling him one.
Thank you, Martin. I've seen people refer to him as several animal that to me are beautiful, which I routinely object to, because he isn't, never was, and never will be.
I was trying to think of a disgusting animal that would be an analogous symbol of him, and honestly could not think of one that I would insult like that. Seems to me, even a venomous snake is simply being what it is created to be. PO #1135809 is so far from being what human beings were created to be, there is no animal that could be analogous. I would have compassion for him - he is truly a sad human being - if he were not so hellbent on destroying all that is good in our country and the world. We must sit him down in a corner where he is not able to do even more harm.
Venomous snakes are not slimy, and my husband and I have had some interesting (fun) encounters with a couple of species of rattlesnakes. I chose hellbenders because they are slimy, and they look disgusting to me. But I have to agree that he is very far from what a human being is supposed to be, and I would love to see him in solitary confinement in a real prison.
I can think of one - a rat - one that scavenges for its food and feeds off the flesh of other animals (his supporters).
Well....while they obviously have their disgusting downsides, actually, rats can be very intelligent, fun pets. So depends!
Katie, whilst I agree with you, no animal really should be denigrated by comparison with this venal excuse of an alleged human being, he does rather bear an uncanny resemblance to the bottom-feeding sucker fish!
https://www.joelsartore.com/wp-content/uploads/stock/FIS041/FIS041-00242-1920x1279.jpg
See?
https://cdn.prod.www.spiegel.de/images/3fa10b4c-0001-0004-0000-000000951487_w1528_r1.5034364261168385_fpx48.55_fpy44.98.jpg
:o)
But the sucker fish is better looking and its coloring is natural…
I’d like to nominate a warthog. They are unattractive and somewhat misshapen. No one would feel bad about besmirching them.
No animal whatsoever deserves to be brought low by comparing them in any way to trump. Any one of them serves a purpose with a purity of integrity in the ecosystem that the pustule that is trump will ever do. I don’t see anything of value in the pustule’s offspring either.
So true. Even a tiny flea on the mangiest cat in the universe has more honour, integrity and just plain intrinsic worth than the orange one.
I feel a bit irate when people are compared to animals. An example is calling someone is a pig. Animals are far more intelligent than humans.
You and me both, Cass. I have been learning how very intelligent so many animals are (there are a few exceptions like ostriches and giraffes). And we could learn a lot about caring about others and about children from creatures like Bison. Animals tend to not be greedy the way humans are.
❤️ Funny how animals know so many human words, yet so many humans can't understand animal languages. My cat and my son's dog are fluent in demanding, begging, and playing.
Cass, you remind me of the time I was visiting my parents and wanted to get their cat, Xerox into the house. I knew he responded to "you wanna eat?" when my parents said it, so I said "Xerox, you wanna eat?" He thought about it for about 30 seconds, and made a mad dash for the house. He figured out that the same words with a different voice still meant the same thing. I've also been impressed with the words other animals understand. The funniest one (from "The Zoo") is when they were doing a trunk wash on Patty, the elephant, to test for tuberculosis. They put liquid into her trunk, had her raise it, then lower it, and they had a bag waiting for the liquid when she did so. Then they told her to "blow", and she did. We've been watching that episode about monthly since the start of the pandemic and it still makes me laugh in amazement every time. Also from the zoo, when a mama bison knows her calf needs to stay in the corral they are in while she goes, she touches it on the nose, and the calf goes to lie down, so the keepers don't have to worry about just letting the mama through the door. Animals clearly know how to communicate well.
❤️ Xerox. And poor Patty, to go through that procedure. So touching and heartwarming with the bison mama and baby. Their sense of timing- Toc (adult son named him Taco, a dumb name for a Rhodesian ridgeback) starts whining at 7:45p because he knows his boy will be coming home at 8p. I once read, then lost a science article about how trees communicate through their root systems and they know when know when a neighbor is dying. The article might be on liveScience.com. Highly recommend their free newsletter. 💕💙
Similar to his $100 Silver coins with only $30 worth of silver in them.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/trump-coins-are-being-sold-by-the-ex-president-for-100-but-the-silver-they-are-made-of-costs-only-30/articleshow/113636071.cms
What did a gibbon ever do to you? Insulting monkeys of any species is not necessary. Orange shitforbrains will suffice.
How about that! Watches that are not guaranteed to look like the pictures, actually tell time, or ever be delivered. Collect the whole set!
Sounds like the perfect Trump grift. Pay good money, get fleeced by the World’s biggest huckster. Made in the U.S.A., do you think ?
He has already been convicted of 34 fraud charges! Fraud is what he does.
His cult followers are so stupid that they either won't read any of that or they won't care. It's a "piece of our savior".
Trying not to insult, but...the cult's mass stupidity must be related to illiteracy.
Be sure to keep the originalpackaging and squirrel it away, it will be an investment grade asset in 50 years. Same with the golden sneakers( aptly named) that golden bible, the nft’s and the recently released silver coin for a mere $100.
😂
I read in an article years ago that the "gold" cufflinks that he gave out at his golf clubs were actually fake gold.
Exactly - phantom watches!
It takes a better person than me to work up an ounce of compassion for the dopes who buy this useless shit. Anyone who doesn’t know by now he is a lying, cheating, grifting criminal hasn’t been paying attention.
Norm, you left off rapist.
My bad, Skitealwedrop. That’s a pretty important one to forget. Thanks for the reminder.
Norm....they just don't care...
So true, Douglas. If they get cheated, it’s their own damn fault.
Where in the world are these watches made, I wonder? China?
You can buy an 18 carat solid gold Rolex for 90k. I'd sport that gorgeous bling and laugh at Mr. Trump's pos. Which is the better investment? His hawking is getting more and more pathetic with every new grift. He reminds me of someone who digs under car seats, chairs and couch (haha) cushions for money to buy a coffee.
He continues to widen the meaning of the word “whore”!
Grifters will grift. As per P.T. Barnum, Donny will make a pile of money. Given all the caveats , one wonders if these watches actually tell time. ;)
Twice each day they are correct!
Perfection. You win the internet today.
They are accurate twice a day.
Even more disturbing than Trump are his emotional hostages, who mistake tragic mental illness for patriotism and valor.
The Meidas Touch made a post on X concerning this "product". The address of the company is for a porn shop (no, I am not kidding). The "manufactuting" company was formed about two weeks ago. The ad specifies that the product may not look like the picture. I suspect sales will come from overseas individuals with money going into his pockets. "For entertainment purposes only."
To be delivered upon being elected.
I don’t see a statement that these are “Made in Anerica”.
Does the $$$ for these Fictional Products have to be Paid Up-Front? DJT’s Dementia is definitely turning Macabre…
The only clock this moron should be hawking is a coo-coo clock
Trump gets goofier and goofier
He wouldn't make it through his first year as president. It gets bumped out of there under the Twenty Fifth Amendment.
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Ugh, & have JD…another nightmare.
🤯🤮
Thats the plan- a vote for trump is really a vote for President Vance
He’s just gross.
Mary, you did make me laugh, which was welcome. And I’ve run out of sympathy for his supporters who choose to believe his lies despite years of being debunked by reputable people. But I still get a bit angry and disgusted by his antics. He sucks oxygen from the environment. I want it back. I want something resembling sanity to resume once again. Not perfection, but just sanity.
I agree, Martha.
Thank you, Mary. 💙
Very well said, Martha. I, too, want something that resembles sanity again. I long for the days when people simply accepted the results and didn't concoct inane conspiracy theories to explain and dispute their loss.
I cannot even…I have lost the ability to even. 🤦🏻♀️
Maybe his backer Miriam Adelson will buy a bunch to give out as Las Vegas souvenirs. She seems to be solidly behind him despite his train wreck of an appearance at her fund raiser a week ago ("It will be the fault of the Jews if I lose....")
i know, right? Adelson has done an awful lot of damage
I don’t get it. When I lived in Vegas a friend of mine who owned a pressure washing company did a lot of business with the Adelsons, said they were wonderful people. And she certainly sounds like she’s done so much good. But how does she think that supporting Trump dovetails with her support for Israel? He’ll only support Israel as long as it looks like Israel will win. And what he said about the “Jews” was awful, just awful. If I’d been sitting in the audience I would have got up and left.
That’s exactly what it is for. A way for wealthy donors to bypass donor laws that limit how much one person can give directly to candidates. Adelson, Murdoch, Musk, Theil, etc. buy 20 hundred thousand dollar watches, expect not to get the actual items, but have given 2 million to Trump’s so-called campaign without having to disclose their donation. And a few victims buy it thinking its a collectible, and get something close to the photo.
You mean they can claim a tax deduction??? No wonder Trump pays less personal tax than I do 🙄🙄 We probably both collect Social Security. The difference is I have to live on mine--and pay taxes on it too. Trump probably sticks it in his legal fund and claims a tax deduction.
The point is to contribute big sums without having to disclose it to the government. They know they're not buying a watch -- they are buying influence.
I hear that he is selling "Snake Oil" from his horse drawn wagon on the streets in Palm Beach now. HURRY AND GET YOURS!!
He's also selling shoes, bibles coins and watches. Hurry to get your very own worthless Donald tRump Memorabilia. Make more money for him $$$$$$$$!
Another day, another grift for his clueless base...
Grifting is the only t,bing the boy does well.