Donald Trump talks tough on China, which he is going to penalize with high tariffs, to try to hit at their growing economic power.
Wonder if the tariffs will apply to his cheesy Made-in-China Trump Bibles?
The Associated Press broke the story on Wednesday on the Trump Bibles shipping out of Hangzhou, China, over a several-week period in February and March.
So much for America First there, right?
Now, to be fair, Trump doesn’t have anything to do with the Bibles other than having his stupid name on them.
The company that actually sells the Bibles paid him to license his name and image, a typical arrangement for the Trumper, who figured out a long time ago that he’s not good at actually building or operating anything, and resigned himself to selling his name to other people who are good at business rather than lose money because of his stone-cold incompetence.
I point out the licensing arrangement involved with the Trump Bible because, to be fair, it’s not like Trump schemed up, hey, let’s get ‘em from China, that’ll be cheaper.
I mean, not that he wouldn’t have done that if it had been him making the call.
Dude is known for being a first-class cheapskate.
No, the China thing is just the funny part to this story, that even in Trump trying to distance himself from taking on risk from the brazen hawking of a Trump-approved version of a book that he has surely never read, it still ends up biting him in his oversized keister.
And the story gets worse before it gets better: according to the AP report, the printing cost came in at just under $3 per book, which was then marketed to MAGA consumers for $59.99, meaning, yes, that’s quite the markup there for the MAGAts.
(Read: suckers.)
The most recent filing by the licensing company owned by Trump, from August, showed that Trump had made $300,000 in royalties from the sales.
Raising the question: this guy is supposed to be a billionaire, right? So, why does he need to lift $300,000 from the pockets of the little old ladies and their little old husbands who just had to have their own Donald Trump-approved Bible?
Three hundred thousand to a billionaire is literally three or four dollars to you or me.
Could it be that the billionaire with a b- is a little more cash-strapped than he’s letting on?
I mean, he did file for bankruptcy six times, so, yeah, probably.
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Chris Graham
