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.
It’s just laundering Russian money
And Saudi money.
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.
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.
These look like a spray painted prop from a really bad B-version of the Wizard Of Oz.
Trump thinks gold is classy but he has the shittest taste ever.In case anyone didn’t know.
Gold is tacky as fuck … Especially anything that isn’t classy jewelry or a watch. Even in those cases it can look extremely dated.
Your gold xxxx makes you look trailer fab.
His taste is pretty much anything an 8 year old thinks a rich guy would have.
Seriously though let’s forget for a second who’s hawking these shoes, the sneakers are sooooo ugly by themselves. No sense of style, aesthetics, or design. Who is going to wear these and not feel like a goober?
MBS can order a million of these and not violate campaign finance laws.
FSB just put in an order for $380m of them
I kinda feel that way about a lot of niche sneakers tbh…
It’s an easy way to identify the lower IQ/more gullible GOP members. (Quark would love and exploit this feature [RoA#74: Knowledge equals profit])
Low IQ GOP members is a redundancy - unless you’re an uber-wealthy direct beneficiary of their grifts.
Same people that vote for Trump without feeling like a goober, I’d imagine.
Let’s not forget how popular Kanye “I loooooooove Hitlerrrrrr” West’s shoes continue to be - and most of them look like the product of a 3-way between nanna’s teach cosy, a Tesla, and an inflatable life raft.
Yeezy shoes continue to make profit for Adidas because they’re produced cheap enough, but that’s not the same as Yeezy being popular anymore. Data: https://legitcheck.app/stats/yeezy/
They’re certainly less popular, but are holding on to meaningful market share.
Do you have other data? Adidas does 13B business but the Yeezy sneakers contribute to 0.038% of that.
Data: https://www.statista.com/chart/13470/athletic-footwear-sales/
The last link you shared showed 3% market share, and revenue dropping from 1.3-1.7bn to 568m in 2023.
Adidas are far more than just shoes - looking at a “premium” partnership with a musician on sub-brand for one of many categories they’re present in isn’t a super-representative snapshot.
The 13B is just for sneaker sales but I see your point about the market share
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?
The only thing more American than “Made in the USA” is “Made in China” lol
Maybe China, I think more likely is Indonesia or Cambodia. This is absolute bottom-tier product
I’ve been waiting for someone who actually knows about sneakers to tell us the quality of these shoes. It’s what I thought, but I’m glad to have it confirmed. Thank you.
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Why wouldn’t they be manufactured as cheaply as possible? The entire point is the grift.
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Trump taunting aside, Merrell brand boots and shoes are the best. Long wearing and comfortable.
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.
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.
I really hate shoes with pointy ends. It squeezes your big toe out of shape and can give you bunions.
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’ve started checking them out. It’s a neat premise, cutting the shoes apart. Thank you!
Pleather is a terrible material in basically every way possible
I’ve had pleather survive 10+ years in other use cases. It can be hardy and host a decent veneer, albeit rarely.
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.
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.
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
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
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?
Gold and T makes me think of Mr T tbh.
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
Or Trump at least made it seem like they sold out.
The first 20 or so may just be sold to his associates just so he could claim they were selling like hotcakes.
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.
He could spray paint a bottle gold, fill it with piss and they’d buy it.
Who. Russia?
Nice pimp shoes. How appropriate.
