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Trump has been under mounting criticism for failing to bring down inflation, with Americans continuing to report high prices on groceries and essentials. Even as Trump insists he has lowered costs, his campaign’s Black Friday fundraising emails undercut that message by promoting so-called “deal” prices that were actually higher than the prices listed on his own merchandise website.

In one email, the Trump team claimed the price of a red MAGA hat ornament had been “reduced” to $37, though the official campaign store simultaneously listed it for $30. The email claimed the MAGA trinket new price was a "30% off deal."

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[–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 48 points 2 days ago

Trump: My supporters are dumber than Waltz!

GOP: Encore!! Bravo!! More!!

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the Trump team claimed the price of a red MAGA hat ornament had been “reduced” to $37, though the official campaign store simultaneously listed it for $30

Known grifter continues grifting.

Or maybe even the Trump merch is affected by tariffs.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

It 100% is. China and India are the main producers of that sort of textile on the best days.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

Scammers often include misspellings to weed out people who aren't gullible enough to fall for the scam...

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago

It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for lowering their grocery prices to 10% above last year.

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Breaking News on CNN: Trump is a child raping, Soviet compromised twat! Details at 6!

[–] Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They should have waited until after Black Friday and Christmas to tell people about this scam.

Let the daft cunts waste even more of their money buying crap being sold by a paedo before telling them they've been scammed.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

This takes an ounce of smarts to understand and as Trump has stated, people with smarts don't like him.

This reporting is as likely to increase their purchases than not. A "if they could read" moment, except they wouldn't be upset, they'd say he's clever for it.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

If fox doesn't run this story, his supporters won't see it.

Also it's meidas, his supporters DEFINITELY won't see it.