Tasteless political merch is nothing new to Donald Trump, but it\u2019s a particularly bad look if you\u2019re married to Bill Clinton<\/p>\n
We live in a golden age of tasteless political merchandise. This is largely thanks to Donald Trump: over the years the president\u2019s official store<\/a> has flogged everything from hoodies with Joe Biden falling downstairs on them to a T-shirt with a version of the mugshot<\/a> from his 2023 booking on felony charges (Trump denied wrongdoing).<\/p>\n Trump isn\u2019t the only one. Back in 2019, Senator Mitch McConnell, then Senate majority leader, sold more than 2,000 T-shirts referencing \u201cCocaine Mitch<\/a>\u201d. This had nothing to do with his hobbies; it was in response to a nickname given to McConnell by a political rival off the back of a baseless allegation. \u201cOne of the things we learned with this whole \u2018Cocaine Mitch\u2019 phenomenon is that people are really engaged,\u201d one of the staffers involved in the T-shirt sales said at the time. \u201cThey want merchandise.\u201d<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tasteless political merch is nothing new to Donald Trump, but it\u2019s a particularly bad look if you\u2019re married to Bill Clinton We live in a golden age of tasteless political merchandise. This is largely thanks to Donald Trump: over the years the president\u2019s official store has flogged everything from hoodies with Joe Biden falling downstairs … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}