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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJFC. Trump is now peddling Trump guitars for $1,500 - $10,000 (if signed).
Posted by Ron.Filipkowski.on both Twitter and Bluesky:
Link to tweet
https://bsky.app/profile/ronfilipkowski.bsky.social/post/3lbflre6drs2v
I checked that website for the price.
550 of the signed guitars will be sold, for $5.5 million total.
FSogol
(46,502 posts)Irish_Dem
(57,309 posts)He will keep doing it for the rest of his life.
allegorical oracle
(3,052 posts)credit for holding it right-side-up.
Irish_Dem
(57,309 posts)And can make money selling anything.
allegorical oracle
(3,052 posts)of mirrors admiring himself. The hair, the make-up, the used car salesman smile. As a woman, I frankly find him effeminate.
Irish_Dem
(57,309 posts)Yes his hair, make up, smiles, frowns, etc.
badhair77
(4,608 posts)allegorical oracle
(3,052 posts)over-compensates with the "killer" machismo wrestling, misogyny, vulgarity, threats, and swagger. Real men (like JFK, Carter and Obama) don't need all that.
Basso8vb
(281 posts)I am a guitar player 40 plus years and I took a look at one of these and you are correct, this is a pile of junk. FAQ. No real information on his hawky ass pitch that a guitar player would need to know before laying down this kind of dough. Real FAQ for guitar purchase e.g. Scale length? Set neck or bolt on? Machine head manufacturer? Pick ups manufacturer? You could by 15 of those crapy guitars at music go round.
VGNonly
(7,715 posts)$199.99 at Guitar Center. The crappy frets will make your fingers bleed!
sakabatou
(43,040 posts)madaboutharry
(41,351 posts)A president hawking merch. He is so undignified.
That alone would make the next four years unbearable.
Ocelot II
(120,813 posts)WarGamer
(15,402 posts)Trump has mostly preserved it...
Most people don't know this.
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Ocelot II
(120,813 posts)WarGamer
(15,402 posts)It's just history... it's similar to Hearst Castle in California.
allegorical oracle
(3,052 posts)onethatcares
(16,571 posts)him , nuge and gaetz belting out a few bars of "Cat Scratch Fever" with that guy that sings "Proud to be
Ocelot II
(120,813 posts)We made them out of wooden cigar boxes when we were kids but I don't know if you can get those any more.
Deuxcents
(19,694 posts)struggle4progress
(120,241 posts)Vinca
(51,024 posts)you might be all in on the "45" guitar. Does it cost more if you request he not touch it?
Johonny
(22,034 posts)Literally the moronic nature of the American voter could not be underestimated enough.
I'm sure they'll bang out a 47 guitar in 2025. This has been one long grift since the beginning only real people are going to be hurt beyond belief.
allegorical oracle
(3,052 posts)Silent Type
(6,652 posts)I'm assuming Asian made.
While there are plenty of decent Asian guitars, I'd have to play one to determine if it's any good. If it has trump's signature, and slogans, I wouldn't touch one. Now a Harris endorsed guitar might be of interest.
a kennedy
(32,066 posts)of all his businesses when he is POTUS???
keep_left
(2,412 posts)...knockoff Gibson Les Pauls that flooded the market years ago. Looks like Gibson finally cracked down on the patent-infringing headstocks, though (the "open book" design has been modified), and the cutaway is slightly different. That's probably because Gibson is now making guitars in China as well (under the Epiphone name, I think), and they took out Chinese design patents.
musette_sf
(10,323 posts)look like the fakest of the fake Leo Daul Chibsons (see truss rod cover):
keep_left
(2,412 posts)...based on the headstock alone. The "open book" design is something Gibson claims as either "trade dress" or protected by a design patent; I can't remember which. The actual Les Paul "utility patent" (or patents) has/have long since expired, but a couple of decades ago, the LP knockoffs started to arrive on our shores, and Gibson started taking out design patents on aspects of the Gibson "look and feel" to hopefully stop the imports. (Another reason was that Paul Reed Smith, a high-end guitar company like Gibson, began making their "Singlecut" guitars which looked a lot like a Les Paul, but were arguably of higher quality. Gibson promptly sued them).
It's funny, but this is an ongoing story in the musical instrument business. There are any number of instruments over the years that became known as "lawsuit guitars": double-cutaway Les Paul Customs in the '80s (mostly from Yamaha and Ibanez), Chibsons starting in the late-'90s, etc. The guitarist in the Colbert Show band occasionally plays a "lawsuit guitar"; it's a Les Paul knockoff with a maple fretboard (!!) and black block inlays. I think it's a Univox from the '80s.
musette_sf
(10,323 posts)D for Dickhead 45 acoustic, but damn if they didnt go there. Feast your eyes on the Dickhead 45, with fake-ass abalone trim to look like a Martin D 45:
allegorical oracle
(3,052 posts)maveric
(16,672 posts)Chinese knockoff.
iemanja
(54,754 posts)That and feeding his ego after the 2020 lost. The grift from foreign nations will make the guitar scheme look like peanuts.
milestogo
(17,786 posts)VGNonly
(7,715 posts)Diamond_Dog
(34,612 posts)tanyev
(44,501 posts)Autumn
(46,280 posts)BigmanPigman
(52,241 posts)Maybe he can get one of his used diapers and sign each with a big Sharpie. Since he has personal experience with the product it would be a real bonus for the commercials.
johnp3907
(3,888 posts)purr-rat beauty
(596 posts)....if you can't affords eggs, just sayin'
musette_sf
(10,323 posts)and less than $10000 will get you a nice Martin golden era D28 repro. Only assholes are ponying up this dough for a POS Chibson or QVC Esteban plywood acoustic.
jmowreader
(51,438 posts)...is that the headstocks of the ones painted with the patriotic design bear the number "45" in a circle of stars.
Since he got elected to be the 47th president and that number would logically be on the headstock if he came up with this after the election, it appears that Trump has been working on this particular grift for quite some time.