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duncang

(3,591 posts)
Wed Oct 9, 2024, 06:11 AM Oct 9

Trump has long blasted China's trade practices. His 'God Bless the USA' Bibles were printed there

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of copies of Donald Trump’s “God Bless the USA” Bible were printed in a country that the former president has repeatedly accused of stealing American jobs and engaging in unfair trade practices — China.

Global trade records reviewed by The Associated Press show a printing company in China’s eastern city of Hangzhou shipped close to 120,000 of the Bibles to the United States between early February and late March.

The estimated value of the three separate shipments was $342,000, or less than $3 per Bible, according to databases that use customs data to track exports and imports. The minimum price for the Trump-backed Bible is $59.99, putting the potential sales revenue at about $7 million.

The Trump Bible’s connection to China, which has not been previously reported, reveals a deep divide between the former president’s harsh anti-China rhetoric and his rush to cash in while campaigning.

By RICHARD LARDNER and DAKE KANG
Updated 1:36 AM CDT, October 9, 2024
rsh anti-China rhetoric and his

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/trump-god-bless-usa-bible-china-32a80611605d4052d8238064bbcace4c?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share



Get your patriotic Chinese made Bible here. Hot off the presses. Your chance to pay $59.99 plus handling for a $3 bible. We sell the very best bibles. No one has better bibles.

Oh, if you’re wondering how you can get ripped off more. He also sells them with his signature for $1,000. I’m sure that will come with years of spam texts and emails trying to sell you more junk.

So I wonder what the mark up on tfg's watches are?
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Trump has long blasted China's trade practices. His 'God Bless the USA' Bibles were printed there (Original Post) duncang Oct 9 OP
What kind of tariff will he put on his Bibles? Old Crank Oct 9 #1
Biden should throw a 100% tariff on them today retroactive KS Toronado Oct 9 #8
I think you provided the answer. Prof. Toru Tanaka Oct 9 #10
Nothing New About This Practice. GB_RN Oct 9 #2
Including an incomplete printing of the Constitution, keithbvadu2 Oct 9 #3
lol.nt jfz9580m Oct 9 #4
Trump uses the Word of God to line his wallet. photo of front of bible riversedge Oct 9 #5
and his shoes , and his hats , and his trading cards .? AllaN01Bear Oct 9 #6
It would be actually news Diraven Oct 9 #25
Anyone remember this? geardaddy Oct 9 #7
Remember it well, he didn't learn anything from that experience. KS Toronado Oct 9 #9
Hypocrisy, a feature of the Republican Party WestMichRad Oct 9 #11
Buy 'em for $3 and sell 'em for $60. Kid Berwyn Oct 9 #12
Add to that the %100 tariff they will be subject to if he's elected: price goes to $119.98. patphil Oct 9 #13
Well, of course and his stupid voters couldn't care any less wolfie001 Oct 9 #14
China virus. China bible. Now it all makes sense. SupportSanity Oct 9 #15
Well of course they were ... why should he give any business to American printers? FakeNoose Oct 9 #16
In this case there aren't any who can do what he wants jmowreader Oct 9 #26
Because American bible printers are all out of business FakeNoose Oct 9 #30
The big question is, will Dump put a 200% tariff on his own bibles? Martin68 Oct 9 #17
Most of his junk is manufactures there Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 9 #18
Nothing new here. Just business as usual until a Chinese Samuel Gompers comes along. Marcuse Oct 9 #19
Even Trump's smoke and mirrors are made in China. dchill Oct 9 #20
Now that you mention China, we should find out where his watches are made. Just sayin'. ancianita Oct 9 #21
From what I heard online. duncang Oct 9 #22
What bdamomma Oct 9 #23
Totally on brand for Trump to endorse a book that's equal parts blasphemous and unconstitutional. Initech Oct 9 #24
How about MSM picking this up ?? Evolve Dammit Oct 9 #27
This outfit is the same one peddling the Trump assassination attempt sculpture, valleyrogue Oct 9 #28
All for me, nothing for thee... Montauk6 Oct 9 #29
Seems that he and his daughter-wife love that country, even though he publicly liked to berate 4lbs Oct 9 #31
Meanwhile, I am sitting here with a Gideon Bible that I got for "FREE" back in the 1990s (had to pay to stay 4lbs Oct 9 #32

KS Toronado

(19,565 posts)
8. Biden should throw a 100% tariff on them today retroactive
Wed Oct 9, 2024, 09:18 AM
Oct 9

Watch TSF triple the price and complain how unfair tariffs are. Biden & Harris can then point at how
devastating his economy plans are to this Country.

Prof. Toru Tanaka

(2,289 posts)
10. I think you provided the answer.
Wed Oct 9, 2024, 10:20 AM
Oct 9

It’s just one more example out of thousands that show what a hypocritical liar TSF is.

GB_RN

(3,154 posts)
2. Nothing New About This Practice.
Wed Oct 9, 2024, 06:26 AM
Oct 9

I’m not disparaging the OP but all of Cantaloupe Caligula the Corpulent’s campaign swag is made in China, as are his ugly-assed ties. So, his ugly-asses, bibles being made there isn’t a surprise.

Kid Berwyn

(17,981 posts)
12. Buy 'em for $3 and sell 'em for $60.
Wed Oct 9, 2024, 10:39 AM
Oct 9

With all the profit going to the grifter, what would the prophets think?

patphil

(6,941 posts)
13. Add to that the %100 tariff they will be subject to if he's elected: price goes to $119.98.
Wed Oct 9, 2024, 10:41 AM
Oct 9

I'm sure his Maga base won't mind the price increase.
And, of course, Trump wouldn't get a penny of the tariff on his bible.

jmowreader

(51,438 posts)
26. In this case there aren't any who can do what he wants
Wed Oct 9, 2024, 04:05 PM
Oct 9

The biggest printing plant in the US that actually prints Bible book blocks belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. There are a few companies that hand-bind Bibles in the US, and they start with imported book blocks. Figure the odds of the LDS church, whose plant is already running at maximum capacity printing for the Church, printing an abomination like the Trump Bible. Gideons International closed their US plant years ago - and, as with the LDS, they’re not printing a Trump Bible if they still had the ability to. I know of a plant in the Netherlands that prints them, and they wouldn’t put the Declaration of Independence in one either.

“Why not print one in a US printing plant that prints other books?” Largely because of the paper. There’s a setting on a web offset press called caliper - which is the distance between the impression cylinders. Bible stock is thin and fragile on press. It takes long enough to set the caliper for Bible stock that once it’s done you’ll leave it there. Most book printers print on one-color presses, and a lot of Bibles are two-color…”the words Jesus spoke are printed in red” is popular. There’s also the immense size of a Bible; they’re over 1000 pages and they’re typically gathered in one pass so you need a lot of pockets on your Inserter. If you run Scripture you only run Scripture because Scripture needs specialized equipment to run it. And, these days, that equipment is in China.

In essence, if you’re going to print a fucked-up Bible like the one Trump is pushing, it has to come out of one of the big Chinese Bible plants.

FakeNoose

(35,659 posts)
30. Because American bible printers are all out of business
Wed Oct 9, 2024, 08:57 PM
Oct 9

It didn't have to be this way.

I take this personally only because - I'm retired now but - my entire working career was in the commercial printing business. Since the 1960's the entire industry has taken a huge nosedive. Long story and I won't bore you with the details.


duncang

(3,591 posts)
22. From what I heard online.
Wed Oct 9, 2024, 02:07 PM
Oct 9

They have some Swiss made parts but a lot of it was made who knows where. It was just enough to say Swiss made. The watch geeks weren’t impressed.

Initech

(101,901 posts)
24. Totally on brand for Trump to endorse a book that's equal parts blasphemous and unconstitutional.
Wed Oct 9, 2024, 02:21 PM
Oct 9

Bravo!

valleyrogue

(1,098 posts)
28. This outfit is the same one peddling the Trump assassination attempt sculpture,
Wed Oct 9, 2024, 04:25 PM
Oct 9

which is on pre-order at their site.

4lbs

(7,395 posts)
31. Seems that he and his daughter-wife love that country, even though he publicly liked to berate
Wed Oct 9, 2024, 11:02 PM
Oct 9

them for political gain while as Dumpy the POTUS.

https://apnews.com/article/0a3283036d2f4e699da4aa3c6dd01727

China grants 18 trademarks in 2 months to Trump, daughter

By ERIKA KINETZ
Published 6:30 PM PDT, November 6, 2018

SHANGHAI (AP) — The Chinese government granted 18 trademarks to companies linked to President Donald Trump and his daughter Ivanka Trump over the last two months, Chinese public records show, raising concerns about conflicts of interest in the White House.

4lbs

(7,395 posts)
32. Meanwhile, I am sitting here with a Gideon Bible that I got for "FREE" back in the 1990s (had to pay to stay
Wed Oct 9, 2024, 11:27 PM
Oct 9

at a Motel 6 back then, but it was on the company contract dime, per diem and such).

Works for me, even though I haven't perused the contents for about 20 years.


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