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 Trumps 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 Chinas 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 Bibles connection to China, which has not been previously reported, reveals a deep divide between the former presidents 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 youre wondering how you can get ripped off more. He also sells them with his signature for $1,000. Im 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?
Old Crank
(4,643 posts)100%, 200%
Or will Trump branded junk be exempt
KS Toronado
(19,565 posts)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)Its just one more example out of thousands that show what a hypocritical liar TSF is.
GB_RN
(3,154 posts)Im not disparaging the OP but all of Cantaloupe Caligula the Corpulents campaign swag is made in China, as are his ugly-assed ties. So, his ugly-asses, bibles being made there isnt a surprise.
keithbvadu2
(40,092 posts)riversedge
(73,120 posts)AllaN01Bear
(23,039 posts)Diraven
(1,045 posts)If someone found some Trump merch that wasn't made in China
geardaddy
(25,342 posts)KS Toronado
(19,565 posts)WestMichRad
(1,805 posts)yet again. Its like they take pride in it.
Kid Berwyn
(17,981 posts)With all the profit going to the grifter, what would the prophets think?
patphil
(6,941 posts)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.
wolfie001
(3,627 posts)SupportSanity
(1,111 posts)FakeNoose
(35,659 posts)jmowreader
(51,438 posts)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, theyre 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 wouldnt 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. Theres 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 its done youll 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. Theres also the immense size of a Bible; theyre over 1000 pages and theyre 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 youre 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)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.
Martin68
(24,597 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(115,244 posts)His MAGA hats and neckties are two that come to mind.
Marcuse
(8,003 posts)dchill
(40,468 posts)ancianita
(38,514 posts)duncang
(3,591 posts)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 werent impressed.
a fucking POS!!!!!
Initech
(101,901 posts)Bravo!
Evolve Dammit
(18,603 posts)valleyrogue
(1,098 posts)which is on pre-order at their site.
Montauk6
(8,614 posts)That's what is called
Hypocrisy
4lbs
(7,395 posts)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)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.