JFC. Trump is now peddling Trump guitars for $1,500 - $10,000 (if signed).

[highplainsdem]

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]

1. Photoshop! Look at the size of his hand.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Money laundering and grifting.

He will keep doing it for the rest of his life.

[allegorical oracle]

6. Guess all that cool fist-pumping on stage inspired him to take up the guitar. He gets

credit for holding it right-side-up.

[Irish_Dem]

7. He thinks he is so cool, handsome, sexy.

And can make money selling anything.

[allegorical oracle]

20. Being in love with yourself is classic narcissism. Bet he spends hours in front

of mirrors admiring himself. The hair, the make-up, the used car salesman smile. As a woman, I frankly find him effeminate.

[Irish_Dem]

24. Oh yes everything is rehearsed, a lot of time in front of mirrors.

Yes his hair, make up, smiles, frowns, etc.

[badhair77]

27. I certainly don't find him masculine.

[allegorical oracle]

34. Always suspected that HE didn't think he looked especially masculine. That's why he

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]

3. Doubt they're even worth 50 bucks.

[Wiscodoug]

30. Right

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]

40. Epiphone knock off Les Pauls

$199.99 at Guitar Center. The crappy frets will make your fingers bleed!

[sakabatou]

4. I bet they're made of cheap shit, and sound like it too

[madaboutharry]

5. Mar-A-Lago looks like a sad dive.

A president hawking merch. He is so undignified.
That alone would make the next four years unbearable.

[Ocelot II]

11. Mierda-Lardo looks like Versailles redecorated by Saddam Hussein's pimp.

[WarGamer]

18. M-A-L today looks pretty much like Marjorie Post built it in the 1920's...

Trump has mostly preserved it...

Most people don't know this.



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[Ocelot II]

21. Then she had pretty awful taste, too.

[WarGamer]

29. It's that roaring 20's style... some people don't like Versailles either.

It's just history... it's similar to Hearst Castle in California.

[allegorical oracle]

32. That was the over-the-top fashion in the 20s. (I watch PBS.)

[onethatcares]

8. picture if you will

him , nuge and gaetz belting out a few bars of "Cat Scratch Fever" with that guy that sings "Proud to be

[Ocelot II]

9. I didn't know you could make a guitar out of plywood and rubber bands.

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]

10. He's shameless, among other things

[struggle4progress]

12. "I'm still broke and looking for ways to make more money"

[Vinca]

13. Shouldn't that be "47" guitar? Not that the cult will know. If you pay $70 for a $3 Chinese-made Bible,

you might be all in on the "45" guitar. Does it cost more if you request he not touch it?

[Johonny]

17. No one in his orbit including him thought he would win again

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]

23. So the groovy "45" is left-over stock? Well, he's sure he can make it hip again. nt

[Silent Type]

14. You'd think trump would really promote "American Made" if made here. But I can't find any source info, so

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]

15. and seriously, is this legal?? Oh right he isn't POTUS yet.......has anyone heard if he is going to divest himself

of all his businesses when he is POTUS???

[keep_left]

16. Probably a Chinese maker--like one of those infamous "Chibsons"...

...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]

25. Those fake LPs

look like the fakest of the fake “Leo Daul” Chibsons (see truss rod cover):

[keep_left]

33. Yeah, that's one of the patent-infriging ones...

...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]

19. I was about to make a crude joke about the

D for Dickhead 45 acoustic, but damn if they didn’t go there. Feast your eyes on the Dickhead 45, with fake-ass abalone trim to look like a Martin D 45:

[allegorical oracle]

26. Geesh that looks poorly. nt

[maveric]

22. A fake Gibson Les Paul.

Chinese knockoff.

[iemanja]

28. The entire point of his presidency is grift

That and feeding his ego after the 2020 lost. The grift from foreign nations will make the guitar scheme look like peanuts.

[milestogo]

31. Since when does he or any of the Trumps play an instrument?

[VGNonly]

41. Maybe he plays the skin flute?

[milestogo]

42. ...

[Diamond_Dog]

35. Probably comes with a card that says "Do Not Attempt To Play - For Display Purposes Only."

[tanyev]

36. He's going to start selling Trump-branded crap out of the Oval Office, isn't he?

[Autumn]

43. He will probably set up a Bodega in the hall in front of the Oval office door.

[BigmanPigman]

37. When will he star to sell adult male diapers?

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]

38. Chinese made Les Paul ripoffs?

[purr-rat beauty]

39. hmmmm....which tax bracket can afford that?

....if you can't affords eggs, just sayin'

[musette_sf]

44. Half of $1500 will get you a nice enough latter day Strat

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]

45. What's really interesting to me...

...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.