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

[duncang]

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

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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?

[Old Crank]

1. What kind of tariff will he put on his Bibles?

100%, 200%

Or will Trump branded junk be exempt

[KS Toronado]

8. Biden should throw a 100% tariff on them today retroactive

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]

10. I think you provided the answer.

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

[GB_RN]

2. Nothing New About This Practice.

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.

[keithbvadu2]

3. Including an incomplete printing of the Constitution,

[jfz9580m]

4. lol.nt

[riversedge]

5. Trump uses the Word of God to line his wallet. photo of front of bible

Typical Trump!!

Link to tweet

[AllaN01Bear]

6. and his shoes , and his hats , and his trading cards .?

[Diraven]

25. It would be actually news

If someone found some Trump merch that wasn't made in China

[geardaddy]

7. Anyone remember this?

[KS Toronado]

9. Remember it well, he didn't learn anything from that experience.

[WestMichRad]

11. Hypocrisy, a feature of the Republican Party

… yet again. It’s like they take pride in it.

[Kid Berwyn]

12. Buy 'em for $3 and sell 'em for $60.

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

[patphil]

13. Add to that the %100 tariff they will be subject to if he's elected: price goes to $119.98.

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]

14. Well, of course and his stupid voters couldn't care any less

[SupportSanity]

15. China virus. China bible. Now it all makes sense.

[FakeNoose]

16. Well of course they were ... why should he give any business to American printers?

[jmowreader]

26. In this case there aren't any who can do what he wants

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]

30. Because American bible printers are all out of business

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]

17. The big question is, will Dump put a 200% tariff on his own bibles?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

18. Most of his junk is manufactures there

His MAGA hats and neckties are two that come to mind.

[Marcuse]

19. Nothing new here. Just business as usual until a Chinese Samuel Gompers comes along.

[dchill]

20. Even Trump's smoke and mirrors are made in China.

[ancianita]

21. Now that you mention China, we should find out where his watches are made. Just sayin'.

[duncang]

22. From what I heard online.

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.

[bdamomma]

23. What

a fucking POS!!!!!

[Initech]

24. Totally on brand for Trump to endorse a book that's equal parts blasphemous and unconstitutional.

Bravo!

[Evolve Dammit]

27. How about MSM picking this up ??

[valleyrogue]

28. This outfit is the same one peddling the Trump assassination attempt sculpture,

which is on pre-order at their site.

[Montauk6]

29. All for me, nothing for thee...

That's what is called
Hypocrisy

[4lbs]

31. Seems that he and his daughter-wife love that country, even though he publicly liked to berate

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]

32. Meanwhile, I am sitting here with a Gideon Bible that I got for "FREE" back in the 1990s (had to pay to stay

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.