Buying a Trump product was an optimistic if gullible gesture, the equivalent of buying something from a midnight segment on QVC. His voters and donors make a similar mistake. onesarahjones writes
Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images Donald Trump’s donors want to know where all the money went. The president raised — and spent — nearly $1 billion since 2017, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday. Now a candidate famous for his performative wealth is at a disadvantage. Joe Biden and the Democrats are about to outspend the Republicans “by more than 2-to-1” on advertising, according to the AP.
$7.4 million covered stays in and trips to Trump-owned properties. Private jets cost money, as do lawyers, especially when you are being impeached and also when you are being sued by multiple people at the same time. Ex–campaign manager Brad Parscale even had a car and driver, the New York Times recently reported. Meanwhile, the campaign bought advertising that often made little sense, such as $1.6 million in the Washington, D.C., area, a media market inhabited mostly by liberal voters.
Trump was always profligate and too incompetent to compensate for his poor impulse control. He repeatedly wasted his father’s money, much of it on bad business deals. In the absence of real business acumen, a simulacrum must suffice, so Trump invested in his brand image. Remember Trump steaks, and Trump wine? Trump University? Ivanka Trump’s “luxury” clothing brand? I don’t think anyone ever figured out what was going on with the steaks, but the wine sucks.
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