Chinese e-commerce retailers were quick to cash in on the assassination attempt on former United States president Donald Trump last Saturday (Jul 13), with T-shirts of the image of him waving his fist going on sale hours after the news broke.
On popular e-commerce platform Taobao, the first batch of t-shirts went on sale less than three hours after the shooting happened in Pennsylvania at about 6.11pm local time, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported.
A Taobao seller told the news outlet she put the T-shirts on sale as soon as she read the news. Within three hours, she received more than 2,000 orders from China and the US.
Taken down?
Like for US users?
I bet I can go find one with Lacoste & Polo branding (actually “Lowcoste” and “PoIo” probably, both very fitting actually).Subtitled: “He had one job!”
I called it! Two hours after it happened. I called it.
What could be more American than making merchandise to amplify a historic event?
