Not all have been equally affected, however. Murdoch's Fox News channel, with the most conservative audience of the three cable networks, has fared better than its rivals, while CNN has suffered more dramatic declines. More than 2.8mn people watched this month's Iowa caucus coverage on Fox News, down from 4.4mn in 2020 and 4.5mn in 2016. Fewer than 700,000 viewers tuned in to CNN's Iowa coverage, a sharp drop from 3.7mn in 2016
We know when Trump hawks his own products he never takes risks on it. That means there's someone out there who thought these sneakers were something he was willing to invest in and pay Trump upfront before sales came in.
That said, I remember a screenshot of some highly hedging language on their webpage saying the product might look different from the photo, to unspecified parameters. So maybe they haven't actually been manufactured yet.
He definitely had a pair with him and, well, they got the Trump-hop aesthetic down.
Probably a prototype from a 3-d printer.
So... this has to be just for the clicks, right? No one is going to buy gold sneakers.
Imagine what he could've done if his shoes hadn't been so heavy.
8: It used to be about the music, man.
On shoes, I'm thinking of going back to real shoes with leather soles. Except for hiking and running and things like that.
Why? The one or two times I've somehow ended up with leather soles, they've been slippery and gunk gets stuck to them. I've always wondered what I was missing about the appeal.
They are clearly not sneakers so no one can think I got them from Ye or Trump.
Also, just don't step in gunk regardless of the shoes you have.
No one is going to buy gold sneakers
They bought NFTs of Trump with abs.
At least that didn't waste closet space.
14: I truly don't get these people. Presumably they also complain about inflation.
I actually kind of like the sneaker thing as Trump stories go. It's hilarious rather than grimly terrifying (but also hilarious) the way other Trump stories are.
Boner pills is the obvious thing he should sell.
I guess he didn't kill the FDA when he had the chance.
I guess he didn't kill the FDA when he had the chance.
Someday, someone is going to wear these shoes in public. The cringe is unimaginable. I shudder to think.
I kind of assumed the NFT was a new form of money laundering, or maybe even not new. "I will give you a million dollars for the bits on this server, and in return, you will give me a $50 million contract when you get back into office," or something. That makes a certain kind of sense, but the idea of someone doing that with a million dollars worth of gold sneakers is comical.
You can launder sneakers, but probably not gold ones.
18: That was Bob Dole's gig. But did not realize he was in a commercial in 1998, just 2 years after his presidential run.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMeulTWdqiY
Right, but that was a medically effective treatment. If you bought it, you weren't cheated.
And compared to the Pepsi commercial with Britney Spears, it was hardly creepy.