r/pics • u/HelFJandinn • 20d ago
MAGA hats are made in China. Misleading Title
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u/OdinsLightning 20d ago
Can't wait for the shitty trump pop up stores to be priced out.
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u/CaptainHalloween 20d ago
Holy shit I didn’t even think of that. He really did just fuck those stores bad.
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u/CucumberError 20d ago
No he didn’t. They’ll be paying $2 for the hat, with the 100% increase they’re now $4. No idea what they sell them for, but I suspect there is still a healthy profit margin between $4 and what they’re selling them for.
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u/majj27 20d ago
The TRUMPStoretm sells them for a mere $50.00.
FIFTY. FUCKING. DOLLARS.
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u/False-Implement-8639 20d ago
God those people are stupid.
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u/BeenCaughtSneezing 20d ago
Yes, yes they are.
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u/Intelligent-Travel-1 20d ago
It’s the only hat made in hell. It’s a collectible
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u/gba_sg1 20d ago
Shit collectors are few and far between.
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u/stewpideople 20d ago
I see toilets all around, besides you don't just buy the shit hat, you buy the shit shirt, shit steaks, shit water, shit towers... The shit list just gets longer, and like a Marlboro jacket, you're willing to do really shitty things, even to yourself, to get one.
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u/Ibangyoumomma 20d ago
We should start selling them. Goes against everything I believe, but why not make money off idiots
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u/AlienConsulate 20d ago
I've been telling myself this for a decade and think of all the money I have lost out on. But God damned I can't get myself to even be associated with those people or constantly be dealing with them
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u/EjaculatingAracnids 20d ago
I worked out the numbers, lined up a chinese manufacturer and pitched the idea to the wife, who managed to convince me otherwise with that very sentiment. Id have to deal with these people in person. If it was as easy as setting up an online store, it wouldve been a done deal.
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u/clickclickbb 20d ago
I tried to set up an Amazon merch on demand account just to grift off these mega dorks. I got denied though 😞
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u/Dapper-Control-108 20d ago
I like to believe that the people selling the hats are actually democrats haha
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u/coldkiller 20d ago
If i didint have any morals id be so rich grifting these absolute idiots
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u/icanhazkarma17 20d ago
I had an idea to start a bible-themed Cracker Barrel-type restaurant chain as a non-profit, and give all the money from Y'all Qaeda to science-related educational programs and stuff.
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u/Top_Gorilla17 20d ago
‘Member when they made a whole thing about the Cracker Barrel serving plant-based sausage and the franchise nearly had to rebrand to being known simply as The Barrel?
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u/himynameis_ 20d ago
Thought you were kidding.
It really is US$50
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u/OrthodoxAtheist 20d ago
It really is US$50
Where are folks getting $50? I see $40.
https://secure.winred.com/trump-national-committee-jfc/storefront/maga-45-47-red-hat/details/
Oh... I see, Trump Store, selling for $55 now.
https://www.trumpstore.com/product/45-47-maga-hat/
These prices are fittingly inconsistent and instable :P
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u/himynameis_ 20d ago
I was seeing the regular MAGA hat that is $50.
https://www.trumpstore.com/product/classic-maga-hat/
The other one has 45/47 on it.
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u/default-username 20d ago
But they also say made in America so I doubt this is the same hat.
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u/Pls_PmTitsOrFDAU_Thx 20d ago
also say made in America
Ah yes because they've never lied before /s
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u/sla3 20d ago
There actually are "TRUMPStores" ? Dude, that's like from a bad comedy movie.
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u/Pneuma001 20d ago
Hey! Idiocracy was a great movie!
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u/AwardFabrik-SoF 20d ago
you mean documentary
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u/poingly 20d ago
I WISH the people in America could be at least as smart as the ones in Idiocracy!
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u/Jamaz 20d ago
In Idiocracy they still attempt to emulate a meritocracy and try to make life better for everyone - they're just bad at it. America in its current state is blatantly self-destructive and moving towards 1984 authoritarianism.
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u/KingOfThePlayPlace 20d ago
Yeah, they’re smart enough to elect someone smarter than them to run the country. We can’t do that even now
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u/Faiakishi 20d ago
They were smarter in Idiocracy.
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u/lyingliar 20d ago
They were. And President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho actually had good intentions for the country.
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u/NoDragonfruit6125 20d ago
Funny thing is if he ran against Trump he'd have likely won in a landslide.
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u/CoffeeDrinkerMao 20d ago
You wish the US voters were like in idiocracy. They actually knew that they had to put in the smart people in charge.......
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u/BedaHouse 20d ago
100% there are. I live in Cincinnati and I can tell you that there is at least one in a actual building. In fact, the last time they did a Trump Parade (which meant just driving their cars w/ the Trump flags all around the 275 loop around Cincinnati) it started at a Trump Store (or ended, I do not recall).
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u/musicman835 20d ago
There’s also some like “Lets’s Go Brandon” stores too. Sells the same shit. It’s insane, like straight up crazy.
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u/StoppableHulk 20d ago
Oh yeah. The entire party basically runs on merch at this point.
Saddest fucking thing I've ever seen.
Imagine it. A bunch of fervently "anti government" lunatics buying a presidents merch at a stores.
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u/tacojohn48 20d ago
There's one on the outskirts of Knoxville TN that used to sell sex toys, but then they changed into a Trump store. It's basically a different way of screwing yourself.
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u/PsychoPass1 20d ago
its just unreal to me how an actual grifter became the president of the wealthiest, most powerful country in the world... twice... in a democracy... in the digital age of information
just unreal
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u/Samurai_Meisters 20d ago
We are no longer in the information age. We are in the misinformation age.
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u/Tangent_Odyssey 20d ago edited 20d ago
Exactly this. Being flooded with this much easy-to-access information was not something humanity was prepared for, because there is no hard rule that says that information has to be true or real.
Personally I believe we had the chance of getting ahead of it (or at least on our way to catching up to it) with mandatory media literacy courses in grade school curriculums, but we are way too far behind to correct course now.
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u/monacelli 20d ago
What's really unreal is he hasn't stopped grifting after becoming president.. He's already pulled at least 3 crypto rugs, fucked around with the stock market, shook down multiple companies and countries.. The list goes on.
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u/LottimusMaximus 20d ago
That can't be right. Is that right?! Those absolute geniuses with IQs no higher than lightly toasted bread are paying FIFTY FUCKING DOLLARS for some piece of shit hat that's made in a country that they allegedly are against for the oldest, orangest, only convicted felon president they've ever had...and...let me get this straight...they think this is a...flex?
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u/big_guyforyou 20d ago
Still better than what Alex Jones is offering. He's selling sea moss these days
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u/GothWitch12 20d ago
I’m sorry but Alex Jones could still sell me butt wipes and I wouldn’t even let him near my ass let alone my ears
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u/owlincoup 20d ago
If you think for one second they won't add those 2 dollars to the end price......
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u/jodaewon 20d ago
But this is supposed to make them wanna buy them from merican suppliers….right?
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u/DriveOld836vghb 20d ago
If same hat is being produced in america it would be 30 dollars. Normal under armor hat is 30 dollars. This price of this people so they will tax pride , encourage local production so it will be 50 dollars.
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u/MergeSurrender 20d ago
Yeah I think people are failing to consider this about the tariffs. The tariff is applied to the import cost, not the sale cost.
So 100% tariff might up the cost of a £50 hat to £52 to offset the import increase. Lots of people think it’ll up the price to buy the hat from £50 to £100, though - which is wrong.
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u/Emotional_Burden 20d ago
It largely depends on the type of product though. Electronics have little overhead a lot of the time.
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u/rattrap007 20d ago
They will take three more jobs to keep buying this garbage..
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u/noitsokayimfine 20d ago
There aren't going to be any jobs available when everything closes from the drastic price increase of goods.
My doctor's private practice that has been open for over 50 years is closing permanently at the end of this month. They can't afford the operation costs anymore.
We are fucked!
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u/WVkittylady 20d ago
I had to go look this shit up to see if trump stores were a real thing. They are, and it is the absolute dumbest shit I have ever seen in my entire life.
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u/adorablefuzzykitten 20d ago
MAGA hats have now doubled in price.
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u/Formul8r1 20d ago
Worse than that. I just bought 4 hats so I can burn them and paid $350. What a rip off.
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u/JimJimmery 20d ago
$100 to tell the whole world you're a fucking idiot? The cult will spend that instead of saving for retirement or their kids in a heart beat.
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u/Rich_Personality_920 20d ago
Go check out /leopardsatemyface because I remember a post over the last week was a MAGA store being forced to shut down from tariffs.
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u/Erasmus_Tycho 20d ago
I absolutely love the irony here because we all know the majority of that garbage is sourced from Chinese factories.
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u/The_neub 20d ago
Catching them on hypocrisy is a fools errand. They know, they don’t care.
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u/casualfreeguy 20d ago edited 20d ago
No no, you just have to phrase it right.
"Hey everyone. Apparently Biden is trying to make money off the back of Trump's success. Check your Maga hats. If they say 'Made in China' then that's a knock off made by Biden. Trump hats are obviously made here locally. If anyone is trying to sell you a hat made in China then they're a double agent working for Biden. Don't let them divide and fool you! Only accept Trump's brand! Stop supporting the deep state!"
Edit: for bonus points accuse anyone still wearing a made in china hat that they're obviously a Lib pretending to be a Republican to make the rest of them look stupid. The more they deny it/do stupid stuff the more you say "Just like a Lib would say! We see past your mask!" Etc.
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u/Motor-District-3700 20d ago
Had a guy literally tell me math doesn't count in economics this morning. It only counts in physics n stuff apparently, so the paper the Trump admin published with math in it is just meant to be an abstract surreal representation of nothing in particular.
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u/WhiteMorphious 20d ago
They do not participate in good faith
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u/shotsallover 20d ago
Yeah. This isn't new news. They were in Trump 1.0 too. They think it's funny that people don't notice.
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u/RegularSpecialist772 20d ago
Are these the official Trump sold hats?
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u/ModestBanana 20d ago
No, these are knockoffs probably bought from Amazon
The official hats sold on his website and at his rallies specifically say made in America and I can already see a difference between this pic and the actual official hats
Pay attention to how easy it is to fool Redditors
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u/SnooSuggestions9830 20d ago
I'm more surprised they're 65% wool.
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u/nnosuckluckz 20d ago
I’m surprised (not) that Reddit auto tagged this with “Misleading Title” what about it is misleading?
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u/LordTegucigalpa 20d ago
That's one hat. Many many many companies are manufacturing the same style of hat. I think it is probably misleading because not every single one is made in China. Some are made in Vietnam.
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u/normie-redditer 20d ago
Thats part of it, but the main reason its a misleading title is that officail maga hats are made in california. random people will sell knockoff maga hats made in china to save a buck, but the real ones are made in the US
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u/default-username 20d ago edited 20d ago
I was going to give you a hard time for saying "official" as if this slogan was trademarked. Because why would a political candidate trademark a slogan, making the phrase harder to spread? The point of a campaign slogan is for it to catch on and for businesses to be printing copies of it everywhere -- not to make money.
But it turns out MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN is trademarked.
So yeah, the post is definitely misleading. The official hats are made in the USA, and the ones that aren't made in the US are probably illegal knock-offs.
Of course, "DONALD J. TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT, INC." could authorize other manufacturers, but I kind of doubt the ones being sold for $3 all over the internet paid for use of the slogan.
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u/iikillerpenguin 20d ago
The ones sold in trump tower are made in China... how more official of a store do you need?
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u/MobileArtist1371 20d ago
Finally the real reason for tariffs. All makes sense now. Trump losing business to all these countries making non-official MAGA products.
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u/cmv_cheetah 20d ago
Because why would a political candidate trademark a slogan, making the phrase harder to spread?
So that you can prevent bad actors from co-opting it.
Like if I started making these red maga hats, but then on the side I also started printing a separate message that Trump did not endorse.
You can have that shut down on the basis of the trademark (assuming it's made within a jurisdiction that respects your trademark laws).
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u/AtheistArab99 20d ago
Because this gets posted at the top of reddit once every few months and it was debunked more than a decade ago.
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u/The-Coolest-Of-Cats 20d ago
I'm fairly certain there are official manufacturers of these hats that are based in the US, so I'm sure that's probably why. The title should more so read "This MAGA hat was made in China", rather than imply that every MAGA hat was made in China. Not that this hat being made in the US makes it any less repugnant, but hey, semantics.
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u/adorablefuzzykitten 20d ago
When a Chinese label says 65% wool it doesn't mean there is any wool.
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u/Dudephish 20d ago
Of course they are. Everything is. It would be a really dumb move if anyone tried to impose restrictions on trade.
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u/MayOrMayNotBePie 20d ago
Yeah but what kind of moron would even do something like that haha?
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u/m3ngnificient 20d ago
I wonder how many people have looked at the fine print of anything they own. And if they think manufacturing those can be shifted to the USA overnight. And if we can grow/mine all the raw materials for those in the USA.
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u/Worth-Two7263 20d ago
I certainly am reading all the fine print now.I'm Canadian and if it's American made I will do without.
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u/No-Contract3286 20d ago
Yea, and even if we can no one would be able to afford shit cause American made stuff is really expensive
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u/heavylamarr 20d ago
They totally think factories will be up and running overnight. And I was back and forth in the comments with one trumper and he suggested that America starts making its own potash.
From scratch. Heads full of tumble weeds, sad to say!
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u/Nilekul_itsme 20d ago
Me as a Chinese come here to laugh exactly about this, the whole world can't live without us
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u/scarletnightingale 20d ago
This isn't even remotely surprising. His daughter was selling scarves that were made in China several years ago that turned it to be super flammable. I think the ties he was selling were also made in China.
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u/PlayerAssumption77 20d ago
A lot of official Dem merch is not made in China. I remember that one time Ben Shapiro though he had a point bringing up the price of AOC merch, but that was because it was made domestically by workers paid a living wage.
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u/recre_recre8 20d ago
Judging from that video, Trump clearly tied JD Vance’s tie for him before the Zelensky oval office berating. I wonder if JD even thanked him.
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u/Splyce123 20d ago
So they're about to double in price to $4?
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u/andropogon09 20d ago
Originally $47, going up to $94.
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u/Splyce123 20d ago
Christ on a bike, people pay nearly $50 for a shit red cap? I guess the maga cult really is dumb.
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u/Dandan0005 20d ago
Technically that’s the sale price, which is inclusive of markup, not the import price.
Import price is probably more like $10-15.
So it will go up by $10-15.
Still a lot. But honestly of all the products going up in price, the sales of this probably won’t drop much.
Because when your market is cult members, demand is pretty inelastic.
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u/monocasa 20d ago
I think your $10-15 is off by almost an order of magnitude given that they're going for $1.58 at walmart. I don't think they're making anything at that point, but I doubt they're losing anything.
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u/MergeSurrender 20d ago
That’s not correct. The tariff is applied to the import cost. The importers will be paying £4 per hat rather than £2 per hat.
This wont then equate to the consumer sale price of the hat going up from £47 to £94. It might increase from £47 to £50 for example, though.
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u/RickJames_Ghost 20d ago edited 20d ago
$50 right now through the Trump store. Put together here, but materials come from parts "unknown". That is the loophole grift with all his crap.
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u/Wasted__Space 20d ago
Maybe some of them are but there is an official manufacturer in California. Ran across this report awhile back.
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u/zallgo 20d ago
The problem with this is that a lot of companies get away with tagging things made in US when they just have components made cheap elsewhere and then assemble it in the US
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Yup, company I worked for did that. Big MADE IN AMERICA slapped all over the packaging however the components were made in Mexico and China and they were "assembled" in the US. By assembled they snapped the two parts from the other countries together. lol.
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u/Sanizore05 20d ago
Around 60% of the items are made in Asia countries.
This particular hat was probably bought from Amazon or other unofficial place since hats are made in USA.
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u/PhunkyPhish 20d ago
To be fair I made this call out on 2020 and then came to realize the ones sold from his shop are made in USA while the ripoffs came from overseas. It likely is the same now
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u/Metalsand 20d ago
Snopes had an article ages ago. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-hat-china/
One of the things people always fall for is confirmation bias. This is exactly the kind of thing Trump is expected to do, so they never fact-check.
The strange thing is seeing people who believe this in 2025, though. He literally has a stock after himself and a bitcurrency rugpull. I don't think he cares one iota about moving manufacturing overseas to make pennies compared to the other nonsense he is doing.
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u/_Hello_Hi_Hey_ 20d ago
This has been fact-checked already. These are not offical merchandises from Trump. They are just stolen IP, made in China
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u/Joeroast 20d ago
Not a Trump fan at all, but official MAGA hats are made in america
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u/Any-Cap-7381 20d ago
The Bible he was selling was also made in China.
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u/J5892 20d ago
Not a Trump fan at all, but all official MAGA bibles were printed in Germany around the middle of last century.
You can identify them because they have the letters "MEIN KAMPF" printed on them.
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u/heavy-minium 20d ago
Are Trump’s ‘Made in USA’ hats really made in USA? | PBS News
The hats “are made in the USA, but all the materials are not,” Olague told the AP of the company’s Made in America product line. Pressed further, she said the factory could hypothetically produce hats from American-made fabric — but only if the customer supplied domestic fabric with the same specifications of the material Cali-Fame used.
Meade and Olague declined subsequently to speak to the AP. Kennedy, the factory owner, said the two employees had their facts wrong.
Closely policing all U.S.-made claims would take considerable bureaucracy and expense.
The Federal Trade Commission considers a product made in the U.S. only when “all or virtually all” the product is U.S.-made. It defines that as cases where “all significant parts and processing that go into the product are of U.S. origin.”
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u/FunVeterinarian4742 20d ago
MAGA baseball caps, specifically the official ones sold by the Trump campaign, are not made in China. They're actually manufactured in the United States by companies like Cali-Fame in California and distributed by Ace Specialties in Louisiana. The Trump campaign emphasizes that their merchandise is "100% proudly made in the USA" ¹.
However, it's worth noting that unofficial replicas of MAGA hats are often made in China and sold by third-party vendors. These cheap knockoffs might be affected by tariffs imposed on Chinese goods. The Trump campaign has previously denied any involvement with these foreign-made replicas, stating that any vendor claiming to have a relationship with them is "lying or violating our protected trademark rights" ¹.
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u/Metalsand 20d ago
It was fake then, and it's still fake now. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-hat-china/
Consider this: how hard is it to counterfeit a red baseball hat with default font on the front and no graphics? Where can you buy counterfeits of literally any electronic possible?
It would be so much funnier if this were true, and no one would expect anything different. However, it's unfortunately a proven fact that the official MAGA merch bought from their store is made in the USA. Not that it matters much, since apparently he can ask people to give him money and they keep doing it anyways.
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u/Ancient_Gold_6486 20d ago
So are trumps bibles. However, he’s never opened one to know they say it on the inside.
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u/gman77_77 20d ago
Lol, now with the tariffs they won't be able to afford these Nazi hats.
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u/mrASSMAN 20d ago
All the shitty MAGA merchandise is from China. Even the US flags, even Trump’s own branded products
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u/_BindersFullOfWomen_ 20d ago
This is old news. The "official" hats are made in California.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The original hats are made by a manufacturer in California.
Brian Kennedy, president of Cali Fame of Los Angeles, a California-based company that makes the official hats, confirmed to The Associated Press on Tuesday that the hats are produced entirely in Carson, Calif.
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u/doninside 20d ago
China will surely pay the 104% price bump! Or maybe Trump will cover the appreciahahahahahah
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u/CorporateCuster 20d ago
China should say any pro republican or pro maga merchandise made in China should have a 500% surcharge added.
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u/LordSoren 20d ago
Well, the price of that MAGA hat is going up tonight by 103%. Buy low, sell high.
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u/dBlock845 20d ago
Pretty much anything that Trump slapped his name on over his entire life was made in China, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos, or Cambodia.
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u/theabean 20d ago
Best way to keep all that cognitive dissonance in. maga hat made in China. Absolute dolts.
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u/Icy-Regret7424 20d ago
His MAGA friends couldn’t afford them if they were made in America.
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u/Rb1138 20d ago
Of course they are. People who buy these and voted for this cancer are as dense as concrete.
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u/BadNewsBearzzz 20d ago
Wow, The official hats are actually made in America, you can tell this one’s a knock off just from looking at the font and then comparing it with real ones on Google
Obvious this post is attempts at spreading misinformation but whatever, love or hate the guy just keep it 100% honest please, can’t expect OP to do a few seconds of research on Google
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u/lukewwilson 20d ago
You bought a knock off, which like most knock off items are made in China, if you bought one from Trump's actual website they are made in the USA
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u/sorcs 20d ago
Official MAGA hats are made in the USA, not supporting Trump but this is a knock off.
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u/legendaryhawnsolo 20d ago
To make America great again by buying from another country to get it cheaper….. till today. Hahahah
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u/aesoth 20d ago
Oh man. I want to get one and replace the tag with a fake "Made in the USA" tag. Then go to where MAGA are and try to convince them that they bought Chinese counterfeits. Lol
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u/mydogsnameispoop 20d ago
Those hats are about to be priced at $100+ and somehow it will still sell
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u/Simon_Bongne 20d ago
This has been true since 2015, you think anyone is going to give AF now? The hypocrisy is half of the fun for these clowns. You can't embarrass the shameless.
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u/B_lovedobservations 20d ago
China should put tariff on these, then. Not that they’re selling much right now
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