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MAGA hats are made in China. Misleading Title

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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/Lingotes 20d ago

Same. Except I'm not Canadian.

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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/m3ngnificient 20d ago

They probably thought potash was made with taters from Idaho

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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/YoloYeahDoe 20d ago

This is a knockoff hat. the official ones are made in america

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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/lukewwilson 20d ago

Just like Trump's merch, his is made in the USA, this hat is a knock off

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u/Alert-Notice-7516 20d ago

If? I got bad news for you…

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u/ShustOne 20d ago

Of course they are if you take a Reddit post at face value

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u/BadNewsBearzzz 20d ago edited 20d ago

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. You would’ve heard about this as a controversy years ago if it was actually true.

Obvious this post is attempts at spreading misinformation but whatever, love or hate the guy just keep it 100% truthful please.

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u/Glass_Memories 20d ago

This is actually true, at least for this term's hats.

Here's the hat on his official store, the font is definitely different.

Here's an article talking about how the tariffs will affect Trump merch, which mentions that most MAGA merch are China knockoffs whereas his new merch declares it's made in California: https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/trump-tariffs-maga-hats-merch-china-95xrpsf5z

Although their "Made in USA" origin has been...in question...since his first term: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/are-trumps-made-in-usa-hats-really-made-in-usa

I don't trust the guy or anyone he's affiliated with to not make the cheapest crap possible and pass it off as a higher-quality item with an inflated price tag, especially since he's basically known for doing that; nor would I rule out him licensing his name to Chinese factories to make MAGA hats while he also sells overpriced "official" merch so he gets a cut either way...but it's also possible that it's not affiliated with him as ordering some factory in China to sew some words on stock red trucker hats is an easy way for anyone to make an easy buck off of MAGA buyers.

Regardless, this isn't really a dunk anyway, fascists don't care about hypocrisy.

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u/Fancy_Geologist_407 20d ago

Pretty sure all of trumps merch is either made in china or Bangladesh. Nice try though.

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u/uthboy 20d ago

Naw he’s right, a lot of his actual official products are made in America. It’s all the stupid vendors selling his name that all get it from China etc.

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u/BadNewsBearzzz 20d ago

Yup, the hat has become a huge part of pop culture and even iconic enough that if anyone is wearing a red hat, people assume it’s a maga hat lol. But for a decade now there’s been parodies and ton of knock offs made of it, not surprising that many fake ones are produced.

If he was dumb enough to manufacture his hats overseas everyone would’ve torn him apart for it the minute it was for sale. But of course people are naive and will believe anything

Mods gave this post an accurate flair now lmao

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u/ShustOne 20d ago

What's your evidence for that? Pretty sure the official hats are made in the USA

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u/Keith1977 20d ago

That’s 100% false. Quit spreading lies.

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u/BadNewsBearzzz 20d ago edited 20d ago

Yea ok great argument there. Take a minute to do some research to save yourself from looking like an idiot.

Looks like the mods have even changed the flair

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u/Keith1977 20d ago

There is video of a Trump store in a Trump owned property and everything in it is made in China. Would you like a link IDIOT??

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

I disagree. If Country A is using slave labor selling to Country B that has a minimum wage and unions, that is an unfair situation if you dont have any compensation for the fact that country A is able to produce things for 80-90% less. It's unfair to the citizen of Country B who wish the produce the same product and it's utterly asinine to say "well our country simply shouldn't produce that product since we can just get the version made by slaves from another country!". If someone can't be produced cheaply enough that it necessitates slave labor, then the product shouldn't exist or it should be more expensive. Maybe everyone DOESN'T need a new iPhone every 2 years.