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T-shirts of Donald Trump assassination attempt sold on Chinese e-commerce sites, listings swiftly taken down

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.

Evil_Shrubbery ,

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).

JimSamtanko ,

I called it! Two hours after it happened. I called it.

morphballganon ,

Why were the listings taken down? Police trying to emulate the Streisand effect?

Bhaelfur ,
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Probably Trump wanting to monetize it for himself. It is, unfortunately, an amazing photo

massive_bereavement ,

He has an amazing nose for theatrics, not sure if that's coming from his time on TV but most modern politicians (e.g., Reagan) would let their SS take them out to safety, rather than emulating Rocky.

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