The Spectacular Failure of the MyPillow Guy's Mask Operation

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Lindell, who claims to have retrofitted about 75 percent of MyPillow’s manufacturing line to sew cloth masks, said the machinery and space he’d invested in now sits idle and empty

The Spectacular Failure of the MyPillow Guy’s Mask Operation
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell decided to retrofit his factories to make masks instead at the start of the pandemic. Now, after losing millions, he hates masks and wants to burn them.
thedailybeast.com
10:00 PM · Jun 19, 2021

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-spectacular-failure-of-mypillow-guy-mike-lindells-mask-operation

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s charity and business combo venture to make and sell COVID-19 masks has cost him millions of dollars, according to the increasingly far-right conservative figure.

Today his company is sitting on millions of unsold face coverings, which he now despises and wants to burn.

“I can’t give them away,” Lindell told The Daily Beast in a phone interview this week. “I tried to. No one wants the things anymore.”

Lindell, who claims to have retrofitted about 75 percent of MyPillow’s manufacturing line to sew cloth masks, said the machinery and space he’d invested in now sits idle and empty. The CEO estimates he was able to offload about 5 percent of his mask inventory, and that all told, the operation cost his company and him personally a combined $7 million.

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[Scottie Mom]

1. See a tear in my eye?

Prolly not.

[GulfCoast66]

3. Follow trump, get hurt. But they always stay loyal.

Yes sir, may I have another!

[gratuitous]

4. This would explain his affinity for the former guy

They're both lousy at business.

[orleans]

5. kinda hilarious

[Blue Owl]

6. He'll probably burn them all...

and then a week later there will be a huge demand again when the Delta variation hits all the red states...

[Maru Kitteh]

7. You could donate them to Veterans' homes, you schmuck.

You're SO patriotic, remember?

"I can't give them away" ???? Bullshit. Donate them, put your big-boy pants on, find those bootstraps and for gawd's sake - work on finally making a decent pillow because yours SUCK.

[No Vested Interest]

8. How about donating the masks to India and Brazil, African countries, or other needy

areas?
Creative thinking much?

[Maru Kitteh]

9. Those are brown people. Mikey no likey. nt

[No Vested Interest]

12. I think you're correct, even though perhaps he would get a large tax credit.

[Midnight Writer]

10. He's a liar. You can't believe a thing he says. He has the tongue of The Snake.

[jmowreader]

11. I see one tiny problem with Lindell's plan

If you were to make a Venn diagram labeled “People who will buy cloth face masks” and “People who will buy anything from Mike Lindell,” the two circles would be about an inch apart.