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The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,691 posts)
Wed Sep 6, 2017, 04:31 PM Sep 2017

Trump touts manufacturing jobs with video of workers making coins with his face.

Really.

A new video has been posted on the YouTube account for President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign, one in which happy citizens thank the president for the opportunity to make coins with his face on them.

The video opens with a clip from Trump’s June announcement that he would “expand apprenticeships and vocational training.” Although the executive order is described as intended to help Americans develop fruitful careers about which they can be passionate, the video soon makes it clear that the ad isn’t promoting run-of-the-mill jobs — it is specifically showing ordinary citizens manufacturing “Make America Great Again” coins.

With Trump’s face engraved into the front and an American flag on the back, the coins can be purchased online from the Trump re-election campaign store for $45.

Although some brief lip service is paid to plumbers and other occupations unrelated to creating Trump-branded merchandise, the majority of the video shows off either the coins being made or people talking about the honor of being able to make them. One man tells the camera that he takes pride in the fact that the coins are made in the United States and sold in the United States. A woman says that working for the company is “kind of like living the dream.”


http://www.salon.com/2017/09/06/donald-trumps-campaign-releases-an-unintentionally-orwellian-commercial/
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Rollo

(2,559 posts)
1. I'm a machinist by profession but I'd absolutely refuse to make those butt-ugly coins...
Wed Sep 6, 2017, 04:41 PM
Sep 2017

With Assholini's mug on each one of them... I'd need an air-sickness bag every hour on the hour...

Trump can go fuck himself.


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htuttle

(23,738 posts)
2. This sounds like something out of a dystopian Dr Seuss book
Wed Sep 6, 2017, 04:48 PM
Sep 2017

He's going to fix the economy by having people make fake coins with his face on them?

Does he think he's Caesar?

Rollo

(2,559 posts)
6. Also wonder how many tax dollars are getting funneled into this mother of all boondoggles...
Wed Sep 6, 2017, 04:57 PM
Sep 2017

And how much Trump, Inc. is profiting from it...



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spartan61

(2,091 posts)
7. Why doesn't trump concentrate on
Wed Sep 6, 2017, 05:04 PM
Sep 2017

doing his job as president instead of campaigning for the 2020 election? I think he likes the art of the campaign instead of the actual job he is campaigning to get. He loves the adulation he gets at a rally. How narcissistic.

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
8. Holy shit, I thought this had to be fake
Wed Sep 6, 2017, 05:05 PM
Sep 2017

but the video appears to be real and it's true you can get it from Dump's reelection site for the low low price of $45!

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