Sep 27, 2024
The Dark Side Of Trump's $100k Watches
Former President Donald Trump may be trying to sneak one by the American people with his $100k Trump watches.
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Donald J. Trump here
to introduce something really special.
I think you're going to love it.
My new Trump watches.
We're doing quite a number with watches.
And the quality to me is very important.
Another week, another grift. That's right.
Donald Trump is now hawking watches,
and you can get your hands on one
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for just $100,000.
Now, of course, there's a more affordable
option, but if you go with that one,
you'll be missing out on all of this.
The Trump Victory tourbillon.
This isn't just any watch.
It's one of the best watches made.
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It's a tourbillon watch with almost 200g
of gold and more than 100 real diamonds.
That's a lot of diamonds.
I love gold, I love diamonds, we all do.
Only 147 of these extraordinary watches
will ever exist in the world.
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And owning one puts you
in a very exclusive club.
I have watched number one
and I'm going to keep it.
It's mine.
And that's the way I want to have it.
Now, I know what you're asking yourself.
And the answer is yes.
These are the only official watches
offered by President Trump and includes
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a replica of his famous signature.
Now, each of those watches, the $100,000
variety, includes a personalized
thank you message inscribed on the back
and a hand signed letter from Trump,
which, if we're being fair,
is worth much more than $100,000.
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So you're really just it's free money.
But this is just the latest
in a long line of schemes and scams
from President Trump this cycle.
The $100,000 watch is the most expensive
merchandise that Trump has lent his name
to during his 2024 presidential campaign.
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He has pitched $499 sneakers,
$99 digital trading cards,
even a Bible that is about $60.
Trump sometimes offers to autograph
the items, sending the price higher.
The pace of money making ventures
has appeared to pick up in recent weeks.
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Last week, Trump announced
he was selling a $100 silver coin
with his face on it days after he debuted
a cryptocurrency business.
World Liberty Financial
with the help of his sons.
It's a good family business.
His wife, former first lady Melania Trump,
has been promoting an upcoming book
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that has a $250 collector's edition
available for preorder.
And while the gold and diamonds
look fancy, that may not be the watch
you actually receive.
According to the store's
Frequently Asked Questions section,
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they offer the following disclaimer.
The images shown are for illustration
purposes only and may not be an
exact representation of the product.
So if you're unhappy with the watch
you receive, there are no refunds.
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All sales are final.
- How many of you guys ordered?
- Well, yeah.
First of all, they're Swiss made.
What Person running
for the American presidency
is selling something that proudly says
is made in Switzerland, right?
I mean, I know it's 100,000.
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I know, like, you know, some people
will buy them, but it's so antithetical
to what we've always, you know, done.
Of course. All right.
Look.
First thing is, imagine
if Kamala Harris did this, right.
I mean, it would be the most amazing,
spectacular,
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unbelievable thing that's ever happened.
Like, if Kamala Harris out of nowhere was
like, I've got these amazing new watches.
And if you act now, I'll throw in
some Ginsu knives with $100,000.
But it's got my signature, right.
Kamala Harris
so they're collector's items.
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We'd all say, oh my God,
has she lost her goddamn mind, right?
What kind of a weirdo,
con man fraud grift thing?
Are you running right before the election?
Are you insane?
And it's Trump.
And everybody's like,
oh, yeah, that's normal,
because we all know that he's insane.
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And we're just going on with our
lives like,
oh yeah, 50 over 50 on this election.
Yeah. Because guys, there's two things.
Yeah.
Grifting. No question.
He's the gift that keeps on giving
and never stops.
Constantly grifting nonstop grifting.
But also, it's nuts to grift like this
40 days before an election.
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And I think the reason he's doing it
is he senses this might be the end.
So he's like.
And he said it to just about a week ago.
He said, if I lose, this will be it.
Right.
And so I think he's like, okay, we got
to get out all the products now they're
all giving money now before the election.
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This doesn't go to his campaign.
It goes straight into his pocket.
Why are you paying
a so-called billionaire with your money?
Right.
This doesn't go to the campaign at all.
So he's like, okay, I got to cash in now,
do every scam we have, even the watch one.
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Someone asked. He said even the watch one.
Okay. Come on.
He's like, you'll join
a very exclusive club of dumbasses
that paid $100,000 that are nonrefundable
for a watch you didn't even see.
Okay, so how do you vote
for this guy, guys?
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I mean, come on, Jesus Christ and MAGA.
If a Democrat did this,
Joe Biden comes out, buy $100,000.
Watch. Are you?
You guys would have lost your minds
if Obama did it.
You would have called him racist things.
Come on, you know this.
You know this.
But when your guy does it, you're like,
oh yeah, nailed it, nailed it.
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And but for the people
who give him the $100,000.
Oh, hey, it's a free country, man.
A fool and his money are easily parted.
Yeah.
Do we know how many he sold? Is that?
They're available for preorder now.
There will be 147 of the $100,000 watches.
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I don't know how many,
and they didn't specify that I saw of,
like the $800 cheaper version.
Right.
Just if he loses,
will they cut it to 145 instead of 147?
Yeah.
Well, he's got one, so. Yeah.
Yeah. Right.
So, Jordan, this morning you had an
interesting theory about the second reason
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why they might be doing this.
Yeah.
So it might not just be
an exclusive club of dumbasses.
It might be an exclusive club of crooks.
So how would you.
How are they asking you to pay for this?
I mean, you could pay
with traditional methods, but they're also
because Trump and his sons.
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And the broader right.
Where are they going?
They're going to crypto.
How do you trace it?
In some cases, it's impossible,
or at the very least, very difficult to
trace where that money is coming from.
So there are I've seen some people
theorize that with this price tag for this
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watch, knowing it is not worth $100,000,
it's a it's a generous gift,
if you want to call it that.
Some might even call it a bribe
to Donald Trump.
So seeing some people lay out that theory,
I don't know how exactly to feel with it,
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feel about it,
but that they are accepting
cryptocurrency transactions should raise
serious ethical flags for a lot of people.
Yeah, I know how to feel about it.
That's crazy.
It's nuts.
If Bernie started selling
$100,000 watches before an election,
I'd be like, what the f is going on?
And I'd be like, no way.
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And that doesn't make any sense.
And I'm totally opposed to it.
And I'm opposed to him now,
because now all of a sudden I think he's
running some sort of weirdo scam.
Right?
And then you tell me, well,
oh, you can't find out
who's giving him $100,000 at a pop.
What if they buy 20 watches?
Jeez, that's $2 million, right?
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And. No, no.
And it's.
And this one is not legalized bribery,
which is campaign contributions.
That arguably is illegal bribery.
He's running for president,
and he's saying, give me $100,000 a pop.
And, you know, Trump and even MAGA
knows how, you know, transactional he is.
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So you think Trump, if somebody said,
hey, I'm going to buy 20 watches,
40 watches like,
oh, I'm not going to do you any favors.
Nobody thinks that there's not a,
there's not even a single MAGA
viewer out there who's like,
oh no, Trump's such a good guy.
He wouldn't do the favors
for the guy who bought the 40 watches.
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You all know he'd be like,
oh, what do you need?
Do you need Switzerland?
You need Greenland?
Like, what do you need me to?
So, okay, maybe I can't sell you
Switzerland, although I'll pretend I can.
You need Alabama. That's easy.
Okay.
Like he's going to sell us foreign policy.
He's going to sell us
domestic policy, etc.
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As long as you literally
bribe him by by doing this.
Look, I there might be
a bunch of idiots, but that's $100,000.
It's one thing you buy when you buy
the gold shoes for 500 bucks and you
scrimp and save and you're three months,
six months of savings to give to this guy
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when you can't even afford it, right?
But you don't have a regular folks
don't have $100,000.
Really?
Rich people who want something in return
have $100,000.
Oligarchs have $100,000 in crypto.
I mean, that's yeah.
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I mean, not only could it just be
a random person, right, that wants
it for business reasons or whatever,
but it could be Kim Jong un, right?
I mean, in one of his love letters,
he could say, hey, thank you for the 80
watches that I bought the other day.
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- And I was like, okay, good souls yours.
- But also, yeah, they see that.
They could see that as an avenue
to influence Trump and his position or his
policy positions if he were reelected.
Let's be honest, none of them would wear
that watch outside of meeting with him.
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They might wear it to signal.
Hey. Oh, hey, look, I got this.
But they would never wear it
any other time because it's hideous.
They're wearing a Breitling.
They're wearing a Rolex.
They're wearing something else.
They're not going to wear
the Trump watch with his signature
and thanks written on the back.
I want people to buy it.
And I want then in like I look forward
to the story that comes out in three years
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about how they're worthless, you know,
like how they've just plummeted in value.
- So please buy these watches.
- Of course.
And then Kenny Clips
will break the story about how they
weren't real diamonds or gold.
And then Elon Musk
will ban him from Twitter.
It'll be fun. It'll be.
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Yeah. And we're.
And Trump's so worried about how Google
and Facebook might be against him.
And he's going to arrest them all
after he gets.
He's also equally upset
that Elon Musk might be in favor of oh,
no, he didn't mention that part.
And speaking of last random comments,
you mentioned how Melania
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is selling her book the other day.
Trump's out on the campaign trail.
He's like, she has a beautiful book.
Everybody should go watch.
Buy it. I mean, I haven't read it.
And so I don't know
if she said anything bad about me.
If she did, then I'm going
to tell you to give it back.
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- It's incredible.
- It's incredible.
Why did you just said that?
You didn't even read your own wife's book.
Right.
And you're not sure
if she said bad things about you?
Your wife. Right.
In a book she released publicly
right before the election.
But you're not sure.
And you said it out loud.
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We haven't spoken in months.
But you know what?
One of my donors got her a watch.
It's beautiful. And gold shoes.
She's not wearing them.
And I didn't read her book.
But still.
The best value is the $60 Bible, actually.
Yeah.
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- Yeah.
- Well, is it or is it the worst Bible?
Because that's.
You get a Bible in any hotel for free?
I have to say it's a Trump Bible.
Now, of course, none of it's a good value.
As a matter of fact, the first edition
Melania signed special.
That's a thing.
Books have those, and $250 is right
in the ballpark of what those types of
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books sell for, so don't buy any of them.
Yeah, we found the one
honest person in the family.
Yeah, she's, you know,
around that ballpark.
Yeah.
And does it get any more almost
gratuitously insulting to his evangelical
voters then by this book of mine?
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It's called the Bible.
Now you all have it, but it doesn't matter
by my Bible and give me money
and then I'll, you know, maybe I'll change
the money in a temple somewhere and build
a golden calf and then sell that to you.
It's got Book of Mormon vibes, right?
It's got to be musical, not actual.
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I mean, you're not supposed
to worship a golden calf, and everything
he does is covered in gold and.
- Diamonds and.
- Diamonds and diamonds.
And we think. Right.
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