Gavin Newsom Trolls Trumpworld

“Is Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new MAGA-inspired merchandise a big hit, a bad joke, or some combination thereof?,” the New York Times reports.

“On sale at Mr. Newsom’s ‘Patriot Shop,’ unveiled on Sunday, the merchandise generated about $300,000 in sales on its first day, according to the governor’s team, with healthy demand for items like a T-shirt depicting the governor as ‘the chosen one’ — touched by a haloed Hulk Hogan — and a familiar red hat reading ‘Newsom was right about everything!’”

“Those products are both legitimate campaign swag — with proceeds going to support a California ballot measure meant to tip congressional districts toward Democrats — and an elaborate parody, reflecting the look of President Trump’s own merchandise, which has come to dominate the nation’s political iconography over the last decade.”

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