Trump t-shirts go viral after assassination attempt at Pennsylvania rally
Following the apparent assassination attempt of Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania yesterday, t-shirts depicting a defiant Donald Trump with blood on his face and his fist raised went viral online, reports a Kazinform News Agency correspondent.
According to a report in the South China Morning Post, the first batch of these t-shirts was available on the Chinese e-commerce platform Taobao, owned by Alibaba, within two hours of the attack.
Former US President Donald Trump was struck in the ear by a gunman during a campaign rally, sparking concerns about instability ahead of the 2024 US presidential election.
Several politicians, tech leaders and followers of Trump condemned the attack, stressing that political violence is intolerable.
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— Dietz (@ThaDietz_) July 14, 2024
Li Jinwei, a 25-year-old Taobao seller, managed to list her t-shirts online before morning in China. Her factory, located in the northern province of Hebei, can produce a t-shirt in about half a minute. “We put the T-shirts on Taobao as soon as we saw the news about the shooting, though we hadn’t even printed them, and within three hours we saw more than 2,000 orders from both China and the US,” she said.
“For this year's US presidential election, we only made souvenirs of Trump, as he has a higher chance of winning the election, and he is popular among Chinese citizens,” she said.
According to Politico, the trend was not confined to China. US content creators HodgeTwins promoted on X images of T-shirts that said, “Fight! Fight! Fight!” and said, “100% of profits from this shirt go to Trump's campaign.” Another picture featured a man with a shirt that read, “Shooting Makes Me Stronger” while a third said, “I Will Never Stop.”
Meanwhile, Donald Trump, in his first statement after being shot at the rally, said, “I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear. I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin.” He added, “Much bleeding took place, so I realized then what was happening.”
