Trump presents fake products to demonstrate strength of brand
If you missed Donald Trump’s hourlong victory news conference / sales meeting in Florida last night, you can watch the highlights – all minute of them – below.
There’s quite a little story actually that has emerged from the Trump appearance, which was held at one of his golf clubs outside Palm Beach.
The centerpiece of Trump’s staging was a pile of steaks and rows of wine bottles and magazines and pallets of bottled water and boxes of who knows what.
Trump brought all that stuff out, he said, to show how his enemies were lying about various products he’s branded over the years. Because his enemies have said he fails all the time. The list of his failures usually includes Trump University, Trump steaks, Trump magazine, Trump vodka… and Trump airlines. But the room was too small for a plane. And Trump argued that those other concerns were still alive.
But here’s a remarkable demonstration of Trump’s… chutzpah. All those props he presented to illustrate the durability of his brand – he walked off his dais at one point to handle the steaks, which were shrink-wrapped, and he told reporters all to take a bottle of wine – it was all fake, reports Mashable’s Jonathan Ellis.
– Trump Steaks: fake
– Trump Water: generic
– Trump Vodka: gone
– Trump Magazine: fake https://t.co/xcm004vGJQ pic.twitter.com/JT1CoharVa— Mashable (@mashable) March 9, 2016
Here’s a snippet of Trump’s appearance:
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Hello and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders had a grand-slam night last night with an unexpected (for those with any faith in polls) win in the Michigan primary over Hillary Clinton.
Sanders was supposed to be behind in Michigan by 20 points. But then it turns out he was slightly ahead. So what else that we thought we knew about this election isn’t true?
The Democratic candidates themselves may get a chance to discuss the result in Miami tonight, where they are scheduled to meet for a debate, their eighth.
It was a big night too for Donald Trump, who topped 47% – his best finish yet – to win Mississippi and who won Michigan by more than 11 points. Then he took the stage in a country club ballroom in Florida next to a pile of steaks (not Trump steaks?!) and cases of vodka and invited Republican holdouts to join his movement.
Check out all the results here:
Clinton partisans, however, have spent the past 11 hours or so pointing to the following figures …
… and in fact Clinton did gain delegates on Sanders last night, thanks in part to her huge 83-17 win in Mississippi. But that number 2,383 somehow did not appear to come much closer.
Here’s where the Republican race stands, delegates-wise:
We have a wealth of politics news to catch up on today. What’s your take on what happened last night? What’s going to happen in Ohio in six days (remember the Democratic race is not, like the Republican contest, winner-take-all)? Thanks for reading – and for pitching in!
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