'It's made in Vietnam!' At inauguration, origin of red Trump hats shocks many

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Source: Reuters

Politics Fri Jan 20, 2017 6:47pm EST

'It's made in Vietnam!' At inauguration, origin of red Trump hats shocks many

By Melissa Fares and Dustin Volz WASHINGTON

One of the biggest cheers President Donald Trump received from supporters watching his inaugural address on Friday was his call to "buy American and hire American."

It was a moment rich in irony. ... Many of those supporters were sporting Trump's trademark red "Make America Great Again" baseball caps that were made in China, Vietnam and Bangladesh.
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Rob Walker, 44, who had driven to Washington from Georgia with his wife Abby, 36, had stopped at a truck stop on the way to buy a "Make America Great Again" cap. ... "Oh God, I hope it's not made in China," Abby said, flipping the cap over to check. She looked at its label. "China! Don't tell anyone!"

The Trump hats available for purchase on Trump's official campaign website are made in the United States and cost between $25 and $30, according to the label inside those caps. ... But they are also more expensive than the $20 versions sold by street vendors in Washington on Friday.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-inauguration-hats-idUSKBN1542YL

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These are the knockoffs, not the "official" hats.

Hat tip (so to speak), Binyamin Appelbaum, who retweeted this: https://twitter.com/ReutersPolitics/status/822656234893537280

@BCAppelbaum

[sakabatou]

1. Whereas the official ones are made in China?

[Ken Burch]

2. Trump hatters who served in 'Nam are gonna be THRILLED...

[DK504]

15. How about the Vietnam Vets

that actually voted for PutinFluffer realize they paid their hard earned money so the Shitgibbon could make $20-25 per hate. These assholes (not the vets) didn't bother to look underneath the cap when they got it. LOL....Rubes, so many rubes.

[Ken Burch]

18. Well, yeah, that's sort of what's happening.

And I love it that you wrote "$20-$25 per HATE".

Well put.

[Historic NY]

3. LOL they got ripped off by unofficial merchandise...

[xxqqqzme]

4. The con

continues.

[Achilleaze]

5. The poor suckers (R)

I mean, how could they possibly have known that Comrade Casino & his Cabal of Russian-Republican Cronies would lie to them, and screw them over at every opportunity?

[HoneyBadger]

6. Glad to see that

It was a sin what we did to Vietnam and with no reparations made. There are war survivors that can benefit from the any help that we can provide that country on any level.

[Kingofalldems]

14. Not even close to th point of the OP, which is Trump lies constantly.

Nice try at deflection though, HoneyBadger.

[customerserviceguy]

21. If they would have kept the treaty

hammered out at the Paris Peace Accords, who knows what would have happened?

Over 40,000 Americans died for that treaty, and our leadership let that loss be for nothing.

[jpak]

7. Buy American Hire American

but not if you're Trump

[IronLionZion]

8. "hire American" means something very different to Trumpers

It's a reaction against diversity and encourages racial discrimination.

And of course Trump hats are made cheaply and sold for $20. Bernie's hats were made in USA.

[retrowire]

12. ALL of Bernie's stuff was made in the USA

My shirts, bumper stickers and coffee mug ALL sport the union label. So proud.

[George II]

16. All of Hillary Clinton's merchandise was made in the US, and most of her printed matter had....

...the Union "Bug".

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

9. An insult to the Red Hat Society

co-opting a symbol

https://www.redhatsociety.com/

[QED]

10. How about the one that said "Hecho in China"? nt

[Ken Burch]

19. Hecho moved there now?

I was wondering where that dude went.

[IronLionZion]

20. oh yeah!

[keithbvadu2]

11. Yet they still bought the hat.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

17. Obviously not being well versed in the art of the deal, as the cost to make the hat

must be a few pennies.

[McCamy Taylor]

13. Maybe they will make Vietnam a state.