Parkland survivor trolls Trump’s new sneaker venture
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Ex-president launched new shoe brand after he was ordered to pay $450m in two legal cases

Ex-president launched new shoe brand after he was ordered to pay $450m in two legal cases

Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg has bought a website address referencing former president Donald Trump’s new sneaker brand and turned it into an anti-gun violence website with the ability to call lawmakers to advocate for legislation.

Mr Hogg, who is now the president of Leaders We Deserve, an organisation dedicated to electing young candidates to Congress, made the announcement on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday.

“I just bought shoptrumpsneakers.com” the activist wrote. “I have redirected you to a page to call your member of Congress. The twist is the person who makes the call is a victim of gun violence whose voice has been re-created with AI to call for gun safety.”

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    881·
    9 months ago

    David Hogg is amazing. He took a horrific tragedy that he experienced and turned that around and became a force for good.

    And just mentioning his name pisses off Republicans.

  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
    48·
    9 months ago

    Am I the first person to point out that shoe salesman Al Bundy had a hotter wife and smarter kids than Donald Trump?

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      14·
      9 months ago

      Al Bundy was a shoe salesman who owned a house in the 1980s and I don’t know anyone who found that concept absurd.

      The house was too big? Sure. That he owned a house? Of course he owned a house. Why wouldn’t he own a house?

      How things have changed.

      • Hazzia@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        9 months ago

        Like the sitcoms where there are single people working as servers for local businesses in the big city but could somehow afford to live on their own in a 2 bedroom apartment.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          3·
          9 months ago

          To be honest, Friends was the first time I ever remember anyone questioning how those people could live like that.

          Seinfeld? The only person on Seinfeld who anyone wondered why they had a Manhattan apartment was Kramer since he literally never had a job and that got explained. And it’s not like they were all wealthy. Jerry wasn’t even all that well-known as a comedian when the show started but he still had a Manhattan apartment and I don’t remember anyone suggesting that anything but the size of it was unrealistic. George lost his job multiple times but never his apartment. Again, no one said, “how could he still afford his apartment while he was between jobs?”

          And the answer is- because that’s how things used to work in the real world.

  • OhFudgeBars@lemmy.world
    31·
    9 months ago

    Dumb question: from whom did he buy the domain? I.e. will the proceeds of the sale support the Trump campaign?