President Trump has made a lot of money. He is evidently a smart businessman who understands how to create, market, and sell an idea. He is using those skills to raise money for his 2020 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n
The Daily Caller<\/a> posted an article Saturday about one of the Trump campaign’s more creative ways to raise campaign funds.<\/p>\n The article reports:<\/p>\n President Donald Trump\u2019s move to sell merchandise as a means of piggybacking off his recent media antics has managed to net his campaign nearly $1 million in donations.<\/strong><\/p>\n The campaign has sold nearly 55,000 packs of plastic straws, netting over $823,000 in sales, whereas campaign officials have sold about $50,000 worth of Sharpie pens, campaign communication director Tim Murtaugh told The New York Times<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n More than a third of the people who purchased the straws had never donated to the campaign, Murtaugh said.<\/strong><\/p>\n Trump began selling the Sharpies on Sept. 6 to raise money<\/a>\u00a0after CNN criticized him for supposedly using a pen on a map to alter Hurricane Dorian\u2019s trajectory. The president\u00a0doubled down on a tweet suggesting the storm would hit Alabama after many in the media tried<\/a> to correct him, showing a map of the path of the hurricane that had been altered with a Sharpie.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cBuy the official Trump marker, which is different than every other marker on the market, because this one has the special ability to drive @CNN and the rest of the fake news crazy!\u201d\u00a0Brad Parscale<\/a>, Trump\u2019s campaign manager, said in a tweet announcing the marketing ploy.<\/strong><\/p>\n This is a fantastic example of how to raise campaign funds and drive the media crazy. This is the way marketing works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Trump has made a lot of money. He is evidently a smart businessman who understands how to create, market, and sell an idea. He is using those skills to raise money for his 2020 presidential campaign. The Daily Caller … Continue reading