NCS’s Anderson Cooper briefly misplaced his composure on Tuesday throughout a report on Donald Trump’s newest money-making enterprise: a line of UFC-themed commemorative coins tied to his controversial White House combat.
The gold and silver cash, priced as excessive as $11,999.99, are being bought to mark the cage combat occasion that Trump has ordered staged on the South Lawn of the White House on June 14, his eightieth birthday, as a part of America’s 250th anniversary celebrations.
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The Trump cash are “all designed by President Trump himself, which is amazing, where does he find the time,” the anchor jabbed.
Cooper recalled different Trump-branded merchandise, together with the presidential and first girl editions of the Bible, the “Never Surrender” sneakers and the $499 gold-plated Trump telephone, which is now lastly delivery after lengthy delays.
On the topic of the telephone, Cooper famous that it was not being marketed as American-made. “While originally touted as being ‘Made in the USA,’ they’re now marketed as ‘designed with American values in mind.’”
“Sorry,” Cooper mentioned, apologizing as he struggled to suppress laughter.
He then broke into one other chuckle earlier than including:
“We should just pause and reflect on that claim for a moment: ‘Designed with American values in mind.’ I don’t know what that means. Someone was thinking about America when they signed the contract to hawk these? Experts say they closely resemble a phone made in China, but somehow, American values were thought about when they were designed. Rest easy.”
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