An American man is creating a wearable political statement by emblazoning U.S. President Donald Trump鈥檚 contradictory tweets on actual flip-flops.
Sam Morrison, the chief executive officer of Cobra Media LLC, said he sold nearly 1,000 pairs of the sandals within a month of offering the footwear on PresidentFlipFlops.com.
Each pair retailed for US$27.99 on the website, whose tagline is 鈥淕oing back on your word, one step at a time.鈥�
鈥淟ove him or hate him, it鈥檚 kind of hard to escape Donald Trump, especially on Twitter,鈥� Morrison told 麻豆传媒 Channel from New York. 鈥淚f you look back at his Twitter timeline you can see some contradictory opinions.鈥�
Morrison initially looked for tweets with the starkest contradictions, which he said was not a difficult task. He eventually settled on three different editions.
One pair pointed out the president鈥檚 contradictory positions on Syria. In 2013, when his predecessor, President Barack Obama, was weighing whether or not to intervene militarily in Syria to punish it for its deadly use of chemical weapons, Trump tweeted, 鈥淎gain, to our very foolish leader, do not attack Syria 鈥� If you do many very bad things will happen & from that fight the U.S. gets nothing!鈥�
Nearly four years later, as president, Trump sent a congratulatory tweet to the 鈥済reat military men and women for representing the United States, and the world, so well in the Syria attack.鈥�
Another pair draws attention to Trump鈥檚 shifting opinions on anonymous sources. In 2012, he tweeted that Obama鈥檚 birth certificate was a fraud, based on information he was provided by an 鈥渆xtremely credible source.鈥� In 2016, however, he flip-flopped, tweeting that if the media doesn鈥檛 name its sources, then they don鈥檛 exist.
Morrison said his most popular pair was the 鈥淓lectoral College Edition.鈥� One of the sandals is emblazoned with one of his tweets describing the electoral college as a 鈥渄isaster鈥� in 2012. The other, sent after he won the presidency, says the electoral college is 鈥渁ctually genius.鈥�
Morrison said demand for his flip-flops has skyrocketed and that he is in the process of producing new ones. Some have asked if he could create hats and T-shirts featuring the president鈥檚 flip-flops, too.
鈥淭he footwear works great because of the pun of turning political flip-flops into actual flip-flops,鈥� he said.
