America has become a parody of itself.
Donald Trump sells everything from Trump-branded Bibles to MAGA sneakers, as the billionaire hustler profits from the presidency in a way that no other U.S. leader has ever attempted. And it looks like we can add a few more products to the list today, including a MAGA Instant Pot, if you can believe it.
The new Instant Pot is being dubbed the 45/47 Collaboration, according to a new report from Semafor, a reference to Trump being both the 45th and 47th president of the United States. It’s not clear yet what the MAGA Instant Pot will look like exactly, but it’s likely to include the tagline “Make America Great Again,” and will be publicly available starting July 4.
What does Trump get out of it? According to Semafor, this “collaboration with representatives of the Trump administration” will see “a portion of the profits” go to the Trump Presidential Library. That’s highly unusual, to say the least, since presidential library foundations are non-profit entities that typically fundraise after a president has already left office.
You can think of each presidential library as essentially being two parts: One part of the library holds the president’s documents from his time in office and is administered by the National Archives and Records Administration. The other part is the private, non-profit entity that fundraises to build and run the museum and physical space where visitors can come and walk through a kind of shrine to the president’s life.
The Semafor report doesn’t make a distinction between which half of the Trump Library is getting the donation of the Instant Pot proceeds, but it feels like a safe bet to say it’s the private part controlled by Trump’s people.
