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Of all the merch hawked by the former president and current presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and related entities over the past few months \u2014 the gold (chocolate) bars, the wines<\/a>, the superhero NFTs<\/a> \u2014 is any of it more Trumpian than the $399 Never Surrender sneakers<\/a> unveiled over the weekend at Sneaker Con in Philadelphia<\/a>? They are like a road map to Mr. Trump\u2019s value system and electoral strategy in sartorial form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gilded hightops as shiny as the chandeliers at Mar-a-Lago, they have an American flag wrapping the ankle like the forest of flags that spring up behind Mr. Trump whenever he takes a stage. They have red soles made to match his trademark red ties (and the flag) and perhaps as a sly nod to Christian Louboutins and the semiology of luxury footwear. Also, there\u2019s a large embossed \u201cT\u201d on the side and on the tongue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While they are \u201cbold, gold and tough, just like President Trump,\u201d according to the Trump sneakers website, allowing potential owners to \u201cbe a part of history,\u201d they boast zero technical performance attributes. While they have a shape similar to Nike Air Force 1s (get it? Air Force One!), they are unabashed imitations of the original.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s tempting to dismiss the offering as all flash and marketing with little substance. That\u2019s what Michael Tyler<\/a>, a spokesman for the Biden campaign, did, saying, \u201cDonald Trump showing up to hawk bootleg Off-Whites is the closest he\u2019ll get to any Air Force Ones ever again for the rest of his life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of all the merch hawked by the former president and current presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and related entities over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion-luxury","category-sportswear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/italyfashiontrade.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/italyfashiontrade.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/italyfashiontrade.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italyfashiontrade.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italyfashiontrade.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/italyfashiontrade.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1974,"href":"https:\/\/italyfashiontrade.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions\/1974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italyfashiontrade.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/italyfashiontrade.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italyfashiontrade.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italyfashiontrade.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}