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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 5954513" data-attributes="member: 12952">Never let a crisis go to waste.[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2024/07/15/trump-assassination-attempt-t-shirts-flood-cheap-chinese-websites/[/URL]The Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post documented the appearance of the first Trump assassination t-shirt to occur at 8:40 p.m. Eastern, less than three hours after the shooting.“We put the T-shirts on Taobao as soon as we saw the news about the shooting, though we hadn’t even printed them, and within three hours we saw more than 2,000 orders from both China and the US,” a vendor identified as Li Jinwei <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3270397/trump-rally-shooting-chinese-online-retailers-quick-mark-souvenir-t-shirts" target="_blank">told</a> the Morning Post. <a href="https://www.taobao.com/markets/gmall/" target="_blank">Taobao</a> is a Chinese internet store run by the e-commerce giant Alibaba. Li explained that, after downloading an image, it takes her shop about one minute to print a single t-shirt. Li told the Morning Post that she had printed various Trump-themed products because of his popularity in China, not just to sell to American buyers.<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-t-shirts-go-viral-grazed-not-dazed-legends-never-die-2024-07-15/" target="_blank">Reuters</a> found several options of T-shirts featuring the assassination attempt, several carrying slogans such as “Grazed but not Dazed” and “Shooting Makes Me Stronger.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 5954513, member: 12952"] Never let a crisis go to waste. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2024/07/15/trump-assassination-attempt-t-shirts-flood-cheap-chinese-websites/[/URL] The Hong Kong-based [I]South China Morning Post[/I] documented the appearance of the first Trump assassination t-shirt to occur at 8:40 p.m. Eastern, less than three hours after the shooting. “We put the T-shirts on Taobao as soon as we saw the news about the shooting, though we hadn’t even printed them, and within three hours we saw more than 2,000 orders from both China and the US,” a vendor identified as Li Jinwei [URL='https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3270397/trump-rally-shooting-chinese-online-retailers-quick-mark-souvenir-t-shirts']told[/URL] the [I]Morning Post[/I]. [URL='https://www.taobao.com/markets/gmall/']Taobao[/URL] is a Chinese internet store run by the e-commerce giant Alibaba. Li explained that, after downloading an image, it takes her shop about one minute to print a single t-shirt. Li told the [I]Morning Post[/I] that she had printed various Trump-themed products because of his popularity in China, not just to sell to American buyers. [URL='https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-t-shirts-go-viral-grazed-not-dazed-legends-never-die-2024-07-15/']Reuters[/URL] found several options of T-shirts featuring the assassination attempt, several carrying slogans such as “Grazed but not Dazed” and “Shooting Makes Me Stronger.” [/QUOTE]

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