“Morning Joe Crew Roasts Trump’s $100K Watch Line: Is It Really Worth the Price to Be Team MAGA?”
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MSNBC’s Morning Joe crew mocked former President Donald Trump’s latest MAGA merchandise advertisement pushing Trump digital playing cards and introducing a line of Trump-branded gold watches that includes a model priced at $100,000.
Trump posted the commercial for his latest product range to Truth Social on Thursday to the amusement of Morning Joe’s Friday lineup, who played out the video in full before making sport.
Host Joe Scarborough began: “I will say this is, uh… Politics just keeps slipping, slipping, slipping going into the future.”
Co-host Willie Geist reacted: “Oh, my gosh. Wow. Wow.”
Scarborough continued: “I will say, this is my favorite use of merchandising by presidents since Gerald R. Ford sold his personalized leather football helmet. Kakis in ’88 with his push lawn mowers, but nothing like this.”
Geist replied: “It is getting very expensive to be a supporter of Donald Trump. You have to get the digital NFTs. You have to buy the sneakers. You have to buy the bible, of course—the Trump Bible. And now you have to buy a watch. I mean, this guy is really asking a lot of his supporters. Did you love, too, when he called himself a beautiful man, then pretended he was kidding?”
Co-host Katty Kay replied in shock: “$100,000?
“Yes, one of those watches is actually $100,000,” co-host Mika Brzezinski said. “$100,000 for that.”
Brzezinski continued: “A disclaimer on the website notes the proceeds do not directly benefit Trump or his campaign. Not directly. But each was part of a paid licensing agreement.”
Scarborough turned to Kay, who was born in the UK: “Katty, do they do this in Britain?”
Kay replied: “No. But, you know, our elections only cost, I figured it out the other day, it’s about $50 million for a whole general election in the UK. That’s kind of a bargain-basement democracy, right? Ours is cheap by comparison. That’s about the sum…”
“It’s a state election,” Brzezinski noted.
“It’s less,” Kay furthered, “it’s probably one congressional race in New York or California.”
“Dog walker of Burlington,” another suggested.
The team then rounded on what Trump would “hawk” next, suggesting supporter Elon Musk’s Cyber Trucks or “sneakers” before accusing him of being “out of touch” with working Americans.
