# Pro-Trump T-shirts at Resorts **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [May 26, 2025, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-trump-t-shirts-at-resorts/1018827 "2025-05-26T20:05:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-trump-t-shirts-at-resorts/1018827/21 "2025-05-26T22:23:31Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > Was chatting with the owner, who after ascertaining I was Australian, confided that she voted Libertarian and thought that the majority of apparel was actually bought by Democrats. Her claim in the latter part of that claim make me doubt her honesty concerning the former part. ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-trump-t-shirts-at-resorts/1018827/22 "2025-05-26T22:23:55Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > at least at first. Hitler’s brownshirts were definitely a thing. But MAGAts can’t be compared to them. They tried to overthrow a legal US election. How much worse can you get? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-trump-t-shirts-at-resorts/1018827/23 "2025-05-26T22:24:41Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I specified the late 30’s to the early 40’s Oh sorry, missed that bit. Well, let’s see, Hitler officially outlawed the SDP in 1933, so not much of a conduit available for anti-Nazi merch after that? ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-trump-t-shirts-at-resorts/1018827/24 "2025-05-26T22:30:26Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Her claim in the latter part of that claim make me doubt her honesty concerning the former part. Well maybe DEM tourists don’t want to walk around with wearing a target “I LUV JOE!” She was in business selling screen printed tourist t-shirts: _If your customer wants apples, sell 'em apples. If you can’t get apples buy oranges and paint 'em green"_ ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-trump-t-shirts-at-resorts/1018827/25 "2025-05-26T22:34:16Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > Well maybe DEM tourists don’t want to walk around with wearing a target “I LUV JOE!” “Anti-Trump” automatically means “Pro-Joe” to you?? This isn’t a freakin’ ball game, and it is actually possible to oppose what Trump is doing and saying. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-trump-t-shirts-at-resorts/1018827/26 "2025-05-26T22:48:14Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > This isn’t a freakin’ ball game Actually it is. It’s reality TV on the political channels. Indolent and indulgent. Supersized. However, the rest of us are growing tired of playing, or even watching and are formulating the rules of the new ball game. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-trump-t-shirts-at-resorts/1018827/27 "2025-05-26T22:55:44Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > > [@Czarcasm](#): > > > > I specified the late 30’s to the early 40’s > > Oh sorry, missed that bit. Well, let’s see, Hitler officially outlawed the SDP in 1933, so not much of a conduit available for anti-Nazi merch after that? Wasn’t there a global economic depression happening during most of the 1930s? The notion that there was a “merch” industry of any type during that era strikes me as counterintuitive. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-trump-t-shirts-at-resorts/1018827/28 "2025-05-26T23:03:25Z")
I think multiple factors are involved - including demographics of beachgoers somewhat favoring Trump, along with his opponents not wanting to engage in confrontation on their vacations involving unhinged MAGA-ites.\* If I was going to make a political statement with part of my large collection of t-shirts\*\*, I’d choose ones that aren’t specifically anti-Trump but are pro-democracy/pro-Constitution. \*an informal rule I follow closely is that if I buy a destination-themed t-shirt on vacation, I don’t wear it until I get home, partly so as to look less obviously touristy. If there _were_ anti-Trump t-shirts for sale I wouldn’t wear one at the beach _or_ at home (imagining potential unpleasant encounters while shopping at the Rural King, which favors the occasional MAGA garb-wearer). \*\*I have a few anti-quackery t-shirts designed with the help of AI. One features Satan peddling snake oil supplements from a carny-style booth. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-trump-t-shirts-at-resorts/1018827/29 "2025-05-26T23:08:12Z")
I think that the kind of person who buys garish t shirts at the beach is likely to be a fascist, so there is likely a larger market for garish fascist crap at the beach. That and someone selling or wearing anti-Trump merch could likely get beaten to death by said fascists. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-trump-t-shirts-at-resorts/1018827/30 "2025-05-26T23:08:13Z")
[T-Shirts – RAYGUN](https://www.raygunsite.com/collections/t-shirts?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22561434476&gbraid=0AAAAADAVkvlVdmNMFDG36SEW-6ww3ZhMm&gclid=Cj0KCQjwotDBBhCQARIsAG5pinP1slLN7kcnFOVazAjCTdqbHcU385_bCVeSPU6Ehz0cMJfQz16ljYUaAoSCEALw_wcB) may disagree that there is no market for anti-Trump shirts. I hardly live in a resort area, but I still see pop-up tents selling MAGA merch and the like. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-trump-t-shirts-at-resorts/1018827/31 "2025-05-26T23:19:39Z")
So, what’s the typical political orientation of someone who’d wear [this t-shirt](https://captainwoodysshirts.com/products/surfing-santa-bruh-i-get-a-lot-of-hos-t-shirt) (lots of raunchy ones have evidently become popular among the beach crowd in recent years). ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-trump-t-shirts-at-resorts/1018827/32 "2025-05-26T23:24:08Z")
Probably MAGA trash or their ally the American non-voter. One of those people who “doesn’t like to talk politics” aka a fascist sympathizer. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-trump-t-shirts-at-resorts/1018827/33 "2025-05-26T23:28:44Z")
In New York’s Jewish Museum, you can find the “Haman-Hitler _grager_,” a traditional noisemaker used to drown out the name of the villain Haman during the festival of Purim. It’s carved with miniature heads of Haman and Hitler, flanking a small mallet that pivots back and forth between bashing each one on the crown. (No idea of the date or provenance.) ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-trump-t-shirts-at-resorts/1018827/34 "2025-05-26T23:49:16Z")
I wouldn’t mind seeing more people wearing [t-shirts](https://www.etsy.com/listing/1858052498/make-america-follow-the-constitution?ls=s&ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=pro+constitution&ref=sr_gallery-1-1&pro=1&content_source=63efd417cff6c54fe1e7770cc681bf5ab40694f3%253A1858052498&organic_search_click=1&logging_key=63efd417cff6c54fe1e7770cc681bf5ab40694f3%3A1858052498) like [this](https://www.amazon.com/Bill-Rights-Emergency-1-10-Constitution/dp/B09R9VMT71?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER). ---
**Author:** ![Boudicca90](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boudicca90/32/16818_2.png) [@Boudicca90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boudicca90)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2025, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-trump-t-shirts-at-resorts/1018827/35 "2025-05-27T00:36:32Z")
I have a big enough target on my head from these assholes just by being queer and trans, so I’m not going to make it worse by intentionally pissing off violent fascists. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2025, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-trump-t-shirts-at-resorts/1018827/36 "2025-05-27T00:39:45Z")
I saw an anti-Biden flag in the window (actually, taking up the entire front window) of a souvenir shop at a waterfront resort. This was early in his term, so it wasn’t necessarily pro-Trump, just anti-Joe. It got me thinking about the huge divide between the people who vacation on their boats and those who “service” them. The rich customers vs “the help”, and the resentment that’s got to be simmering just under the surface… ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2025, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-trump-t-shirts-at-resorts/1018827/37 "2025-05-27T02:26:57Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > You could “of course it’ll be sold at groups where pro-Leftists congregate” I didn’t know they sold t-shirts in faculty lounges! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2025, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-trump-t-shirts-at-resorts/1018827/38 "2025-05-27T12:18:08Z")
A side note that I thought of – regarding the argument that people aren’t selling anti-Trump T-shirts (or buying them) at resort venues because they’re afraid of retaliation by his less controlled supporters – consider anti-Trump bumper stickers. > **[Anti Trump Stickers for Sale | TeePublic](https://www.teepublic.com/stickers/anti-trump?ar_clx=yes&ar_channel=google&ar_campaign=71700000112173004&ar_adgroup=&ar_ad=&ar_strategy=search&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=%5BG%5D%2B%5BG.USA%5D%2B%5BL.ENG%5D%2B%5BGEN%5D%2B%5BC.Home_Goods%5D%2B%5BPMAX%5D&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20345665903&gbraid=0AAAAADqCRGbAr_d4NVHmVd-P88ARC1ih5&gclid=Cj0KCQjwxdXBBhDEARIsAAUkP6iN3xbUdzgdoOJJvguUQ54yocpYKgMZITYc3wyft4JLr__nYWJ39qQaAuMjEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds)** > > Be Unique. Shop anti trump stickers sold by independent artists from around the globe. Buy the highest quality anti trump stickers on the internet. [https://www.amazon.com/anti-trump-stickers/s?k=anti+trump+stickers](https://www.amazon.com/anti-trump-stickers/s?k=anti+trump+stickers) I’ve seen plenty of them on cars. (I admit that I haven’t seen pro- or anti-Trump bumper stickers at resorts, although they might be there – I haven’t been looking for them.) And people ca retaliate against cars even easier than against people, even down to simply keying the finish. But it hasn’t stopped people from expressing an opinion via the sticker. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2025, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-trump-t-shirts-at-resorts/1018827/39 "2025-05-27T19:38:55Z")
I was in Key West last year during the summer and saw a ton of “Let’s go Brandon” stuff for sale. T-shirts, hats, even tattoo parlors had let’s go Brandon stuff. No MAGA stuff, probably because its trademarked. It gave me a chuckle thinking about it when Joe dropped from the race. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2025, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-trump-t-shirts-at-resorts/1018827/40 "2025-05-28T07:04:10Z")
In 2016, I got a window sticker that said “STD: Stop The Donald.” (There were also stickers that said “HIV: Hillary Isn’t Viable.”) Never got a negative comment about it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-trump-t-shirts-at-resorts/1018827.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-trump-t-shirts-at-resorts/1018827.md?page=3)