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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWithout some proof, here is a thing that you would not believe was really a thing.
Trump Branded Urine Test
It is/was, in fact, a thing.
For years at the height of his Apprentice fame the appeal of living, dressing, eating and smelling like Donald Trump showed few limits.
There were Trump steaks, Trump deodorant, Trump shoes, Trump vodka, Trump ties and, bizarrely, a Trump-branded urine test.
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/17/steak-aftershave-urine-tests-donald-trumps-merchandising-empire/
And who says there's no karma?
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)republican family-values role model Dirty Donny* provides an endless stream of life lessons,
* aka Comrade Casino, republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief
WhiteTara
(29,722 posts)all the rest of this is his personal life stuff--so does this mean he drinks vodka? because you can't smell it?
marble falls
(57,203 posts)Trump Urine: Another Failed Scam Company
March 9, 2016 2016 Election, Teabagistan
Among the many failed companies run by Donald Trump was a Ponzi scheme vitamins distributorship which analyzed customers urine samples and then sent them a list of the essential nutrients they needed to buy. For real. Via the National Review:
Its far from clear whether Ideal Healths (that is, the Trump Networks) products had any substantive nutritional value. Take the centerpiece of the program, the PrivaTest, a urine test that would provide a scientific window into your personal biochemistry, as Trump Networks website advertised. Customers would purchase the PrivaTest kit, collect a urine sample, and ship the sample to a lab, which would analyze it and develop a Custom Essentials kit of nutritional supplements calibrated . . . to reflect your unique nutrient needs. To burnish its medical bona fides, in its sample PrivaTest® Test Results booklet [PDF], the Trump Network cited a 2002 article in the Journal of American Medical Association that declared, It appears prudent for all adults to take vitamin supplements.
By the mid 2000s, Dr. Stephen Barrett founder of the website Quackwatch, which aims to debunk health-care fraud had criticized the PrivaTest, remarking that no single test can provide a rational basis for dietary supplement recommendations. Recently, Dr. Pieter Cohen, a general internist at Cambridge Health Alliance who reviewed Trump Network marketing materials for health-care site Stat News, concluded: They make an outrageous statement, which is that this testing and supplement regimen, this process, are a necessity for anyone who wants to stay healthy. Thats quite insane. But it was profitable. The PrivaTest and a months supply of Custom Essentials cost $139.95, an additional months supply cost $69.95, and to keep ones unsurpassed individual nutritional support up to date, the Trump Network recommended repeating the PrivaTest every nine months at a price of $99.95, plus shipping and handling.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Trump never disappoints expectations of the lowest order.
marble falls
(57,203 posts)Last edited Mon Apr 23, 2018, 08:04 AM - Edit history (1)
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)second in line to the presidency, earned money after being kicked out of office by such devices as selling fake cancer cures. And just look at that lineup of cons during the Republican debates. Have to admit our swindler in chief did stand out even in that crowd, a distinction that spoke to his voters.
Boggles the mind.
lame54
(35,321 posts)You're a Russian hooker
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Not saying anything. Just there was a time when Rump believed in recycling for profit.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)Just save several days of fecal matter and mail it to:
Donald J. Trump
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)never heard about and didn't we think we've heard just about every product! RUMP deodorant...nothing can cover that stink.
kimbutgar
(21,188 posts)Hes been a grifter, liar, thief and con man for a looooong time!
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)Title: The PrivaTest: Another Scheme to Sell You Something
See: https://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Tests/privatest.html
and: Behind the collapse of the "recession-proof" Trump Network
See: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-network-cbs-news-investigation-supplements-multi-level-marketing/
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A reported 20,000 independent sales representatives bought the Trump Network products and tried to recruit others to sell them too. But within two and a half years, the "recession-proof" business collapsed.
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One retiree couple in Florida said they lost $10,000.
There has been numerous FTC complaints against Ideal Health aka The Trump Network with ITV Direct, which marketed products mainly through cable TV infomercials.
Is there ever an end or limits to this man's flim-flam and malfeasance?
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Hugin
(33,198 posts)Birds of a feather and so forth and so on.
Yet another empty pyramid grain silo -- To quote another Scammity/President Cheese Whiz acolyte, "Dr." Ben Carson.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)See: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2906899/Rising-GOP-star-Ben-Carson-endorsed-sham-nutrition-supplement-company-employs-business-manager-linked-pay-play-journalism-scandal.html
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His business manager Armstrong Williams told National Review Online that 'the decision that has been made' that Carson's won't publicly address his relationship with the company, and insisted the appearances were arranged by an outside speaker's bureau that currently charges more than $40,000 per speech for his services. 'All we know is that the Washington Speakers Bureau, which booked hundreds of speaking engagements for him through the year, booked these engagements,' Williams insisted. 'He had no idea who these people are.'
Mannatech, whose name is a play on the heavenly food from the Bible, offers its flagship 'glyconutritional dietary supplement' Ambrotose by claiming it can 'improve your health with an advanced blend of saccharides.'
'There are authentic, scientific studies that have looked at people drinking these kinds of materials,' Freeze said. 'And it doesn't really do anything except increase flatulence.' Mannatech also sells weight-loss meal replacement shakes for $35.00 per jar and 1.4 oz. containers of night cream for $65.00.
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