People are already trying to profit from the apparent assassination attempt on former President and leading Republican nominee Donald Trump.
Many have advertised T-shirts featuring the iconic photo of Trump raising his fists in the air during the shooting at a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday.
Famous content creators, the Hodge Twins, posted on X (formerly Twitter) photos of shirts stating, “100% of profits from this shirt go to Trump’s campaign.”
Another post on X shows a man wearing a shirt with the same image, captioned, “They already got the picture of Trump getting shot at on T-shirts in stores.”
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy also advertised the same shirt for sale on his company’s website.
The attacker, who the Secret Service killed, marked the first assassination attempt on a president or presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan in 1981.
According to the Associated Press, a local prosecutor reported that the suspected gunman and at least one rally attendee are dead. FOX News initially reported that two others were dead, but the Secret Service clarified that two others were injured.
In a statement on social media, Trump said he was “shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear.” It took two minutes from the moment of the first shot for Trump to be placed in a waiting SUV.
This story was reported from Los Angeles.
