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Is It Really So Bad For Donald Trump To Be Promoting Teslas? [1]
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Date: 2025-03-14
Donald Trump spent some time
this week hawking Tesla’s in front
of the South Portico of the White
House. People act like is a big
deal. Let’s look at the historical
record and see who else has
done this.
We might as well start at the
beginning with none other
than George Washington.
Want proof? Well just judge
for yourselves!
When Martin Van Buren
replaced Andrew Jackson,
he could not take a back
seat to Jackson’s luxurious
hair, so here is a poster
from the time, of him
pushing his hair tonic.
Abraham Lincoln started his
product promotions early on,
in his campaign.
Teddy Roosevelt got the early
jump on profiteering from
national parks with his
advertising campaign.
Folks may have “Liked Ike” but
in the 1950’s, Eisenhower
started off by pushing the
Rauch & Lang Electric car,
70 years before Trump
took up the electric challenge.
Eisenhower also ran some
serious promotions for the
Edsel, as clearly seen in this
shot from a ticker tape parade
in New York. Talk about
“product placement”!
Richard Nixon had a fondness
for hotels, especially if they had
well maintained plumbing.
George HW Bush was stumping
for Pokemon cards and
unashamedly pushed them at
White House news conferences.
Bill Clinton ran a lesser-known
campaign for those hefty, Cuban
cigars.
George W Bush felt the only
way he could follow his father
was to push a product he was
intimately familiar with.
With a long history of presidents
disgracing the office of the
president with their bold and open
displays of preference for private
enterprise, who are we to say
that Trump’s blatant campaign
for Elon’s failing car company,
is out of line?
See there. A historical
perspective really does
help!
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