I wish Trump's gold high-tops were ugly
The strangest way I've ever seen a president pay off ($438.3 million) legal fees
Update on March 4, 2024: I will not change the headline on this post because that was honestly how I felt about the visual appearance of Trump’s high tops on the website. However, after seeing Fat Joe show them off outside of a shoe box, they remind me too much of the kind of glittery doll shoes I may have bought for my Jem and The Holograms collection as a child.
I wasn’t totally sure how Donald Trump was going to play the hand he was dealt, especially after a judge awarded sexual assault victim E. Jean Carroll with $83.3 million and work from New York State Attorney General Letitia James resulted in him owing $355 million for the civil fraud trial.
I have been trying to forget his painfully gawdy 24-karat-gold apartment, with the diamonds on the door, that overlooked Central Park. Somehow, I still didn’t predict he would be selling gold sneakers in his next business venture. With only 1,000 pairs sold and 10 randomly signed by him, I wanted them to be fugly so badly.
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Then I looked at them and scowled. Dammit, man, they’re pretty good-looking shoes. I shook my head, immediately thinking Omega Psi Phi members were definitely going to have to keep telling misguided people who don’t know who the Ques are that their gold boots are not Trump sneakers. (I pray that no Ques bought these shoes.)
And before somebody jumps down my throat about the last statement, I’m fully aware — from the first day I parked at my alma mater to unpack — that purple shoestrings are a given in these boots. And they’re boots, not high tops. I get it. But I’m also someone who gets roped into comment sections from people using the term “woke” that have never ever seen Laurence Fishburne scream “WAKE UP!” at the top of his lungs in “School Daze.” We were saying “woke” long before the Bethany Mandels of the world latched onto it. And like jazz and blues, sometimes black folks have to fight to claim we had it first!