Some MAGA supporters who paid for Donald Trump watches are seriously ticked off. The majority of reviews for GetTrumpWatches on Trustpilot give the company just one star, with some people complaining that it is a “scam.”

The timepieces are made by TheBestWatchesonEarth LLC and range from $499 to $2,999 per watch, or $5,389 for the “Ultra Mega Collector Set.” The president has been criticized for hawking them on cable TV as a government shutdown drags on over healthcare funding.

On Jan. 8 Lemme be Frank, from Switzerland—a country famed for its watches—wrote, “Absolutely horrible customer service. Do not buy any of these garbage products. Avoid like the plague!!”

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    THEY STILL DON’T BLAME TRUMP. It’s fucking incredible. They’re literally incapable of thinking he could do something wrong.

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      Who are they blaming? The cheap watch maker, that everyone knows makes cheap watches and shouldn’t be surprised at all that the watches that they made are cheap?

      Gasp what horrible company would try to sabotage the president like that?

      (/s … in case it wasn’t obvious)

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    Trump: “I can’t believe they fell for it. What marooons.”

    He’ll probably sell them toasters that burn down their houses next.

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    “My daughters ordered a Trump watch and after 5 months of waiting have not received anything. It’s a shame this company is not holding to President Trump’s high standards. This was a present for my 80th birthday!” wrote one MAGA supporter on July 14.

    Nope, no intelligence was found here.

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      This is the closest that recipient will get to a direct interaction with Trump. The only thing that could make it a more accurate analog would be their daughters getting sexually assaulted/harassed, and then called a liar who isn’t attractive enough to get sexually assaulted.

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      It’s crazy. Somehow he has gotten them to protect his ego over their own.

      It’s never him doing it, it’s always someone else going against his wishes.

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      ROFLOL “But those things they kept saying about bad business practices applied to other people and not me”.

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      Go on stage of some “alternative medicine” platform, and announce that your $200 carbon monoxide breathing mask and bottle cures cancer, hair loss and impotence. dont forget your affiliate program, so influencers can get a cut for promoting your highly dangerous and potentially deadly scam.

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    Do not buy any of these garbage products. Avoid like the plague!!

    We all know most of these fools did not in fact avoid the plague.

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      “Avoid like the plague!!”

      MAGA: Okay, got it, I’m gonna intentionally buy them just to try to piss people off with no regard for the safety of myself or others.

      They’ve been treating these things like they treat the plague from the start, actually.

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      Not super important but just to say, Rolex is far more expensive than these. The most expensive option for the Trump watch is still cheaper than the cheapest model of Rolex. And that’s assuming you can even buy it at retail value, which is impossible in most places. Most jewelry stores won’t sell you a Rolex unless you have purchase history with them, and as such used prices are often way higher than brand new.

      Vintage is a different story, some cheaper vintage Rolexes can go for under 5k (and some rare ones can be exponentially more expensive too), but if we’re talking new, they’re all more expensive than these Trump watches.

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          I mean, at least it has an expensive complication that somewhat justifies its price? Not that a tourbillon is worth 100k but it is still a very expensive complication. I wouldn’t put it past these guys to sell a quartz watch for 100k.

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            Fair enough, for sure a tourbillon watch will be more expensive, but 100k? I’m not into watches that much, how much is a good tourbillon these days? Not that this could ever be good, in fact I bet it doesn’t even exist irl.

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              You can get a used Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Tourbillon for around 30k at the low end I think. Not saying JLC is the cheapest on the market (it’s definitely not) but they’re excellent watches without being too bloated in price for what you get. I’m sure brand new is a bit more expensive but if you can get a JLC for a third of the price, that’s saying something.

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    Fool me 10 times, shame on you. Fool me 11 times, big shame on you. This 12th deal better be damn good to make up for all that!

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    “My daughters ordered a Trump watch and after 5 months of waiting have not received anything. It’s a shame this company is not holding to President Trump’s high standards. This was a present for my 80th birthday!” wrote one MAGA supporter on July 14.

    These people are un-teachable. This kind of immunity to learning from experience should be considered a mental illness.

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      “I wish President Trump could be notified how bad this is…”

      Even unteachable is somehow too charitable. In the middle of eating the shit he is spoon feeding them, they believe 100% that he has nothing to do with it and doesn’t even know about it. These people are absolutely braindead.

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      I listened to an interview with a Trump-voting farmer who was suffering because of tariffs. She knew tariffs were the problem. She stated repeatedly that tariffs were the problem. She could not bring herself to the logical endpoint in that ultimately this was Trump’s fault, instead blaming “the government” for it. They are not ever going to be productive members of society unless they can be deprogrammed from the cult.

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      The mental gymnastics they’re engaging in to separate “This company” from Trump himself, when the latter is actively promoting them on TV, just like he did with the sneakers sold by yet another opaque shell company with a complex ownership structure in the Carribean.

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      This was a present for my 80th birthday!” wrote one MAGA supporter on July 14.

      So granny doesn’t get a gift for her birthday, and the little shits get to laugh about how they got granny steaming about something ‘not real’ like this. I think I found my new fun hobby for fucking with my maga family members.