Trumpy Bear has been around since 2017, and the commercial that aired Monday morning on Fox News - which clarified in a statement that the ad was local and that the network does not do business with Trumpy Bear’s manufacturer nationally - is a shortened version of the original.
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Trumpy Bear even comes with a certificate of authenticity that “confirms you own an original Trumpy Bear” and not a cheap imitation. It can be had for only two payments of $19.95, plus shipping and handling.
“Even the toughest guys will love Trumpy Bear,” the comically baritone voice narrating the commercial assures skeptical viewers.
Michael Ruffino, a former Marine, is proud to carry Trumpy Bear on the handlebars of his motorcycle. I can't believe this commercial that just ran on Fox News is for real /gGInt8BKhp “God bless America, and God bless Trumpy Bear,” declares an elderly woman holding the bear in front of an inflatable American flag. You can also pull an American flag out of the bear’s ass. “Taft, on the other hand, ate his opossum for supper.Americans tuning into Fox & Friends Monday morning may have borne witness to a commercial for a product called the “Trumpy Bear,” a stuffed bear with a white collar, white cuffs, red tie and Trump’s “trademark” coif. The president of the United States decided to show it some mercy,” writes Moallem. “The bear was a helpless victim roped to a tree. Mooallem reasons that its backstory was weaker than the teddy bear’s (and frankly, the creature was was less attractive). There were “possums-on-a-stick,” Mooallem writes, “to wave like flags.” But however exotic Billy’s attraction or patriotic his fans, the enthusiasm was dead by Christmas. (It seems that the company initially experimented with stuffing actual opossum skins, but wound up with something too fleshy-looking and repulsive-like a pale, limp rat.) The Los Angeles Times covered the unveiling of the new toy at the Chamber of Commerce banquet and announced, “The Teddy Bear has been relegated to a seat in the rear, and for four years, possibly eight, the children of the United States will play with ‘Billy Possums.'”īilly Possum had his 15 minutes of fame, turning up on postcards, pins, pitchers, and even in a ragtime song. According to one account, deals for Billy Possums were being brokered with toy distributors across the country within twenty-four hours of the banquet. Mooallem writes:Ī company, the Georgia Billy Possum Co., was already being formed in Atlanta for large-scale manufacturing of these stuffed animals. The one brought to Taft’s table weighed 18 pounds.”Īfter he polished off his dinner, Taft was presented with the gift of a “small stuffed opossum toy, beady-eyed and bald-eared”: the Billy Possum. “Head on, pale tail hanging off it like a meaty noodle-with a smaller potato crammed between the animal’s 50 tiny teeth. “An opossum, roasted on a bed of sweet potatoes, was typically presented whole,” writes Mooallem. In January of 1909, president-elect Taft was the guest of honor at a dinner in Atlanta, where the city’s chamber of commerce served him a local delicacy: possum and taters. And it would be based on a sharp-toothed, nocturnal swamp-dweller. They were ready, writes Mooallem, to create the next teddy bear. But the relatively new mass-manufactured toy industry expected the craze to die out when Roosevelt left office. In his 2014 book Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America, journalist Jon Mooallem writes that the teddy bear unexpectedly unseated the doll as children’s preferred plaything.
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