Are you ready for the worst presidential campaign in history? He, obviously, is. Candidate for a return to the White House in 2025 and favorite in the polls, Donald Trump has already begun his work of undermining and intoxication on the ground. A few days ago, he went to Des Moines, the capital of Iowa, to meet young fans, talk about Joe Biden, promise wonders, and even steal a red cap…
Exactly, let’s talk about it. It’s been eight years since the former president sold these baseball caps crossed out with the slogan “Make America Great Again”, invented by Ronald Reagan in 1980. The figures are questionable, but necessarily dizzying: the Trump camp claims to have sold two million. In his book Breaking History: A White House Memoir (Broadside Books, 2022), Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, even explained that these sales brought in, during the victorious 2016 campaign, $80,000 per day.
Despite the theft of his cap, this young supporter of the Republican candidate still carries with him the clothing proofs of his patriotism. First there is, obviously, these American jeans whose brand is beyond doubt. Yes, it’s Levi’s. Its brown jacron, introduced by the Californian firm in 1886 to mark its jeans and thus distinguish them from the counterfeits which were already circulating among the pioneers, leaves no doubt on the subject.
If this man’s jeans are identifiable from the back, his shirt is no less so. What is it about ? An Oxford cloth button down. Marketed since 1900 by the Brooks Brothers brand, these shirts with characteristic buttoned collars – stitched from old polo players’ shirts – are cut from thick Oxford cotton. Over time, they have become such an institution in the United States that their acronym is now sufficient to designate them: OCBD.
Finally, how can we not end by mentioning the mass of blond hair present in the image? In fact, if Donald Trump is still so questionably blond, this fan is quite spectacularly so. The coincidence is notable, as only 2% of the human population is blonde. From there to seeing in the American election the perspective of a tall blond behind…