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Ben Mycelius (1:04)
I don't know about you, but I prefer presidents who don't get cease and desist letters from guitar companies who allege that said presidents are copying their intellectual property in selling scammy guitars to grift off of supporters. Like, did he ever think I had to say that in a sentence? Well, now I do. The Gibson Guitar Company has sent a cease and desist letter to Donald Trump and his various corporations because Donald Trump announced earlier last week that he was selling trump guitars@trumpguitars.com except when you look at the guitars, they look awfully similar to the Les Paul guitars, which is a trademarked and patented guitar by the Gibson Guitar Company. Donald Trump is holding what looks to be a Gibson guitar, not his own unique guitar, and Gibson owns that design. Now, when we reported on Donald Trump's grift of selling this guitar, one of the things we pointed out is we always look at the frequently asked questions section of all of the Trump grips because they all kind of have the commonality the things that he's selling when he licenses his name, image and likeness for. It's usually AI images of things that are not even manufactured yet. And so when you look at the frequently asked question section, it often says it'll arrive in five to six months the product from when you buy it. And then it says that the product you receive may look nothing like the photo in the picture of the thing that you're buying, it says that the object, whether it's the watches, the guitars, whatever it, the sneakers, it says it's for illustrative purposes. It's just demonstrative. It's not actually the product that you'll receive. So when Donald Trump was selling $100,000 watches, some others were like 10,000, 50,000, the high end ones or were $100,000. Turns out a lot of these parts look like they were. The AI parts were manufactured in China. It turns out that it's not even the product that you may receive. Yet people are paying $100,000 for one of the things we pointed out there is hypothetically that could be used as a money laundering scam. The hell is paying $100,000 for a watch that they've never seen what it looks like before? Well, now with the Trump Guitars, the Gibson company, let me give you just the legal explanation here as well. They are duty bound. When you control a trademark, you have to defend your mark. You have no choice because Gibson is involved in litigation with lots of other people who try to steal its trademarks. And if you don't enforce your trademark, if you don't send a cease and desist and try to sue Donald Trump, then other companies can allege that because you're not defending your trademark that they can steal your design. So Gibson's forced actually to send under the law to send the cease and desist and pursue legal action against Donald Trump. So they sent this cease and desist. They said in the cease and desist letter, your guitar is the Gibson design. It has the same curvature as Gibson. We control that trademark. You can't do that. And of course there's no response from Donald Trump because it's not a real. They're doing AI photos right there. And I just want to reflect right now on a few things here, like take a look at these other Trump graphs that are taking, that are taking place right now. And to me, this is just, it is shameful on so many different levels. But you know, this is the person who has access to the nuclear codes. This is the person who's making life or death decisions. Can for our lives now can't even sell a freaking guitar correctly. And why is he even selling guitars in the first place? What are you trying to, you know, selling guitars for 1500 bucks, 3000 bucks? What are you doing?
