Trump SERVED with CEASE AND DESIST he didn’t SEE COMING
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Why did Gibson send a cease‑and‑desist letter to Donald Trump?
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 and selling scammy guitars to grift off of supporters. Like, do you 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 at 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 a guitar. One of the things we pointed out is we always look at the frequently asked question section of all of the Trump griffs 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 uh the object, whether it's the uh uh the watches, the guitars, what whatever it is, the sneakers.
It says it's for illustrative purposes. Um, 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 ten thousand, fifty thousand, the high end ones or were a hundred thousand dollars. Turns out a lot of these parts look like they were the AI parts were manufactured in uh in China. It turns out that it's not even the product that you may receive yet. People are paying a hundred thousand dollars for it. One of the things we pointed out there is hypothetically that could be used as a money laundering uh scam. What the hell's paying a hundred thousand dollars for a watch that they've never seen? What it looks like before.
Well Now, with the uh 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.
How does trademark law force Gibson to protect its guitar designs?
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 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 it under the law to send the cease and desist and pursue legal action against uh Donald Trump. So they sent this cease and desist. They said in the cease and desist letter, your uh 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 f he's they're doing AI photos right there. And and I just want to reflect right now on a few things here. Like take a look at these other Trump griffs that are taking that are taking place right now. Just and and to me this is just uh It is shameful on so many different levels. But you know, this is the person who's has access to the nuclear codes. This is the person who's making life or death decisions can't uh for our lives now, can't even sell a freaking guitar correctly. And why is he even selling guitars in the first place? What you trying to make, you know, selling guitars for $1,500, 3,000 bucks. What are you doing? So when we started the Midas Touch Network and online. Store was the furthest thing from my mind.
Now we're able to bring you the best pro democracy merchandise. And it's so easy. And it's all because I use Shopify.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
Why did Gibson send a cease‑and‑desist letter to Donald Trump?
0:00–2:51
2
How does trademark law force Gibson to protect its guitar designs?
2:51–4:54
3
What are the common red‑flags in Trump’s “grift” products like watches and NFTs?
4:54–7:30
4
Why does the episode compare Trump’s guitar scam to other AI‑generated merch?
7:30–9:28
5
How is Shopify used to fund the MeidasTouch network and its merch?
9:28–11:29
6
What controversial items is Melania Trump promoting and why?
11:29–13:07
7
How does the host link Trump’s cease‑and‑desist saga to his tariff claims?
13:07–13:47
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