Trump steaks
“When it comes to the best steaks, I’ve just raised the stakes!” said the “almighty” Donald Trump in his promotional video touting his steaks back in 2007.
A year after Trump launched his vodka line, his company started licensing flash-frozen aged beef, produced by the one and only Buckhead Beef.
If you don’t know who that is, let me help you: a meat packer that’s now a subsidiary of Sysco, wildly available through the Sharper Image catalog.
For only $199, you get two filet mignons, two cowboy bone-in ribeyes, and no less than 12 burgers.
They’re all beautifully packed in a monolithic black box that says “Trump Steaks” embossed in, you guessed, gold.
Prices went up from that point, reaching no less than $1,000 for the largest pack. No doubt, this makes Trump Steaks the most expensive offering on the entire list. Well, that’s probably the moment that marked its downfall.
The steaks got tons of media attention, but their success was barely flesh in the pan. According to Jerry Levin, the CEO of Sharper Image, “We literally sold almost no steaks. If we sold $50,000 of steaks in grand total, I would’ve been shocked.”
But that didn’t really stop Trump from throwing a press conference and arguing for the viability of his presidential candidacy by arranging piles of shrink-wrapped raw meat beside the American flag.
