First lady Michelle Obama visited the Great Wall of China on Sunday, and Chinese authorities had local merchants pull a popular Obama-Mao t-shirt during her time there.
The t-shirt depicts President Barack Obama wearing communist leader Mao Zedong‘s cap.
Union picks fight with Subaru; dealership’s clever
response makes headlines everywhere
According to the Weekly Standard, a pool reporter commented on a tip about merchants at t-shirt stalls being told to “temporarily suspend sales of t-shirts that show President Obama in a Mao hat.”
The pool reporter added:
That tip turned out to be true. Several merchants denied carrying such items, but one merchant quietly took this correspondent to the back of her tent and showed off a whole box of the popular, normally seen t-shirts. As we were negotiating prices – she wanted 360 yuan, or roughly $60, an outrageous starting price – other merchants came by, and in Chinese, told her to be careful. The merchant became visibly rattled and put the t-shirts away.
This 2009 photo depicts a similar t-shirt, according to the Daily Mail:
Tom Tillison
Latest posts by Tom Tillison (see all)
- Trump says ‘Nobody disobeys my orders.’ He’s ‘not even a little bit’ worried about impeachment. - April 22, 2019
- NYC Mayor de Blasio one-ups AOC, announces ‘We are going to ban glass and steel skyscrapers’ - April 22, 2019
- Decapitation ‘a new low,’ Sarah Sanders says about April Ryan. CNN’s Stelter asks why she still has a job. - April 22, 2019
Comments