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02-09-2017, 03:52 PM
Trump starring in weird ads for socks and pizza? Feels like a long time ago.
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Remember when Donald Trump was just a rich dude who was the host of The Apprentice, and got paid lots of money to appear on TV commercials in Australia? Feels like a lifetime ago, but it happened.
Take this 2004 ad for socks, which journalist Amy Remeikis brought back to light on Twitter recently (https://twitter.com/AmyRemeikis/status/829212998929625088).
SEE ALSO: Twitter has a grand old time with Trump's unfinished sentence (http://mashable.com/2017/02/08/donald-trump-unfinished-tweet/)
It features Trump, in his own private jet, complaining about his stocks "always going down" and wanting recommendations on other companies to invest in.*
An offsider with an Australian accent remarks about his Holeproof-branded computer socks — an oddly fascinating name for hosiery — never going down. Trump mistakes what he said as "computer stocks." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/02/08/donald-trump-australian-ads/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Remember when Donald Trump was just a rich dude who was the host of The Apprentice, and got paid lots of money to appear on TV commercials in Australia? Feels like a lifetime ago, but it happened.
Take this 2004 ad for socks, which journalist Amy Remeikis brought back to light on Twitter recently (https://twitter.com/AmyRemeikis/status/829212998929625088).
SEE ALSO: Twitter has a grand old time with Trump's unfinished sentence (http://mashable.com/2017/02/08/donald-trump-unfinished-tweet/)
It features Trump, in his own private jet, complaining about his stocks "always going down" and wanting recommendations on other companies to invest in.*
An offsider with an Australian accent remarks about his Holeproof-branded computer socks — an oddly fascinating name for hosiery — never going down. Trump mistakes what he said as "computer stocks." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/02/08/donald-trump-australian-ads/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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