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Trump Store has all the '45' swag you could want

Chris Pastrick
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All kinds of President Donald Trump merchandise is on sale at the Trump Store, a newly opened retail shop outside of Philadelphia.

They’re on a MAGA mission: to deliver the goods to the faithful followers of President Donald Trump.

T-shirts and hats, sure. But also buttons, bracelets, koozies, water bottles, pens. All bearing either the likeness or name of the 45th president.

There’s even MAGA magnets.

Michael Domanico and his wife, Monica, have set up shop in a strip mall in Bucks County, about 30 miles outside of Philadelphia. Their store opened Feb. 11.

“You name it, we have it,” owner Michael Domanico told KYW-TV, the CBS affiliate in Philadelphia.

“People have been knocking at the door all day, ‘Can I buy some stuff now?’” Michael Domanico told KYW.

Before moving into the Bensalem Plaza, Michael Domanico sold items from a kiosk in a nearby mall. However, the mall required him to sell merchandise for both major political parties.

“The Democratic merchandise was about half of one percent of my sales,” Domanico told KYW.

“Trump people are very passionate about Trump,” he told the Bucks County Courier Times. “Democratic people are just passionate about hating Trump so they don’t want to buy a Bernie (Sanders) mug or (Elizabeth) Warren hat.”

By moving into the new location, the Domanicos can focus on just Trump.

The whole concept started a few years ago, when Domanico, who also owns a T-shirt company, was seeing how many custom orders for Trump merchandise he was getting. He would sell them out of his office.

“People that love him really love him and they want anything. Just like a rock band who sells merchandise, they want anything,” Domanico told KYW.

The Domanicos told the Courier Times the store’s prices will range from $2 (a rubber bracelet) to $45 (a hoodie).

With this year’s presidential campaign in full swing, it’s slightly possible that Trump himself might make a stop.

“Oh my God, I’d be thrilled,” Micheal Domanico told the Courier Times.

“That would be awesome, wouldn’t it be,” Monica said.

The store is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

Chris Pastrick is a TribLive digital producer. An Allegheny County native, he began working for the Valley News Dispatch in 1993 and joined the Trib in 1997. He can be reached at cpastrick@triblive.com.

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