A menswear fashion expert has no time for former President Donald Trump's new line of watches. Derek Guy, a menswear expert who has contributed to the Washington Post and Esquire, publicly shamed Trump for shilling a $100,000 watches he described as an obvious scam. "I don't understand how anyone can do this to their supporters," Guy wrote on X.
"They play you as a sucker." Trump the same day announced the release of his Tourbillon watches on Truth Social — where he often shares political messages — in an ad campaign from "your favorite president" standing in front of a row of American flags. "That's a lot of diamonds," Trump says.
"I love gold, I love diamonds." ALSO READ: ‘Kind of crazy’: Vance’s Ohio neighbors can’t help but notice his Secret Service detail The Trump Watch website only offers 147 of the Trump Victory Tourbillon then a series of Fight Fight Fight watches that retail at between $499 and $799. Guy argued this was a blatant attempt to exploit the halo effect , a marketing tactic that creates a false assumption of quality in lower cost items through association to similar high-price ones.
"This crappy $100k watch is a halo product to sell even crappier $500 and $800 non-Swiss steel and gold-plated watches with a cheap automatic movement," Guy wrote. "The goal here is just to make money, not treat people with respect and offer them something of genuine value." Guy — who has made a reputation explaining complicated men's fashion in straightforward t.