I am the storm, the great American grizzly, introducing the original Trumpy Bear.” “From the trees rose a resounding voice: I fear nothing.
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A storm is coming, you can not defeat the storm,” reads the narrator in the beginning of the TV spot.
Still, people are having a difficult time believing that such a product exists, thanks in part to the over-dramatic voice-over in the commercial. The bear actually first surfaced about a year ago, but it being presumably being marketed again just in time for the upcoming holidays. Trumpy Bear can be yours for just two payments of $19.95 (plus shipping), and features a zippered neck that reveals an attached American Flag themed blanket as well as hair that you can actually style yourself. Although the commercial for Trumpy Bear states in small print that no official endorsement is implied or granted, it’s certainly a product fitting for the 45th President of the United States. Not to mention the array of merchandise that can be found at his various resorts brandished with the official United States presidential seal.īut none of it - and I mean, none of it - comes anywhere close to the as-seen-on-TV product Trumpy Bear, which is currently being advertised in heavy rotation on Fox News. “Taft, on the other hand, ate his opossum for supper.Both before and after being elected president, Donald Trump was no stranger to putting his name on everything from gaudy gold towers to menswear, steaks, and commemorative coins. The president of the United States decided to show it some mercy,” writes Moallem. “The bear was a helpless victim roped to a tree. Mooallem reasons that its backstory was weaker than the teddy bear’s (and frankly, the creature was was less attractive). There were “possums-on-a-stick,” Mooallem writes, “to wave like flags.” But however exotic Billy’s attraction or patriotic his fans, the enthusiasm was dead by Christmas. (It seems that the company initially experimented with stuffing actual opossum skins, but wound up with something too fleshy-looking and repulsive-like a pale, limp rat.) The Los Angeles Times covered the unveiling of the new toy at the Chamber of Commerce banquet and announced, “The Teddy Bear has been relegated to a seat in the rear, and for four years, possibly eight, the children of the United States will play with ‘Billy Possums.'”īilly Possum had his 15 minutes of fame, turning up on postcards, pins, pitchers, and even in a ragtime song. According to one account, deals for Billy Possums were being brokered with toy distributors across the country within twenty-four hours of the banquet. Mooallem writes:Ī company, the Georgia Billy Possum Co., was already being formed in Atlanta for large-scale manufacturing of these stuffed animals. The one brought to Taft’s table weighed 18 pounds.”Īfter he polished off his dinner, Taft was presented with the gift of a “small stuffed opossum toy, beady-eyed and bald-eared”: the Billy Possum.
“Head on, pale tail hanging off it like a meaty noodle-with a smaller potato crammed between the animal’s 50 tiny teeth. “An opossum, roasted on a bed of sweet potatoes, was typically presented whole,” writes Mooallem. In January of 1909, president-elect Taft was the guest of honor at a dinner in Atlanta, where the city’s chamber of commerce served him a local delicacy: possum and taters. And it would be based on a sharp-toothed, nocturnal swamp-dweller.
They were ready, writes Mooallem, to create the next teddy bear. But the relatively new mass-manufactured toy industry expected the craze to die out when Roosevelt left office. In his 2014 book Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America, journalist Jon Mooallem writes that the teddy bear unexpectedly unseated the doll as children’s preferred plaything.
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