CNN tracked Trump’s watch to a building in Sheridan, Wyoming—and found strange ties to a “male enhancement honey” company with a similar name.
Last month, Donald Trump announced that he was selling limited-edition, gaudy watches ranging from $499 to the bargain price of $100,000, bragging about their Swiss-made precision.
But a CNN investigation traced the watches’ origin to a shopping center in remote Sheridan, Wyoming, where TheBestWatchesOnEarth LLC, the company behind the timepieces, is based. There’s no indication that a watch company is located at the building listed at the address, only a daycare. Its neighbors include an H&R Block, a Wendy’s, and a “vape and hemp smoke shop.”
CNN couldn’t find the people behind the company either, because the business’s location allows it to legally hide those details from the public. The news network found that knocking on the door of the business’s supposed address didn’t answer those questions. Interestingly, the limited liability corporation behind Trump’s infamous gold sneakers is also based at the address, along with other random businesses. The watch company was registered on July 29, only two months before Trump announced the watch line.
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I just don’t understand how the place isn’t shut down already.
They know the “business” behind the product is some shady LLC in a warehouse in Wyoming. There are no watches being produced there. There are no sneakers being produced there. And there never will be. This is a money laundering scheme and nothing more. And even if they do get some rubes dumb enough to part with their money, their orders will just be “temporarily delayed” while the customer is sent circling around LLC hell trying to get a refund on a product that never existed in the first place.
Seriously. $100,000 watches? Who the fuck is the target audience for this? Even if it were on the up-and-up (it isn’t), there’s only a sliver of a sliver of the population who could afford to even if they wanted to. And you’re not going to reach them through some random late-night commercial on OANN. If this were a legit product made by a legit company, their entire sales wing would have known that commercials targeting inbred hicks at 3:00 in the morning is a complete waste of money.
Trump and whoever else is behind this should have just quietly taken out a couple of back-of-the-magazine ads in some no-name magazine to give their product a veneer of legitimacy and then just quietly did their crime stuff with nobody being any wiser. But no, this is Trump, who must always, always pick the worst and most absurdly inane option available. Every time. Like picking a smart choice would cause him torturous pain or something. I’ve never seen a man who so masterfully looks at all of the options available to him, and somehow manages to come up with and select an exponentially worse option with such consistency.
I just don’t understand how the place isn’t shut down already.
Cops have better things to do than shutting down obvious money laundering enterprises - like, shaking down obvious money laundering enterprises for a cut of the action.
I lived in Daytona Beach a few years ago, and one day I noticed that a small store had opened up that sold nothing but Super-Whisks, plastic whisks that cost $1 each. They were never open (a hand-written sign said the nail salon next door had a couple of whisks if you wanted one) and they were a quarter of a mile from a Publix and three dollar stores, all of which also sold $1 plastic whisks, so they weren’t exactly satisfying an unmet demand. The most ridiculously obvious money laundry I’ve ever seen and yet they were never investigated by anyone.
There was an old video store that opened up in my neighborhood in the late 80s. Now it did have an adult section in the back, so there was at least a hint of legitimate business. Now remember. I’m saying late 80s here. VHS. A circulation of movies that was never updated. For decades. Well, well beyond VHS’s expiration date. But when you walked in there, that’s what you saw. “Modern-day” movies like Roadhouse and Howard the Duck. In like 2005. And when you walked in, the guy at the counter gave you a look as if you were definitely not welcome, and even the adult section (where I figured the “real” business took place) was “closed”.
The place closed down sometime during the late 00s, but to this day I firmly believe the store was a front for some kind of mob operation and money laundering and the adult section was for…<ahem>members only, ifyaknowwhatimean.
Seriously. $100,000 watches? Who the fuck is the target audience for this?
Trump fanatics with a lot of money. Which if even one person buys one (And Im sure someone has) The entire charade becomes worth it.
My money is on it being a way to get around political donation limits - if you’re buying a product, you aren’t donating. Elon can buy a handful of these to give out to his buddies, and it doesn’t count as donating a million dollars to Trump’s campaign.
If the business were actually about selling watches (which like you said, it isn’t) it would still make sense to have an extremely expensive model as a sales tactic so that the affordable ones seem more valuable. Another example of this is the $10,000 solid gold Apple Watch. Obviously they don’t expect to sell many watches at that price when the battery is sealed into the device and it’s guaranteed to fail after a few years, but it exists just to make the normal models seem fancy by proxy.
Oh, I absolutely agree. But when was the last time you saw a Rolex ad in the middle of a Duck Dynasty rerun or something? Any company able to actually produce and sell watches worth $100k is going to know who their target audience is and how to reach them.
Trump’s commercials scream less of an attempt to reach people who may genuinely be interested in his product (He’d probably be better off selling them at his golf courses), and more of an attempt to be able to say that there was even a product in the first place when people eventually start questioning where $15,000,000 magically appeared from. Point to the ads, say all 147 of them were bought by clients who wished to remain anonymous, and say you closed up shop after they were sold. Money laundering made easy.
Appliance stores uses that tactic all the time, the 2000 fridge doesn’t look at expensive when is side to side with a 10000 one.
The words “derelict”, “strip” and “mall” really sum him up perfectly. So it sounds like he found the perfect match for his needs.
Please don’t connect the words “Trump” and “strip” like that.
Haha, yeah it does create some horrible mental images, doesn’t it!
I imagine him falling from a pole and breaking his neck on a first try. Makes it bearable.
Summoned Hansel lol
It should come as no surprise that nothing was legitimate about that entire scheme.
It’s all legitimate. That’s the issue. Wyoming doesn’t give a fuck. You can set up hundreds of llc’s in Wyoming that only just connect back to each other or shady law firms. The law firms take their money. Wyoming takes their money. And the rest of the money disappears
I meant legitimate in the colloquial sense, not in the apparently legal sense in this case. These watches were most definitely not Swiss in origin.
Ah right. I just assumed they were not Swiss watches lol. Trump could sell an enlarged pyrite plated statue of his cock, lube made from his sweat, and his followers would line up to buy and ride it
Its mass hysteria. These people have been told immigrants are coming to kill/rape/disenfranchise them for over 40 years and they still believe it.
A lobbying firm that represents Montenegro’s government is also based at the Wyoming address
…okay, now you’ve lost me.
so what is the point of “registering” a business if the address it obviously bogus?
If the goal is, let’s say money laundering, it’s harder to track you down.
oh I get the point in lying about your location of course. in other words what I’m asking is why have business registration at all if it’s so easy to lie?
Mainly because at the moment, he’s still under the whim of the FBI who he basically wants to disband. Once he’s in power he can dismantle any government agency that would fight his corruption, and then there’s no need for Shell companies
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Oh, the why was directed at the other side. My bad.
Probably because most people don’t lie, it’s useful to have records of legit businesses, and (hopefully, but IANAL) it’s one more thing that someone could be charged on for fraud.
It also probably has a panopticon effect. If people didn’t need to register, then there’s low monitoring of what people do and so those with more grey ethics are more likely to cheat the system. But because there’s a process, one assumes someone is watching, and therefore most people will stay in line; only the most scummy people will actually lie.
Literally laundering money to his campaign. Nothing will happen.
I did some digging into the shoe company when they came out and found out Wyoming is probably the LLC Capitol of the country. Apparently they have very lax registration laws and Andrew Pierce seems to do a lot of them. His company handled the shoe business and likely the watches.
I also happened upon a list of registered businesses 23Q3 file is 3258 pages. I believe this list only contains new businesses registered that quarter but am not certain.
This Trump character sounds like he might be involved in shady business dealings!
The more I learn about that guy, the more I don’t care for him.
Some were saying that decades ago. Some still haven’t crossed that line, for some reason.
Some are breathing borrowed air.
My grandma had that dude sniffed out in the 1900s
Shouldn’t be be touting the American-ness of them? What kind of self-respecting Trump supporter (lol) wants a garbage foreign watch?
It doesn’t HAVE to be American, they have to THINK it is American. There is a huge difference.
No surprise. Dude is nothing but a con man and if you see anything but a con man then you are stupid.
Gee I sure hope trump finds out that he’s been ripped off.
Boy-o is his face gonna be a slightly weirder shade of orange!
Those watches, if any of them even actually ship, are guaranteed to be straight from Aliexpress.
Or… a very remote, rundown factory in rural India.
The bibles were from China, they’ll likely come from the same
A man whose presidential bid is simply a grift for money having a decent chance at winning is very fitting for the US.
Con man gonna con.
Its a money laundering front, plain and simple.
Or just grifting. He needs to raise money
It’s weird how this is surprising. His shoes, his NFTs, all traces through Wyoming corporations set up to launder money.
Basically. If you want to start a number of Shell companies that all report to each other so money can disappear, do it in Wyoming, they don’t give a fuck, and that’s what Trump did.
I wonder how that will change with the upcoming January deadline for companies filed under a registered agent having to file a BOI report to disclose their controlling interests.
Is this a state or federal law? I’m super interested it, and would love a link to where it’s being described
Thanks! Hopefully this will make a difference. I suspect what happens in November will be the catalyst on this one
If he’s president by then it won’t matter.
Which is why rich people really want Trump to win.
If it’s so plain and simple why can’t they stop this kind of advantage taking? Why isn’t it investigated deeper and exposed?
Criminal investigations take years and often aren’t announced publicly (otherwise evidence gets destroyed). Sometimes they target investigations too to make justice move faster (and at first only pursue the strongest case)
Don’t be surprised if it is.
His biggest issue at the moment is that he no longer has as many friends in powerful places (similar to the mafia), and he keeps abusing people . If you’re going to be a criminal, you can’t abuse 50% of the population and threaten a dictatorship or they’ll be more likely to pursue
