{"id":79995,"date":"2026-01-07T07:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T07:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/79995\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T07:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T07:11:13","slug":"trump-store-in-suburban-philadelphia-kind-of-run-its-course-and-is-set-to-close-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/79995\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump store in suburban Philadelphia ‘kind of run its course’ and is set to close"},"content":{"rendered":"

BENSALEM, Pa. (AP) \u2014 A suburban Philadelphia<\/a> shop selling President Donald Trump-themed merchandise that became a magnet for die-hard supporters announced it’s closing its doors, six years after opening<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Trump Store, which sells hats, flags, T-shirts and other items in hotly politically contested Bucks County, posted on social media that its storefront will be closing at the end of the month.<\/p>\n

Owner Mike Domanico said in a phone interview Tuesday that he’s closing the store because he’s focusing on another business, selling firearm targets and other items at gun shows, and he’s semi-retired. But the closure is also an acknowledgement that business has slowed down.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe store has kind of run its course,\u201d he said. \u201cYou know, it\u2019s been six years and the elections are over. Trump\u2019s not gonna be in another election, even though he\u2019ll be part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The store sells Trump 2028<\/a> gear despite the president being constitutionally prohibited from running in 2028. Trump has said it’s \u201ctoo bad\u201d he can’t run, though he’s also handed out Trump 2028 souvenirs at the White House.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat’s just to get people riled up,\u201d Domanico said.<\/p>\n

The Facebook post announcing the store’s closure attracted gloating comments from apparent Trump skeptics.<\/p>\n

\u201cAre you no longer winning?\u201d wrote one commenter. Another said: \u201cTrump must be doing wonders for the economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Domanico said there was a time when he’d respond to all the comments, but no longer.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo matter what the president does, they hate him no matter how good anything is,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Dave Russell, 81, is a longtime Trump supporter and was at the shop when it opened in 2020 to buy a Trump for Veterans hat. In a phone interview Tuesday, he said he wasn’t surprised the shop was closing.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause most of the stuff they sell was to promote Trump. He\u2019s already in this last term. You can\u2019t do much more for him than he\u2019s already gotten,\u201d Russell said.<\/p>\n

Bucks County is often viewed as a crucial bellwether in presidential elections. Trump narrowly carried the county over Kamala Harris in 2024 on his way to winning back Pennsylvania as he did in his first victory in 2016.<\/p>\n

Asked if he\u2019d go back for any final sales items, Russell laughed and said no. \u201cI am so loaded up with Trump stuff. I don\u2019t need anything.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENSALEM, Pa. (AP) \u2014 A suburban Philadelphia shop selling President Donald Trump-themed merchandise that became a magnet for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[40613,40612,69,71,70,40610,40614,40611],"class_list":["post-79995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-dave-russell","tag-mike-domanico","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-president-donald-trump-themed","tag-the-trump","tag-trump-supporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}