{"id":89492,"date":"2026-01-17T16:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T16:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/89492\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T16:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T16:02:11","slug":"trump-store-in-bucks-county-kind-of-run-its-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/89492\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump store in Bucks County &#8216;kind of run its course&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A suburban\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/philadelphia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a>\u00a0shop selling President Donald Trump-themed merchandise that became a magnet for die-hard supporters announced it\u2019s closing its doors,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/00152a033f044fddab0500f1c0528647\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">six years after opening<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>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.\n<\/p>\n<p>Owner Mike Domanico said in a phone interview Tuesday that he\u2019s closing the store because he\u2019s focusing on another business, selling firearm targets and other items at gun shows, and he\u2019s semi-retired. But the closure is also an acknowledgement that business has slowed down.\n<\/p>\n<p>\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\n<\/p>\n<p>The store sells\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-third-term-house-speaker-mike-johnson-2a1702ca962b3d914bd8a216de64bb14\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump 2028<\/a>\u00a0gear despite the president being constitutionally prohibited from running in 2028. Trump has said it\u2019s \u201ctoo bad\u201d he can\u2019t run, though he\u2019s also handed out Trump 2028 souvenirs at the White House.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s just to get people riled up,\u201d Domanico said.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-727223\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/trump-2028-hat-ap-010726-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Merchandise is seen for sale at the Trump Store in Bensalem, Pa.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"  \/>Merchandise is seen for sale at the Trump Store in Bensalem, Pa., Jan. 5, 2026, after owner Mike Domanico announced the storefront will close at the end of the month after six years. (AP Photo\/Mike Catalini)\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suburban\u00a0Philadelphia\u00a0shop selling President Donald Trump-themed merchandise that became a magnet for die-hard supporters announced it\u2019s closing its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194,197,34],"class_list":["post-89492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township","tag-bucks-county","tag-donald-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89492","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=89492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}