By MIKE CATALINI
BENSALEM, Pa. (AP) — A suburban Philadelphia store promoting President Donald Trump-themed merchandise that grew to become a magnet for die-hard supporters introduced it’s closing its doorways, six years after opening.
The Trump Retailer, which sells hats, flags, T-shirts and different objects in hotly politically contested Bucks County, posted on social media that its storefront will likely be closing on the finish of the month.
Proprietor Mike Domanico mentioned in a cellphone interview Tuesday that he’s closing the shop as a result of he’s specializing in one other enterprise, promoting firearm targets and different objects at gun exhibits, and he’s semi-retired. However the closure can be an acknowledgement that enterprise has slowed down.
“The shop has sort of run its course,” he mentioned. “, it’s been six years and the elections are over. Trump’s not gonna be in one other election, although he’ll be a part of it.”
The shop sells Trump 2028 gear regardless of the president being constitutionally prohibited from working in 2028. Trump has mentioned it’s “too unhealthy” he can’t run, although he’s additionally handed out Trump 2028 souvenirs on the White Home.
“That’s simply to get folks riled up,” Domanico mentioned.
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Merchandise is seen on the market on the Trump Retailer in Bensalem, Pa., Jan. 5, 2026, after proprietor Mike Domanico introduced the storefront will shut on the finish of the month after six years. (AP Photograph/Mike Catalini)
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Merchandise is seen on the market on the Trump Retailer in Bensalem, Pa., Jan. 5, 2026, after proprietor Mike Domanico introduced the storefront will shut on the finish of the month after six years. (AP Photograph/Mike Catalini)
The Fb submit saying the shop’s closure attracted gloating feedback from obvious Trump skeptics.
“Are you not successful?” wrote one commenter. One other mentioned: “Trump have to be doing wonders for the financial system.”
Domanico mentioned there was a time when he’d reply to all of the feedback, however not.
“It doesn’t matter what the president does, they hate him irrespective of how good something is,” he mentioned.
Dave Russell, 81, is a longtime Trump supporter and was on the store when it opened in 2020 to purchase a Trump for Veterans hat. In a cellphone interview Tuesday, he mentioned he wasn’t shocked the store was closing.
“As a result of a lot of the stuff they promote was to advertise Trump. He’s already on this final time period. You may’t do far more for him than he’s already gotten,” Russell mentioned.
Bucks County is usually seen as an important bellwether in presidential elections. Trump narrowly carried the county over Kamala Harris in 2024 on his solution to successful again Pennsylvania as he did in his first victory in 2016.
Requested if he’d return for any remaining gross sales objects, Russell laughed and mentioned no. “I’m so loaded up with Trump stuff. I don’t want something.”
