Tanya Sweeney: Trump's fragrance launch stinks – but this president is immune to embarrassment
Not for the first time, I read a news story about Donald J. Trump and had to check a couple of sources to make sure that it wasn't in fact fake news.
But lo, a number of news outlets say that it is so, and it's not even April 1. Trump is now shilling his own fragrance. As in, a sitting US president, ostensibly one of the most powerful men in the free world, has launched an aftershave.
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