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Hard seltzer for the "Let's Go Brandon" set

On Happy Dad, Donald Trump, and the lucrative gambit of quenching partisan thirst

Last week, former president and current social media start-up bro Donald Trump joined a podcast with the Nelk Boys, the jockish Canadian-American #content collective behind the Happy Dad hard ser brand, in an episode whose video version was quickly banned from YouTube for misinformation about the 2020 election.

There’s a lot going on in that sentence, I know. Too much, really. I’m going to skip over the election misinfo bit because it’s bad but in no way newsworthy (Trump has been playing that tune for literal years at this point.) But a former president sitting down with a bunch of creator bros who are sipping cans of their flavored malt beverage brand with a ripped-open 12-pack conspicuously in frame seems weird/significant enough to at least mark for posterity. So let’s!

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