We Talked With the Writer of Minions About Trump Minion T-Shirts

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BRANSON MO NEWS: A Trump supporter wears a bootleg “Deplorable Me” Minions T-shirt at a rally in Chester Township on September 22nd. | Photo by Dan McQuade
Earlier this month, Hillary Clinton said that “to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables.” The phrase became an instant moment, and became the subject of columns and fact-checks and polls and Slack chat transcripts run as stories. The phrase stuck.
What’s interesting is how quickly Trump supporters co-opted and reclaimed the term like they’re a bunch of liberals. At last night’s Donald Trump rally in Delco, multiple speakers called themselves one of the deplorable ones. “Hello my fellow deplorables,” said Otto Voit, said the Republican candidate for state treasurer who claims he was the first candidate in the state to endorse Trump. “And I know out there, there are adorable deplorables,” he said later.
In the crowd, T-shirts were the game. Loads of Trump supporters wore T-shirts proudly declaring themselves one of the deplorables. Michael Goodart, of Springfield, Missouri, is a two-time candidate for state House there. He’s also a T-shirt vendor with his own screenprinting company. He …