Trump campaign sells brand markers after Sharpie-gate

Donald Trump's re-election campaign has added a permanent marker of the Trump brand to his online store, capitalizing on the Sharpie-gate drama and expanding the campaign's cultural warfare offerings, which already include plastic straws at stick to the liberals.

The marker, announced on Twitter this morning by campaign manager Brad Parscale, is the campaign's latest effort to amplify and then banish what might have been a relatively minor controversy.

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"Buy the official Trump marker, which is different from all other markers on the market, because it has the special ability to drive @CNN and the rest of the false news is crazy! "PARSCALE tweeted.

This is a clear allusion to the widespread consternation this week over Trump's use of a modified weather map by Sharpie on Wednesday to back up his dubious claim that Alabama was in great danger of being hit by Hurricane Dorian.

Since Sunday, Trump has repeatedly insisted that the hurricane would threaten the state, although it is almost immediately contradicted by the National Meteorological Service and other meteorologists.

It's a familiar strategy of Parscale. In July, he caught Twitter on a paper straw – marketed as an eco-friendly alternative to plastic – becoming soggy and useless in his sweet tea. And because environmentally friendly is often associated with liberal in the context of crop wars, a package of Trump brand plastic straws worth $ 15 soon arrived in the campaign store .

The campaign has sold red straws for hundreds of thousands of dollars, she told RealClearPolitics.

The marker, on the other hand, is black and bears Trump's gold signature, and sells in a five-pack for $ 15. For comparison, a pack of five Sharpie markers sells for $ 3.99 at the Staples office supply store.