Trump Store in Bensalem to Close After Sales Decline

The Trump Store, an 800-square-foot shop selling Trump merchandise in a strip mall in Bensalem, Pa., is scheduled to close on Jan. 31, its owner Mike Domanico said, citing falling sales and a lack of upcoming election activity. Opened in February 2020, the shop sold hats, T-shirts, watches, stuffed animals and other items and became a gathering spot for MAGA supporters.

Mr. Domanico said he now makes roughly 30 sales per day, compared with about 100 per day in the months before the 2024 election and double or triple that when the store first opened. "He’s not running again," Mr. Domanico said of the president. "When something’s happening like an election’s coming up or something in the news happens with Trump, the sales jump.

But since there’s no election coming up, things have slowed down." He said he plans to focus on other businesses, including selling gun-related items. The store drew large crowds and parking-lot rallies ahead of the 2024 presidential election. Regular visitor Bobbie Murphy said, "It was a place that you could go to sing and dance and celebrate Trump," and that the store "put Bensalem on the map." Mr.

Domanico traced the business back to 2019, when he began making Trump T-shirts for local car shows, moved to a kiosk at Neshaminy Mall and then into the strip-mall location after landlords elsewhere declined when they heard it would be a Trump store.

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