Savvy street seller cleans up with Trump loo rolls
A businessman is taking a break from his day job to sell loo roll printed with – Donald Trump’s face.
Tim Baker, 29, has sold 1,000 rolls in four days to visitors from all over the world at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Each roll sells for £3.
Tim, who runs a marketing business, drove 374 miles from Bristol and sleeps in a van.
Tim, who is originally from New Zealand, said: “I hope to be on the property ladder by the end of the year, just from toilet rolls. There are two designs, one of his puckering up his lips and one were he is making a speech to Republicans, dressed in a suit and red tie.
“Little kids come up and buy them. I usually say‘ is your mother about ?’ and they’ re waiting and looking from afar. Teenagers are buying them, Americans are buying them, Japanese tourists, French people and Germans, a few Australians. It is very international. A lot of British people buy them and Scottish people.”
No doubt, as a man who loves entrepreneurial spirit, Donald Trump will wholeheartedly approve.
Tim Baker was struck by his business idea last Christmas and is now, almost literally, cleaning up at the Edinburgh festival. Some may consider this to be an unusual place to make a small fortune out of selling toilet rolls, but stick pictures of the US President on every sheet and, suddenly, it’s satire! One roll shows Trump in a smart suit and tie with a slightly strained expression, while the other version shows him puckering up, as if ready for a kiss.
Baker has received some negative feedback from a few American passers-by, with one telling him – nonironically – that it was a “s***ty idea”.
However, given Trump famously takes all such jokes in his stride and never, ever, responds in a petty or litigious way, we’re sure the venture has his blessing. Perhaps the great man will recognise Baker’s chutzpah and send him a free sample of the fragrance ‘Empire by Trump’, which is (apparently) “for the confident man determined to make his mark… for those who aspire to create their own empire through personal achievement”.