In Russia they started buying products with Trump a week before the US elections

Trump won the election, defeating Joe Biden’s successor, Kamala Harris, by more than 270 electoral votes.

“It appears that Trump’s supporters in Russia ‘prepared’ in advance for his victory,” Wildberries analysts said.

The most popular product categories featuring Donald Trump were party supplies, book products, tableware and equipment, clothing and bedding, as well as sporting goods and hats.

“Sales of Donald Trump products in the week before the US election increased by 21% compared to the previous seven-day period. At the same time, the total number of products sold was double that of the previous week, and the peak day in terms of sales volume was November 4, exactly on the eve of the elections,” the Wildberries press service reports. reported.

According to market analysts, on November 5 and 6 there was no longer any increase in demand.

Products with American symbols are far from the most popular product in Russian markets. According to open data from analytics service Mayak, most positions are one-time sales per month. Some items are stored in warehouses and number in the hundreds of thousands of items. Immediately after the elections, prices for products with American symbols fell sharply and now discounts reach 50-70%, notes RB.RU.

Ozon declined to comment on sales of products with American symbols during the pre-election period.

In comparison, T-shirts with the inscription “I am Russian” sell better on the market; Some sellers’ sales reach 800 copies a month.

• Trump won the US presidential election on November 5. The leaders of the largest countries began to congratulate the future president even before the official results were announced.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Trump’s likely victory “the biggest comeback in history.” Trump himself, speaking to supporters in Florida, already called himself the 47th president and promised that his term would be a “golden era.”

Donald Trump became president of the United States for the first time in 2017. Then his election was accompanied by statements about alleged Russian interference in the elections. The current campaign has not been without similar “speculation.”

The head of the State Duma commission to investigate the facts of interference of foreign states in the internal affairs of Russia, Vasily Piskarev, told TASS that “the election campaign that ended in the United States, according to the tradition already established there, was accompanied by mantras about Russian interference in the elections.”