PHILADELPHIA — A sex toy shop in Center City has experience an uptick in business form the Democratic National Convention, according to a store employee.
At Danny’s Midnight Confessions, the top seller among convention delegates and other attendees was the “Donald Chump” inflatable love doll with the “Horney Hillary” life-size doll a close second, said merchandise buyer Matthew Hinkle.
The packaging for the “Donald Chump” blow-up doll had a caricature resembling Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and text reading: “He screwed up politics, now you can screw him back!”
“They just think it’s hilarious,” Mr. Hinkle said. “They say, ’Hey, I”m really going to [screw] Trump,’ about the same thing with Hillary. Folks are funny.”
He said that many customers claimed they were buying the “Donald Chump” doll for their friends back home who support Mr. Trump.
Mr. Hinkle said the spike in business peaked Saturday ahead of the opening of the convention and began to fall off Sunday, when the convention was rattled by the resignation announcement by Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz over party efforts to sabotage Mrs. Clinton’s primary rival, Sen. Bernard Sanders.
Sales could surge again. The convention runs Monday through Thursday in the City of Brotherly Love.
A sidewalk sign outside the shop beckoned to convention goers: “Welcome PHL DNC 2016 … Open 24/7 for all your adult desires.”
• S.A. Miller can be reached at smiller@washingtontimes.com.
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