Trump-Patterned Toilet Paper Rolls In Money For Enterprising Man

A marketing company boss is reeling in money after taking to the street to sell toilet paper rolls with President Donald Trump’s face printed on them at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Scotland.

Originally from New Zealand, 29-year-old Tim Baker has been selling the toilet paper rolls from a shopping trolley.

“I’ve got a peddler’s permit so I’m constantly pushing a shopping trolley around,” Baker said.

Baker also has a marketing business, which he left under the care of his manager as he goes around streets selling Trump toilet rolls while sleeping the nights away in his van. He said selling Trump toilet papers, or “loo rolls," is more profitable than his other job.

He came up with the idea during Christmas last year, and since then has pushed his way through several English towns like Cheltenham, Bath, and Somerset, even selling the toilet paper in London during the mass protest against Trump in July.

Since Christmas, he sold over 7,000 to 8,000 rolls priced at £3 (3.89 USD) each or two for £5 (6.48 USD). Currently, Baker has taken his trolley to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and is selling about 250 rolls a day on average. The Edinburgh Fringe Festival is one of the largest art festivals in the world. This year, it began on Aug 3 and will end on Aug 27.

Baker said selling Trump toilet rolls was an extremely lucrative business. By the end of the year, he expects to be on the property ladder.

He is selling two designs of Trump toilet rolls. One had pictures of Trump puckering up his lips, and the other, a picture of him delivering a speech to Republicans, in a suit and a red tie.

Baker said the main reason people are buying them was because the U.S. president was “universally unpopular.” Also, his products were much cheaper.

"I asked around and found someone who was printing toilet roll for a good price, and we came to an arrangement,” he said. "I had to find someone to be a courier for about a train carriage worth of toilet rolls."

“I haven’t seen anyone else selling them - you can get them online for a fiver but mine are cheaper,” Baker said.

“Little kids come up and buy them. I usually say ‘is your mother about?’ and they’re waiting and looking from afar,” he added. “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 as well and Scottish people. He is universally unpopular which is why I’m selling Donald Trump toilet paper. I don’t think anyone else will be so unpopular in the history of mankind,” he said.

Baker said he also had to face some "funnier insults." At one point, a kid told him that what he was doing was “a hate crime.”

“And I said, “I really don’t think you understand what a hate crime is.” But that was OK, I just said that I liked his shoes and I killed him with kindness. He went away pretty quickly.”

Baker has also received hostility from American tourists at the event at Edinburgh as well. Some of his experiences, as he recalls it, are funny to say the least.

“Another guy, an American guy, said, “This is sh*tty and you’re a sh*tty person for doing it. This is a sh*tty idea.” And I said, “Are you being ironic?” He said “no”. I said “That’s tragic. You just made a brilliant pun, and you didn’t even get it.”” Baker said.