Trump gives mugshot T-shirt to Logan Paul: ‘This is what we’re reduced to’

Donald Trump has promoted his upcoming interview with Logan Paul on his Impaulsive podcast by appearing in a video in which he presents the host with a pair of MAGA caps and two T-shirts bearing the infamous mugshot from his arraignment in Fulton County, Georgia, last summer.

In a brief promotional clip for the episode, which was due to drop later on Thursday, the Republican presidential candidate and convicted felon appears with Paul and co-host Mike Majlak in a wood-panelled room at Mar-a-Lago, prominently lined with bottles of Paul’s Prime Hydration energy drink, and presents them with a fistful of merchandise.

“They sell for a lot of money, these things,” Trump says.

“Is this your mugshot? Oh my god, you’re a gangster!” Paul laughs in disbelief as he unfolds one of the two shirts – one white, one black – which bear the former president’s mugshot and the slogan “Never Surrender”.

“Yeah it is,” Trump replies, somewhat ruefully.

“Can you believe it? This is what we’re reduced to…”

Addressing the infamous glowering police photograph, which Trump has used prominently as part of his fundraising efforts since it was taken, he tells Paul and Majlak: “Well Elvis had one, Frank Sinatra had one, but we’ve eclipsed them. A long time ago we’ve eclipsed them.”

Paul, a huge social media celebrity turned WWE wrestler, also posted a photograph of a grinning Trump posing with his championship belt, which attracted a deluge of criticism from his followers, as well as a further clip on the Impaulsive X feed in which he and Trump discuss the possibility of getting Joe Biden to appear on the show, rating his chances at “less than one per cent”

For his part, Trump posted a short video on his new TikTok account of himself and Paul squaring