Walmart earlier this week removed multiple third-party online listings bearing the phrase, which has recently become a popular way for some supporters of former President Donald Trump to bash Biden while avoiding the direct use of a swear word. Prior to being removed from the Walmart Marketplace, items being offered on the platform by U.S.-based apparel company Wild Bobby included shirts featuring the right-wing slogan alongside American flags and seasonal phrases like “Merry Christmas,” according to Insider.
A review of the flag posted on January 7 remarks, “This will look beautiful flying on my truck during the inauguration of a illegitimate president.” Other reviews complained that the intentionally offensive phrase was printed on only one side of the flag and that the company making the flag was based in China.
“Let’s Go Brandon” entered the U.S. conservative vernacular in early October after a reporter misinterpreted a crowd chanting “F**k Joe Biden” as a phrase of encouragement for NASCAR driver Brandon Brown. It has become a popular anti-Biden epithet among Trump enthusiasts since then, with sitting Republican members of Congress wearing associated items or repeating the phrase at the Capitol and the former president’s campaign team selling “Let’s Go Brandon” T-shirts in exchange for donations.
A Walmart spokesman stressed to Insider that the anti-Biden items were being sold by “outside third-party sellers” and had been taken down “because they do not comply with our policies.” A search for “Let’s Go Brandon” on the Walmart website did not return any results that featured the phrase on Thursday.
