Walmart Facing Boycott Threats Over ‘Impeach 45’ Shirt

By Chris MorrisFormer Contributing Writer
Chris MorrisFormer Contributing Writer

    Chris Morris is a former contributing writer at Fortune, covering everything from general business news to the video game and theme park industries.

    Walmart is once again under fire for a shirt available on its Website.

    The retailer (WMT) is facing calls for a boycott after supporters of President Donald Trump discovered a shirt for sale readying “Impeach 45“.

    The shirts, seemingly discovered by the chairman of the group Students for Trump, are one of a number of “Impeach 45” offerings, which range from sweatshirts to baby clothes from a wide variety of manufacturers. The company also sells a wide range of pro-Trump merchandise, including a substantial number of “Make America Great Again” hats.

    News of the shirt prompted a #BoycottWalmart movement on Twitter and social media, with a large number of supporters jumping in.

    https://twitter.com/jwalters0529/status/1014097283833585664

    The call for a Walmart boycott seemingly picked up steam as conservative media outlets spread the word about the shirts.

    Walmart, not long ago, was in trouble with liberals as well for a shirt it sold that read “Rope. Tree. Journalist. SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED”

    Facing protests, the company quickly pulled the shirt from its site, saying in a statement “As soon as we were alerted to this content promoting violence against journalists we removed the content, added this content to our automated scanning systems, and kicked off a human sweep of the site to find and remove any similar content.”

    (Note: Walmart, on Tuesday afternoon, announced it was pulling the shirts from its Website. Read the full story here.)