How Much Money Would You Pay to Watch a Donald Trump Perp Walk?

My parents and I would sometimes play this game where we brought up a thoroughly unattractive and/or vaguely problematic dare (i.e.: Driving to GetGo while butt-ass naked) and then attached increasing dollar amounts to it until you finally said yes. (โ€œWould you drive to GetGo while butt naked for $10?โ€ โ€œNo.โ€ โ€œ50?โ€ โ€œNoโ€ โ€œ200?โ€ โ€œEh.โ€…

My parents and I would sometimes play this game where we brought up a thoroughly unattractive and/or vaguely problematic dare (i.e.: Driving to GetGo while butt-ass naked) and then attached increasing dollar amounts to it until you finally said yes. (โ€œWould you drive to GetGo while butt naked for $10?โ€ โ€œNo.โ€ โ€œ50?โ€ โ€œNoโ€ โ€œ200?โ€ โ€œEh.โ€ โ€œ300?โ€ โ€œProbably.โ€) Sometimes it would get a little morbid or weird or specific (โ€œWould you trip my bossโ€™s new baby for $1,000?โ€) but ultimately it was played to prove that everyone has a price. (And also that my parents might have been closet nudists.)

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Anyway, the thought of Donald Trump getting indicted and arrested remains a bit of a pipe dream, like when I tell myself that eating gluten-free donuts is just like eating kale. (โ€œBut theyโ€™re gluten free though! Which means I can eat seven of them!โ€) But while following Michael Cohenโ€™s testimony today, I couldnโ€™t help but fantasize about a Donald Trump perp walkโ€”where heโ€™s shuffled out of Mar-a-Lago in a golf shirt and hoop shorts with McNugget crumbs falling from his cheeks and bracelets on his ghastly shinsโ€”and I started to ask myself how much I would pay to see that happen.

I started at $1,000 (definitely), just skipped ahead to $5,000 (still definitely), and then finally, after much thought, settled on a number: $17,827.16. I would pay seventeen thousand, eight hundred twenty-seven dollars and sixteen cents to watch Donald Trump perp walk.

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