Gap deletes tweet featuring bipartisan hoodie: “It was just too soon for this message”
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Our collective anxiety over a close election and the president who’s absolutely determined to discredit it has coalesced into a tight, flaming ball in search of a target. Enter: the Gap.
The clothing retailer, having utterly failed to read the room, shared a tweet this morning depicting a hoodie that’s red on one side and blue on the other. “The one thing we know, is that together, we can move forward,” read the caption, a comically hollow bit of grade-school idealism to drop in the Trump era.