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The “Never-Surrender High-Top Sneaker” isn’t catching on with some shoe aficionados. The $399 gold metallic kicks, all 1,000 pairs of which were purchased within hours of former President Donald Trump debuting them on Saturday on the stage of the Philadelphia Convention Center, don’t have many admirers of kicks swooning. “At first I thought it was an April Fool’s joke,” Hikmet Sugoer, a German sneakerhead who founded the boutique shoe boutique Solebox, told The Guardian. He noted that he was both “shocked and disappointed” when Trump made a surprise appearance at Saturday’s Sneaker Con event. …

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