What hardware stores do not support Trump?
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Executive summary
The question as framed—“What hardware stores do not support Trump?” conflates two separate concepts: commercial relationships (selling Trump-branded products) and political support; the available reporting documents only the former, not stores’ political endorsements. Consumer-boycott tracking sites such as Grab Your Wallet identify retailers that do or do not carry Trump-family brands (including a specific note that Do It Best does not carry those brands) [1] [2], while other outlets have documented both retailers that dropped Trump lines and lists that contain errors or overreach [3] [4] [5].
1. What the sources actually track: products, not political support
The principal public record in the sources is inventory and corporate ties — who sold or stopped selling Trump-family lines — not whether a given hardware chain “supports” Trump in a political sense, and reporting repeatedly distinguishes sales relationships from political endorsements (Grab Your Wallet’s list targets retailers that “profit from relationship with Trump family brands”) [2] [1], while independent fact-checking cautions that donation- or endorsement-based lists can be inaccurate [5].
2. Which hardware retailers are named as NOT carrying Trump products
The Grab Your Wallet campaign’s public materials list retailers that do and do not carry Trump-branded goods and explicitly note that “Do It Best” (a hardware cooperative) does not carry Trump-family brands [1] [2]. Those boycott pages and their archived spreadsheet are the primary source cited for which retailers lack Trump lines, and the archived sheet is available as a public record for verification [6].
3. Which home-improvement retailers have appeared on “sell” lists or have removed lines
Conversely, reporting compiled early in the boycott movement identified specific home-improvement retailers as carrying Trump Home products at the time (Business Insider’s roundup noted “the home improvement retailer sells the Trump Home line”) [4]. Other retailers across categories were documented to have removed Ivanka Trump and Trump-family items following consumer pressure and sluggish sales, showing inventory decisions can change and vary by company [3] [7].
4. Why the distinction matters: inventory vs. political endorsement
Multiple sources underscore that shoppers and activists tracked product availability to exert economic pressure, not to make claims about executives’ private politics; Grab Your Wallet frames the effort as avoiding companies “profiting from relationship with Trump family brands” [2]. Independent verification is necessary, because lists compiled during activist campaigns sometimes mixed categories (products, donations, ownership ties) and have produced inaccuracies that fact-checkers like Snopes flagged when similar lists recirculated in later years [5].
5. Practical guidance from the reporting for consumers seeking non–Trump-branded hardware stores
The most direct and source-backed action is to consult the Grab Your Wallet retailer pages or its archived spreadsheet to confirm current inventory status [2] [6] and cross-check with recent news about retailers dropping or restoring lines, because companies have removed items amid boycotts and sometimes later restocked or clarified their positions [3] [7]. Consumers should treat claims equating “not carrying Trump products” with “not supporting Trump” as unsupported by the cited reporting, which does not document corporate political endorsements [1] [2] [5].
6. Conflicting signals and limits of the record
The public record contains both documented inventory changes and contested lists: the Guardian and other outlets show boycotts affecting retailers and public pressure on home-improvement stores, but they stop short of proving broader corporate political alignment [8]; meanwhile, fact-checkers have shown some aggregated lists included errors about donations and support, demonstrating the need for careful, source-by-source verification [5]. The sources do not provide a comprehensive, up-to-date roster of every hardware chain’s current carrying status or political donations, and thus cannot definitively list every hardware store that “does not support Trump” in a political sense [2] [6] [5].