Honest Tea removing Donald Trump quote from bottle caps


It's perhaps the most uncontroversial quote ever uttered by Donald Trump, but it's still slated for removal from the bottom of Honest Tea bottle caps.
The beverage company puts quotes that it finds interesting on its caps, and on Sunday, consumer Paul Shapiro tweeted a photo of his cap featuring some words of wisdom from Trump: "If you're going to think anyway, you might as well think big." Shapiro wasn't complaining — he told The Associated Press he just didn't "think of organic green tea consumers as the target demographic for Donald Trump" — but Honest Tea responded by announcing the company is "in the process of having his quotes removed from our caps."
Trump's quote wasn't long for the world anyway, as the company says it phases quotes out every 18 months. Honest Tea co-founder Seth Goldman told AP "there's nothing objectionable to the thought," and shared that after Honest Tea was acquired by Coca-Cola in 2011, the beverage giant let him in on a secret — by using quotes from dead people, it's a lot harder to offend someone. It's probably safe to bet there will be more Shakespeare and less Trump in Honest Tea's future.
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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