To celebrate their ex-CEO Rex Tillerson’s recent confirmation as Secretary of State, his former company, Exxon, issued this oil-black commemorative mug. They made every attempt to add his new overseer President Trump’s “aesthetic”: gold, gilt, shiny, with a Vegas-esque overstated vulgarity. Trump loved it but Tillerson hit the roof: “We will not overshadow the President!” he bellowed into his cell phone from the Capitol. His cowering ex-lackeys in Houston complied immediately, consigning truckloads of (very expensive, as it happens; made in England!) mugs straight to the landfills and they wrote off the expense as Promotional, Political, writeoff auth budget code CDF000010DJT. Only one example survives, this overlooked demo version, and it somehow wound up in a thrift store... and when the story gets out, this mug WILL BE WORTH BIG MONEY!!!!!!!!
