- Mike Lindell was seen giving out pillows in Fort Myers, Florida, within the aftermath of Hurricane Ian.
- He instructed Insider his firm was sending over 12,000 bedding objects to Florida.
- He additionally went on Steve Bannon’s podcast for a MyPillow promo code shoutout.
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell was down in Florida this week giving out pillows to these affected by Hurricane Ian, and he took the possibility to advertise his merchandise on Steve Bannon’s podcast.
Lindell was seen going round Fort Myers on Thursday, assembly folks whose property was destroyed by Hurricane Ian, one of many worst storms the state has seen. The hurricane made landfall on September 28 as a Category 4 storm and left a wide swath of wreckage in its wake.
Lindell instructed Insider that his firm 12,386 objects to Florida, together with 7,264 MyPillows, 2,566 “Bible pillows,” and a couple of,556 blankets on a truck that acquired to Florida on Thursday.
In a Fb submit on Thursday, Franklin Graham, the president of the Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Affiliation, thanked Lindell for his go to.
“These will imply a lot to individuals who have misplaced every thing. He even introduced youngsters’s pillows which have a Bible story image,” Graham stated of Lindell’s go to.
Lindell additionally used the chance to plug a MyPillow promo code on Steve Bannon’s “Conflict Room” podcast.
“They’ll get themselves one and it helps assist every thing right this moment, utilizing the promo code ‘Conflict Room,'” Lindell instructed Bannon, the backdrop of a house that appeared to have been destroyed by the hurricane behind him.
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This isn’t the primary time that Lindell has despatched pillows to assist a trigger. In February, he pledged to ship MyPillows to truckers protesting within the Freedom Convoy — a convoy of disgruntled truckers that blocked main roads across the US-Canada border. The cargo of the 12,000 pillows was later delayed at a border crossing from Michigan to Canada.