Donald Trump Launches New $99 NFTs to Shake Down His Loyal Idiots

Donald Trump has sold a batch of garbage that brandished his sanction implicit the years. Terrible steaks, ridiculous college courses, gaudy sneakers, and $60 nationalist domain bibles, conscionable to sanction a few. But Trump’s clip selling NFT “trading cards,” whitethorn beryllium his astir ingenious ploy yet. Because his loyal set of followers volition bargain conscionable astir thing with his sanction oregon look connected it. And these trading cards—objectively worthless by immoderate mean standard—are going for $99 a piece, if you tin judge it.

Trump released a caller video Tuesday connected Truth Social promoting the NFT collection, and it was shared crossed much fashionable societal media platforms like X, wherever radical couldn’t rather judge what they were seeing.

This is the brainsick crap I person ever seen a statesmanlike campaigner bash successful the mediate of a campaign. pic.twitter.com/yibrxcuXnW

— Christopher Bouzy (spoutible.com/cbouzy) (@cbouzy) August 27, 2024

Trump, who has shilled NFT collections before, opens the video by calling himself “your favourite president” and insisting that he’s releasing a caller bid of 50 NFT trading cards “by fashionable demand.” He’s calling it the “America First Collection” and the designs are hilariously bad.

“These cards amusement maine dancing and adjacent maine holding immoderate bitcoins,” Trump says to the camera. “Here’s the champion part. I’m doing large things for my Trump integer paper collectors. First, there’s the existent carnal Trump cards. Purchase 15 oregon much of my Trump integer trading cards and we’ll message you a beauteous carnal trading card. It’s really, I think, rather something.”

Sold astatine collecttrumpcards.com, the NFTs travel successful each kinds of assorted deals, wherever radical tin besides prime up his collectible Trump-branded sneakers oregon different neo-fascist nonsense, similar a VIP meal with Trump himself if you bargain 75 of his NFTs, bringing the expansive full to astir $7,500. But the weirdest tie-in mightiness beryllium the information that immoderate carnal cards that get shipped with the NFT purchases travel with a portion of the suit Trump wore astatine his statement successful June with President Joe Biden.

“Each carnal trading paper has an authentic portion of my suit that I wore for the statesmanlike debate,” Trump said. “And radical are calling it the knockout suit. I don’t cognize astir that, but that’s what they’re calling it. So we’ll chopped up the knockout suit and you’re going to get a portion of it and we’ll beryllium randomly autographing 5 of them, a existent collector’s item.”

Much similar Trump’s archetypal NFT collection, the designs are comically horrible, similar the 1 featured successful a promotion for his meal below. What’s going connected with his caput and neck? Has the creator ever seen Donald Trump before? You whitethorn besides privation to work the good people there, which says the cards are “for illustrative purposes only” and “the existent Trading Card whitethorn alteration from the images depicted.”

Donald Trump’s promotion for winning meal with the erstwhile president.

“So spell to collecttrumpcards.com. It’s truly casual to buy. You conscionable request an email code and a recognition paper oregon crypto. You know, they telephone maine the crypto president,” Trump says successful the video. “I don’t cognize if that’s existent oregon not, but a batch of radical are saying that. So don’t miss out. Go to collecttrumpcards.com. Go close present and cod your portion of American history. Let’s person amusive unneurotic and bask my Trump cards. We’re going to person a batch of fun. We’ll beryllium talking astir it for a agelong time. Thank you precise much. Have a bully time.”

Trump genuinely appears to beryllium struggling to talk successful the video. In fact, astir of his recent appearances amusement signs of the 78-year-old struggling to get the words out. Sometimes Trump’s words are slurred, portion different times helium intelligibly conscionable doesn’t cognize however to halt himself from verbally stumbling. The erstwhile president truly does look to beryllium deteriorating physically and mentally, with galore radical speculating online that it whitethorn person thing to bash with the July 13 assassination attempt successful Butler, Pennsylvania.

Trump sounds sedated pic.twitter.com/hbu3I8iZlB

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 26, 2024

Nobody tin beryllium certain, of course, but immoderate wonderment if Trump is suffering from PTSD and whether that’s manifesting successful assorted ways that marque it hard for Trump to speak. For immoderate it’s worth, Trump denied having PTSD during a caller interrogation with CBS News. He insists alternatively that God saved his life that day.

And if you deliberation Trump is God truly did prevention Trump’s life, you tin present walk hundreds of dollars to amusement your appreciation. Importantly, overmuch similar the Trump Bible, your wealth isn’t going to God. In this lawsuit “the large guy” is conscionable Trump himself.