Posted on 12/15/2022 7:38:22 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Look, I don’t know what Donald Trump is trying to accomplish with his “Trump Digital Trading Cards,” but I do know P.T. Barnum ain’t got nothin’ on The Donald. I mean we’re talking MyPillow dude Mike Lindell-quality stuff, here.
Here’s something else I know: Whatever Trump was thinking was wrong. Way wrong.
As my colleague Bonchie reported earlier, Trump on Wednesday teased a coming “major announcement” on Thursday morning. His major announcement, he said, would come because “America needs a superhero.” On Thursday, that announcement came: Trump Digital Trading Cards. No, really.
Ah, but hold on here a minute, some of you ask, while others laugh. Given Trump’s “genius,” he’s always (fill in a number) of steps ahead of everyone else. So, of course, the trading card thingy is something brilliant that mere mortals are incapable of grasping. One avid Trump supporter on my Facebook page called Trump’s “major announcement a “feint” — leading up to comment about his 2024 platform.
Other loyalists, perhaps like the rest of us with no explanation, assumed Trump’s trading card shtick was only a “joke” — given that Trump can never be wrong. Three words: not a joke. Check out his announcement video at CollectTrumpCards.com and see for yourself.
In an infomercial rivaling Mike Lindell’s “best” MyPillow product ads, Trump boasts:
Hello everybody, this is Donald Trump. Hopefully your favorite president of all. Better than Lincoln, better than Washington, with an important announcement to make. I’m doing my first official Donald J. Trump NFT Collection right here and right now. They’re called “Trump Digital Trading Cards,” These cards feature some of the really incredible artwork pertaining to my life and my career, and it’s been very exciting.
Notice how Trump must be “better than” Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. It’s honestly kind of sad, in a way. That amount of insecurity, I mean. And how does a serious person even respond to this? No, it wasn’t a “feint.” No, it wasn’t a “joke.” The question is, what the hell was it?
Trump continued to boast about himself and hype the ever-loving crap out of his digital trading card series, but before we go any further, a quick word about NTFs — non-fungible tokens.
I won’t get deep into the weeds about NTFs, but they’re even more precarious than cryptocurrencies. Comprised of digital identifiers that can’t be copied, substituted, or subdivided and recorded in a blockchain, they are worth ONLY what those who are brave silly enough to buy them think they’re worth. You don’t have to be a former 30-year registered investment advisor — which I am — but anyone with a modicum of knowledge about how the crypto nightmare turned out for buyers who “invested” serious money in the pretend assets knows what I’m talking about.
Anyway, again, why?
Does Trump know he’s going to lose but wants to go out with a bang? Is the whole thing a thinly veiled fundraising scheme? Does Trump even really want to be president, again? Or is he incapable of seeing how ridiculous this thing is, and honestly believes everything he says in the video I linked to, above? Again, I don’t know.
But here’s something I strongly believe: Trump is counting on his legions of loyalists to plop down a hundred bucks a pop on this worthless nonsense, and I’m gonna go ahead and bet he won’t be wrong.
Sorry, Trump loyalists, but this is as pathetic as it is hilarious.
If chumps didn't exist, scammers would go hungry.
Are you really this stupid?
EVERYONE who mocked President Trump's NFT collection...helped them SELL OUT!!!
Sold out in 12 hours.
😂🤣😂🤣💪https://t.co/0I2OsjxgQ6— Maga Rising John 💯🇺🇸💯 (@RisingMagaJohn) December 16, 2022
Perhaps you don’t know he’s been doing it his whole life.
Once gave a black bus driver $10k because the bus driver had stopped and talked a woman out of jumping off a bridge to commit suicide.
Helped a black singer who’s family were getting killed by gangsta types. Gave her a safe place to stay.
Paid an older woman’s mortgage because she was going to lose a multi-generational farm after her husband died and had mismanaged things.
Flew a sick kid from CA to NY because the airlines wouldn’t do it due to medical equipment having to go along with him.
Didn’t try to get media coverage any of the above.
500k with initial offer... sold out. but the big announcement was not the trading cards.
the lame stream neglects to report on the real big announcement.
You’re a troll.
Could be worse. Could be a rube, a chump, a sucker, an easy mark instead. You can have that all to yourself.
NFTs are one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard of.
The problem with the freedom of speech announcement is that it largely depends on Trump’s re-election (and majority support in both houses of Congress. The card announcement makes all that less likely. Regarding the spoofed announcement theory as an explanation of the insanity of the weird card sales distraction, shouldn’t that complaint be coming from Trump himself? Isn’t it odd that Bannon should be fooled by it? I must be missing something.
I was not ‘trying’ nor making excuses. I believed that after years of watching President Trump SOMEBODY would realize he isn’t just ‘selling superhero cards’ or that he can’t read a crowd.
Please, use what you know about him. He’s saying the country is in jeopardy and we’re on the cusp of falling to communism and Biden is destroying us and you think he ALSO wants to sell trading cards for fun and profit?
With Trump, we often don’t see what he’s up to but the important point, is neither do all those trying to destroy him.
Choose a side, Trump or all those trying to destroy him. Then, try to think outside the box. Factor in all who want to ridicule him (Alinsky tactics). Then it becomes possible as I said elsewhere that outsiders ‘rode’ his big announcement to sell their product, yet THIS thread was lambasting Trump for being responsible for it.
Why blame him if he’s not involved? Why say he’s leaving it to his supporters if it’s an outsider using his name?
Why reach for the most petty explanations and ridicule the one person who’s fought the Deep State longer and harder than anyone else. Look around - there isn’t another Trump. We should root for this one, not rip him apart.
Interesting just how many people, like you, eagerly blame him for..well..everything.
It sounds like a creative way to fund a campaign without those pesky contribution limits.
You took the wind out to the MSM sails bet they keep that hid.
Leopards and spots.
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