I personally think this was a bad idea on Trump’s part. But I bet you’re right, and I wouldn’t be surprised if someone on the left gives it a try, too. Maybe AOC can issue trading cards showing her dancing around.
Posted on 12/16/2022 1:32:35 PM PST by Timber Rattler
Over the last 24 hours, fans of ex-President Donald Trump have sat huddled in their chairs, waiting with bated breath for a supposed announcement the once tweeter-in-chief promised would blow their socks off. He posted a video to his Truth Social page showing an image of him in a kind of superhero garb, sporting pecs he most certainly does not have, as laser beams shoot from his eyes. What could this mean? What apocalypse was coming?
On Thursday the grand surprise was finally revealed and it was nothing but another horrific NFT project that, in Trump’s words, featured “amazing ART of my Life & Career!” These “digital trading cards” are indeed just another cash grab NFT project, but the low quality images and the company in charge of the project are a more complicated enigma.
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The images were so lazy that based on reverse image searches they were edited photos scraped off the internet. It’s unclear if they were edited by hand or perhaps crafted using AI image generation, though the one image of Trump in hunter garb bears a very distinct resemblance to waders crafted by Banded, a hunting apparel company.
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Things get even stranger when looking at the company that’s running the auction. The company, NFT INT LLC, lists its address to a kitschy strip mall in Utah that contains a few shops and restaurants, a dry cleaners, as well as a UPS store. As Gizmodo has previously reported, companies affiliated with attempts to buy Trump’s favored social media platform Truth Social have had similar arrangements by being based out of a UPS Store mailbox.
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He’s supposed to be a multibillionaire. Why exactly does he need the money? It was a bit different in his apprentice days but he’s running a Presidential campaign now. Shilling products especially stuff as shady as NFTs is a real bad look.
Needed that... :)
Seems like they’re trying to assert that being depicted as wearing someone’s clothes violates a copyright on the design of those clothes. Pretty far out there.
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Images, especially ones which were shot for a clothing line, are likely copyrighted. You can’t just “borrow” their images for your own commercial use.
I'm curious, what does “Q” say Trump is illegally laundering, PatriotarchyQ?
I personally think this was a bad idea on Trump’s part. But I bet you’re right, and I wouldn’t be surprised if someone on the left gives it a try, too. Maybe AOC can issue trading cards showing her dancing around.
More than likely, yes.
I wish I could make $500,000 in a couple hours.
The words "supposed to be" are doing a lot of work in this sentence.
I trusted the plan. I now live in a Marxist shithole where censors snoop every last word I write online and any intellectually honest or curious doctor has been thrown out of medicine. Are the zealots to blame for the fall of the Temple of Jerusalem and the banishment of Jews from the Holy Land? Well, the Romans certainly are more to blame. So Trump’s not the Romans here. But FFS, we need a better plan than random tweets at 3PM and crappy NFTs.
The NFTs and the announcement are/were tacky and cheap looking and I won’t pretend otherwise.
However...
The reaction of Trump’s critics diving over one another to pile on and try to declare this, finally, after thousands of prior declarations, is officially the “the end of Trump” is even more tacky and cheap, and I won’t pretend that it doesn’t cancel out at least some of the original repulsion I had from the actual things... maybe all of it.
I am getting tired of the whole schtick being a series of stunts and beclownings. I get it. Trump is tacky, his enemies are clowns. What’s the plan to win Michigan? What’s the plan to win Pennsylvania? Where did all that money for the January 6 defendants go?
I think also the money goes directly to him instead of a split with the GOPe. The money trail matters here.
yeah, I rescinded that comment already, thanks to PghBaldy
Meanwhile, ALL here in this thread so far seem to be focusing on ANYTHING
but Trump’s ACTUAL announcement.
A statement even more charged and purposeful than the announcement that
got JFK assassinated just five days after he gave voice to it.
Or did y’all just decide THIS crap was more important?
(perhaps you simply wanted to decide for us...)
Trump’s ACTUAL announcement has nothing to do with this silliness. 🐸
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1603438724200558592
You sure have a troll posting history.
Who cares? He rose almost $5 million for his campaign.
Go vote for Mittens again.
Unlike the members of the current administration, Trump is not wearing women’s clothes....
I wanted to “trust the plan” but there is no 4D chess. They won - he lost. Now we are losing.... bigly.
His deal with the RNC likely wouldn’t cover NFTs, so, good for him on getting the money.
As I read earlier today, someone was already offered double the price for their Trump NFT.
Trump’s not seeing any of that profit.
Does this mean you friggin’ far-lefties have FINALLY found something to indict him and throw him in jail?
Nobody gets in the way of the best Trump message like Donald J. Trump.
It’s becoming as reliable as the sun rising in the east, bears in the woods, and..... you get the picture.
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