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Trump’s Badly Photoshopped NFTs Appear to Use Photos From Small Clothing Brands
Gizmodo ^ | December 16, 2022 | Kyle Barr

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: 5hill4democrats; globalistpropaganda; majorannouncement; maximumtimbermucas; nafotrollfarm; nevertrumper; nft; nwoneoconfag; pokemoncards; timberbabbler; timberhasnobrain; tradingcards; trump; trumphater; trumpnft; trumpntf
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Trump's MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT just gets better and better...


1 posted on 12/16/2022 1:32:35 PM PST by Timber Rattler
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To: Timber Rattler

I don’t really care. But this is all so strange that I sort of think there is something going on behind the scenes. I have no idea what that might be.


2 posted on 12/16/2022 1:35:01 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (No one is as asleep as the "woke". They define the term "useful idiot".)
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To: Timber Rattler

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.

The MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT was just so plain stupid that there’s no need to try to make it seem worse.


3 posted on 12/16/2022 1:37:52 PM PST by dangus
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To: Timber Rattler

I think this is funny, in a fully intended way.

There’s no “there,” there, with this. It’s just another way to fund raise, like the Trump straws or the Trump wooden train, people have bought.


4 posted on 12/16/2022 1:38:17 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Rumor is that the bulk were purchased by someone that owed Trump a favor. This is just a neat secret way to launder some nefarity.


5 posted on 12/16/2022 1:39:46 PM PST by PatriotarchyQ
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To: Timber Rattler

Looks like the Libs and GOPe are mad they didn’t come up with the idea first. But who would buy virtual Biden “Traitor Cards” or Jeb Bush guacamole bowls for $99?


6 posted on 12/16/2022 1:40:19 PM PST by stars & stripes forever ( Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. ~ Psalm 33:12)
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And what sort of “nefarity” are you suggesting?
7 posted on 12/16/2022 1:41:48 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: dangus
A photo of clothes is copyrighted.
8 posted on 12/16/2022 1:43:20 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Doesn’t matter they are all sold. They’ll be a good investment.


9 posted on 12/16/2022 1:48:30 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Successful People Have a Sense of Gratitude. Unsuccessful People Have a Sense of Entitlement)
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To: Timber Rattler

Show us on the Trump doll where he hurt you.


10 posted on 12/16/2022 1:48:38 PM PST by JonPreston
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To: PatriotarchyQ

Weird, just book hotel rooms. No need to do the hunter painting op.


11 posted on 12/16/2022 1:49:11 PM PST by Theoria
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To: Timber Rattler

It’s like getting a leg lamp with a torn fishnet!


12 posted on 12/16/2022 1:49:24 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin ( )
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To: PatriotarchyQ

Oh my, a rumor you say. Is that what you accept as truth, or are you yet another Deep State stooge spreading false rumors?


13 posted on 12/16/2022 1:51:50 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: ConservativeMind
… like the Trump straws or the Trump wooden train, people have bought.

In 2015 or so do you remember Trump wine and Trump steaks? I think there was a line of ties and polo shirts too. It’s all good to me.

14 posted on 12/16/2022 1:52:11 PM PST by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Kyle Barr writes like a spurned lover.


15 posted on 12/16/2022 1:52:26 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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>> A photo of clothes is copyrighted. <<

“Appear to use” = there’s no unique identifier to prove the case. They’re basically just saying, “Hey! Those look like the same clothes in the same position that this store photographed! I bet it’s the same photo!”

Adding a background doesn’t make the photos fair use, since this is an NFT, not a non-profit commentary. (Sadly, Free Republic was the test case for proving that if you derive ANY income, it’s not fair use.) But the LACK of any context for the clothes in the original imagery means there’s either electronic identification or there’s not. And if the “journalists” suspect there is, but don’t know, then they need to shut up until they find out.


16 posted on 12/16/2022 1:52:29 PM PST by dangus
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To: broken_clock

Trump wine and Trump steaks weren’t part of his presidential campaign, and he didn’t tease them as a “MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT!” They were simply a small part of how Trump got very wealthy.


17 posted on 12/16/2022 1:53:53 PM PST by dangus
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To: ConservativeMind

I’m not suggesting any in particular. Could be a number of things I suppose.


18 posted on 12/16/2022 1:54:05 PM PST by PatriotarchyQ
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To: dangus; PghBaldy

Previous comment rescinded. You can tell without electronic verification.


19 posted on 12/16/2022 1:55:07 PM PST by dangus
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To: dangus

Trump said it best...We need a SUPERHERO.

Trust the pkan


20 posted on 12/16/2022 1:56:04 PM PST by xyz2
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