Posted on 12/15/2022 6:02:22 PM PST by thegagline
Former President Donald Trump revealed Thursday that the “MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT” that he teased earlier in the week — which some of his supporters thought could be anything ranging from his announcing a bid for House Speaker to announcing who he would want to be his VP pick should he win the GOP primary — was a series of digital trading cards. “I’m doing my first official Donald J. Trump NFT collection right here and right now; they’re called Trump Digital Trading Cards,” Trump said in a promotional video. “Here’s one of the best parts: Each card comes with an automatic chance to win amazing prizes like dinner with me. I don’t know if that’s an amazing prize, but it’s what we have.” Trump said that if you buy one of his digital trading cards, you will “join a very exclusive community.” The problem with NFTs (non-fungible tokens), which are pieces of digital art that are supposed to be unique, is that NFTs have collapsed in value in recent months in large part due to cryptocurrencies taking a massive hit over the last year, a trend that has been accelerated by the collapse of FTX. Compounding those problems were the designs of Trump’s digital cards, which many of his own supporters criticized. His supporters, and others, also criticized the overall decision to launch the initiative. The following are some notable responses from conservatives: Jesse Kelly, radio host: “Trump teasing a ‘major announcement’ and then labeling his NFT ‘major announcement’ only to have his hardcore fans act like that wasn’t the real announcement is the perfect example what this thing has become. Demand improvement. Put the pom poms down. We need a better Trump.” John Cardillo, political commentator: “I supported Trump for years but this is ridiculous. Pushing a worthless NFT for $99 a week before Christmas on the heels of the #FTX collapse is beyond wrong. Calling it a ‘MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT’ is just weird. Who advised him to do this?” Luke Rudkowski, political commentator: “Hey guys, are you dealing with real life problems like the crashing of the economy the fear of nuclear war the destruction of our mental & physical health that has been deteriorating b/c of direct government intervention. DON’T WORRY just buy a Trump NFT!” Daniel Bostic, political commentator: “If this is the #MAJORANNOUNCEMENT it is embarrassing and a slap in the face to Trump’s base. People are struggling and losing their country. They’re begging for real action – not childish stunts like this.” Steve Deace, podcast host: “DeSantis out here launching grand juries, while Trump be out here selling trading cards. Come on, man.” Bryson Gray, political commentator: “Trump’s major announcement was about digital trading cards. Can we be honest about that being a let down?” John Nolte, Breitbart columnist: “Anyone dumb enough to buy “”””digital””” trading cards should probably wear a helmet and never procreate.” Hodgetwins, political commentators: “Man…when all Patriots are looking for is hope for the future of our country and Trump hypes everybody up with a ‘BIG ANNOUNCEMENT’. Then drops a low quality NFT collection video as the ‘announcement’, it just pushes people away…Damn.” Caleb Hull, digital strategist: “Whoever thought this was a good idea needs to be fired.” Kingsley Cortes, former Trump campaign: “I regret to inform you that we are so not back.”
Understood...dogs have owners, cats have staff.
He trolled himself......
This country is in desperate shape and he’s pushing some nutty digital playing cards.
And what can he do about it? Please tell FR. The country and economy were recovering from covid. Secure border. Energy. Better trade deals. Peace in the a Middle East. All of which, pretty much done by less than 10 people.
Hell, he even banned TikTok.
Very thing he did, has been or is being reversed. Please tell FR where his responsibility lies in those reversals and the mess that has been created.
Its not even real “art”, its Blow art. He blows paint through a straw. I prefer GuacaBowle’s to trading cards and Blow Art.
McConnell and the GOP establishment are responsible for all the losing. Both went out of their way to sabotage Republican candidates and allowed the Democrat to cheat and implement cheat by mail and ballot harvesting schemes.
Personally, I don’t think Trump wants to run again but he doesn’t know how to get out of it. He’s doing some heavy self-sabotaging stuff right now and I think he’s actually hoping it will offend any body. Friné fen asking him to run again,
Out of curiosity, were you losing when we had energy independence and gas was under $2? Were you losing when we were getting better trade deals? Were you losing when the border was as secure as its ever been and the refugee for profit industry was damn near eliminated?
I could go on.
Why don’t you you post your opinion in a few sentences like everyone else instead of sending people to your shitty blog?
And now he’s hamstringing them with the Omnibus bill so the House can’t use spending as leverage. I’m sure McCarthy is all in on it.
A little context sir/mam
Why aren't you condemning McConnell and feckless, traitorous Republicans that pushed a gay marriage bill that endangered religious freedom? Or the fact the GOP establishment doesn't give a rip about the shenanigans that occurred in Arizona that allowed Katie Hobbs to steal the governor's race?
You're a Never Trump, transparent phony.
It would make more sense to me if Trump came up with a plan to secure elections from getting hacked.
Without returning trust in the process he’s just hallucinating about what he’ll do after inauguration.
That’s what his speech today was, a hallucination.
I wonder if he’s running to draw all the “opposition research” and will drop out later when the attention has been drawn away from others.
AAAAAHHHHHHHHH! My EYES!
Well, according to CNET, he sold 29000 NFTs today for …
$2,800,000 .
I assume he might need it for a defense fund if it comes to that.
Trust the plan.
Some of the folks on this site are insane.
Please tell me how reading what I wrote shows that I support McConnell and I’m not a supporter of Pres Trump?
You might need to head back to middle school and brush up your reading comprehension.
Maybe he could just say his doctor advised against it or he wants to some time with the grandkids or hes passing the torch to the next generation or he sees Biden as the dottering old fool and realizes he doesnt want to be that guy. I dont know, something is up though.
almost 3 million? WTH 😱
You have a problem with my dolls?
I can do the short form or the long form.
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