Last week, Donald Trump introduced a set of NFTs in the form of “Digital Trading Cards” that were all badly photoshopped pictures of him, with the body of an especially buff Adonis, in a variety of different costumes, looking as heroic and resolute as the clearly underpaid graphic designers could make him. He was dressed up as, among other things, a superhero, a cowboy, an astronaut, and … a golfer. He took in $4.5 million selling the things.
In honor of Criminal Referral day, I thought I’d present you all with a new set of Digital Trump Cards, which I have produced for even less money than Trump presumably paid his digital “artists.” (I just used Stable Diffusion 2.) I’m not sure how NFTs work, exactly, but if each of you could send me $99 to look at these magnificent artworks that would be great.
Let’s start with new versions of some of his already existing cards:
But we don’t have to keep to the categories he used. Here he is in some other guises.
Anyway, so these are my Trumpo NFTs. If you want any of them, download the pics to your hard drive, write “NFT” on a scrap of paper, and send me $99. I think that’s more or less how it works.
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Fun fact about the Trump NFTs: He didn’t pay for the art, because it was all stolen. Some even had the watermarks visible and everything.
https://gizmodo.com/donald-trump-nft-trading-cards-1849900531
The evidence has just kept piling up since then. Fitting, really.
As Trump would say (though not in this situation): sad!
I saw some news blurb yesterday about him selling NFTs of himself, but I didn’t think that many people would waste their money.
Yours look better proportioned, too! …Maybe not in terms of the man’s actual shape, but how the elements in the picture are balanced. Like everything seems to go together. And I’m including the two-tie guy with the horrifying fused teeth.
I need eye bleach after looking at those.
To be fair, if you are looking for people still credulous enough to invest in NFTs at this point it makes sense to target Trump supporters.
Happy as a pig in shit, literally.
@Anon: but of course.
@SpecialFFrog: True dat. None of that right-clicking and download complications for them!
Didn’t someone here postulate that he was using them to launder money? Sure, a fair number of the rubes and marks would have plunked down the $99, but NFTs are like crypto — great for cleaning the money.
My current theory on why the NFT trading card thing made so much money is that people thought they were tax deductible donations to the poor and were mislead.
I cannot get Shark Teeth Trump out of my head. I imagine if he loses a tooth to poor eating habits, a new one just moves forward from the apparently endless rings of spares. Disturbing. I appreciate the love heart attempt from Golfer Trump, though. A nice try at being hip and down with the youths.
He got attention and money. Mission accomplished.
I kinda like the crab-monster one. It’s both hideous and hilarious. Perfect.
Inner 8 year old me sees that one and thinks “Suck rock, Clawglip!”
@KMB: The fabulous Chuck Tingle has been calling him a Void Crab since at least 2016.
Sounds like School of the Americas type crap, training future Pinochets and shit like that. “The Company”, with a capital C and no more specific name, often means the CIA, which is the organization backing that shit in turn.
There’s a reason the WTC was target numero uno in 2001, and it wasn’t because of some banksters fleecing little old grannies. Does anyone think the Saudi oil billionaires would side with the grannies over another bunch of billionaires? On the other hand they’d recently had front row seats to the Shah taking over Iran … and I wonder if Flight 93 had actually been aimed at Langley, not at the Capitol or White House as is usually supposed.
I wonder what other nasty regime-changey shit, if not even worse, is being conspired and in what locations? I have the feeling that things like this WTC “throne dynamics” thing, the huge McKinsey consulting firm, some of the creepier defense contractors (Palantir springs promptly to mind), the CIA, PNAC, and the Pentagon are all parts of the same elephant, most of which remains hidden from public view. Call me a conspiracy theorist; accuse me of believing in Trump’s “deep state”. But something pulls an awful lot of strings. Something made an example of JFK. Something made Obama do a 180 on warrantless surveillance the instant he sat behind the Resolute Desk. Something that isn’t precisely just “billionaires having excessive clout via splashing megabux around at election time”. Something that can push around the President of the United States of the America, and routinely does so with Dem and GOP administrations alike. Even Trump went from Fortress America isolationism to nearly starting WWIII by blowing up that Iranian general. I’ve got to suspect that that something has probably assumed direct control over the drones, and possibly the nuclear arsenal or part of it. And there’s no doubt in my mind that they have dirt on basically everybody and can blackmail Presidents, Senators, billionaires, and journalists alike.
And I doubt it’s just Presidents. Why did the Troika try to squeeze blood from the stone of Greece? Who is propping up the UK’s Tories? Who got Jinping to do a 180 on COVID policies in China? It’s almost enough to make you believe in Blofeld and SPECTRE …
The happy news is, whatever-it-is won’t be around for very much longer, for the simple reason that the United States of America won’t be around for very much longer. This shadow government is no more immune to insolvency amid a structural-demographic crisis than is the legitimate elected de jure government, nor any more immune to large scale civil unrest. No tyranny, however secretive or however powerful, long outlives its ability to rent the ongoing loyalty of the spear-carrying class. And drones are too big, few, and expensive to change that equation … and when they get cheap and plentiful enough for that to change, the Palantir/McKinsey/CIA/etc. types won’t have a monopoly on them anymore. The rabble will have their own to fight back with. And won’t that be fun for the whole family …
Eh? Where the hell did the context for all of that go? I could have sworn it was directly above my post.
Meanwhile, does anyone here still use Facebook, and if they do, do they know how to get it to stop incessantly reminding me that you can now follow Instagram accounts from Facebook and vice-versa? The damn notification doesn’t remember that you’ve seen it before and keeps reappearing … and instead of just appearing as one more item in your inbox, for some reason it insists on jumping up in front of you, usually while you’re trying to read something else. How rude! I will decide what gets my attention next, and I will get to any particular message in my own good time, and until then you can politely wait in my fucking inbox! You don’t get to insist on jumping the line and trying to monopolize my attention. And you certainly don’t get to do that once you are “already read” rather than “new”!
@ surplus
(Eerily, this is from a 1997 film)
Back at ya, David F. I didn’t do anything special to celebrate, but I was in a good mood all day.
@Alan: There was an episode of “The Lone Gunmen” less than 6 months before 9/11, although the plane was hacked instead of having suicide terrorists.
Among the random thoughts I had all that long, strange day was “We’re never gonna see THAT episode again”.
@David: I like that the potato looks gold-plated. Very on-brand!
‘Look at that huge pile of shite!’
—’Who let him pollute that heap of useful manure he‘s in the middle of….’