Trump NFT

With his approval ratings at their lowest since 2015, Donald Trump announced a series of $99 non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on Thursday linked to a collection ...

Funds collected will not be used for Trump’s expected re-election campaign, according to the FAQs. Although he made a video to support the sale, Trump himself is not directly behind it. •The NFTs do not correspond to ownership of the images. The only intrinsic value the cards seem to offer is the availability of the images for noncommercial viewing. There is also a chance to win “1000’s of prizes” including a guaranteed dinner with the Donald if you pony up for 45 cards, though it is not clear how many other people will attend. Each $99 will result in a randomly generated trading card, some of which will be unique.

Donald Trump's “Major Announcement”: Urging Followers to Spend $99 on Badly Photoshopped NFTs of His Face ... Even the official White House Twitter account is ...

According to the Daily Beast, while some people in Trumpworld appear to [understand](https://www.thedailybeast.com/knives-are-already-out-for-donald-trumps-ill-advised-nft-project) how embarrassing all of this is, others insist this is the coolest thing a politician has ever done. Nor does he remind people that Melania Trump—who [got in on the NFT grift](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/12/melania-trump-nft) almost exactly a year ago—ended up reportedly [having to buy her own portrait](https://fortune.com/2022/02/16/melania-trump-nft-auction/). (For extra authenticity, we assume [he will cheat](https://golf.com/lifestyle/celebrities/how-why-president-trump-cheats-golf-playing-tiger-woods/).) Buy 45 of these “digital trading cards” and you’re “ [guaranteed a ticket to a dinner with the president](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/15/trump-nft-digital-cards-presidency/),” where he’ll no doubt serve his guests only [the finest food money can buy](https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-serves-fast-food-in-white-house-2019-1). Instead, the ex-president and world-renowned grifter used Thursday to unveil…a set of NFTs featuring his face not at all convincingly photoshopped onto other people’s bodies. Earlier this week, Donald Trump took to Truth Social tease the news that he would be making a “MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT” on Thursday. That he’d been quietly volunteering at a local soup kitchen since leaving the White House and it had really opened his eyes to how the other half lives, and also taught him that small acts of kindness can have big impacts?

Trump said on his Truth Social platform that the “Donald Trump Digital Trading Card collection,” can be collected like baseball cards and stored digitally. They ...

The big reveal, it turns out, was that Trump is selling a collection of 45,000 non-fungible tokens (NFTs)—basically digital cartoons of him depicted in various ...

Buying 45 of the cards ($4,455 plus fees), according to the website, gets the buyer into a 2,000-person gala that Trump will attend. [website](http://www.mitchellink.net/home/illustration-portfolio/)—he did not respond to a request for comment—he makes digital art for celebrities and brands. The sales website claims that 45,000 Trump NFTs have been created, and are selling for $99 apiece, which will earn the creator—whoever it is—about $4.4 million. (An email to the website selling the NFTs received no response.) The big reveal, it turns out, was that Trump is selling a collection of 45,000 non-fungible tokens (NFTs)—basically digital cartoons of him depicted in various poses: as a superhero, a businessman, a businessman with a basketball, etc—for $99 apiece. Instead, they flow to NFT INT LLC—a company that, also according to the fine print, Trump does not own or control.

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They depict the former US president in various guises including a superhero, astronaut and Nascar driver.

"NFT INT LLC is not owned, managed or controlled by Donald J. In an apparent jibe at Mr Trump, US President Joe Biden said on Twitter that he had "some MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENTS the last couple of weeks too". Later on Truth Social Mr Trump said the non-fungible tokens (NFTs) were "very much like a baseball card, but hopefully much more exciting".

Gizmodo found the address for the company behind the NFT auction is out of a UPS store in Utah, though company LLC registration points elsewhere.

The Tribune also noted that while the Twitter account for the NFT project lists Florida as its business residence, there are 20 businesses in Florida listing the Utah UPS mailbox as their residence. The company, NFT INT LLC, lists its address to a As Gizmodo has previously reported, companies affiliated with attempts to buy Trump’s favored social media platform Truth Social have had [similar arrangements](https://gizmodo.com/truth-social-trump-digital-world-acquisition-corp-1849585829) by being based out of a UPS Store mailbox. Gizmodo found two companies called NFT INT registered in California and in Delaware, which, of course, neither are located in Utah. 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 And while your first assumption would be that all this money would go toward supporting Trump’s reelection campaign, you would be wrong, at least according to the company’s page.

Former United States president Donald Trump has released a collection of Non-Fungible Tokens with buyers set to be entered into a special draw.

The Trump NFT infomercial is beyond parody. (I know you're going to think this is a deep fake parody. I just spent time on the Donald Trump NFT collectable cards website and it is a journey inside the saddest psychosis you've ever seen. “The Trump NFT infomercial is beyond parody. Jesus Christ on a Popsicle stick levels of beyond parody. when all Patriots are looking for is hope for the future of our country and Trump hypes everybody up with a 'BIG ANNOUNCEMENT'.

Former United States President and billionaire Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Thursday to announce the release of a series of NFTs.

The weekly data by Nansen show that the former president’s release came in a bear market that accelerated in Q2 of this year. However, a Bloomberg news [article](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-16/who-won-the-melania-trump-nft-auction-trump-crypto-wallet-linked-to-185k-funds?leadSource=uverify%20wall) revealed that Melania Trump’s auction was bought by the former first lady herself in a winning bid. The market peaked in February 2022 with a couple of weeks, topping 350,000 ETH in volume. Per the official website, NFT INT, LLC owns the Trump collectibles and not the former president himself. Trump, The Trump Organization, CIC Digital LLC or any of their respective principals or affiliates.” Notably, each photoshopped card that Trump is selling comes with an accompanying offer.

Bitcoin has slumped and a crypto "Santa rally" seems unlikely. Still, here's something weird: Donald Trump now has an offical NFT collection.

(Stats accurate at time of publishing, based on CoinGecko.com data.) Answering questions in front of Congress, O’Leary called out actions from Binance as a main reason for the collapse of FTX as a company. O’Leary was paid US$15m by FTX to be one of its spokespeople during the height of the exchange’s success. The flaccid nature of the market today can possibly be put down to a few factors. Genesis, for example, which is the biggest trading desk for pro investors in crypto, is still very much deep in the woods regarding its financial ties to FTX. Apart from pushing the collectible angle, Trump, and whoever helped dream this up for him (possibly his NFT-loving wife Melania) have also added a kind of sweepstakes set of perks, giving holders the chance to win prizes. “and so much more, we’re doin’ a lot”. “Collect all of your favorite Trump Digital Trading Cards, very much like a baseball card, but hopefully much more exciting,” wrote Trump. The @realDonaldTrump handle is apparently now used for the former president’s official Truth Social account. In fact, he’s previously labelled Bitcoin a scam and said “cryptocurrency is a very dangerous thing”. Because of course they do. Last time we checked, the “Tangerine Twitter Machine” as Jimmy Kimmel once called him, was no fan of Bitcoin and crypto.

The site says 45,000 Trump Digital Trading Cards will be created in the initial series. The NFTs — non-fungible tokens, which verify ownership of a digital ...

“No Trump Digital Trading Card will have more than 20 copies in existence!” the site exclaims. [seeking the Republican nomination in the 2024 presidential election](https://variety.com/2022/politics/news/donald-trump-2024-run-for-president-1235423466/), announced the launch of the NFTs on Truth Social, the Twitter-like social network he started after he was [kicked off Twitter](https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/twitter-bans-donald-trump-1234881689/) and suspended from other internet platforms over his role in the supporting the rioters in the Jan. “Collect all of your favorite Trump Digital Trading Cards, very much like a baseball card, but hopefully much more exciting… Another shows Trump in camo gear holding a shotgun, and there’s one of him wearing a red hat with the words “Dow” raising his fists triumphantly in front of a rising stock chart. The NFTs — non-fungible tokens, which verify ownership of a digital asset — are being minted on the Polygon blockchain, which describes itself as “eco-friendly and carbon neutral.” Anyone who purchases 45 or more Trump Digital Trading Cards is “guaranteed” a ticket to attend a “gala dinner” with Trump in Florida, according to the site. The site says 45,000 Trump Digital Trading Cards will be created in the initial series.

On December 15, 2022, Donald Trump made his big reveal: Trump NFTs. The announcement shocked and confused even Trump's most ardent fans and has been ridiculed ...

On that, part of the scorn for the Trump NFT collection is timing. Furthermore, each time a Donald Trump Digital Trading Card is sold, the company pockets ten percent of the sale. While Donald Trump may not profit directly from the NFT sales, and those funds may not pass into his campaign coffers, licensing his name to the project well. In this case, the Trump name is licensed to a company called NFT INT LLC, which isn't owned by Trump. There are a few other important details surrounding the Trump NFT collection. One of the first things to note is that Trump's announcements never used the word "NFT."

After teasing a "big announcement," former President Donald Trump revealed a line of digitally generated NFTs, with plenty of prizes for purchasers.

having recently been convicted of [criminal tax fraud](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-organization-guilty-tax-fraud-1234642505/), they may be resorting to desperate measures to cushion their coffers for an incoming wave of penalties and settlements. No thanks,” [wrote](https://twitter.com/WatchChad/status/1603439644695306241) Chad Prather, host for conservative outlet The Blaze. It’s a Donald Trump Digital Trading Card [NFT](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/nft/) Collection. [being criticized](https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1603433447489413131) as a distraction and a flop by some of Trump’s most committed supporters. [Donald Trump](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/donald-trump/) earlier this week on Truth Social [teased](https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1603410470962171905) that he’d be making a “MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT” on Thursday, prompting questions as to what on Earth the former president was up to. The Donald Trump Digital Trading Card Collection will produce a “maximum of 45,000 NFTs” throughout its sweepstakes period.

According to data from OpenSea, the collection's floor price is about 0.19 ETH, or $230 – more than double the original mint price.

CoinDesk is an independent operating subsidiary of [Digital Currency Group](https://dcg.co/), which invests in [cryptocurrencies](https://dcg.co/#digital-assets-portfolio) and blockchain [startups](https://dcg.co/portfolio/). [One of these rare trading cards](https://opensea.io/assets/matic/0x24a11e702cd90f034ea44faf1e180c0c654ac5d9/3752), of the 45th president standing in front of the Statue of Liberty holding a torch, is currently listed at 20 ETH, or about $24,000. [strict set of editorial policies](/ethics/). [data from OpenSea](https://opensea.io/collection/trump-digital-trading-cards?search[sortAscending]=true&search[sortBy]=UNIT_PRICE), at time of writing, the collection’s trading volume is 900 ETH, or about $1.08 million. Additionally, 115 customers purchased 45 NFTs, which is the minimum number of tokens that guarantees a ticket to a dinner with Trump; 17 people purchased 100 NFTs, which, according to the Trump Trading Card site, was the maximum quantity allowed to mint. Some tokens are selling for much higher prices.

Late-night hosts mock the former president's 'major announcement': his debut NFT collection of digital superhero trading cards.

“This proves once again that for anyone involved in the attempted coup on January 6, things will not end well,” he concluded. “No, it doesn’t,” Meyers responded. The cards “allow you to collect all your favorite characters from the extended former president universe, because every card is him”, he added. “Solid,” Colbert laughed. “That’s right, you read that right. “Trading cards!

There is very little that former President Donald Trump can do to anger his ultra-loyal QAnon support base, but shilling NFTs seems to be one of them.

By creating his own NFTs he has destroyed liberal support for NFTs and thus shut down any notion that any Democrat can support the creation of the NFT legal internet censorship structure.” Despite the widespread ridicule of Trump’s digital trading cards, and QAnon’s initial anger, it seems as if no matter what Trump sells, people will buy it. Many from the QAnon community had expected—as they have for the last five years—that the “major announcement” from Trump was about how he was going to take down the deep state, arresting his enemies and taking control of America once again. (However, the official press release from the NFT launch began with the words: “Major Announcement!.”) Instead, QAnon followers lashed out at the “shit storm debacle NFT announcement” as one Telegram user described it. The cards portray Trump as an all-encompassing true American superhero, which is exactly how QAnon sees him.

Donald Trump's Polygon NFT collection sold out in less than a day, and secondary sales are currently topping the NFT market. The project was widely mocked ...

The NFT features a digital autograph from Trump, which just 0.16% of the NFTs depict. Even so, Trump’s NFT collection sold through in less than a day, netting over $4 million in primary revenue, and now secondary market sales are climbing. Not every buyer will get a “dinner date” with the ex-president, but at least so far, there’s been an opportunity to profit from a flip. Now the digital trading cards are topping secondary market charts, and at least some of the sales came from NFT traders who bought in as a joke. [past 24 hours](https://opensea.io/rankings), no collection has put up more secondary market trading volume, as OpenSea shows 1,204 ETH—or about $1.44 million worth—of trades. Even Trump’s supporters complained about the project. The NFTs initially sold for $99 apiece. [“because of lulz,”](https://twitter.com/guinnessstache/status/1603745157907709952) [“for the memes,”](https://twitter.com/SustainableAap/status/1603520591654490119) or [“for the culture.”](https://twitter.com/ricburton/status/1603750161099804673) Others wrote of buying and flipping Trump NFTs as being a “ [degen](https://decrypt.co/52739/decrypts-people-of-the-year-the-defi-degens)” play for bored traders. [Ethereum](https://opensea.io/rankings) scaling network [Polygon](https://decrypt.co/resources/what-is-polygon-matic-and-why-it-matters-for-ethereum) had completely sold out this morning, fueling a rising secondary market as prices climbed. [widely mocked](https://decrypt.co/117317/donald-trump-nft-collection-crypto-cant-even) by both NFT enthusiasts and haters alike as a cash grab, and the latest grift from someone whose companies have frequently been investigated ( [and convicted](https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/06/politics/trump-organization-fraud-trial-verdict/index.html)) of fraud. [incredulous mocking and criticism](https://decrypt.co/117317/donald-trump-nft-collection-crypto-cant-even), the first official [NFT](https://decrypt.co/resources/non-fungible-tokens-nfts-explained-guide-learn-blockchain) collection from former United States President Donald Trump has sold out in less than a day. - Donald Trump’s Polygon NFT collection sold out in less than a day, and secondary sales are currently topping the NFT market.

The big picture: The announcement launched a swift round of criticism across the right-wing media landscape — with Steve Bannon and Michael Flynn calling on ...

[blasted the NFT drop](https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1603469884624670732), calling it "beyond wrong" in the wake of [FTX's collapse](https://www.axios.com/economy-business/ftx), and [crypto's winter](https://www.axios.com/economy-business/ftx). In the weeds: The NFTs can be purchased with dollars, or wrapped ether (WETH). 6, 2021, [tweeted](https://twitter.com/bakedalaska/status/1603475492618702848): "i can’t believe i'm going to jail for an nft salesman." - There will be 45,000 trading cards, and 44,000 will go on sale. The bottom of the NFTs' website indicates that Trump's likeness is used under license: an entity called "NFT INT LLC" holds the copyright to all content. - It says: "NFT INT LLC is not owned, managed or controlled by Donald J. "Anybody on the comms team and anybody at Mar-a-Lago — and I love the folks down there — but we’re at war. [to OpenSea](https://opensea.io/collection/trump-digital-trading-cards)and buy on the secondary market, and 10% of the purchase price will go back to the issuer. [buggy process](https://twitter.com/0xdface/status/1603478820903870487). [website said](https://collecttrumpcards.com/). [pleaded guilty](https://www.axios.com/2022/07/25/baked-alaska-pleads-guilty-jan-6)to unlawfully protesting at the Capitol on Jan. "Who advised him to do this?"

Bannon, who in October was sentenced him to four months in prison following his conviction on contempt of Congress charges, reacted to the flat reveal with ...

Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell has included attacks on the former president in his last three weekly press conferences. As of Thursday, the average price of a gallon of gas is $3.19. Despite a stable of lawyers, a federal judge he appointed in Florida this week finally ended a special master Trump had demanded, after being shot down by an Appeals Court. Among likely primary voters, the poll found that 54 percent favored DeSantis, compared with 38 percent backing Trump. 'AMERICA NEEDS A SUPERHERO!' Trump said along with a clip posted to Truth Social on Tuesday. Inflation in November was up 7.1 percent from one year ago, a decline for the fifth straight month, down from a 9.1 percent peak in July. 'I will be making a MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT tomorrow. 'If you want to do this kind of stuff, have a peon do it,' he added. Trump NFT collection.' [Donald Trump](/news/donald_trump/index.html) Digital Trading Card collection is here! 'And should never be involved in any ... 'Whoever wrote that, that pitch, should be fired,' Gorka said.

The former president said he would be making a major announcement Thursday, and critics ridiculed him when it turned out to be an NFT sale.

They oughta be fired today." Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon ridiculed a much-hyped announcement from the former president that turned out to be the sale of NFTs. - Trump posted a picture of himself in a superhero costume in announcing the NFT release.

But the worse news for Trump is that, by almost any metric, the NFT bubble has burst. Non-fungible tokens are digtal art and collectibles that are typically ...

Trump’s entrance into th [e SPAC world came after the boom.](https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/29/investing/spacs-stocks/index.html) “Celebrity promotions of cryptocurrencies are fraught with problems,” reads the complaint, which quoted an [SEC statement from 2017](https://www.sec.gov/news/public-statement/statement-potentially-unlawful-promotion-icos) cautioning against such endorsements. Trump’s eleventh-hour NFT entrance mirrors another late attempt to jump on a market trend: special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), which allow companies to go public without the regulatory burden that comes with a traditional initial public offering. On the Trump Digital Trading Cards website, the Trump collection claims to be “sold out” and the floor price for a single card has risen to $177.99, according to analytics site CoinGecko. “He bought into a clear collapse.” A collector can now buy a Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT — the most famous collection in the space — for a measly $80,466, an 81% drop from its peak value. It’s not clear how much Trump himself will take from those profits. The Digital cartoon apes and other NFT imagers became ubiquitous as celebrities Trading volume on NFT marketplace OpenSea is at its lowest since June 2021, according to Dune Analytics. Non-fungible tokens are digtal art and collectibles that are typically bought with cryptocurrencies. [Michael Flynn](https://www.axios.com/2022/12/16/trump-nft-major-announcement) and [Steve Bannon](https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2022/12/16/trump-nft-trading-cards-panel-bannon-avlon-cnntm-vpx.cnn).

Allies of Donald Trump are distancing themselves from his latest business venture, hours after the former president debuted a series of digital trading ...

However, none of that will go toward his political campaign, according to the website where Trump’s digital trading cards are being marketed. But the former president ultimately proceeded with the announcement, launching it just hours before his campaign made its first policy-related announcement where Trump, in a taped video, outlined “free speech” reforms he would pursue if elected to a nonconsecutive second term. But the attempt at recalibrating Trump was overshadowed by the NFT video release, portraying the former president as a cartoon superman shooting lasers out of his eyes. Another source close to Trump indicated that the former president was happy he did it. An outside adviser told CNN that a senior Trump aide expressed confusion and annoyance about the venture during a conversation when the adviser asked why the former president was getting involved with digital collectibles – or non-fungible tokens (NFTs) – at the outset of his 2024 presidential campaign. “And in that sense – it was successful.” Instead, the NFTs appear to be a new extension of Trump’s business portfolio. [released the first of a series of policy videos](https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/15/politics/donald-trump-2024-free-speech-tech/index.html) focused on “free speech” and aimed to refocus Trump’s lagging campaign. Sources said the discussions between Zanker and Trump preceded his entry into the 2024 GOP presidential primary, leaving many of Trump’s aides and advisers in the dark. A spate of polls this week underscored a growing appetite among Republican voters for an alternative presidential nominee in 2024, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis drawing notable support as he mulls a possible campaign. Trump’s teasing of a “major announcement” in a post to his Truth Social site on Wednesday, which was later revealed to be the launch of his digital trading card collection, was “boy-who-cries-wolf status,” this person added.

Trump-themed digital trading cards netted $4.5 million and are now being resold for 10 times their initial price.

The aides and public-relations people who encouraged the NFT collection "ought to be fired today," he said. "These Digital Trading Cards are not political and have nothing to do with any political campaign. The cards are owned by a company called NFT INT LLC, whose mailing address traces to a UPS store in Park City, Utah. The businessman-turned-politician rolled out the "Trump digital trading cards" on Thursday in a widely hyped announcement. Some designs are unique, while others exist in editions of up to 20, according to collectTrumpCards.com, the website listing the tokens. The video opens with an animated image of Trump dressed in a superhero outfit shooting laser beams out of his eyes.