Trump's Trading Card Grift Is Worse Than You Think

Dang and co. You can read his comment history for explanations if you're curious, using https://hn.algolia.com/ to search.

It's not nefarious as is implied here, but it's not totally "organic".

This seems like a weird play to me, but it seems to have worked? He apparently sold out. But I do see even a lot of conservatives (and not the "Never Trump" kind) groaning at this.

Upfront - I'm not a Trumpet, not American and not even right wing by your standards.

Does the video announcing this mess seem really weird to anyone else?

If i didn't know better i'd say the video was made under duress, at the very least to unwillingly fulfil an obligation.

It is way more boring than this site (which is literally devoted to fearmongering about Trump) makes it out to be. Trump loves cash. He loves being in the spotlight. He keeps drumming up these "big announcements." Everybody "knows" that he's going to run in 2024. And maybe he will. But once he does that, he's subject to regulations. And he hates regulations, especially the ones that interfere with his ability to make money.

So he's doing an NFT grift. It's a spectacle. We all learned in 2016, or should have, that he's completely shameless and every scandal pumps up his base. Duh. This keeps him in the spotlight, pulling in cash without attracting the attention of the FEC. The details are irrelevant, except the salacious ones -- "no news is bad news."