A portion of the NFT resale $$ goes back to Trump. Can Trump avoid campaign finance laws somehow through this?
Trump's Trading Card Grift Is Worse Than You Think
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#42Upfront - 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 was the longest I've ever heard him speak somewhat coherently without insulting someone.
He said he was better than Lincoln and Washington. That's somewhat an insult
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#43It 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…
His former base is largely turning their backs on him, which is a good thing IMHO.
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#44"What exactly are buyers of the Trump Trading Cards purchasing? Yes, they are NFTs, but unlike others of these digital art pieces, the people foolish enough to purchase a Trump Trading Card don’t actually own the things they paid for, at least not in the traditional sense. If any buyer decides to sell their Trump card in a secondary market, they don’t get all the proceeds. The fine print reveals that 10% of every sec…
> Being able to earn money from secondary sales is one of the innovations of NFTs and is very common.
And in some cases totally dependent on the good will of the marketplace:
https://www.ibtimes.com/nft-royalties-debacle-enforcing-opti...
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/12/02/nft-artist-royalt...
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#46Isn't much different than a fundraising dinner , but I suppose at least a meal is better than a hash value
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#47It 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…
> every scandal pumps up his base
Trump's base, as everyone knows but for some reason is unwilling to point out, is mainly white men and married white women. Clearly everyone is an individual and there's probably a single black woman somewhere who voted for Trump, but without those white voters he has absolutely no chance.
Why does that matter? Because they're completely disillusioned with him. The spectacle was well and good, but rather than focusing on the concerns of his base, like border security, immigration, creating blue collar jobs, and trade school scholarships just to name a few, his greatest achievements are Operation Warp Speed, which they don't like, and the usual tax cuts for the rich, which they don't care about. His main tangible policy that benefitted the white working class was not sending their sons off to die in a new pointless foreign war.
The upshot of all that is that you can rest assured that Trump hasn't got a prayer of winning reelection in 2024 and I'm near certain that his team knows it.
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#48Man, who cares about the grift, how about the level of cringe on those trading card images? I thought the one in the article was for lulz or something, but no, it fits in the theme of the rest on the referenced URL well enough that I'll assume it's real.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is $60 for a union made, made in America sweater really the comparison you're gonna make? Trump sells made in China MAGA hats for $50.
Please show where Trump sells MAGA hats made in China? https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/08/fac... Plenty wrong with Trump but also so many lies told about him just to fundraise off of and bump up clicks.
I've got a red MAGA hat right here, that was randomly sent to my address.
It's got an American flag on the side, but no tag saying "made in ..." anywhere. You'd think if it were made in the US, it would prominently state that. Of course there's no way to know if it's an "authentic" MAGA hat personally sold by Trump himself (lol), but it seems to be a representative sample.
I'd been holding on to it hoping to think of something intelligent to do with it, but that became a lot harder after Trump doubled down on the ignorant pandemic denial and trashed the economy.
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#50A portion of the NFT resale $$ goes back to Trump. Can Trump avoid campaign finance laws somehow through this?
I believe there's a notice on the site for the cards saying the money goes directly to Trump and not to his campaign. I would double check but I already saw the video once and I'm still trying to detox.