We all made fun of Trump's "major announcement" which actually turned out to be digital trading cards of Trump dressed as superheroes and other silly things.
But, time after time, we see that it's completely true what they say: You can't stump the Trump.
In less than 12 hours, Donald Trump completely sold out of his digital trading cards, selling 45,000 of them for $99.99 each.
That's, essentially, a cool $4.5 million for sending digital images of Trump in costume.
Donald Trump's collection of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has sold out in a matter of hours, with the "digital trading cards" now worth more than $500,000.
The former president was widely mocked for announcing he would be making a "major announcement" on Thursday, which was later revealed to be an NFT collection portraying him in guises such as a superhero, cowboy and astronaut, which could be bought for $99.
Despite this, the entire collection of 45,000 NFTs featuring Trump has been minted in around 12 hours, according to OpenSea data, with nearly 14,000 people purchasing one or more of the online tokens.
As of early Friday morning, the total Trump NFT collection currently has a value of around 460 Ethereum ($570,000).
It didn't take more than half a day for Donald Trump to sell out these NFTs which are only worth as much as people will now pay to trade them with you.
It's just a digital file of a cartoon picture.
From CNET:
NFT INT, the company behind the collection, says on its site that the money raised won't be funneled into Trump's 2024 presidential campaign. A blurb on its site states that NFT INT is not owned by Trump or any of his organizations, and that Trump himself isn't actually behind the collection. Instead, Trump licensed his name, image and likeness for the project.
Even if the money being raised by NFT INT isn't funding Trump's 2024 campaign, however, the money Trump makes through licensing his name and likeness may.
So... this money doesn't go to Trump 2024. It doesn't even go directly to Trump.
NFT INT LLC, which made the trading cards, gets the $4.5 million. Trump just gets whatever money they paid him for the licensing. So the net gain for Trump is unknown.
I really think this was just a silly move from Donald Trump.
If you ask me, THIS should have been the major announcement.
