Trump’s “Major Announcement” was to hack his $99 NFTs
Top line
Former President Donald Trump on Thursday unveiled a “limited edition collection” of NFT trading cards featuring cartoon-like images of himself as a superhero, Hollywood actor and more, after teasing a “big announcement” on his Truth Social account.
Former President Donald Trump (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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The trading cards, priced at $99 and available at collecttrumpcards.com, feature cartoon images of a particularly machismo Trump dressed in hunting gear, wearing a “DOW” hat with a rising stock ticker in the background, playing golf, wearing sunglasses while standing in front of a “Trumpworld ” sign and more.
In addition to the NFTs, Trump announced a contest for a variety of prizes, including a dinner in Miami with Trump, a golf trip with Trump, a one-on-one meeting with Trump and memorabilia signed by the former president.
The rollout comes after Trump told his 4.73 million Truth Social followers on Wednesday “America Needs a Superhero,” while teasing a “big announcement” he said would come Thursday.
Key background
Trump has capitalized on the fervent nature of his fan base and their penchant for publicly declaring their allegiance to the former president via flags, hats, clothing, yard signs, bumper stickers and more by offering a marketplace of merchandise on the Trump Organization website. Shoppers can purchase foods in Trump-branded packaging, cheese boards stamped with his name, ornaments displaying his properties and a wide variety of Trump camo-print clothing. The red hats emblazoned with his signature “MAGA” slogan became so ubiquitous among his supporters that at one point they brought in $80,000 a day for Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, the son-in-law and former White House adviser wrote , Jared Kushner. “Breaking History” memoir.
Tangent
The “big announcement” comes on the heels of a particularly tough month for Trump, who announced his third bid for the presidency on November 15. At least three recent polls this week showed his standing among Republican voters has faded significantly, including a USAToday/Suffolk University poll that found GOP-leaning voters favor Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for president in 2024 over Trump by double-digit margins. Many prominent Republicans — most recently Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell — blamed Trump for the party’s worse-than-expected midterm performance. GOP leaders also widely rebuked him for hosting white supremacist Nick Fuentes for dinner at Mar-A-Lago and declaring that parts of the Constitution he said prevented him from winning the 2020 presidential election should be abolished.
Further reading
DeSantis Surges Trump Among GOP by Double-Digit Margins, Polls Find (Forbes)
