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Television|Jimmy Kimmel: Trump NFTs Are ‘Literally Cards Against Humanity’

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‘Cards Against Humanity’

On Thursday, erstwhile President Donald Trump made what he’d promoted the time earlier arsenic a large announcement: the merchandise of integer NFT trading cards featuring Trump arsenic a superhero, an astronaut and respective different fantastical figures, for $99 each.

Jimmy Kimmel complained that they’re not adjacent existent trading cards, but integer ones, “which is different mode of saying nothing.”

“At slightest past time, you got a reddish hat. Now he’s selling you nothing! It’s virtually Cards Against Humanity.” — JIMMY KIMMEL

“You cognize your run isn’t going good erstwhile your re-election strategy is, ‘Maybe radical volition similar maine arsenic a Pokemon.’ Trump was like, ‘These cards are similar classified documents — you’ve got to drawback them all.’” — JIMMY FALLON

“The ex-president of the United States, the ex-most almighty antheral successful the world, has launched a enactment of trading cards. It’s Grope-e-mon, with Pikacoup.” — STEPHEN COLBERT

“This is the least-dignified effort astatine post-presidential merchandising since the motorboat of Tickle-me-Truman.” — STEPHEN COLBERT

“And by the way, we already person Donald Trump trading cards — they’re called subpoenas.” — JIMMY KIMMEL

“In a way, this is each benignant of gratifying to me, due to the fact that a monster who tried to instal himself arsenic our fascist strongman is present reduced to hawking a enactment of trading cards. It’s similar if Hitler escaped the bunker and released Mein Komic Book.” — STEPHEN COLBERT

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“After teasing a ‘major announcement’ connected his societal media level Truth Social, erstwhile President Trump announced contiguous helium is releasing a postulation of integer trading cards. It’s what his doctors are calling ‘a caller symptom.’” — SETH MEYERS

“I cognize we accidental ‘This is crazy’ a lot, but this is crazy! He’s selling NFTs similar a crypto bro — portion he’s moving for president.” — JIMMY KIMMEL

“He’s a concern genius! Jumping successful connected the NFT market, erstwhile it’s astatine its hottest. Next, he’s releasing an exclusive enactment of rotary phones.” — STEPHEN COLBERT

“Also, got to emotion the timing of a erstwhile president launching his NFT enactment the aforesaid week a crypto scammer gets arrested. [imitating Trump] ‘They got S.B.F.? Looks similar there’s an opening available, then!’” — SETH MEYERS

“The timing, too. It’s astonishing. Three days aft that FTX feline got arrested for fraud, Trump said, ‘Now is the clip to get into the imaginary shot paper market.’” — JIMMY KIMMEL

“If you saw that astatine 2 a.m., would you beryllium like, ‘Am I having an Ambien dream?’” — JIMMY FALLON

“Oh, look astatine this — it’s similar QAnon meets QVC, it truly is.” — JIMMY KIMMEL

“Even the astir die-hard Trump supporters were like, ‘OK, present I’m worried.’” — JIMMY FALLON

“Even the MyPillow feline was going, ‘I deliberation Trump’s mislaid it.’” — JIMMY FALLON

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