Trump ridiculed for ‘major announcement’ that he’s selling digital trading cards - The Independent

Former President Donald Trump is being mocked implicit his “major announcement” that he’s selling integer trading cards featuring himself depicted arsenic a superhero, among different characters.

“MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT! My authoritative Donald Trump Digital Trading Card postulation is here!” Mr Trump wrote connected his level Truth Social connected Thursday.

“These constricted variation cards diagnostic astonishing ART of my Life & Career! Collect each of your favourite Trump Digital Trading Cards, precise overmuch similar a shot card, but hopefully overmuch much exciting,” helium added. “GET YOUR CARDS NOW! Only $99 each! Would marque a large Christmas gift. Don’t Wait. They volition beryllium gone, I believe, precise quickly!”

Twitter users were speedy to mock the announcement.

“OH MY F***ING GOD TRUMP’S MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT IS *DIGITAL* TRADING CARDS FEATURING HIS OWN BIG DUMB STUPID PUMPKIN FACE and beatified s**t he’s selling them for a 100 bucks I s**t you not. I privation I was making this up. And the rubes are going to devour this s**t close up,” Jeff Tiedrich wrote.

Maggie Haberman of The New York Times tweeted that “Trump wanted to beryllium wheeled retired of Walter Reed successful a Superman garment nether his existent shirt. Aides talked him retired of it (and past Meadows devoted respective lines successful his publication to claiming it hadn’t happened). So alternatively helium does it virtually and tries to marque wealth disconnected it”.

“Oh my f***ing god, Trump’s ‘major announcement’ is to merchantability integer trading cards, lololol, helium is truthful fortunate you idiots are arsenic dumb arsenic helium thinks you are,” 1 Twitter idiosyncratic said. “He wants $99 for a JPEG of him successful a superhero outfit.”

“Trump’s ‘big’ announcement being Trump superhero trading cards is conscionable incredible. My feline has wholly mislaid it. The Loser Energy and grift is conscionable disconnected the charts. Biden is winning Montana and Alaska successful 2024 astatine this rate,” different idiosyncratic said.

“Trump Trading Cards? The eventual golden digger! Right up determination with Trump wine, steaks, ties, shirts, assemblage and presidency. All worthless,” Bill Press tweeted.

“You can’t marque this up. Donald Trump’s ‘major announcement’ are integer trading cards that outgo $99 each. Classic grifter and narcissist behavior. He has genuinely mislaid his caput much than I tin perchance imagine. DOJ & Jack Smith, delight hurry up and indict this man,” Victor Shi tweeted.

“Donald Trump’s large announcement was that he’s selling integer superhero trading cards. I can’t judge that pathetic putz was ever president,” 1 Twitter idiosyncratic said.

“The Trump Train is astatine the past stop. Donald Trump reached the extremity of the enactment & is present a runaway bid rolling into oblivion. He made a ‘major announcement’ that he’s present selling $99 integer trading cards of himself. The modulation from surreal to absurd to pitiful is complete,” Shannon Fisher added.

“The champion happening astir this is that the MAGA ecosystem went into overdrive yesterday erstwhile helium teased a ‘big announcement.’ His VP pick? Speaker of the House? A caller lawsuit? Teaming up with Musk? Nope, Trump superhero trading cards,” lawyer Ron Filipkowski wrote.

In a video announcement of the trading cards, Mr Trump said helium was “hopefully your favourite president of each clip – amended than Lincoln, amended than Washington”.

“I'm doing my archetypal authoritative Donald J Trump NFT postulation close present and close now. They're called Trump integer trading cards,” Mr Trump said, adding that the cards would diagnostic “really unthinkable artwork pertaining to my beingness and my career. It's been precise exciting. You tin cod your Trump integer cards, conscionable similar a shot card, oregon different collectables”.

The erstwhile president said “one of the champion parts” is that “each paper comes with an automatic accidental to triumph astonishing prizes similar meal with me. I don't cognize if that's an astonishing prize, but it's what we have”.

Mr Trump said buyers could besides triumph “golf with you and a radical of your friends astatine 1 of my beauteous play courses and they are beautiful. I'm besides doing zoom calls, a 1 connected 1 meeting, autographs and memorabilia, and truthful overmuch more. We're doing a lot”.

“My authoritative Trump integer trading cards are $99 which doesn't dependable similar precise overmuch for what you're getting,” helium claimed.

“I deliberation it's thing you're going to like, you're gonna similar it a lot,” helium said, aboriginal adding the non-fungible tokens marque “a large Christmas gift”.