I’m sitting on a six-pack of Billy Beer that’s just going to explode in value any day now!
Eh, I figure there’s likely short term profit. Based on the NFTs, if they figure in the next few months they can unload them on the next generation of suckers as a profit, it’s a win. But 6 months later (if that) they’ll be forgotten.
The only Trump memorabilia I would consider buying would be a model of the Ozymandias statue with Trump’s shattered face, if the Biden campaign would like to sell me one.
…Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed
That must be uncomfortable now and will be really painful after the explosion.
There are a few things that blow me away.
- There is such a thing as sneaker con? … OOOOk. (looks for Alan Funt)
- The venue would attract people that are into health, running, and other activities that require one to, you know, exercise. Not seeing a lot of that from the MAGA crowd.
Might as well sell Tofu at a beef convention.
The idea that this is just a way to launder money, sort of makes sense. “It was a real business, This one guy decided to buy them all”
We all know he’s a stupid egomaniac. He would have a crowd in front of him. Secret Service - “Oh god, what now”.
I suspect that anyone who asked to try on a pair of sneakers for the purpose of athletic activity would be ejected immediately.
the sneaker resale market was worth US$10 billion in 2021
This is Exhibit #5,346,495,979 in the case of “America too stupid to govern itself”.
It’s grifting all the way.
Eh, it’s no more or less stupid than most other hobbies.
Oh, what a shame…
That looks more like a “Never Surrender” sneaker.
Hahahahaha…
There are no shoes, the Trump sneaker website says shoes ordered now will be shipped “in July”.
Hahahahahahaha…
SHIPS in July. Please allow 6 to 8 months delivery time.
Yep, confirmed.
Somewhere, Kanye West just got an order for a thousand shoes and thinks business is booming.
I checked and they only take payments from credit cards. I figured it was gift cards or bitcoin only. Good luck fighting them when the charge backs start coming in.
At which point, they say sorry, “there’s a bit of a dealy. We’ll definitely have them at your door in 2 weeks”.
The thing is, the numbers are kind of lame. So he pulls $400k with the Sneaker Stunt. That’s about 0.1% of what he owes in fines this month alone. If this pittance matters enough to him to show up in person for it, that just shows how desperate his finances really are.
He owes $87,000 per DAY in interest alone on the judgment. The sneaker scam nets him less than 5 days interest.
Doonesbury nailed it back in the 1980s: