# Trump makes major announcement December 15. What is it? {Just digital trading cards of Trump} **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [December 14, 2022, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531 "2022-12-14T20:28:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/181 "2022-12-15T20:26:57Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > There was a trend of signing up for Trump Things™ with fake e-mail addresses like "FuckTrump69@TrumpFucksMonkeys.turd, which this would disallow. Yeah, I was all primed to send one in using my suckmydickdonnie email address but that stopped me. I was puzzling over why the card with your information had to be made out with a non-black pen, though. I was going to dig up a sparkly gel pen and dot the Is with hearts. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/182 "2022-12-15T20:28:26Z")
How have we gotten this far without anybody using the word _homoerotic_? [![](https://static.independent.co.uk/2022/12/15/16/newFile.jpg) ](https://static.independent.co.uk/2022/12/15/16/newFile.jpg) [![](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e2c62646f454b30ff9882efbef20c28f32d53191/0_0_805_1005/master/805.jpg?width=620&quality=45&dpr=2&s=none) ](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e2c62646f454b30ff9882efbef20c28f32d53191/0_0_805_1005/master/805.jpg?width=620&quality=45&dpr=2&s=none) I feel like there’s something there … ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/183 "2022-12-15T20:36:27Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > using the word _homoerotic_? Because the gays have had a hard enough time of it already. ---
**Author:** ![bobsmom101](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobsmom101/32/2867_2.png) [@bobsmom101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobsmom101)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/184 "2022-12-15T20:38:27Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Yeah, the reaction from the Jordans and Greenes of the party will be interesting, to say the least. Actually, I want to see what Tucker Carlson has to say. > [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Lindsey will wear his briefs on the outside of his pants and audition to be his sidekick. “Nubbin, the Boy Wonder?” > [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > For example, instead of giving you and your friends a round of golf with Trump, they can just give you $300 Tsk, @Ann_Hedonia do you REALLY think ANY amount of money could possibly leave DJT’s orbit and flow to a lesser being? He is the Black Hole of cash. To (badly) reference The Matrix: “There is no sweepstakes” ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/185 "2022-12-15T20:41:15Z")
Yeah, it’s great art, pasting his fat head on a clip art body. And he says “$99 doesn’t sound like a lot” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/186 "2022-12-15T20:42:34Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Take into account the overhead of paying the artist AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA hoo! Good one, Buck! ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/187 "2022-12-15T20:43:42Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > The more I think about it the more I’m convinced its a money laundering scheme. Otherwise it seems such small potatoes for Trump. > > Even if he sells every NFT, the maximum revenue generated from the whole enterprise will be 4.4 million. Take into account the overhead of paying the artist, and setting up the website manning customer service etc. He probably has an upper ceiling of 4 million, likely much less. He makes that in 7 weeks of MAGA hat sales. So this whole enterprise is just a rounding error in terms of his fortune. Apparently, they also take a 10% commission on all secondary resales, so it’s a grift that keeps on grifting. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/188 "2022-12-15T20:45:19Z")
[brief threadjack] Totally agree, but rather than the simple, abstract “you’re working way too hard at this” response that might be appropriately offered up in response to their incessant, pervasive, and execrable homophobia, this seems like: - a concrete example that this is _exactly_ what might be underneath all of this intolerance, and - to the extent it gets legs, it could hurt TFGs grifting opportunities. [/brief threadjack] ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/189 "2022-12-15T20:46:36Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > There’s one possibility I shudder to think about- he’ll produce a self-pardon that was notarized before he left office. If he did that, there’s no _way_ he wouldn’t have blabbed about it before now. No freakin’ way. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/190 "2022-12-15T20:50:45Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > No purchase necessary for the sweepstakes… That makes sense. So no purchase necessary for the chance to win dinner or golfing with Trump, though you get an entry automatically by purchasing an NFT. And I assume there is some method for a non-purchase entry, such as sending a letter to a particular address. (In the past that’s how those things were done.) Legally that is all necessary in order for the sweepstakes to not be considered “gambling” and thus subject to those regulations. My guess is that all of the “sweepstakes winnings” will go to Ivanka, and she’ll turn her dad down for the umpteenth time because she and Jared are washing their hair or whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/191 "2022-12-15T20:59:45Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > The more I think about it the more I’m convinced its a money laundering scheme. Otherwise it seems such small potatoes for Trump. > > Even if he sells every NFT, the maximum revenue generated from the whole enterprise will be 4.4 million. Take into account the overhead of paying the artist, and setting up the website manning customer service etc. He probably has an upper ceiling of 4 million, likely much less. He makes that in 7 weeks of MAGA hat sales. So this whole enterprise is just a rounding error in terms of his fortune. Don’t forget about the 10% he skims every time a card is traded. Motivated money launderers can churn the cards indefinitely, so that $4 million might get flipped every few days. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/192 "2022-12-15T21:01:32Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > Apparently, they also take a 10% commission on all secondary resales, so it’s a grift that keeps on grifting. Yeah, this is where he starts drooling. He’s hoping he’s created his own Bored Ape NFT, and if he can create something where individual NFTs are going for 100s of thousands of dollars, he gets a fat 10% commission every time it changes hands. But the NFT market has collapsed, and the only rubes buying this shit are his own MAGA rubes, and they’re going to demand their money back once they find out they not getting an actual cardboard piece of shit they can frame and hang up next to their Franklin Mint commemorative plates. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/193 "2022-12-15T21:24:49Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Plus, you’re also assuming that he won’t just sell the same NFT two, three, or more times. He already is. Supposedly there are 45,000 NFT styles, each of which will apparently have up to 20 copies available but some fewer than 20 copies. So we know there are supposed to be somewhere between 45,000 and 900,000 to sell. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/194 "2022-12-15T21:29:27Z")
I’m going to revisit my fantasy of a Trump/Wakefield theme cruise (that I’m going). ---
**Author:** ![Keith1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6de8d8/32.png) [@Keith1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keith1)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/195 "2022-12-15T21:32:24Z")
Here’s a thought. Maybe the next announcement will be for his running mate . . . Meghan Markle! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/196 "2022-12-15T21:33:00Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > they’re going to demand their money back They’ll be paid in LGB coins. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/197 "2022-12-15T21:34:22Z")
Given his proven track record, what are the odds that Trump hired reliable people to set this whole thing up? None of those idiots knows anything about NFTs other than $$$$, so I’m liking the chances that whoever set this up laid in a few back doors/skimmers/trackers for future exploitation. I’d love to see all of Trump’s grift get siphoned out from under his fat ass. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/198 "2022-12-15T21:36:13Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > He’s hoping he’s created his own Bored Ape NFT, and if he can create something where individual NFTs are going for 100s of thousands of dollars, he gets a fat 10% commission every time it changes hands. I kind of got that feeling too, when he talked about people joining an exclusive community. That’s one of the big draws to something like Bored Ape. The NFT itself almost doesn’t matter. What matters in that case is that you are wealthy enough to be able to waste disposable income on a useless piece of junk, and that gives you entry into a community of people who also have enough wealth to waste on one. It’s like an online country club. Imagine the SDMB required thousands of dollars to get access to. And yes, that makes it sound even more insane, not less, at least to me. But you at least see how some of the “snob appeal” (marketing term) might spur someone into doing this. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/199 "2022-12-15T21:36:46Z")
> [@Jungian\_Camisole1](#): > > I need a word for this feeling that I am experiencing. What would you call being hilariously humiliated on behalf of someone else? This is really…something. I wanted a general definition for cringe humor since it would apply to your question, however, this quote from the wiki page on [Cringe Comedy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cringe_comedy), while meant for TV/movies, seems like it was written specifically about Trump > Typically, the protagonists are [egotists](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egotism) who overstep the boundaries of [political correctness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness) and break [social norms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_norms). The comedy will attack the protagonist by not letting them become aware of their self-centered view, or by making them oblivious to the ego-deflation that the comedy deals them. Sometimes an unlikable protagonist may not suffer any consequences, which violates people’s moral expectations, and also makes the audience cringe.[[3]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cringe_comedy#cite_note-curmudgeon-3) ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/200 "2022-12-15T21:44:37Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I’d love to see all of Trump’s grift get siphoned out from under his fat ass. That’d be the best of both worlds - both Trump and his idiots completely broke. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531.md?page=11)