# 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:** 19
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2022, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/363 "2022-12-17T01:43:40Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > They get a url that used to point to a non-downloadable picture of Der Gropenfuhrer before the website was shut down for non-payment of hosting fees. How are these things non-downloadable? I can screenshot anything on my computer or phone. I know I’m clueless, but how is any NFT worth anything? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2022, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/364 "2022-12-17T01:46:54Z")
At least with a Pet Rock, you got to keep the rock. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2022, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/365 "2022-12-17T01:55:01Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I know I’m clueless, but how is any NFT worth anything? I don’t claim to be an expert, but I’ll quote another aphorism: > The market knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. NFTs may have no instrinsic value. But that doesn’t prevent them having a price if somebody somewhere values what they represent. Or at least if somebody somewhere thinks they can resell it for more later than they will pay for it now, it will have a price now. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2022, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/366 "2022-12-17T02:10:05Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I know I’m clueless, but how is any NFT worth anything? It’s like a futures contract on some tulip bulbs for delivery next April. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2022, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/367 "2022-12-17T02:10:11Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > It’s not even that. It’s ownership of a digital receipt that you own a file on someone else’s computer. ⁢ And said file can be deleted by the owner of said computer. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2022, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/368 "2022-12-17T02:11:19Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > And said file can be deleted by the owner of said computer. Or when the “dump” portion of the pump n dump scheme is underway, they can just stop paying for the server space. And the NFT vanishes like dust in the wind. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2022, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/369 "2022-12-17T02:21:16Z")
An NFT is an Idiot License. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2022, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/370 "2022-12-17T02:28:25Z")
If someone was smart they’d start selling really nice NFTs of tulips . . . the rubes would never get (that they are) the joke. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2022, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/371 "2022-12-17T02:37:14Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > selling really nice NFTs of tulips . . . the rubes would never get (that they are) the joke. Tulips. I’ve heard a lot of derogatory terms for a certain disgraced former real estate entertainer turned treasonous traitor. But I’ve never heard him called a tulip. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2022, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/372 "2022-12-17T02:40:06Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > It’s like a futures contract on some tulip bulbs for delivery next April. In other words, an extraordinary popular delusion and the madness of crowds. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2022, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/373 "2022-12-17T04:20:25Z")
Tulips it is!! Why not? Need some new ones. And there are orange tulips. 🕶 ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2022, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/374 "2022-12-17T04:39:31Z")
[NFTs Explained](https://www.toonhoundstudios.com/comic/20220131/?sid=372) ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2022, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/375 "2022-12-17T05:56:08Z")
NFTs have got to be one of the stupidest ways imaginable for idiots to throw their money away. It’s no wonder that both the Orange Menace and his Slovenian sidekick have gotten into the grifting side of it, the Orange Menace hitting a new low by peddling an NFT “product” of such comical proportions that, as they say, you can’t make this shit up. The fact that some may actually profit from the reseller market is not a testament to any value whatsoever in this crap, but a testament to the abyss into which our societal values have sunk. Although I wouldn’t be surprised if this whole scam collapses in short order. My son was once into this sort of thing, the differences being that (a) the product in question was Pokemon cards, (b) the product was at least tangible and contained in a card album that one could browse and display, and, most importantly of all, (c) **he was eight years old at the time.** I really need to stress that last part. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2022, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/376 "2022-12-17T11:20:57Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > An NFT is an Idiot License. This. When they started, I remember typing out on Facebook what started as a real question – “Am I an idiot? Can someone explain this to me?” – and literally as I typed, I realized who the idiots were, and changed the posting accordingly. ---
**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 17, 2022, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/377 "2022-12-17T12:09:07Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > If someone was smart they’d start selling really nice NFTs of tulips I saw someone (maybe here?) suggest starting a cryptocurrency called the Dunning-Kruggeraand. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2022, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/378 "2022-12-17T13:30:30Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > My son was once into this sort of thing, the differences being that (a) the product in question was Pokemon cards, (b) the product was at least tangible and contained in a card album that one could browse and display, and, most importantly of all, (c) **he was eight years old at the time.** I really need to stress that last part. Trump being mentally about six years old explains a lot about this project, though we’re still left with the question of why he included his Stupendous Man and Spaceman Spiff alter egos but omitted Tracer Bullet. Perhaps he thought that the inclusion of a (sorta) law enforcer might be triggering to some of his supporters. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2022, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/379 "2022-12-17T13:37:34Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > If Trump was able to control who got the good ones, if he sold his cronies the ones that could be immediately flipped for 10x their cost, while the rubes are stuck with their lame cards they can barely break even on, that’s some unjust enrichment right there. The website says that of the 45,000 cards only 44,000 will be sold on the site so you can bet that the “good” ones are all among those remaining 1,000. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2022, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/380 "2022-12-17T13:52:53Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > This. When they started, I remember typing out on Facebook what started as a real question – “Am I an idiot? Can someone explain this to me?” – and literally as I typed, I realized who the idiots were, and changed the posting accordingly. Previous thread on topic reaching same conclusion: > [@Help me Understand Non-Fungible Tokens](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-non-fungible-tokens/938969): > > Every now and then, I try to educate myself on the latest tech hype. Non-fungible tokens have been around for a while, but (at least in my perception), they’ve been really exploding lately, with digital artists earning record sums, and Nike filing a patent for a ‘blockchain-based NFT-sneaker’ called ‘CryptoKicks’ ¯\_(ツ)\_/¯. So I’ve been skimming a couple of articles trying to figure out what’s what here, but I’m not sure if I’m really getting it. Best as I can tell, an NFT is sort of like a bit… ---
**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 17, 2022, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/381 "2022-12-17T14:11:32Z")
On another forum, they reposted a piece from some Trumper who bought 45 of them - to the tune of almost $6000- thinking he could print and frame them at 8”x10” and use them to decorate his AirBNB rental. But the files he got were way to small to print, and those grifting liars promised him that they would soon be replaced with bigger files. I pointed out that if one actually wanted to turn their short term rental unit into a hellscape ( can you imagine checking into an AirBnB and finding the walls plastered with 45 pictures of Trump looking powerful? ), it would be trivially easy to select the cards you wanted on the secondary site, expand them to full screen size and print the screenshots, they aren’t even watermarked. Idiot didn’t even have to spend a dime. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2022, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-makes-major-announcement-december-15-what-is-it-just-digital-trading-cards-of-trump/976531/382 "2022-12-17T14:27:39Z")
I prefer a [fictional psychopathic superhero](https://www.indiewire.com/2022/12/the-boys-homelander-nft-donald-trump-parody-1234792997/amp/) to Trump every time. Even though they’re so similar. [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=18) [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=20)