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I’M CALLING LOCAL VENUES to rent a hall so that I can put on the first-ever Donald Trump NFT Collectors Convention. It doesn’t have to be a yuge hall because, unlike with comic books or records, I don’t need room for dealer’s tables because NFTs don’t take up any room because they’re not really real.
I’m leaning toward calling it the Northwest Donald Trump NFT Trading Card Collectors & Friends of the Jan 6 Patriots Convention but friends talked me into the shorter Northwest Donald Trump NFT Trading Card Collectors Convention.
According to the Coin Desk website (“Donald Trump NFT Collection Sells Out, Price Surges”): “Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s non-fungible token (NFT) digital trading card collection sold out early Friday, the day after its initial release.
According to data from OpenSea, at time of writing [December 16, 2022, at 6:39 AM PST; updated at 8:22 AM PST], the collection’s trading volume is 900 ETH, or about $1,080,000. Its floor price is about 0.19 ETH, or about $230, more than double the original price of $99.”
Trump NFT trading cards
The Coin Desk website continued:
“Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s non-fungible token (NFT) digital trading card collection sold out early Friday, the day after its initial release. According to data from OpenSea, at time of writing [December 16, 2022, at 6:39 AM PST; updated at 8:22 AM PST], the collection’s trading volume is 900 ETH, or about $1,080,000. Its floor price is about 0.19 ETH, or about $230, more than double the original price of $99.
Some tokens are selling for much higher prices. The one-of-ones, the rarest of the NFTs, which comprise 2.4% of the 45,000 unit collection (roughly 1,000), are selling for as much as 6 ETH at the time of writing. One of these rare trading cards, of the 45th president standing in front of the Statue of Liberty holding a torch, is currently listed at 20 ETH, or about $24,000.”
Yeah—I don’t understand most of that but I don’t have to: I just have to get the collectors convention up and running and let the wheelers and dealers do their thing.
Collect all your favorite characters
Some of Trump’s biggest supporters quipped about the project. Stephen Colbert noted that the cards “allow you to collect all your favorite characters from the extended former president universe because every card is him. There’s—and these are all real—him playing golf, him approving of gold, him wearing a hat that says Dow just like they do on Wall Street, and him stealing the torch from the Statue of Liberty.”
Jimmy Kimmel observed, “Trading cards! Not even real trading cards—digital trading cards. Which is another way of saying nothing. At least last time you got a red hat, now he’s selling you nothing. . . . This has to be the most pathetic announcement of all time, and that includes when they announced Eric was born.”
Seth Meyers brought current events into his statement: “This proves once again that for anyone involved in the attempted coup on January 6, things will not end well. In Trump’s case, he’s such a pariah he’s hawking scam digital trading cards on a social media site no one’s heard of.”
FEATURED IMAGE: The image at the top of this page is one of the hottest of the Trump NFT trading cards. In less than twenty-four hours since its release to the public, it has skyrocketed from $99 to more than $20,000!
Finally, if you need some background on NFTs, click here. (Thanks, Emma Carey.)
Mystically liberal Virgo enjoys long walks alone in the city at night in the rain with an umbrella and a flask of 10-year-old Laphroaig who strives to live by the maxim, “It ain’t what you know that gets you into trouble; it’s what you know that just ain’t so.
I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn, and a college dropout (twice!). Occupationally, I have been a bartender, jewelry engraver, bouncer, landscape artist, and FEMA crew chief following the Great Flood of ’72 (and that was a job that I should never, ever have left).
I am also the final author of the original O’Sullivan Woodside price guides for record collectors and the original author of the Goldmine price guides for record collectors. As such, I was often referred to as the Price Guide Guru, and—as everyone should know—it behooves one to heed the words of a guru. (Unless, of course, you’re the Beatles.)
