Is this business idea going to backfire? After his "important announcement" that he is now also selling digital trading cards, Donald Trump has to put up with some mocking reactions. Even his successor can't help but comment.
Former US President Donald Trump has caused a lot of ridicule for offering digital trading cards with pictures of himself. The 76-year-old Republican launched the sale of the cards, which show him as a comic superhero, among other things, at a price of 99 dollars on Thursday. "These limited edition cards feature incredible art from my life and career," Trump wrote on his online platform Truth Social. The cards could be collected "like baseball cards, but hopefully much more exciting," it said.
The right-wing populist had previously promised an "important message" on Truth Social, along with the enigmatic sentence "America needs a superhero". The fact that this "important announcement" by the politician, who had announced a new presidential candidacy in November, turned out to be the sale of trading cards, quickly caused many mocking comments.
President Joe Biden, for example, wrote on Twitter that he had also made some "important announcements" in recent weeks - including the fall in inflation, legalization of marriage for all, the creation of thousands of jobs and the release of basketball player Brittney, who was imprisoned in Russia grinner Trump's niece Mary also commented on her uncle's announcement on Twitter with the abbreviations "omfg" and "wtaf" ("Oh my fucking God" and "What the actual fuck"), which stand for bewilderment. Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen tweeted that the ex-president was nothing more than a "pawn catcher".
Washington Post columnist Philip Bump asked in disbelief, "Who convinced Donald Trump that Trump NFTs were a good idea?" And right-wing comedian Chad Prather declared, "Our nation is going down the drain and Donald Trump is selling Pokémon cards. No thanks."
Trump's renewed candidacy for the presidency has not yet developed the momentum he had hoped for. Many Republicans blame the ex-president for the party's poor performance in the Nov. 8 midterm elections and would like to close the Trump chapter once and for all. In a new poll, Trump is well behind his party rival Ron DeSantis, who was triumphantly re-elected governor of the state of Florida in the midterms.
The US judiciary is also under investigation against Trump because of the Capitol storming on January 6, 2021 and because of secret documents that he took from the White House to his private estate Mar-a-Lago in Florida after the end of his term in office. Most recently, Trump also caused outrage in his own ranks with a dinner with rapper Kanye West, who had fallen into disrepute for anti-Semitic statements, and a well-known Holocaust denier.
