Make Americans grift again. Donald Trump marked his return to Instagram after more than two years to release a second set of his naff narcissistic digital cards leading to widespread mockery online.
The former president, previously suspended from Meta’s social media services following the January 6 riot, celebrated his first post in 118 weeks by announcing “SERIES 2” of his digital wares.
Their release, billed as a “major announcement” in December, depicts the 76-year-old as a cartoon cowboy, sheriff, race car driver, and other delusional outfits.
Costing $99 (£80) each, the latest NFTs (non-fungible tokens) launch sent the price of his first set plummeting.
“I am pleased to inform you that, due to the great success of my previously launched DIGITAL TRADING CARDS, we are doing it again, SERIES 2, AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW,” Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social.
In a second post, which had an NFT of him as a superhero, the former president added: “I hope everyone notices, & I’m sure the Fake News won’t, that I’m leaving the price of the Trading Cards the same as last time, even though they are selling for MANY TIMES MORE (It’s called the MARKET!), & sold out almost immediately, because I want my fans & supporters to make money, & have fun doing it.
“I could have raised the price MUCH HIGHER, & I believe it still would have sold well, with a lot more money coming to me, but I didn’t choose to do so. I WILL BE GIVEN NO ‘NICE GUY’ CREDIT?”
But internet users began brutally mocking Trump within minutes of his return to Instagram.
One of the cards features Trump in the likeness of George Washington. It led one Twitter user to caption the image: “Captain Jack Sorrow from Pirates of the Insurrection.”
Another depicts the billionaire grilling hamburgers and hot dogs while standing beside a Labrador Retriever.
“I few things wrong in this new Trump NFT 2.0 digital-trading cards (sic). He would never have a dog (the man has zero empathy), he doesn’t smile, and he’d never grill his own hamberders,” one commented.
Like with the first series, the latest promotion also promises that anyone who buys 47 of the digital trading cards will receive an invitation to dinner with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
Although the NFT venture has proved to be a financial success for the former president, critics largely mocked it.
Mike DuHaime, a Republican strategist, called the former president’s new hustle an embarrassment.
“It just seems humiliating and beneath him to be hustling action figure trading cards of himself,” DuHaime said.
“He was president and a billionaire celebrity real-estate developer, and now he’s selling pictures of himself for 100 bucks.”
