Guardian Columnist Says Trump Has Hit Rock Bottom With NFT Sale

The Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi has ridiculed defeated president Donald Trump for mutating from a malignant narcissist, media-hogging egomaniac who held power and misused it.

Photo Insert: Trump has been reduced to selling $99 non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that show him various guises, from an astronaut to a fighter pilot and to a superhero with lasers coming out of his eyes.

Now, he is reduced to selling $99 non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that show him various guises, from an astronaut to a fighter pilot and to a superhero with lasers coming out of his eyes.

In her column, Mahdawi wrote: “Oh how the mighty have fallen! Just a few years ago Donald Trump was the most powerful man in the world. He had an army of ‘yes men,’ acolytes who hung on his every word. He was close to his family: his eldest daughter and his son-in-law were his special advisers. He had a Twitter account with millions of followers. He made policy and moved markets. He may have been something of a laughing stock, but he had power and influence.”

Now, however, Trump is just a laughing stock with a lot of legal problems. His former cheerleaders, including the Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post, have turned their backs on him.

Even his family is keeping their distance: Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have cut all public ties with the former president. A normal person might keep a low profile in this situation. They might regroup, do some damage control, and calmly figure out how to rebuild their reputation.

Not Trump. Instead, he decided to wrap up 2022 in the most unhinged way possible: releasing a superhero digital trading card collection.

For just $99 each, you can buy an NFT of Trump in his glorious fictive roles. Is anyone really stupid enough to waste their hard-earned money on a digitally-generated image of Trump dressed like Superman? Apparently so.

According to the site selling the NFTs, the trading cards sold out less than 24 hours after Trump announced they were available --- which isn’t too shabby considering it has been reported that there were 45,000 of the cards available for sale. Still, I’d take those numbers with a pinch of salt.

Remember when Melania launched an NFT around this time last year? It sold for $180,000 but a blockchain expert discovered that the winning bid was either from Melania herself or whoever set up the NFT’s sale.

And remember when Donald Trump Jr wrote a book in 2019 imaginatively titled Triggered, which topped the New York Times bestseller list? Turns out he had a little help from his friends: the Republican National Committee (RNC) spent nearly $100,000 on a bulk order of the book which helped get it to the top of the bestseller charts.

It’s not clear whether Trump scooped up all his own trading cards but I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the case. If all the sales were truly organic, however, then Trump managed to earn $4,455,000 overnight: Under a licensing deal proceeds reportedly all go to Trump rather than the campaign for his 2024 presidential run.

Not everyone is impressed by his ingenuity, however. A far-right troll best known by his online persona Baked Alaska, who is facing prison time over his role in the January 6 riots, was aghast by his former hero’s new venture.

“I can’t believe I’m going to jail for an NFT salesman,” he tweeted. When a guy called Baked Alaska thinks you’re embarrassing, you’ve officially hit rock bottom.

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