https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trumps-nft-rollout-went-exactly-203446707.html
Trump's NFT Rollout Went Exactly as You'd Expect
Ben Munster
Fri, December 16, 2022 at 3:34 PM EST
The launch process itself has also been the usual high comedy Trumpian cluster****. Not long after the tokens went on sale, reaching
$1.17 million in trading volume in the first 24 hours, buyers began complaining about onerous checkout experiences, then noted that the NFTs were sent to a newly created wallet, different from the buyer's primary wallet.
“They minted them all to the wrong addresses lol,” one observer guffawed.
But it didn't end there. There are also a number of scammy “terms and conditions” and clarifications.
Wall noted that after finally accessing his NFT card (a kind of 8-bit rendering of Trump being rained on by gold bars) he read in the small print that the promised chance at “dinner with Trump” was actually a Trump “gala dinner” (i.e. fundraiser), and the “Zoom call with Trump” was actually a “group Zoom call.” The word “won” in the sentence “you have won a 20-minute group Zoom call” referred to a footnote detailing further nuances: “Subject to validation and eligibility verification; screenshots are not proof of winning.”
Elsewhere, blockchain sleuths who looked more closely at the Polygon-based mint itself noted that the launch address also pre-minted a hefty portion of the
rarest NFTs in the collection, apparently keeping them for the project's own benefit.
It was all very “on brand,” many noted. And Trump doesn't even like crypto! In 2019, he tweeted, "I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies, which are not money," and in 2021 he
called Bitcoin "a scam... competing against the dollar."
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