Trump promised a "major announcement" this past Tuesday. People--Trumpers and Never-Trumpers both--were expecting some news about a running mate or something about J6 or the midterms or some big policy kick-off or a response to all the legal trouble he is in. Some message for his people that they are desperate to hear. Something to show he has not forgotten them and is working to take back America.
Instead, Trump's major announcement was the release of his NFTs. NFTs are non-fungible tokens--a cryptocurrency that operate differently than something like bitcoin or ethereum. If I have a dollar in ethereum, I can change it out for any other ethereum dollar. They are all interchangeable just as real dollar bills are. NFTs, on the other hand, are all unique and can't be interchangeable. You would first go to a marketplace--and there are all kinds--and you determine what kind of digital wallet you require and then you start buying up digital art (although you can make NFTs out of anything really) and each of these are unique and you can then offer them on the marketplace. People have made a lot of money doing this but most people won't but they all think they might. Here is an example of Trump's NFTs:
They cost $99 each. Yes, they are ridiculous. Essentially, NFTs are kind like the Beanie Baby craze or the Thomas Kinkade paintings. In fact, the latter works well as a metaphor since most NFTs appear to be digital art while Kinkade's art was real. But people bought the Kinkade art and collected it. The hope is a big payoff. Suddenly, a painting is found to be rare, i.e. in demand. Someone will pay $50,000 for it!! You look through your collection and YES!! You have that painting! So you sell it to the highest bidder and retire on that massive amount of money you made. Well...no..,but that is the dream. Same idea with NFTs. You buy em and then hope you can sell em for more than you bought em for.
The nerve of Trump. Never fails to amaze. All this stuff going on--the midterm red wave catastrophe, J6 insurrectionists getting lengthy prison sentences, Jack Smith's indictment looming around the corner--and Trump's major announcement is to try and make money off them. With all the trouble with FTX recently which has singlehandedly dealt a serious blow to the future of crypto and here comes snake oil salesman Trump to sell them--SURPRISE!!--crypto. That's worse than if Mike Lindell promoted a huge announcement and when everybody tunes in, it's a 2-for-1 pillow sale. That's really abusing people's concerns. When you say you have a major announcement, you better a REAL major announcement not an everything-must-go sales pitch. But Trump is a con at heart. Just a big, fat con--literally.
Even staunch Trump supporters are mad that all he has to offer them is a grifter's gimme-your-money pitch. He's about to be indicted by the grand jury set up by Jack Smith and all he can say to his public is "Buy my trading cards for $99 each." He must be alarmingly low on funds to pull this. DeSantis got another ratings boost.