Fake President
who posts fake AI slop
has the gall to call out “fake media”
QUESTION: Hey AI… What can you tell me about Trump making money from ludicrous images of himself??
ANSWER: The venture you are referring to is the official Trump Digital Trading Card collection, a series of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) launched in December 2022 that portrayed Donald Trump in highly stylized, fantastical, and often absurd roles. Promoted as a “Major Announcement” and sold for $99 each, the first batch of 45,000 cards generated roughly $4.45 million within 12 hours. The project was launched via a licensing agreement with a company called NFT INT LLC, which explicitly stated the funds were not for his political campaign.
📑 Roles and Characters Portrayed
The digital artwork depicted Trump in dozens of hyper-masculine, heroic, or patriotic scenarios, including:
- Superhero: Ripping open his business suit, Superman-style, to reveal skintight spandex with a “T” logo while firing lasers out of his eyes.
- Old West Sheriff: Standing as a cowboy/lawman dressed in Western gear.
- NASCAR Driver: Posing as a professional race car driver.
- Mount Rushmore Figure: Showing his face added directly onto Mount Rushmore, renaming it “Mount Trumpmore”.
- Fighter Pilot: Posing in full military flight gear (an image later criticized when users spotted a watermark suggesting it was modified from stock photos).
- King of Hearts: Depicted as a playing card king holding a sword and making a heart sign with his hands.
- Rock Star: Dressed in a full-leather suit and sunglasses holding a guitar.
- Backyard Griller: Standing at a barbecue grill cooking hot dogs and hamburgers while wearing American flag pins.
- Other Roles: A hunter in camo gear holding a shotgun, a professional boxer with “45” printed on his gloves, a gold chess piece, a lion tamer, a Wall Street banker in front of a rising stock chart, and George Washington.
🛍️ Sweepstakes and Physical “Grifts”
To incentivize bulk buying, the project offered a sweepstakes structure:
- Gala Dinners: Purchasing a set bundle of cards (such as 45 or 47 cards, costing nearly $5,000) guaranteed a ticket to a gala dinner with Trump at his properties.
- Prizes: Smaller buyers entered drawings for prizes like a one-on-one golf outing or a Zoom call.
- The Mugshot Suit Edition: In later iterations, Trump expanded the collection to bundle physical items, offering buyers who spent thousands of dollars a physical card containing a tiny, authentic swatch of the suit he wore in his Georgia mugshot or during presidential debates.
🌐 Continued Use of Surreal AI Images
Even outside of the paid NFT drops, Trump has maintained a habit of posting bizarre, self-aggrandizing AI-generated artwork on his platform, Truth Social:
- The Pope: Portraying himself dressed as the head of the Catholic Church.
- Jesus-Like Healer: A highly controversial AI image showing Trump in white robes with a glowing hand healing a sick man in a hospital bed (which he deleted after immediate religious backlash, later claiming he thought it just looked like him “as a doctor”).
- Space Force Commander: Visuals showing him at futuristic control hubs directing satellite warfare, firing orbital “space lasers,” or walking through fields of robotic soldiers.
- Alien Captor: Walking through a military base alongside a tall, shackled, silver extraterrestrial.
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