Trump portrays himself as a superhero on his digital trading cards.
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Former US President Donald Trump is once again causing a stir. After announcing an important message, he published digital trading cards of himself and shows himself as a comic book superhero.
Former US President Donald Trump has caused a lot of ridicule for offering digital trading cards with pictures of himself. The 76-year-old Republican launched the sale of the cards, which show him as a comic superhero, among other things, at a price of 99 dollars on Thursday. “These limited edition cards feature incredible art from my life and career,” Trump wrote on his online platform Truth Social.
The cards could be collected “like baseball cards, but hopefully much more exciting,” it said. In a video on the website selling the digital tickets, Trump shows images of him in a boxing ring as a muscular cartoon superhero with a “T” on his chest, in front of the Statue of Liberty holding a torch, on a white horse with US -flag or show in an astronaut suit.
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“Don’t forget: Christmas is coming and that makes a great Christmas present,” says the real estate entrepreneur, who hopes to retake the White House in the 2024 presidential election. According to Trump, buyers of the tickets, which cost the equivalent of 93 euros, also take part in raffles. You could win a dinner with the ex-president, a chat via Zoom, a game of golf at one of his courses, or autographed memorabilia.
Buyers should grab the tickets quickly – “before they’re gone,” Trump recommends. The day before, the right-wing populist promised an “important message” on Truth Social, along with the enigmatic sentence “America needs a superhero”. The fact that this “important announcement” by the politician, who had announced a new presidential candidacy in November, turned out to be the sale of trading cards, quickly caused many mocking comments.
Donald Trump also appears as a Hollywood star on the digital trading cards, with Hollywood becoming Trumpworld here.
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President Joe Biden, for example, wrote on Twitter that he had also made some “important announcements” in the past few weeks – including the decline in inflation, the legal anchoring of gay marriage, the creation of thousands of jobs and the release of the basketball player imprisoned in Russia Brittney Griner.
Trump’s niece Mary also commented on her uncle’s announcement on Twitter with the abbreviations “omfg” and “wtaf” (“Oh my fucking God” and “What the actual fuck”), which stand for bewilderment. Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen tweeted that the ex-president was nothing more than a “pawn catcher”.
Washington Post columnist Philip Bump asked in disbelief, “Who convinced Donald Trump that Trump NFTs were a good idea?” And right-wing comedian Chad Prather declared, “Our nation is going down the drain, and so is Donald Trump sells Pokémon cards. No thank you.”
Resentment against Trump among Republicans because of poor poll numbers
Trump’s renewed candidacy for the presidency has not yet developed the momentum he had hoped for. Many Republicans blame the ex-president for the party’s poor performance in the Nov. 8 midterm elections and would like to close the Trump chapter once and for all. In a new poll, Trump is well behind his party rival Ron DeSantis, who was triumphantly re-elected governor of the state of Florida in the midterms.
The US judiciary is also under investigation against Trump because of the Capitol storming on January 6, 2021 and because of secret documents that he took from the White House to his private estate Mar-a-Lago in Florida after the end of his term in office. Most recently, Trump also caused outrage in his own ranks with a dinner with rapper Kanye West, who had fallen into disrepute for anti-Semitic statements, and a well-known Holocaust denier. (dpa)
