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Gizmodo reached out to both companies to see if they had had any agreement with the NFT project to seemingly use their products, but we did not immediately hear back.
The whole thing is bizarre in so many different ways. In a video featuring Trump promoting the project, Trump claims hes better than [Abraham] Lincoln, better than [George] Washington. He then says each card comes with an automatic chance to win amazing prizes like dinner with me. I dont know if thats an amazing prize but its what we have.
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Things get even stranger when looking at the company thats running the auction. The company, NFT INT LLC, lists its address to a kitschy strip mall in Utah that contains a few shops and restaurants, a dry cleaners, as well as a UPS store. As Gizmodo has previously reported, companies affiliated with attempts to buy Trumps favored social media platform Truth Social have had similar arrangements by being based out of a UPS Store mailbox.
Its even more unclear who is operating behind the scenes. Gizmodo found two companies called NFT INT registered in California and in Delaware, which, of course, neither are located in Utah. We reached out to the individual listed as the CEO of the California-registered NFT INT LLC who told us their company was not affiliated with this project.
The Salt Lake Tribunes report on the NFTs confirmed the strangeness surrounding the UPS Store mailbox. The Tribune also noted that while the Twitter account for the NFT project lists Florida as its business residence, there are 20 businesses in Florida listing the Utah UPS mailbox as their residence.
So if youre really into the idea of a Trump NFT, for some reason, just be aware the NFTs are non-refundable and non-returnable. Of course, you can just do what we did and right click and save-as, but that would defeat the purpose of digital scarcity, now wouldnt it?
https://gizmodo.com/donald-trump-nft-trading-cards-1849900531
OMG this just gets weirder the more you look into it!
0rganism
(24,018 posts)Way too much "winning" here for me to fathom
Also gotta love that they include an "all sales final, no returns" policy in the sale agreement. You got played, suckas!
tanyev
(42,740 posts)toddwv
(2,830 posts)if you just assume Trump is laundering money; most likely the payments for access to all of the top secret documents he had(still has?) for months.
I hope the the Special Counsel is taking a long look at the whole thing.
chriscan64
(1,789 posts)of letters from Trump complaining about the mockery and ridicule.
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(8,281 posts)sketchy
UTUSN
(70,873 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,463 posts)dembotoz
(16,880 posts)if you design your site right, your ma and pa general store in rural back water can look just like a costco.
at least on the web page
the internet don't care
ThoughtCriminal
(14,081 posts)I thought that meant they had been evicted.
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