Recall the story about Trump’s “picture book”? The one of his waiving from the plane? The one with very few words, as opposed to those presidents who insist on actually writing memoirs that explain various things and are valuable to historians? Yes – that picture book. You are likely aware of the fact that those photos generally belong to the White House photographer and past history has been that the White House photographer has the rights to them and the right to publish a book. Trump took them and published them himself, with no credit to his photographer.
So why should we have believed that Trump would actually invent something “new” in creating the NFTs. Let’s all repeat ourselves again, Trump is in the business of trafficking in fraud, whether the accusations of money laundering are true or whatever else it might be, Trump’s business is fraud. The NFTs look to be no different. From The Independent:
So when Trump released a collection of $99 NFT trading cards last week, there were quite a few reasons to be suspicious that the images Trump described as “amazing ART of my Life & Career!” weren’t entirely original. And sure enough, online sleuths quickly noted that the 45,000-NFT collection — which quickly sold out — appears to feature copyrighted and unattributed images from various sources around the internet.
We have a couple of excellent examples of what they’re talking about. Trump liked to borrow from catalogs and then just dress them up, “No one will notice!” Trump pronounces, not caring if someone does notice, they won’t on the first day or two.
Trump's NFT of him pretending to be a hunter (something he would not be caught dead doing in real life) seems to be derived from this wader set https://t.co/OepeYADNB6 pic.twitter.com/cJ8sxDu5m2
— Matthew Sheffield (@mattsheffield) December 16, 2022
For instance, at least three of the cards suggest that Trump shops at Amazon, DNW Outdoors, and Men’s Wearhouse:
And then there is Trump, Texas Ranger:
It appears that Donald Trump's NFT image of himself as a cowboy comes from an Amazon image that was slightly altered. https://t.co/B0b2SUSbX9 pic.twitter.com/OA8L2rHw4J
— Matthew Sheffield (@mattsheffield) December 16, 2022
And then, for anyone with any doubts, there is Trump, Space Ranger, to infinity and beyond!
The Trump astronaut NFT image appears to have been a recolored image that was stolen from @benedictredgrov https://t.co/pDAn59q3MP pic.twitter.com/96IH697ikH
— Matthew Sheffield (@mattsheffield) December 16, 2022
Why would anyone have ever thought differently?
Others spotted Shutterstock and Adobe watermarks that weren’t fully erased from the illustrations:
OMG. My daughter can do a better edit than that! Fool us once, and fool us again… But instead of saying “We didn’t know,” here is a better approach. If someone asked you; “Do you believe Trump commissioned the art for his NFTs, or do you think he doctored up already copyrighted materials? What would we all have said?
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He claimed he loved the art. I actually believe he was snookered. Someone conned him for a change.
Oh, please. He doesn’t care. It’s all just another Trump scam – the truth NEVER matters.
To be fair, they’re all of him as a superhero. If there was ever “art” that he would love, this would be it. But yes, it is all a scame, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t love the pics.
Orangebob shitpants is God. Didn’t you know? Neither God nor Eric Clapton got the memo. Although Eric turned out to be an antivax jerk, he looked briefly like God when I was in the front row of his concert. The Fatman is only the best plate and catsup slinger in the swamp and strip mall infested retirement home known as florida. Grifters breaking the law? I’m shocked! Shocked that gambling is going on in here…your winnings sir! Thank you! From one of my favorite movies of all time…thanks for the update!
It’s especially bad because we’ve seen photos of him in white tie and tails, and he doesn’t wear it well at all. (For one thing, he’s way too fat to look good in anything, including a Santa suit.)
Very true. Some men wear higher weight okay but getting the right tailored suits. Mike Pompeo, in my opinion, almost looked better when he was bigger than now. He was the type that was very heavy but somehow wore it well.
But Trump always looks sloppy bc in the end, he’s just a slob, period. He never had taste, he eats some of the best steaks on earth well done and with ketchup, he can’t be expected to finish eating that and look good in a suit!
…..and people will still vote for him . Go figure ……….