Opinion | Trump's NFT grift gives a glimpse of an alternate timeline

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Opinion | Trump's NFT grift gives a glimpse of an alternate timeline
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After years of pretending he wanted to be presidential, Trump reverts to form.

? Yes.) But Thursday morning’s revelation was much, much more in line with the Trump we would have recognized in 2015, before his improbable campaign changed American politics.

This is a man who has let nothing — not repeated bankruptcies, not two divorces, not even the actual presidency — alter who he is as a person. Rather than anything remotely involving government, we got the premiere of the “official Donald Trump Digital Trading Card collection.” That’s right, Trump has decided that now is the perfect time to slap his name and image on a set of non-fungible tokens, or NFTs. Trumpthat the digital art was “very much like a baseball card, but hopefully much more exciting,” which I’m relatively sure is word for word how the idea was explained to him.

But don’t take it from me. Let the master salesman himself give you his two-minute pitch for why you should spend $99 each on these digital images of him as

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