Trump’s Major Announcement Is $99 Digital Trading Cards

His usage of pseudonyms throughout the years is stranger than fiction. Stranger yet, he named his youngest child after one of them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudonyms_of_Donald_Trump

Upload them too your palm pilot, and wedge that in?

That is seriously old-school, bravo.

They’re for your Peloton.

It strikes me as a sign he must be incredibly desperate for money.

It's the new "attention economy". Your value is how many eyeballs are fixed on you. It creates spectacles like this.

Edit: another comment pointed out that this is just Trump licensing his name to a product that he likely didn't conjure up himself.

Trump or NFTs?

Tragedy.

The dysfunction is fascinating.

- Knowing why a famous person died, can be fascinating.

- In software engineering context, "What is the bug and why did it emerge," is fascinating to me.

And for a powerful leader the result is tragedy.

> ".. exploited low and middle-income white people's anger over their deteriorating life prospects to mobilise racial animus and xenophobia and enlist their support for policies that benefit high-income people and corporations and threaten health."

- https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

Trump would assume a blockchain is something to beat the illegal immigrants building his hotels with when they threaten to unionize. He would imagine having one all the time, how it would feel in his hand, the heft of the metal links, cold at first then warmed with his rage, slipping in the sweat of his palms with swing after furious swing. The look on their faces when he came in with it and showed them who the man was, who the boss was. He wouldn't even be able to service a prostitute without fantasizing about it wringing her neck, choking her the way his tiny, delicate hands would never be capable of.

Someone would try to explain it to him but the only thing he would hear, in his head, was the melon-thump of brick against temple, over and over like a savage, yearning drum. He would never actually have the courage to do it, of course, and he would tell himself that it was because violence was beneath a man of his dignity and status, the artless work of low men and thugs, but the king in his mind would wield it with the fury of a gladiator ordained by Zeus.