Former President Donald Trump’s new NFT collection — a set of digital trading cards that has been the subject of derision by late-night personalities and Twitter users — sold out in less than a day.
The collection, whose release on Thursday was teased as a “MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT” by Trump, included 45,000 books with bizarre illustrations of the former president as an astronaut, cowboy and race car driver.
Produced by NFT INT, the non-fungible tokens cost $99 each and raised a total of $4.45 million in the 12 hours since the sale began, CNET reported.
Card makers also earn 10% on every NFT sale on secondary markets.
As of Saturday morning, the lowest resale price for one of Trump’s cards on OpenSea’s NFT marketplace was hundreds of dollars more than the original cost.
The collection is not associated with Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign and is “not political,” according to a promotional website.
The sale of the collection comes a year after Trump criticized the cryptocurrency — which, like NFTs, is based on blockchain technology — during an interview with Fox Business.
“I never liked it because I like having a dollar. I think the currency should be the dollar, so I’ve never been a big fan,” Trump said at the time.
“I want a coin called a dollar.” I don’t want to have all the others. … I think it’s a very dangerous thing.”
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