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Melania Unveils New Line of Bizarre NFTs and These Ones are Pretty Cheap at Just $50

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It is hard enough to report on Melania’s plans or “agenda” (if one wants to give it a more negative slant) with respect to issues we fully understand. Non Fungible Tokens remain an enigma to this staff other than it provides the buyer with digital art or something else of value, often paid for in cryptocurrency.

We all remember what happened with Melania’s first NFT auction, a collection of drawings of her in the “iconic” white hat in France, “Heads of State.” After a lot of legwork by others, it was discovered that Melania bought her own NFT collection. In the art world that would simply be done by withdrawing the item due to insufficient bids and paying the artist whatever the arrangement might have been. Melania used a convoluted means of paying that was, eventually, traced to her.

It appears no one knows why.

Now it’s time to sell again, but she’s not demanding six-figures for drawings this time, only $50 for “tokens” dedicated to the Trump presidency. There are 10,000 available and even we can do that math. She wants a half-million dollars. So does this site. We can relate, but cannot relate to why she’s going about things… maybe she’s way ahead of us about the future. For all we know, she’s making us all look like fools. But maybe not.

According to the Daily Beast:

Melania Trump is planning to sell yet more digital art, this time as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) tied to artwork of Donald Trump in office. She’s calling it the “POTUS TRUMP NFT Collection,” according to a statement released Thursday. Dedicated to “celebrating the Trump presidency,” the 10 pieces of digital artwork, tied to 10,000 tokens priced at $50 on the Solana blockchain, will feature “iconic moments” from Trump’s time in office like his visit to Mt. Rushmore and the White House’s Christmas celebrations.

Melania stated:

“I am proud to expand upon my NFT platform and am honored to be able to recognize important moments in our Nation’s history.”

Okaayyy. Back to the Daily Beast:

The choice of Christmas might seem to be Melania tooting her own horn, as the former first lady planned the Christmas festivities and decorations herself. However, she was recorded saying at the time, “Who gives a f–k about Christmas stuff?” Buyers won’t know which artwork their token represents until after purchase, and the tokens come in gold and platinum tiers, with the latter being rarer. Melania wrote, “Collectors can make multiple purchases to own the entire POTUS TRUMP Collection.”

Gold and platinum computer code and you don’t know which coin you get until you buy it? We don’t understand NFTs.

The Beast then reiterated that Bloomberg had just announced (days ago) that Melania purchased her first NFT and questions still swirl around what she is really doing.

It would be entirely dishonest if we were to claim to have any idea. Just know, the first failure isn’t stopping Melania.

Twitter had a field day:

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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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