Donald Trump’s NFTs Are the Perfect Symbol of American Capitalism in 2023
I bet you thought you were done hearing about non-fungible tokens. Well, Trump is bringing them back. The former president has never met a scam he didn’t love, and what’s a better scam than NFTs?

Art from one of Donald Trump’s new NFT trading cards. (Truth Social)
Having reportedly made six-figure profits on the first offering last year, Donald Trump has just released a new round of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). On an aesthetic level, the images are strangely fascinating in their gaudiness. In one, the former president is shown as George Washington crossing the Delaware. In another, he is clad in leather and hoisting an electric guitar. In a third, he is wearing camo while brandishing a crossbow and binoculars in front of a blurrily rendered forest.
Like the earlier Trump-themed NFTs, the latest batch is audaciously artificial in appearance, assembled from bland stock images and channeling a kitsch iconography of Americana, money, and machismo. Their constituent parts, recycled again and again across dozens of different NFTs, have all the elegance of Windows 98–era clip art, and some (like this one showing Trump standing in space wearing sunglasses with a basketball in hand) don’t even thematically make sense.
Trump has released the latest round of Trump NFTs, including: Trump crossing the Delaware, bow-hunter Trump, rock 'n' roll Trump.
$99 each. pic.twitter.com/cCrgi55VfD
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) April 18, 2023