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New footage related to the ex-president of the United States\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0resurfaced on Friday wherein he was heard labelling the\u00a0cryptocurrency as “dangerous.” The viral video is now circulating as the former Republican leader is facing backlash online for his so-called much anticipated\u00a0“major announcement,” which turned out to be the launch of $99 non-fungible tokens (NFTs)\u00a0featuring\u00a0fictionalised artwork that showed him as a superhero,\u00a0cowboy, an astronaut, a fighter pilot,\u00a0among other things.<\/p>\n

Social media is now buzzing with Trump’s\u00a0interview from last December wherein he called the NFT trend as\u00a0“dangerous.” His comments were made after his wife Melania Trump\u00a0announced plans to\u00a0launch her own NFT that cost 1 Solana, or about $180. NFTs of the former First Lady of the United States was launched on the Solana\u00a0blockchain and could only be\u00a0purchased with\u00a0SOL cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n

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Donald Trumps in 2021: Crypto is dangerous. It can be an explosion like we have never seen before.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump in 2022: I’m doing my first official NFT collection. pic.twitter.com\/lHRxWUYNqw<\/a><\/p>\n


\n\u2014 Altcoin Daily (@AltcoinDailyio) December 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

NFTs cannot be\u00a0traded like cryptocurrencies such as\u00a0Bitcoin\u00a0or Ethereum but the token is still a cryptographic asset as it is created using blockchain technology. Digital\u00a0artwork has gained prominence in recent years with many celebrities launching their own NFTs that have sold for billions of dollars. Trump, had dismissed the trend in 2021, saying that he isn’t\u00a0buying into the hype surrounding cryptocurrencies.\u00a0“I want a currency called the dollar, I don’t want to have all of these others,” Trump said in an interview. Twitter was quick to mock the former Republican leader, citing his\u00a0talk clip with Bartiromo.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump also derided the cryptocurrency Bitcoin during his presidency. “Bitcoin, it just seems like a scam,\u201d Trump said in his wide-ranging televised remarks when asked about his views on the cryptocurrency. \u201cI don\u2019t like it because it\u2019s another currency competing against the dollar, I want the dollar to be the currency of the world. That\u2019s what I\u2019ve always said,\u201d Trump added. He continued, “Bitcoin–it just seems like a scam. I was surprised. With us, it was at 6,000 and much lower.\u201d Varney & Co had asked the former President if he \u201cliked\u201d Bitcoin or would invest in it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“That [crypto] could be an explosion some day the likes of which we’ve never seen. It will make the big tech explosion look like baby stuff. I think it’s a very dangerous thing,” Trump said in a Fox news interview,\u00a0adding that he is in favour of the\u00a0strong US dollar.<\/p>\n

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Trump roasted for \u2018major announcement\u2019<\/h2>\n

The Americans are roasting ex-US President Donald Trump since Thursday after he had\u00a0teased them\u00a0a day earlier that he would make\u00a0a\u00a0\u201cmajor announcement.\u201d His\u00a0“big” announcement was about the launch of a\u00a0line of digital trading cards bearing his likeness to a superhero. Many expressed anger at Trump as they\u00a0had speculated\u00a0that his announcement will\u00a0be political and related to the Speaker race playing out among House Republicans.\u00a0But it turned out that the former President was unveiling a\u00a0new commercial venture related to the\u00a0intangible NFTs, albeit several months late to the trend.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump told his support base that he\u00a0was charging for his NFTs $99 apiece. The digital trading cards \u201cfeature amazing ART of my Life & Career!\u201d he said, adding that they were no less worthy than the\u00a0baseball cards, \u201cbut hopefully much more exciting.\u201d\u00a0Responding to his post,\u00a0US President Biden mocked his predecessor from\u00a0his personal Twitter account, saying that he also had \u201csome MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENTS the last couple of weeks, too,\u201d that was the\u00a0falling gas prices and a bill signing for legislation to protect same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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