Trump promotes family's new crypto platform, 'The Defiant Ones'

“I think there has been a lot of inequality in that only certain people can get financing [...] so this notion of decentralized finance is obviously very appealing to guys like me who have been debanked,” Donald Trump Jr. said in the interview on Locals.

Ha. "I'm toxic to banks so we are going to try and grift our idiot followers" is fun.

“... guys like me who have been debanked,” Donald Trump Jr. said

I had to look up "debanked". Admitting to it has to be the financial equivalent of telling people you are a registered sex offender.

Oh, now I should get into crypto. I've just been waiting for someone publicly convicted of multiple counts of fraud to start up a platform so I can pour all my money into that.

We all know how this is going to end, right?

He'll get his fans to buy his shitty token, and maybe even keep custody on his platform. Then if he loses the election, he's gonna flee to Russia via Venezuela, while pulling the rug out from under all those "investors" and taking it all. Then he will publically state that Harris must have directed the NSA to hack his site. He can live out his remaining time in Russia as a wanna-be oligarch, and Putin will treat him like a leader-in-exile.

“For too long, the average American has been squeezed by the big banks and financial elites,” Trump wrote. “It’s time we take a stand — together.”

Do people actually believe for a fraction of a second that Donald Trump of all people is on the side of the average American? And that the way to "take a stand" is with a crypto pump and dump scheme?

Trump pump and dump.

I know this is a crazy ask, but could we maybe have a presidential candidate not openly telling us he's committing fraud while he's on the campaign trail?

Goddamn it would be so fucking easy to scam maga shitheads if I didn't have morals

It is a significant departure from Trump’s previous stance on cryptocurrencies during his stint in the White House when he called bitcoin a scam.

Is it a departure? Trump running a scam seems perfectly in line with his previous stance.

I can use my degree from Trump University and make a boatload of money

only a scammer would do something like thi-

oh right.

Next test of the cult... are you fucking people actually about to line up to trust your financial future to dumb dumb eric trump and sniff sniff don Jr?

Maybe trump is beginning to think he might not win the presidency so he's got to grift as much as possible while he can.

There's likely some outright criminals who can't easily send their dirty traceable money into politics directly to buy favors. Seems to me that this helps "solve" that.

I, personally, imagine high odds of a combination of:

• overt intentional crime happening in un-subtle ways
• disallusioned operational staff with no real reason for loyalty
• failure to stop at various "don't do this or we will get caught" lines

If I were any kind of federal investigator, I would look into this with great interest.

GriftCoin

The president should not have their own clothing line and currency.

I can't wait to see the level of grifts that will come when they really start to get desperate.

That guy has been milking every cow on the planet, you gotta appreciate the efforts. I'm just surprised there's no NFT collection out there, that'd be befitting of a supreme con artist.

The Defunct Ones

Will it become as successful as Trust Social?

What could go wrong...

Grifters going to grift

A new day. A new grift.

Up next, an innovative new sales technique. Get this, it is called Multi-level Marketing. Brand new, never been done before!

I bet the same morons that got his NFTs fall for this....the SAME PEOPLE (the ones that still have money left).

I wonder how the ethics here work. If I enter the pump phase, leave before the dump, I'm effectively stealing money from the MAGA cult. Is that a good deed?

Isn't it weird that he waited this long...?

So he did NFTs and his own coin, but where's his Metaverse tho? His grifting is lacking.

New grift same grifter

So politics aside, would you really put any money into a financial system run by someone with a proven track record of driving businesses into bankruptcy?

Now this is just comedy-level grifting. This can't be real life, this has got to be a simulator to find the stupid ones

Made Another Grift Again

In before Logan Paul is attached and Coffeezilla exposes it all as a rug pull

That’ll do as well as a coin called truthsocial.

It seems they're missing out on a memorable marketing campaign: Deploracoin! 100 Deploracoins = 1 Deplorabill.

they must really think so little of their supporters

"Be defiant, give me your money".

This feels like a scam just like those Elon Musk crypto scams you see everywhere.

Now they're defiant? I thought the whole thing was that they were the silent majority or some bullshit.

I knew serial conman Trump couldn't resist getting involved in crypto which is one of the biggest cons of all time.

Committing all the crimes now, one last hurrah

Maybe after the rug-pull he'll finally have something so he can stop with that ridiculous hair-style.

While I support crypto you gotta pick your asset. And, boy this is a dud.