'Trump Bucks’ promise wealth for MAGA loyalty. Some lose thousands.
‘Trump Bucks’ promise wealth for MAGA loyalty. Some lose thousands.
Oh the money I could make if I didn't have morals. It turns out some people really are that dumb.
He bought $2,200 worth of Trump Bucks and other items over the past year only to discover they were worthless when he tried to cash them in at his local bank
“Now I’m questioning whether he is aware of this,” Amann said of Trump.
"Antifa sold me fake Trump bucks!!!"
Trump is famous for defending ordinary people against scams. Oh no, wait, it's the other way round.
I think to a large extent it's a case of cognitive dissonance.
Loads of these people have defended Trump for years, supported him despite his obvious lies and grifts and so you kinda have to believe that whatever else he comes up with is also true. If you believe all his previous falsehoods, why not the next?
To admit he's full of shit means your whole belief system has to change. Trump supporters have lost friends, alienated family, spent their money on him... It's much easier to keep believing in him than it is to admit you've been wrong all this time, cause that would mean having to admit you've been taken for a fool this whole time AND it means all your efforts and sacrifices have been for nothing.
The video ends with a slide advertising a free app that promises to “make your favorite celebrity say anything."
This is like Nigerian Prince. It's deliberately set up to only attract people whose level of cognitive ability makes them vulnerable.
74 million of them at the last election.
“Now I realize, well, that was stupid,” she said. “But I bought them because I believed President Trump, because he knows all about finance, and he was going to help the real Trump Patriots get rich.”
Admits to being stupid and then exercises more of it.
Seriously, just Google anything about Trump, and it's all about his grifts and fraud-criming. Name one instance where he helped anybody but himself.
No one motivated by partisanship is going to hear and properly assess any critique of their candidate.
It's why Trump supporters are losing a ton of money on his scams and why we have a brain-dead creep in the White House now.
The grift that keeps on grifting.
Invest now $99 and get $10000 next year is a claim that even a crypto shitcoin wouldn't do
I have zero sympathy. In fact, I hope it gets even worse.
Trump would never lie! Lol these people are so gullible and helpless.
There are multiple people falling prey to Nigerian/Philippines romance scams, thinking a celebrity/influencer/hot person is using an alt account to contact them because they fell in love with them at first sight.
They give thousands of dollars, millions even. They take out loans, sell their houses, lose all their inheritance, all because they think they are special, when in truth they are just lonely enough to believe the lies that make them think their life has any meaning at all.
The way these scams operate and how Trump manipulates people is virtually the same. It's impressive what loneliness and egocentrism do to us and how vulnerable we can be to the most obvious lies.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Though I feel for people taken in by something like this.
The scam has "Trump" in its name, that's a big red flag.
As a side note, pease consider posting US-specific articles and local news to c/usnews.
I've got a golden ticket. I've got a golden chance to make my way and with a golden ticket it's a golden day.
🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: ::: spoiler Click here to see the summary In the recesses of the internet where some of Donald Trump’s most fervent supporters stoke conspiracies and plot his return to the White House, suspected con artists have been mining their disappointment over the last presidential election for gold.
Additionally, NBC News has found at least a dozen people like Amann who say they invested thousands of dollars after watching the pitches on Telegram and other websites that strongly suggested that Trump himself was endorsing these products.
The Federal Trade Commission, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from NBC News, confirmed it has received one fraud complaint against Patriots Dynasty that was filed in January.
Since 2020, when Joe Biden defeated Trump in the presidential election, internet hucksters have been selling pro-Trump products like coins, checks and cards and marketing them as novelty items.
About six months ago, the grandmother said, she gathered up the Trump Bucks and commemorative coins she had purchased and drove 60 miles east to the nearest Bank of America branch she could find in Pensacola, Florida.
A Florida woman who lives north of Tampa, and who also asked not to be identified by name because she fears internet harassment, said her 77-year-old mother-in-law was also fooled into investing tens of thousands of dollars in Trump Bucks.
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People getting scamed is awful and all but... I'm sorry, this is really creeping towards the edge of my empathy here. At some point, it's kind of like natural selection.
MAGA- or better yet, MAGGOT loyalty requires you to have no sense of morals or ethics and absolutely no education or ability to comprehend reality. Go out there and give it all you got, maggots of the world!
For some reason my first thought was that Simpson’s episode with Itchy and Scratchy money.
Oh man I want video of him trying to cash them in at a real bank so bad.
The fact that this is a scam for the elderly makes it less funny. But very importantly, not unfunny. Get fucked ya old bigot.
“listen sweetheart, we’re in AMERICA right now, yeah? Well these were sent direct from the AMERICAN PRESIDENT, and you’re telling me they’re NO GOOD?”
No, Sir, I said he is NO PRESIDENT, now we good?! Cuz Ima need to see AMERICAN DOLLARS for direct deposit.
Jesus, imagine being the teller who had to explain to an adult without an apparent intellectual disability that paper with Trump’s face on it is not legal tender even if they paid thousands of dollars for it.
I'm not surprised at all he tried to cash them. Meanwhile, my auction for a trump shaped turd still has no bidders :(