{"id":83009,"date":"2023-08-14T14:19:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T11:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=83009"},"modified":"2025-09-12T08:27:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T05:27:37","slug":"donald-trump-earned-298000-from-nfts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/donald-trump-earned-298000-from-nfts\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump earned $298,000 from NFTs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former U.S. president Donald Trump disclosed holdings of between $250,000 and $500,000 in digital assets. Such data are contained in the <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.documentcloud.org\/documents\/23876912\/donald-trump-oge-public-financial-disclosure-report-2023-part-1.pdf\">\u043e\u0442\u0447\u0435\u0442\u0435<\/a> for the Office of Government Ethics.<\/p>\n<p>The Ethereum wallet mentioned in the document may be linked to<a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/donald-trump-releases-a-second-edition-of-his-nft-collection\"> NFT-\u043a\u043e\u043b\u043b\u0435\u043a\u0446\u0438\u044f\u043c\u0438<\/a> \u2014 Trump Digital Trading Cards issued on his behalf.<\/p>\n<p>The first series of cards <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/media-trump-earned-up-to-1m-from-nft-sales\">\u043f\u0440\u0438\u043d\u0435\u0441\u043b\u0430<\/a> the former U.S. president between $100,001 and $1 million.<\/p>\n<p>NFTs from the second series were sold out within ten minutes, generating revenue of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizensforethics.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Disclosure-Report-Part-2-4-14-23.pdf\"> \u043e\u0442 $500 000 \u0434\u043e $1 000 000<\/a>. The starting price of each asset was $99.<\/p>\n<p>According to the disclosure, Trump earned $298,000 in licensing fees from the initiative. His wallet belongs to CIC Digital \u2014 the same company through which he received commissions.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2019, Trump first commented on Bitcoin, saying that the asset\u2019s value is highly volatile and largely unsupported.<\/p>\n<p>Former national security adviser John Bolton wrote in his memoir that Trump had expressed his aversion to cryptocurrency as far back as May 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Later, the former president noted that <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/donald-trump-bitcoin-looks-like-a-scam-competing-with-the-dollar\"> &#8220;looks like a scam&#8221; <\/a>, and called investments in it <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/donald-trump-calls-crypto-investments-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen\"> &#8220;an expected disaster&#8221; <\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former U.S. president Donald Trump disclosed holdings of between $250,000 and $500,000 in digital assets. The data are contained in the report for the Office of Government Ethics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[991,46,1213],"class_list":["post-83009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-donald-trump","tag-ethereum","tag-nft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83011,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83009\/revisions\/83011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}