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Fri May 7, 2021, 11:12 AM May 2021

This Group Is Selling Trump Tweets As NFTs And Donating Profits To "Charities He Hates"

Drumpfs was started by a group of college students who saw an opportunity to give back by selling some of Trump’s most infamous tweets as digital collectibles.

A group of college students are selling thousands of former President Donald Trump’s most infamous tweets and donating 100% of the profits to “charities he hates.”

Theodore Horn, 20, co-founded the website Drumpfs in late April with Jackie Ni and Jason Yu as part of a company called Strategic Meme Group (SMG), which he described to NowThis as a “Gen Z art and political technology studio trying to shift the political culture of America through our work.” The name Drumpf is a nod to a segment on “Last Week Tonight” in 2016 where host John Oliver pointed out that Trump’s ancestral name is Drumpf.

Horn said SMG collected roughly 46,000 of the 45th president’s tweets and is selling them as non-fungible tokens, or NFTs — which are digital collectibles that can be bought,sold, and traded in the blockchain. Since launching, SMG has raised more than $6,000 for charitable organizations including the NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center.

“I’d say we’ve got 99% of them,” Horn said of the inventory. “Most of his political tweets are all there.”

https://nowthisnews.com/news/these-college-students-are-selling-trump-tweets-as-nfts-and-donating-profits-to-charities-he
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This Group Is Selling Trump Tweets As NFTs And Donating Profits To "Charities He Hates" (Original Post) 634-5789 May 2021 OP
Hopefully the donations nykym May 2021 #1
Hilarious and excellent soothsayer May 2021 #2
They could have a wonderful corporate name, combining their surnames Glorfindel May 2021 #3

Glorfindel

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3. They could have a wonderful corporate name, combining their surnames
Fri May 7, 2021, 11:33 AM
May 2021

HornNiYu, purveyor of strategic memes! But seriously, what a great thing they're doing.

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