Merry Christmas!
The writers on TV's late night comedy shows believe in Santa, after Trump's NFT scam came down their collective chimneys. What a gift!
(Above, Stephen Colbert starts us off.)
COLBERT: Often, these pre-hyped announcements turn out to be duds. Not this one. Because late this morning, the former president dropped the blockbuster news: major announcement! My official digital trading card collection is here! That’s right. You read that right! The ex-president of the United States, the ex-most powerful man in the world, has launched a line of trading cards. It’s grope-e-mon! With pika-coup! Pika-pika! Pika-coup! Lord have mercy. This is the least-dignified attempt at post-presidential merchandising since the launch of “tickle-me-Truman.”
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JIMMY KIMMEL: Oh, look at this it’s like Qanon meets QVC, it really is. I know we say “this is crazy” a lot, but this is crazy! He’s selling NFTs like a crypto bro. While he’s running for president. And by the way, we already have Donald Trump trading cards. They’re called subpoenas. The timing, too. It’s astonishing. Three days after that FTX guy got arrested for fraud, Trump said, “now is the time to get into the imaginary baseball card market.
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MEYERS: [Looking at Trump "card"] That is very exciting. I bet Lincoln’s super [ bleep ] jealous he didn’t think of that. But real quick, which part of your life and your career is "sunglass astronaut," because I feel like I would have remembered that. Also, got to love the timing of a former president launching his NFT line the same week a crypto-scammer gets arrested. “They got SBF? Looks like there’s an opening available, then!”
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FALLON: Even the most die hard Trump supporters were like, “okay, now I’m worried.” Okay, this is — Even the "My Pillow" guy was going, “I think Trump’s lost it.” If you saw that at 2:00 A.M., would you be like, “am I having an Ambien dream? You know your campaign isn’t going well when your re-election strategy is, “maybe people will like me as a Pokemon. Trump was like, “these cards are like classified documents. You’ve got to catch them all.”
