MAGAs believed $99 "Trump Bucks" could be cashed for $10K, "Now I realize, well, that was stupid"

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

Trump Supporters Scammed By Novelty Items—‘Trump Bucks’—Advertised As Legal Tender

Several companies have been fooling supporters of former President Donald Trump by selling commemorative items they claimed could be used as legal tender, according to NBC News, as some Trump supporters said they spent thousands of dollars on the items in an effort to support a future presidential campaign.

Colorado-based companies Patriots Dynasty, Patriots Future and USA Patriots have been advertising products with Trump's likeness, including black $10,000 “Trump Bucks”—sold for $99.99—they said could be redeemed as legal tender at most banks, including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo, though none responded to inquiries from NBC News.


The items—which include coins, checks and membership cards—are sold alongside “Trump Rebate Banking System” handbooks, which the companies claim are “official documents” that allow the items to be used.

Bank of America spokesperson Bill Halldin told NBC News there were reports of customers coming into the bank to exchange “Trump Bucks” for cash.

One Trump supporter claimed to spend $2,200 on the items before warning others on Twitter about the scam, while a woman from Alabama said she spent $1,500 on “Trump Bucks,” before a Bank of America employee told her she had been scammed.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/trump-supporters-scammed-by-novelty-items-trump-bucks-advertised-as-legal-tender/ar-AA1bM8T8

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“Now I realize, well, that was stupid,” the Alabama woman said, adding she “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.”

[oswaldactedalone]

1. Now if it was "Biden Bucks"

I’d have the checkbook out, but “Trump Bucks”, that has to be a scam.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. David Maurer in his 1940 book The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man

explicitly states that a "good scam" is one where you successfully get a mark to give you his money, swindle him, and then get him to return to the bank to get more money for the same scam.

[TheBlackAdder]

34. Those $99 Trump Bucks aren't worth $10K each? There goes my retirement fund. 🤣

[Duncanpup]

3. This is my youngest daughter's father in law.

He purchased trump bucks my daughter told me he’s mad her father in law that they hold no value.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

4. "mad" crazy or "Mad" angry?

[Duncanpup]

5. Not sure yet my kid got me laughing over it.

He’s an odd man well so am i yet he’s so far down the Maga christofascist Qvangelical hole. He also is losing it because my kid will not let her in laws take her children to their what they refer to as church.

Oh here is a good one awhile back her in-laws would not watch our grandkids because kids they had stomach bug and they didn’t want to possibly catch it so I went booked off work to watch them took FMLA. Yet grandma and grandpa Q walked around doing pandemic no mask complaining about vaccinations and yes they both caught it twice I think in two years.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. "used as legal tender" sounds like de facto counterfeiting to me

[JHB]

15. It's only counterfeiting if they're imitating real money

It it's novelty bucks they're just claiming are legal tender but nobody in their right mind would would mistake them for the real thing, it's just suckers who fell for a false claim.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

44. not only mistake them for the real thing but to think they can pay $99 for something that can be

cashed for $1500 or more. Why wouldn't the seller just cash them in?

[yardwork]

28. It sounds like Monopoly money.

[Joinfortmill]

7. My God, we are a country full of fools. God help us, seriously.

[whathehell]

16. Um, no..Like every other country,

ours contains "fools", geniuses, average folks, and everthing in between.

[OneTotalMook]

8. Needless to say..I'd pay $10000 for the security cam videos of Trumpers trying to redeem their bucks

Between this and the Georgia woman running for office who is an adamant flat earther.. and then looking up this story taking me to a website where the issue was being hotly debated .. I think the next TRILLION dollar bailout should be a refund on behalf of all the parents who sent these kids to schools that charged them or their municipalities actual MONEY!

[NowISeetheLight]

39. New Cable Show

Americas Most Stupid Magats.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

45. lol

[Mopar151]

53. Its the "unschooling" by parents and peers

And fealty to the Gawd Dumbass

[Rhiannon12866]

9. Good Grief! Isn't this illegal??

But if these "suckers" support TFG, they're not the brightest bulbs in the box...

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. I think the rump could sue for use of his likeness. Or he's in on the scam. . . . .nt

[Niagara]

27. +1000

tRump is most likely the architect of this particular scam.

[cstanleytech]

11. A parsnip has an IQ higher than the idiots who fell for this.

[Fullduplexxx]

12. Lol 😆

[Whiskeytide]

13. The Alabama woman is almost as stupid as our ...

… esteemed Senator Tubbs. Almost.

[COL Mustard]

14. This is a sure fire way for political opponents

Of TFG to scam his supporters. If I had a strong enough stomach to print things with his name, face and signature, I’d separate some of these fools from their money. But I don’t have that strong a stomach and it would make me physically ill doing that.

I’m not at all opposed to scamming the MAGA crowd, but not that way

[tavernier]

17. I bet somewhere in the fine print

it states that they are not to be used as legal tender, only a toy, or something to that effect, so they will not be able to be sued. But why read the fine print when you believe in everything Rump.

[Captain Zero]

56. Right because he knows so much about Finance

Like how to Finance his own fat ass with laundered Ru$$ian money.

[Scrivener7]

18. How much you want to bet they end up thinking this is a Democratic plot against them?

Or the lizard people. The lizard people are always doing shenanigans.

[lindysalsagal]

31. "Obama did it."

Sure. They'll believe anything.

[yardwork]

32. It would be comforting to believe that lizard people are the author of all our woes.

I can see why people with weak egos, who feel very insecure inside, would be drawn to belief systems in which shadowy figures (lizard people, the Devil, Democrats) are causing everything that goes wrong.

"It's all their fault." This explains the MAGA movement.

[Lonestarblue]

19. This scam explains a lot about the MAGA crowd, but there aren't 70 million of them this clueless.

What excuse do the other 69 or so million have for voting for the biggest con man in modern times? I know our education system is failing a lot of people, but what has happened to plain common sense. Anyone with announce of it knows that average people cannot just print money (unless it’s counterfeit). The sad thing is that the Alabama woman, and others like her, who has been cheated by Trump will still vote for him if he’s the 2024 candidate. I will never understand their mindset.

[Silent3]

20. Well, if anyone deserves to be scammed...

...it's these Trump-worshipping idiots.

[mainer]

21. I'm amazed Trump didn't demand a cut

He’s not one to leave a buck on the table.

[tanyev]

22. LOL, Donald Trump only attempts to help Donald Trump get rich.

And he's not even terribly successful at that.

[marble falls]

23. I just don't get that kind of stupid. Scrape together a hundred buck and send it to a rich person ..

... 45 probably tried to horn in on the action when he found out about it.

[Takket]

25. If you think these people are stupid...

Imagine how much money Xian televangelists have raked in over the decades from how many millions of people.

[Buns_of_Fire]

24. Next: Bottled pee labeled "Patriot Water".

Cures every disease known to mankind -- AND it's a delicious summer drink!

"If you nail together two things that have never been nailed together before, some fool will buy it from you." -George Carlin

[Blue Owl]

26. Donny's Diarrhea Dollars

[Firestorm49]

29. Painfully stupid people. But, that's his base.

His base is not enough to get him re-elected, but rigging red states electoral processes is his best option.

[Niagara]

30. tRump once said, "I love the poorly educated."

And they love him too.



I think that we all know that the poorly educated is code for easily indoctrinated.

[Wingus Dingus]

33. The fine print probably says "redeemable for official Trump campaign merchandise"--

and then it's probably similar to when you are on a hot streak and win hundreds of arcade skeeball tickets and think you're going to get the man-sized stuffed bear hanging from the ceiling, and then find out you need like 10,000 tickets to win that--no one ever wins it. You get a plastic kazoo or a keychain instead and walk away having learned a lesson in life. Probably need 40,000 TrumpBucks to win a MAGA hat.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

35. A fool and his money are soon parted.

A fool and his money are soon parted.........

Credit: Thomas Tusser
English Poet 1524 - 1580


KY.......

[Irish_Dem]

36. So the Trump cult members think that Trump is going to help them get rich?

Interesting fantasy. The reality is that he will make sure they are broke and in jail.

[Initech]

37. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes!

[NowISeetheLight]

38. Facepalm

That stupid woman who said:

“Now I realize, well, that was stupid,” the Alabama woman said, adding she “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.”

I'd just ask... how rich did you get during the FIRST four years?

[jmowreader]

40. Dead Cthulhu, please eat me now...

“He knows all about finance.”

ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID? The motherfucker RAN THREE CASINOS INTO THE GROUND!

If there is one thing Trump does NOT know, it’s finance!

Either “a fool and his money” or “there’s a sucker born every minute” applies here, and when we’re talking about Donald Trump’s moronic supporters it may be both. After all, we are talking about people who didn’t notice the maximum number of Trump’s NFTs you could buy every day is just shy of the dollar value that requires filing a transaction report with the feds.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

41. I'm still cracking up over the Trump bucks debacle!

TFG supporters are very stupid people

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[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

46. expensive toilet paper

[central scrutinizer]

49. But it's stamped 24K GOLD!

[Midnight Writer]

42. It's the same as the "Seed Faith" of the televangelists.

Conservatives borrow a lot of their grifting shenanigans from televangelists.

Birds of a feather.

[mike_c]

43. they thought Trump was going to make other people rich?

[Catherine Vincent]

47. Unbelievable

Shakes my head.

[central scrutinizer]

48. Possible upside

If a moron gave $2200 to a conman, that’s $2200 he doesn’t have to give to TFG.

[ThoughtCriminal]

50. How do fools and and money

get together in the first place?

[Elessar Zappa]

51. And some of these fools have billions.

See Elon Musk.

[Mr.Bill]

52. "Don't worry, we're only going to steal from the greedy."

George C. Scott in the movie The Flim-Flam Man, when his apprentice objects to the scams they are pulling.

And in the movie, as now, that was true. Every person they ripped off was led to think they were the one doing something unethical for personal gain.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

54. there is an excellent documentary about Bernard Madoff. the top investors knew it had to be a ponzi

. they kept investing because they benefited. they weren't the little people at the bottom who would get screwed. FCC clawed back the money from them in the end.

[Buns_of_Fire]

55. I've heard it said that his sentence was so severe because

it wasn't "the little people" he was primarily ripping off -- it was the wealthy masters of the universe types.

The implication being that it's not as much of a crime to swindle the peons, since that's what they're there for, right?

[Trueblue1968]

57. I HOPE 546973286 people bought worthless trump "bucks"

[Cha]

58. You are fucking Brainwashed Crazy, lady.