Prices and sales of Donald Trump’s NFT collections increased on Thursday as a result of a viral interview with media celebrity Tucker Carlson that was broadcast on X, formerly Twitter, and had 110 million views in a matter of hours.The price of the Polygon-based Trump Digital Trading Cards was above 0.13 ether (ETH), or slightly over $215, as of European afternoon hours, up from 0.1 ETH, or $150, the previous week.Data from NFT market site OpenSea shows that the collection has gathered over 17 ether in trading volume.
Last December, Trump sold a set of 45,000 fantasy cards that featured photographs of him in a design reminiscent of collector baseball cards for $99 each.As of Thursday, the collection had over 13,000 different holders.
As previously reported, collectors who bought a digital trading card are immediately entered into a “sweepstakes” to win “experiences” with Trump, such as a Zoom call, a dinner in Miami, or a cocktail hour at Mar-a-Lago.At the time, the cards were rapidly sold out.A wallet with the tag “6D65A7” as of Thursday holds the most individual Trump NFTs with 602 cards, followed by 72F891 with 500 cards.Both of the two holders have not placed any NFTs up for sale.
Trump’s position as a significant token holder was been made public.According to reports, the former president and front-runner for the Republican nomination in 2018 held $2.8 million in a cryptocurrency wallet as of early August and made $4.87 million in license fees from the Trump NFT collection.As a result, the value of the NFT collection has steadily decreased over the past few months along with a general slide in the larger crypto market.According to data from OpenSea, daily trade has decreased from an average of over 90 per day to around 50, with prices down more than 50% from a May peak of 0.2 ETH.