Tuesday, February 04, 2025

AI Video Dupes MAGA Into Buying Fake Golden Eagle Coins

AI-created likenesses of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk have duped MAGA faithful into buying a gold coin worth just a fraction of what they believed.

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 06:32 PM | 17 COMMENTS | permalink

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#1 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-02-04 07:19 AM

MAGAts Duped Into Buying Fake Golden Eagle Coins

Sounds like some of the more savvy MAGAts are spreading misinformation to drive down the price of Trump [not]Gold Coins (tm). The faithful should invest every last dime from the sales of their government cheese in the coins, no matter the cost.

#2 | Posted by censored at 2025-02-04 07:20 AM

So, you buy something for a price, and then trade it back to the folks who sold it to you for thousands of times the price you paid? They simply told you you were buying $20 bills for 50 cents? These people deserve what they get.

#3 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-02-04 07:20 AM

This can't be real.

I now MAGA is stupid. But even this is shockingly stupid for MAGA.

#4 | Posted by jpw at 2025-02-04 09:02 AM

But even this is shockingly stupid for MAGA.

#4 | POSTED BY JPW AT 202

I can't say that I'm surprised.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-04 09:14 AM

"He (Donald) said that he was going to help the people become millionaires. I could trade these in for cash at Bank of America. Supposedly $110,000 a piece,"

What world-class MAGA stupidity.

He's had all of ten years to learn that Donald is a criminal and all of his own life to learn that he himself is as dumb as dirt.

I'll bet he thinks that Canada and Mexico are really suffering this morning.

#6 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-04 09:16 AM

I now MAGA is stupid. But even this is shockingly stupid for MAGA.

From 2023: www.ibtimes.com

"The ads claimed that buying a TRB membership card allegedly issued by Trump himself would allow a person who, for example, bought a "$10,000 Diamond Trump Bucks" bill for $99.99 to cash that bill in for $10,000 at major banks and retailers like Walmart, Costco and Home Depot.

One YouTube ad claimed that TRB system membership cards would "allow Trump Bucks holders to use Trump Bucks as legal tender and deposit them in banks such as JP Morgan Chase, the Bank of America and Wells Fargo." However, just a few seconds before this, the ad said that the Trump Bucks "are not legal tender."

One purchaser named John Amann told NBC News that he bought $2,200 worth of Trump Bucks and other items but allegedly failed to cash them in at his local bank."

#7 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-02-04 09:50 AM

Same ratio as unicorns to leprechauns.

#8 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-04 11:16 AM

You can call it MAGA, but I guarantee everyone(overwhelming majority) were elderly. There are plenty of scams that prey on the elderly, this one just targeted a specific voting block of elderly.

There are portions of your brain that deteriorate with age that specifically make you more trusting of scams like this. It's pure evil to prey on it.

#9 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2025-02-04 04:23 PM

You can call it MAGA, but I guarantee everyone(overwhelming majority) were elderly.

These concepts aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.

You can be elderly and MAGA.

Also. I doubt anyone who wasn't MAGA bought these. (With the exception of the possibility of a historian or collector.)

#10 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-02-04 04:29 PM

What to know about AI-generated Trump gold investment scam 31K views 3 days ago

The silver coins contain no silver and the gold eagles contain no gold. Unbelievable.

#11 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-02-04 08:08 PM

"Trump Bucks for Dumb ---"

I remember that scam. There will be more.

I said at the time we should start a "Trump Scam Defense" fund which would ostensibly fight the fakers who take good Patriot's money.

Then we take their money.

#12 | Posted by zarnon at 2025-02-04 08:38 PM

#9

MAGATS are ------- stupid no matter how old they are, dumbass.

#13 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-04 10:29 PM

No matter what anyone does, half this nation will be dumber than the other half.

#14 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-04 10:33 PM

With the harm MAGAs have brought to America they deserve to lose every penny they invested. I especially laughed when so many of them lost big$$$ on Trump's bitcoin after he sold it to them and then turned around and sol all of his for cash making theirs virtually worthless which was exactly what they planned to do to the MAGA rubes all along. It's why Trump is called a con man!

#15 | Posted by danni at 2025-02-05 08:02 AM

"If you're very, very stupid, how can you possibly realize that you're very, very stupid? You'd have to be relatively intelligent to realize how stupid you really are. This explains almost the entirety of Fox News." (and the gop).

John Cleese

#16 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2025-02-05 01:24 PM

#10 | Posted by ClownShack

Yup, I know several elderly people who are not MAGA. No way would they ever even consider it. They'd be mad at the thought of it.

#17 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2025-02-05 09:09 PM

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