They went to a grifter's grift and got grifted, then made Pikachu faces.
this post was submitted on 24 May 2025
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LOL at the people still trusting that old crook. I'm not even angry at Trump any more. He's clearly off his fucking rocker and just scamming as much as he can like he always does. I'm angry at every member of congress that isn't impeaching him immediately, at every judge not holding him in contempt of court, and at the media for continuing to handle him with kid gloves.
No access cause he’s senile, isolated and being manipulated by Stephen Miller et all
Dumbasses. They thought they were paying a bribe to GET SOMETHING, not just giving money to an addled old worthless shitbag.
Eat your Walmart food. It's what the rest of us have to eat because you parasites exist.
Edit: this is directed towards trump supporters like the influencer.
I'm honestly surprised it wasn't a Mcdonalds meal
What did you expect? Did you not realize you were being played?
these people really are a conman's dream.
You’re in a cult, you are in a pyramid scheme, you are LARPing being rich/person with power & money. Stop being a fool, you are making yourself an enemy of the state by basic human standards and you will lose so much and you’ll suffer like the rest of us. Wake up.
c/leopardsatemysteak
I guess we gotta be the change we want to see in the world
But I also have no time to moderate so nah
it blows my mind that so many wealthy people are so incredibly fucking stupid
In my experience, extreme wealth is a sign of one or more of: inherited wealth, lack of morality, lack of empathy, lack of humility, lack of self-reflection, or luck. In most cases these people are simply so broken that they'll justify exploiting other people to get what they want in ways that people with morals simply refuse to.
Intelligence isn't a major factor.
Also they're willing to spend millions of dollars on a dinner like this because what's the downside? Losing that money won't affect their lifestyle in any way. Worst-case scenario, they get a story out of it. Best-case scenario, they get face time with the most powerful person on the planet and maybe a sympathetic ear if they get in trouble with the law (since all of them are privately breaking the law in some way).
honestly imo luck is involved no matter what… maybe other than inherited wealth
People are acting like this man got conned or like they’re stupid. This was a bribe for a get out of jail free card. If you’re rich and make your money in black market ways this is the best possible decision you can make. Your name is on a list in front of the president even if you didn’t meet him. That means a pardon in the future.
Well, it is kind of stupid to complain publicly the way that this guy is doing. He's wasting the little good-will from Trump that he did buy.
good-will from Trump
LOL
As in Trump saying “Good — will you be paying me again?”
Despite what rich people want you to believe you don't actually have to be that smart to be rich. You just have to be lucky and ruthless. Being lucky enough to be born into the right family for example has a disproportionately bigger impact to becoming wealthy than your personal achievements. What you lack in luck or smarts you make up by being ruthless and steal and exploit. Your employees, your community, your government and so on.
"Influencer" is the load bearing word in the title.
I find it funny that conmen think there's some kind of solidarity pact between them.
Used to be "honor among thieves" or something like that but these guys are so much lower than thieves
🎻 🎻
Hey, what is that? I can’t see it very well.
Oh shit is that the world‘s tiniest violin?
JFC, $360k? Most 25 year olds would pay off their loans or try to buy a house with that.
Nicholas Pinto, a 25-year-old social media influencer, accumulated more than $360,000 in President Donald Trump’s cryptocurrency to attend an “unforgettable Gala DINNER” with the commander-in-chief. The food, though, was forgettable. “Trash,” Pinto texted Fortune during the banquet. “Walmart steak, man.”
Something to remember when reading these numbers is that they aren't real money, they're the possibility of real money.
For example if we ignore the initial coin launch where it spiked wayyyy up and then crashed hard, the price of the coin was ~$16 per coin at the time of the event and likely the number being used in the article.
However just a month or so prior the coin was ~$8 per coin. So if this person was brand new to the crypto game they only needed to have $180k. Now 180k is still some major money and getting that exact exchange requires some luck. However that's not the point. The point is that this individual never had $360k, they only ever had at worst $180k. (It's possible they bought the coin at launch, lost it all and kept it, so maybe they had $720k and that got halved.)
But remember, crypto coin trading is gambling. If 38 people walk into a casino, walk up to a roulette table and each puts $10k on every number 1-36, plus 0 & 00 guess how much money the winner gets? $360k. We write the article about the person who won $360k. The other 37 people are just "the others".
Now if I risk $10k and win $360k I absolutely cash out and call it a day. I'm a winner. But if I don't cash out... Do I still have $360k? I have chips. What if instead I spend the next few months at the casino? What if I spend years in the casino? If I'm lucky my chip count goes up. If I'm unlucky my chip count goes down.
Don't get me wrong. There is potentially real money here, but only if I cash out. Let's go back to our social media influencer. They had $360k when the coin was worth ~$16 per coin. The coin is down and now worth ~$13 per coin or $292.5k. But you know gamblers. Never quit on a winning streak. Never leave on a loss.
So did this person have the ability to have $360k, sure. Did they have $360k, no. (Also this assumes the crypto exchange you have your "money" in allows you to cash out, which is not a certainty. Sometimes they limit how much you can take out at a given time. Sometimes they don't have the money, remember FTX?)
Were not taking about the grifters who got the premine. The attendees very much spent USD to buy this shitcoin
The only difference between a Wal-Mart steak and a Trump Steak™ is the 200% markup.
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Lol, lmao even.
Roflmao?
Can I interest you in a roflcopter
Careful, that meme is old enough to smoke and vote soon.
As long as it doesn't vote for a moron
My friend, that meme is about to graduate college
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Sad thing is he's still jealous of the grift
When exactly did society decide to give the dumbest people on earth, all the money?
This is the consequence of capitalism and intergenerational wealth
They inherited it from their parents, and because they were rich, they didn't bother getting an education
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it amazes me when the elite think this moron will ever do anything for them unless the actual act is benefitting trump. you paid for a cheap dinner and to praise him. that's it.
Someone said it perfectly already: " If you bow to Trump he will kick you in the teeth"
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