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[–] Polydextrous 112 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Lol not to mention the “SM” trademark logo down there absolutely will not stop people from just copy/pasting this jpeg onto their scams en masse lol

This is literally a boon for trump scammers. Embed that stupid ass photo onto your scam site, watch the money roll in. This helps the scammers, if anything.

[–] Burn_The_Right 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

But only an authentic seal will turn orange when exposed to a stream of urine.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That just reminded me of the alleged piss fetish video of trump that's floating around somewhere. US politics are wack

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

What's the difference between a chickpea and a garbanzo bean? Trump has never paid to have a garbanzo bean on him.

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[–] idunnololz 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh shit it's trickling down :O

[–] Polydextrous 4 points 1 year ago

The only trickle down that actually exists

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is comic _gold_en shower 😂

[–] bassomitron 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Who's to say that his org isn't behind some of the scams? That way they get the donations without those pesky campaign finance regulations. Half joking, but I wouldn't put it past him to be honest.

[–] Polydextrous 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That definitely shouldn’t be half a joke. Almost all American campaign fundraising is a joke and a scam. Not o mention the current laws protecting dark money and the massive loopholes for funneling money. Everything that shady ass campaign did with their fundraising and the hoards of thieves teeming in the halls of any and every trump campaign office, the only violation was him using a check to pay off a porn star. And that only had any repercussions because it was such a tawdry story with such stupid criminals openly admitting to their crimes on record. Like…I guarantee you way worse shit has been done with way more campaign cash. It just isn’t actually prosecuted (along with almost all other white collar crime in the US since the 80s).

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

didn't find a matching registration in TESS (uspto db).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Registration of a mark costs money, why would Trump spend money on his own scam?

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[–] Nahlej 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What does SM even stand for? I haven't seen that one before

[–] TheLowestStone 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Service Mark. It's a trademark but for a service instead of a product.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Scamming As a Service? ;)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Shitty Marketing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's not trying to stop scammers. It's a way to stop other GOP super PACs from collecting money. He just wants to make sure his own supporters are only giving him money and not anyone else.

[–] breadsmasher 69 points 1 year ago (2 children)

“I am a cunt” - trump

This message was endorsed by team trump

[–] bmovement 31 points 1 year ago

At first I didn’t believe it was legit.

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[–] TheJims 64 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Nobody fleeces my rubes but me says the Nigerian Prince of American politics.

It’s a great strategy providing the “scammers” are unaware of right click copy and right click paste 😂

[–] tburkhol 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The man has spent his entire life renting his name out to scammers. He's only upset that he's not getting a cut.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

the article didn't say how much his _seal of trumproval_™ would cost to use.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Copy paste doesn’t work. This is a bona fide NFT, good sir. /s

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The form on Trump's website to request use of the seal does nothing to block robots or spam.

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/sealofapproval

Do with that information what you will...

[–] BongRipsMcGee420 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I sure hope that I, Poop Dick, (1-800-HOT-LIPS, [email protected]) am approved to use this glorious seal

[–] affiliate 7 points 1 year ago

you’ll have my vote

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Welp, now I'm incredibly tempted to send a ton of requests using junk data running on an Amazon webserver...

[–] thorbot 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you HATE democracy? Do you just wanna own all the libs? Vote Trump 2025. This message paid for by the Trump Foundation for destabilizing America

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

How many stars are these? Is that too much for the US?

[–] FoolishObserver 23 points 1 year ago

Isn't the picture on the seal taken from The Apprentice? Can Mark Burnett go after him in any way (or is he more an accomplice by giving him the platform in the first place?)?

[–] schema 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean, Anything this "seal" is on is sure to be a scam, so ironically, it really does work to identify scammers.

[–] eran_morad 19 points 1 year ago

Fucking traitor. Lock him the fuck up!

[–] paddirn 15 points 1 year ago

Right click, ‘Save As’.

Yeah, sure. Seems safe enough, no one could possibly copy that.

[–] NatakuNox 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol you just need to pay Trump for the seal. Then you are free to scam away

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't even need to pay him. Just stick the graphic on everything like pro-choice stickers, spoiled cartons of milk, bags for picking up dog shit, etc.

[–] NatakuNox 8 points 1 year ago

Oh this whole thing isn't just so he can piggy back off other peoples grift. This is so he can see who he can sue for using his likeness.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Approval seals are marketing gimmick. I used to make them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Print a bunch of these as stickers, and put them on dumpsters.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit 9 points 1 year ago

Just need some huckster to slap those on bottled Russian lemonade and start selling them through the prison commissary wherever he ends up.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 9 points 1 year ago

The MAGA fanbase is sadly full of gullible people.

I really hope nobody here takes any ideas that could scam them. Like definitely do not 100% make a website or business on behalf of Donald Trump to take donations from Maga people and pocket it. Or some e-commerce random dropship thing with his face on it with 1000x profit on it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

How many scammer have already downloaded this and are applying it to their scams lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Lol, I can hear the scammers adding this image to their website already

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you don’t scam this how could you call yourself a trump candidate.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I hope he keeps sapping the RNC until there's nothing left for them to do but sue him and kick him to the curb.

Then, he is found guilty of scamming all these rubes and he has to cut millions of 5 dollar checks. Oh, and pays the RNC lawyer fees because why not.

[–] JustZ 5 points 1 year ago

Looks like he's about to cry.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That little SM at the bottom stands for "Scam Mark"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The bigger irony is the blue check marks Xitter users making fun of this seal in the article.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Cheap, iron pyrite-plated crap that's guaranteed to disappoint! That's the Trump promise!

(Trump promises not guaranteed to be honored.)

[–] Grumble 3 points 1 year ago

Oh. Trump had someone photoshop something.

I thought Trump was referring the ketchup stains that he leaves everywhere from throwing plates when he's cranky.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A perfect situation for an electronic signature to identify messages authorised by a particular campaign. Let me guess, it isn't that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Cryptographic signatures are too hard for people to understand.

Unless you cut the word down to size and just call it "crypto". Then everyone gets it. Like, it means stuff happens on a computer and magic money appears.

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