Discussion: Meet The No. 1 King Of All Fun, AKA The Fake Bidder On A Trump Painting

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Secretary of Bling.

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here is his picture

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What’s the crime? And should NYS waste time and resources on this? I mean, who else would pay for a portrait of Fat Nixon?

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… reportedly began furiously sending a sex tape of himself out to various acquaintances.

King of all fungus.

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Yes, and a sentence that also makes one want to take a shower immediately after reading it.

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And somewhere out there, an evangelical is thanking God that dignity has been restored to the White House.

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For that scheme to work don’t there need to be at least two straw bidders?

If there is only one straw bidder then the price might stop lower when the other not-really-interested bidders stop bidding.

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Yeah, I was wondering what the last non-fake bid was. I’m guessing it was all the way up to $27 before King Fungus made his single bid.

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trump does not believe in charity…especially if there is a way to grift off it. His foundation was nothing more than a piggy bank supplied by well meaning donors. trump used the money thus acquired to spend on himself. In this case it was $60,000 just to be able to brag about the value of a painting of himself that now was hanging in his estate. Money didn’t go to charity.

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I don’t need video, I just want to know how this worked out for him!

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But, but surely wealth flows from wisdom, just temperament, and moral fiber!

Somewhere here is the reason that shitty, nutjob right wing bloggers from the early Aughts are now running the fucking country.

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Fiction is DEAD!

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Well, I will give him credit for one thing -and that’s taking a huge gamble that Trump would ever repay the 60k. But, then again, 60k seems like nothing to this guy.

What would you do with a painting with a negative value? Burn it? Regift it to a frenemy?

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Love it how the traitortot secretly buying his own portrait at an auction is not what is of interest in this story. It’s just more same old same old.

What is of interest is what new variety of the class of societus rejectus has turned up in T-boy’s orbit this time.

Being rich does not preclude one from being a total loser.

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Yes they are. :laughing:

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When Trump finally leaves office (whether in a limo or cuffs) the entire nation will need a Slikwood-level shower.

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I believe the crime was in using “non-profit” Trump Foundation money to pay for it and keeping it for personal use.

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I want to see the painting, I mean at least a small digital version, so I can laugh at it. Imagine paying someone to buy a portrait of yourself. Trump is so far removed from the real world it’s scary.

A fake artist renders the image of a fake President who arranges for a fake buyer to pretend to buy the POS.

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Hey!

“I was in France, I was single,” the magazine reported him as saying of the filmed encounter.

Who among us has not been in such a situation?

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Josh Kovensky you are one hilarious dude and contribute immensely to the distinctive TPM take on events.

That’s what’s under investigation, but one time-honored way to launder money is to buy/sell art or real estate at inflated prices.

ETA: So how many portraits of Donald Trump are out there and what’s their provenance? We’ve heard of a few hanging in his golf clubs, right? Hard to imagine anyone would really want a giant picture of his mug for investment or display purposes.

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