Stephen Colbert Exposes Trump's Most 'Stirringly Stupid' Moneymaking Scheme Yet

The "Late Show" host mocked the former president's latest bizarre attempt to get cash from his fans.
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Former President Donald Trump has been selling sneakers, Bibles and more as he attempts to raise cash in the face of nearly half a billion dollars in civil verdicts, but Stephen Colbert on Thursday spotted the strangest scheme yet.

A year or so ago, as Colbert reminded viewers, “Trump sold NFTs with stirringly stupid images of him doing things like hanging out in space with a fire lion.”

This week, during a day off from his criminal trial in the Stormy Daniels hush money case, the presumptive Republican nominee for president held a dinner for fans who bought at least 47 of those NFTs, which cost $99 each.

“Some attendees also received physical cards with pieces of the suit and the tie that Trump was wearing when he was arrested in Georgia,” Colbert said. “The suit was actually kinda easy to do because the suit was already in scraps. Because that’s just how Trump gets undressed.”

The “Late Show” host then broke out an impression of Trump getting cut out of his “poly-blend prison” of a suit:

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