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erronis

(23,349 posts)
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 02:55 PM Thursday

How Trump Media collapsed -- Judd Legum - Popular Information

https://popular.info/p/how-trump-media-collapsed

So much chicanery. This is just the opening paragraphs.

Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), the parent company of Truth Social, has an unrivaled free source of publicity. President Trump, who is also TMTG's largest shareholder, posts extensively on the Truth Social platform, sometimes dozens of times in a single day. He is essentially leveraging the full weight of the presidency, the world's most powerful office, to drive awareness of TMTG's offerings.

Yet, by all objective metrics, TMTG is failing.

The stock price, which trades under the ticker symbol DJT, peaked at nearly $62 in March 2024, shortly after the company went public through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). On February 17, DJT stock closed below $10 per share, an all-time low. (It rallied modestly on Wednesday, closing at $10.48.)

What happened?

First, the fundamentals of the business are poor. In the three months ending September 2025, the most recent quarterly data available, TMTG reported $972,000 in revenue and a net loss of $58.4 million. The business is burning money at an alarming rate and has done so since its inception. It has never brought in more than $4 million per year while losing hundreds of millions of dollars.

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How Trump Media collapsed -- Judd Legum - Popular Information (Original Post) erronis Thursday OP
Probably losing money because intheflow Thursday #1
Anything owned by the "Donald J Trump Revocable Trust"... Kid Berwyn Thursday #2
Maybe the only business plan is to lightly launder bribes and pump the cash into Donny's pockets struggle4progress Thursday #3

intheflow

(30,109 posts)
1. Probably losing money because
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 03:38 PM
Thursday

it was never meant to make money. I think it would have been a bonus if it had, but really, it’s been useful as a distraction tool/propaganda outlet, probably with a side of money laundering.

Kid Berwyn

(23,884 posts)
2. Anything owned by the "Donald J Trump Revocable Trust"...
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 03:52 PM
Thursday

…has got to be a scam, by definition.

struggle4progress

(125,850 posts)
3. Maybe the only business plan is to lightly launder bribes and pump the cash into Donny's pockets
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 04:00 PM
Thursday
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