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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(136,712 posts)
Fri Mar 20, 2026, 03:22 PM Mar 20

Things are suddenly looking incredibly bad for Trump's social media company

President Donald Trump’s struggling Truth Social social network, traded on the stock market as Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), revealed earlier this month that it had burned through a staggering $712.1 million last year — while only making $3.7 million.

The company’s alarming financials did little to buoy waning investor enthusiasm, with shares continuing a months-long plunge that reached an all-time low last week.

Somehow, the situation has only gotten even more dire since then, with shares dipping well below $9. At the time of writing, TMTG’s shares are circling the drain at around $8.59, a stunning loss of over 50 percent over the last six months and over six percent today alone.

It’s a far cry of the venture’s record high of just shy of $80 shortly after it merged with a blank check acquisition company in March 2024, a move allowing it to be publicly listed under Trump’s initials, DJT.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/things-are-suddenly-looking-incredibly-bad-for-trump-s-social-media-company/ar-AA1YZyCh

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Things are suddenly looking incredibly bad for Trump's social media company (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 20 OP
Thoughts and prayers. Or bots and shares. jls4561 Mar 20 #1
It's down to 8.36 now leftieNanner Mar 20 #2
If you made a good faith investment belpejic Mar 20 #3
Been hearing this since day one lame54 Mar 20 #4
Because its not for investing, it's for money laundering Arthur_Frain Mar 20 #7
Yeah, that money has to be going somewhere dodgy muriel_volestrangler Mar 20 #11
Couldn't happen to a bigger fraud. Kid Berwyn Mar 20 #5
He will order the US Gubmint to buy it for 100 USD per share. Celerity Mar 20 #6
JFC! Musk, Bezos or Zuckerberg could lose $700,000,000 in a year maxrandb Mar 20 #8
Gee isn't that a shame MustLoveBeagles Mar 20 #9
C'mon, this is just a little short-term pain ... JustABozoOnThisBus Mar 20 #10
Oh, oh dear. tanyev Mar 20 #12
With revenue of 3.7 million and spending 712 million EdmondDantes_ Mar 20 #13
Is the flunky Devin NUNES still "running" it (into the ground) along the KRASNOV business model? UTUSN Mar 20 #14

belpejic

(812 posts)
3. If you made a good faith investment
Fri Mar 20, 2026, 03:56 PM
Mar 20

TMTG, then you probably shouldn't be allowed to trade securities. In fact, you may not even be able to use your phone--I don't know if those are allowed on the psych ward.

Arthur_Frain

(2,402 posts)
7. Because its not for investing, it's for money laundering
Fri Mar 20, 2026, 04:15 PM
Mar 20

Between his crypto currency grift and the djt “media empire” any legit business interests would have long ago been shunned. It’s like everybody in the underworld decided he was going to be their useful idiot.

I’ll give them that. He’s been very, very useful to them. I have to wonder though, every tool like this has had a point where they cease to be useful. Still waiting, but when it comes, I’m hoping for something spectacular.

muriel_volestrangler

(106,445 posts)
11. Yeah, that money has to be going somewhere dodgy
Fri Mar 20, 2026, 05:45 PM
Mar 20

I can't see how it would take hundreds of millions to run a small social media site that no one uses apart from The Rapist.

Celerity

(54,767 posts)
6. He will order the US Gubmint to buy it for 100 USD per share.
Fri Mar 20, 2026, 04:08 PM
Mar 20

MAGAts will rejoice, vibrating in raw, open ecstasy, and will hail him as the greatest financial mind in history, a god walking the earth.

maxrandb

(17,478 posts)
8. JFC! Musk, Bezos or Zuckerberg could lose $700,000,000 in a year
Fri Mar 20, 2026, 04:36 PM
Mar 20

and, to them, it would amount to the change we find when we vacuum under the seat cushions.

Shit like this isn't there to make money, it's there to propagandize for shit the billionaires can really profit from.

Bozos didn't pay Melania $100M because he thought her documentary was The Godfather, or even Godfather III.

A billion dollars is chump change for access to the reigns of a country worth $32 Trillion annually.

EdmondDantes_

(1,990 posts)
13. With revenue of 3.7 million and spending 712 million
Fri Mar 20, 2026, 06:45 PM
Mar 20

I'm not sure that "suddenly" is the word I'd use to describe when this problem came up.

UTUSN

(77,795 posts)
14. Is the flunky Devin NUNES still "running" it (into the ground) along the KRASNOV business model?
Fri Mar 20, 2026, 06:45 PM
Mar 20
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