Trump Media’s $100k-a-month Truth Social scheme is the president’s most desperate grift yet

Truth API is what happens when a historically unpopular lame-duck president needs to lock in a revenue stream before he leaves office.

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The Trump Media & Technology Group announced last week that it would soon offer a new product for financial services companies: a real-time feed of posts from the “highest-ranking” accounts on Truth Social, the right-wing social media platform that will have your laptop fan roaring like a jet engine within two minutes of opening it in a browser tab. And as compelling as the content produced by, for example, the conservative podcaster Dan Bongino might be, what’s really for sale here is premium access to insights from the only Truth Social user anyone cares about: President Donald Trump, who often uses the platform to announce his administration’s official policies in meandering, typo-ridden posts.

The service, branded as Truth API and marketed to “high-frequency and algorithmic trading firms,” advertises seamless........

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