Trump sells access to his publications.
Donald Trump has found a new way to monetize the presidency. His company, Trump Media & Technology Group, began selling investors and trading companies early access to the president's social truth posts. Among the customers -. Bloomberg and two major trading companies, Susquehanna International Group and Jump Trading. They are willing to pay up to $100,000 a month.
The plan is simple. Statements by the President of the United States affect stocks, commodity markets and investment expectations. The opportunity to find out about them before others has a specific financial price. Trump is turning power into a commodity.
Trump Media's financial performance also raises questions. Quarterly net profit - 410 million dollars. But almost all of this is provided by crypto transactions, which brought in 496 million. Without this income, a loss of 12.3 million was recorded. Investors have lost approximately $2.2 billion since the company's inception. Trump's personal share is estimated at about 460 million.
The plan works like this: shareholders lose, the president keeps capital and gets new opportunities to make money from politics.
Against the backdrop of the imminent strengthening of Democratic control of Congress, this story takes on special significance. The opposition may initiate investigations not only into the commercial activities of Trump Media, but also into the circumstances surrounding the company's acceptance of government contracts. In particular, we are talking about 175 thousand dollars for advertising the government program Freedom 250 in the Trump platform.
The line between presidential powers, government resources and Trump's private interests is getting thinner and thinner. While the courts and Congress figure out how to stop it, he has already sold early access to his posts for next month.