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Trump firm plans to sell priority access to Truth Social posts, possibly his own 75%
By BERNARD CONDON0%
7/16/2026, 7:27:05 PM
Topics: Trump Media And Technology Group, Truth Social, Conflicts Of Interest, Financial Markets, Donald Trump
Keywords: Trump Media And Technology Group, Donald Trump, Kevin Mcgurn, Stocks And Bonds, Financial Markets, Iran War, Truth Social Trump Media Trump Post Conflicts Of Interest Truth API, Business, District Of Columbia, Politics, Federal Reserve System, Iran, Devin Nunes, Donald Trump Jr, Trump Media And Technology Group Corp, Corporate Management
BS Summary: This article contains 20 faulty reasoning types, including Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, Framing Effect, and Appeal to Authority, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 29.9% saturation with 105 hits. Analysis detected 752 faulty-reasoning hits from 351 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 67.9% and a BS Rank of 75% (4,397 of 17,437 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 74.80% of the article peer group.
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s media company is planning to charge for special high-speed access to Truth Social posts, including possibly his own affecting national security and financial markets.
The move announced Thursday would allow Wall Street trading firms and other institutions to get news from top Truth Social contributors in milliseconds so they could profit off subsequent moves in stocks, bonds and interest rates.
Called Truth PSI, the new service comes amid a flurry of other deals by Trump and his family company that critics say are exploiting the presidency for profit.
It follows similar offers of paid access on rival platforms, though with one key difference: The most popular Truth Social poster is the president himself and, as the biggest shareholder of the public traded parent company, would directly benefit.
“He’s selling expedited, privileged access to information about what he is doing as president,” said Kathleen Clark of Washington University School of Law and an expert in government conflicts of interest rules.
“It’s yet more brazen corruption, an improper exploitation of government power to enrich himself.”
Trump Media & Technology Group has been trying to lift its stock price recently by branching into various businesses, including crypto, financial services and even nuclear fusion.
It recently replaced its longtime CEO, former Congressman Devin Nunes, with a seasoned media executive, Kevin McGurn.
Conflict of interest laws would bar U.S. government officials from owning a company that profits off their office by selling access to their decisions through public posts, says Washington University’s Clark.
But the president and vice-president, she notes, are excluded from the provision.
In the release, McGurn described the Truth PSI move as part of a “strategy to monetize proprietary assets.”
He added that he expected it to become a “meaningful, ongoing source of revenue.”
Trump Media said that it plans to start the service next month and that it has already signed up customers.
The stock rose 0.6% to $9.63 on Thursday.
Before Trump took office last year, it closed at $40.
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