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Trump stands to profit off US policy announcements by selling fast access to his social media posts 41%
By BERNARD CONDON81% BRIAN SLODYSKO46%
8/1/2026, 4:06:22 AM
Topics: Trump Media And Technology Group, Truth Social, Insider Trading, Stock Market, Government Ethics, Social Media Platforms, Presidential Communications
Keywords: Donald Trump, Truth Social, Insider Trading, Social Media, Stocks, Policy Announcements, High Frequency Trading, Trump Media And Technology Group, Ethics, Public Office, Private Business, Markets, Tariffs, Iran War, Saudi Arabia, Palantir Technologies, Intel, Elizabeth Warren, Public Citizen, Craig Holman, Dylan Hedler Gaudette, Irene Aldridge, Able Alpha Trading, Themis Trading, Joe Saluzzi, Wall Street, US Policy
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NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump knows the world hangs on his every word.
Now he wants you to pay for it.
The social media posts of the world’s most powerful man are going on sale Saturday when his Truth Social business begins offering sneak peeks of them to Wall Street traders willing to pay up.
The move raises the prospect of big profits for Trump’s company and big questions about insider trading and using public office for private gain.
Similar fast speed feeds are sold by other social media firms and media providers, but Truth Social doesn’t just distribute the news, it makes it, regularly rattling markets as Trump posts policy changes on everything from war to central bank leadership to tariffs.
“If this was the CEO of a public company, this would be jail time,” said Irene Aldridge, head of Able Alpha Trading, which doesn’t plan to buy the service.
“We have a President of the United States who has the front seat to all the action, who makes all the decisions, and he’s disclosing this ahead of time to a select group.”
Trump’s company says critics just aren’t capitalist enough
Asked about the propriety of the new service and whether White House lawyers had vetted it, Trump’s press office declined to comment, referring questions to Truth Social’s publicly traded parent.
That company, Trump Media & Technology, issued a statement blasting Democratic critics for mischaracterizing the service “out of ideological opposition to free markets or a failure to grasp the distinction between public and nonpublic information — or, quite possibly, both.”
Traders profit aplenty betting on oil, stocks and currencies
Just this month, Trump has threatened on Truth Social to slap higher tariffs on Canada, kill a nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia and widen the Iran war.
With advanced knowledge, traders betting on a plunge in the Canadian dollar, a drop in nuclear energy stocks and a jump in oil futures could have raked in big profits.
“The pimping of specific companies — obviously Wall Street would like to know that before other people,” said Dylan Hedler-Gaudette, a federal ethics rule expert at the watchdog Project on Government Oversight.
“It’s a real mess.”
In April, moments after Trump praised Palantir Technologies in a post that included its stock symbol, the price briefly jumped the most it had in an entire year.
Later that month, Trump posted, “Congratulations on Intel doing such a great job,” and the stock immediately jumped in after-hours trading.
“The loser is always the retail investor.”
If just three sign up for the $100,000 a month fee, that would double revenue at Trump Media, which reported taking in $3.7 million last year.
Trump Media needs big money customers
The company can use their business.
Stock in the Truth Social parent has plunged 75% since Trump took office last year as the company keeps reporting hundreds of millions in losses despite the president’s help driving traffic to its site by posting major decisions there.
In fact, the president breaks news on Truth Social so often that the White House press office will copy his posts into an email when responding to questions from the media seeking details on policies.
If his posts aren’t available yet, journalists are sometimes told, “Wait for the Truth.”
Another problem for Truth Social is looming if the Democrats take control of Congress and launch investigations, as vowed by Massachusetts Senator Sen.
Elizabeth Warren in a statement Friday specifically attacking the new service: “We will haul in those responsible for this open corruption to answer to the American people.”
If the losses keep mounting for the company, though, some predict the president will push things further, using the platform even more for policy announcements.
“That’s absolutely going to happen,” warns Craig Holman, a lobbyist for the good government group Public Citizen.
“Trump knows how to sell products.”
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AP reporters Will Weissert and Josh Boak contributed from Washington.
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