{"id":68571,"date":"2025-12-30T12:50:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T20:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=68571"},"modified":"2025-12-30T12:50:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T20:50:44","slug":"trumps-scammy-media-stock-and-truth-social-parent-completes-a-classic-pump-and-dump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=68571","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Scammy Media Stock, and Truth Social Parent, Completes a Classic Pump and Dump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the first year of Donald Trump&#8217;s second occupation of the White House winds down, the evidence of his failure is glaringly apparent. His administration has presided over economic debacles, executed foreign policy blunders, and is mired in domestic scandals, including the Jeffrey Epstein affair that is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cz7p4gez742o\" target=\"_blank\">breaking apart<\/a><\/strong> his previously devoted MAGA cult.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Trump's Scammy Media Stock, and Truth Social Parent, Completes a Classic Pump and Dump%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=68571\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post this article on Twitter<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/intent\/compose?text=Trump's Scammy Media Stock, and Truth Social Parent, Completes a Classic Pump and Dump%20https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=68571\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post on Bluesky<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-cash-pile.jpg\" alt=\"Trump Baby on Cash Pile\" width=\"550\" height=\"295\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43034\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s own financial endeavors have been on a descent into ever deeper depths. Although he has structured his business ventures much like the Mafia, where they produce gains for him regardless of how they actually perform. Any other investors have likely lost a bundle.<\/p>\n<p>The latest example of that is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/12\/18\/trump-media-djt-tae-fusion-merger.html\" target=\"_blank\">the merger<\/a><\/strong> of the Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) with TAE Technologies, a nuclear fusion startup. TAE&#8217;s energy products are at present speculative and they have no facilities generating any power resources. Nevertheless, the news caused TMTG&#8217;s stock to surge 33% from about $11.00 per share to a high of about $16.80. That gain, however was short-lived. Two weeks later TMTG is hovering at around $12.80 again. So anyone who jumped in on the news is already suffering a 25% loss.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s typical of the tribulations of investors in Trump and his business misadventure. Throughout 2025, TMTG&#8217;s stock has spiraled downward. It has crashed more than 62% year to date. And this is the year that Trump returned to power, causing many of his supporters to assume that he and his businesses would be a good investments.<\/p>\n<p>There is no reason to believe that the TAE merger will turn anything around. The last major news from TMTG was that it was entering the crypto business. It represented a major departure from its core media technology pursuits to a sort of cryptocurrency treasury. They made a huge and poorly timed $2 billion bet on Bitcoin, which then promptly plummeted from their $118,000 purchase price to about $88,000. Trump&#8217;s economic advisors are proving to be no more capable than his political advisors.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the financial fiascos that Trump has presided over, he continues to shield himself from the losses suffered by his flock of cult followers, who keep getting fleeced, but seem to like it. Even more troubling is that his shady practices are providing a path for disreputable parties to grease his palm for political favors. That includes foreign operatives from adversarial nations and conflicted corporate leaders seeking legislative largesse. All of whom are more interested in buying influence than investing.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s fiscal failings are mirroring his political plunges. He is stuck at the bottom of the political pothole that he has dug for himself. Although you wouldn&#8217;t know by the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=68516\" target=\"_blank\">celebratory gushing of his perky Propaganda Secretary, Karoline Leavitt<\/a><\/strong>. For a more reality-based appraisal of Trump&#8217;s misfortunes, here&#8217;s a brief summary of the ongoing disaster we know as Trump World&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=68278\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Media (Truth Social) Falls to Its Lowest Point Ever &#8211; And So Does Donald Trump<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nReflecting the animus that Trump inspires in America, his scam business venture, Trump Media and Technology Group, is suffering its worst week since it went public a year and a half ago. It has lost a whopping 80% of its asset value since then.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=68245\" target=\"_blank\">Trump\u2019s Truth Social AI is Woke AF: Even His Own Social Media App Hates Him<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nTruth Social\u2019s Artificial Intelligence app is going woke. It is actually telling the truth about Trump and contradicting his flagrant lies on numerous subjects.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66938\" target=\"_blank\">The Trump Media and Technology Group (Truth Social) Scam Reflects His Fondness for Fraud<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nDuring an interview on CNBC, Trump complained that he has been treated \u201cvery badly\u201d by banks that he alleged were discriminating against him. Of course that might be because of the 34 felony convictions he has for defrauding banks. Not to mention a civil lawsuit finding of liability that cost him about half a billion dollars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66013\" target=\"_blank\">Trump\u2019s Truth Social is Creating \u2018Non-Woke\u2019 Investment Portfolios for MAGA Cult Investors\/Dupes<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nThe focus of the Trump investment portfolios rests on buzzwords plucked from his political rhetoric. And what could possibly have more income potential than <em>\u201cnon-woke\u201d<\/em> enterprises that pursue the anti-democratic goals of the MAGA movement?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=65197\" target=\"_blank\">Truth Social, Trump\u2019s Pathetic Personal Propaganda Platform, Continues to Bleed Cash<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nIn what may be the least surprising news of the year so far, Donald Trump\u2019s flagship social media enterprise, Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) \u2013 the parent holding company of his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social \u2013 released its annual report on Friday that revealed just how big a failure it is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=62402\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump&#8217;s Truth Social is Shedding Users Like a Miserable Childless Woman&#8217;s Mangy Cat<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nThe Donald Trump-controlled Truth Social platform recorded its third straight month of declining traffic. Truth Social attracted 2,112,000 unique visitors, down 38% compared to June 2023 when the site generated 3,407,000 unique visitors. It was the platform\u2019s second worst traffic performance since June 2022 when Truth Social had only 1,891,000 unique visitors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57278\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Crime Syndicate: Investors Arrested for Insider Trading in Failing Truth Social Scam<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nTrump&#8217;s associates in his truthless, anti-social media venture were arrested and charged with insider trading. Reports indicate that <em>&#8220;the three individuals together made more than $22 million in illegal profits.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56201\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Truth Social Disease: Ads on Trump\u2019s Twitter Ripoff are Mostly Scams and Trump-Fluffing Merch<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nAdvertisers are afraid of their ads being juxtaposed with hate speech and other noxious content. Consequently, the only advertisers who are willing to shell out are sketchy scammers, conspiracy theorists, and junk peddlers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse<br \/>\non <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/newscorpse.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@newscorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Threads<\/a>.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>And check out my books on Amazon:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aOYFpM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Fox Nation vs. Reality:<br \/>\nThe Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Thanks so much for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the first year of Donald Trump&#8217;s second occupation of the White House winds down, the evidence of his failure is glaringly apparent. His administration has presided over economic debacles, executed foreign policy blunders, and is mired in domestic scandals, including the Jeffrey Epstein affair that is breaking apart his previously devoted MAGA cult. Click [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[219,1,8],"tags":[554,95,1508,1320,1458],"class_list":["post-68571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-general","category-propaganda","tag-donald-trump","tag-media","tag-scam","tag-stock-market","tag-truth-social"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-cash-pile.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-hPZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":66551,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66551","url_meta":{"origin":68571,"position":0},"title":"Truth Social Parent Plans Desperate Share Buyback to Boost its Failing Stock and Enrich Trump","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/23\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"America's Grifter-in-Chief, Donald Trump, has tried an extensive number of financial scams intended to fatten his wallet at the expense of his gullible cult followers. 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