r/politics • u/IWantPizza555 • Sep 21 '26

No Paywall White House to Announce ‘Trump TV’ Days After Press Ban

https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/white-house-announces-trump-tv
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u/jmhalder Sep 21 '26

If Mike Lindell can broadcast a looping playlist online, I'm sure the Federal govt can figure it out.

With his buddies Larry Ellison (CBS), the FCC chair, and cable companies wanting minimal regularion... I'm sure they can force them to run it.

I bought truthsocial.rip as a domain because I thought "There's no way this even gets to a functional state", and now he exclusively tweets from it and charges for fast API use. It's publicly traded and totally bonkers that it's gotten this far.

Don't underestimate the weakness of others, and the grift by Trump.

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u/tagman375 Sep 22 '26

I think they meant that the target audience won’t have any clue how to get to it.

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u/bang_the_drums Sep 21 '26

it's absolutely riddled with ads too, literally scroll past like 4 gigantic ads to even see anything he sends out. It's insane

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u/Simba7 29d ago

I legitimately think the only reason it met success is because he tweeted on it and people were using it to plan financial decisions based on his unhinged bullshit.

I think the charging for the early access was just an attempt to monetize that.

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u/jmhalder 29d ago

I wouldn't call it successful from a market perspective, but from a financial perspective... it definitely is.

It will crash and burn when he passes on, or stops being relevant. Granted, that could be a damn decade.