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/Cyrano_Knows Sep 21 '26

Didn't Trump try (or succeed) at asking for a $100,000 subscription for early access to his Truth Social posts?

TDLR: Trump is trying to make profit by letting Wall Street firms, hedge funds, and high-frequency traders see his posts or "tweets" before anybody else.

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u/bender40k Sep 21 '26

Yes. Because you can use the posts to predict how to buy stocks and make the $$ back. He has been manipulating the market for ages now.

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u/AlexMackAttack 29d ago

Holy fuck I'm so dumb I never even realized that's why they created Truth Social. What the fuck is happening to us?

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u/MessiahOfMetal 29d ago

Well, it was created by the cow guy Nunes and someone else because Trump whined about being banned from Twitter for inciting an insurrection and going against the site's rules on promoting hate speech and violence.

Then Felon Husk bought it, reinstated various Nazi accounts but Lie Social had already been a thing by then.

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u/SanityInAnarchy California 29d ago

And they literally sold it on its inside trading potential.

As always with Trump, I have to clarify that I do mean literally. I don't mean it was basically wink wink nudge nudge insider trading. I mean the entire goddamned pitch for that thing was that his words move markets and so it's valuable to have them early.

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u/kinotravels Sep 22 '26

For the keywords to manipulate the stock market.

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u/Much_Highlight_1309 29d ago

Your tl;dr is longer than the rest. 😂

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u/SomewhereAtWork 29d ago

Yes, the insider trading subscription.

But you can also buy direct favors via his own crypto currency.

All presidential services are on e-commerce now.