# How Can Truth Social be worth $6 Billion? {Trump Media & Technology (DJT)} **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [March 22, 2024, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-truth-social-be-worth-6-billion-trump-media-technology-djt/999202 "2024-03-22T13:23:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 56
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2026, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-truth-social-be-worth-6-billion-trump-media-technology-djt/999202/1101 "2026-07-31T19:15:46Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Doesn’t mean it’s still not a pump that will greatly benefit the folks who were clued in to buy at recent lows. No disagreement there. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2026, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-truth-social-be-worth-6-billion-trump-media-technology-djt/999202/1102 "2026-08-11T08:43:10Z")
Yesterday down 8%. Today reporting 238 Million US$ loss. > **[Trump’s media company, which also owns Truth Social, reports $238m loss](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/10/trump-media-company-loss)** > > Company also announced a paid service for early access to president’s posts on policies to the social media site And also announcing a way to get insider information. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2026, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-truth-social-be-worth-6-billion-trump-media-technology-djt/999202/1103 "2026-08-11T08:50:39Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > And also announcing a way to get insider information. The Orange Peril’s business activities seem to vary between skating on the very edge of the law and plunging headfirst into outright criminality and assuming that he will, as always, just get away with it. It’s an interesting business model that few can emulate, and most aren’t crooked enough to want to try. Truth Social will eventually collapse but in the meantime the Orange Peril will have raked in a few more billions from the rubes. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2026, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-truth-social-be-worth-6-billion-trump-media-technology-djt/999202/1104 "2026-08-14T20:33:18Z")
[Trump Media sued over $100K Truth Social scheme](https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-truth-social-2677692602/) > A president selling priority access to news he himself generates for the benefit of a private company he controls is so blatantly corrupt and unconstitutional that it would have been hard to even fathom just a few years ago ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2026, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-truth-social-be-worth-6-billion-trump-media-technology-djt/999202/1105 "2026-08-14T23:36:48Z")
From that link. > after Trump Media reported more than 10 Wall Street firms had agreed to pay up to $100,000 monthly for early access to the 80-year-old president’s posts AFAIK, It’s also illegal to pay for inside information. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2026, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-truth-social-be-worth-6-billion-trump-media-technology-djt/999202/1106 "2026-08-15T11:33:57Z")
> MS NOW reached out to the [White House](https://www.rawstory.com/tag/white-house)and to Trump Media for comment but did not receive an immediate response. Well, of course not. They didn’t pay for early access. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2026, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-truth-social-be-worth-6-billion-trump-media-technology-djt/999202/1107 "2026-09-11T23:13:55Z")
You know, I think it’s been to represent the price per share in terms of something other than a dollar. Right now, one share of Truth Social would buy less than a gallon and a half of diesel. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-truth-social-be-worth-6-billion-trump-media-technology-djt/999202.md?page=55)