APPRENTICE/SOCIAL MEDIA: “Donald Trump is suing two co-founders of Trump Media, claiming they should lose their shares of the company for mismanaging his social media site. The men, Wes Moss and Andy Litinsky, had already filed a suit against Mr Trump in February to prevent him from reducing their 8.6% stake in the firm. They […]
Tag: Truth Social
3/26/2024
SOCIAL MEDIA/STOCK MARKET/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Buoyed by legions of avid supporters, Donald Trump made a bubbly debut on the Nasdaq stock exchange Tuesday. Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group soared like helium from the opening bell and maintained most of those gains until late in the trading day when a selloff brought Trump’s namesake social […]
2/15/2024
MEDIA/TRUMP BUSINESS: “US regulators have finally given the green light to a controversial merger between Truth Social owner Trump Media & Technology Group and a blank-check company. The blessing from the Securities and Exchange Commission removes the last major obstacle holding back the deal. The merger, if approved by shareholders, would pave the way for […]
10/16/2023
JOE BIDEN/SOCIAL MEDIA: “The Biden campaign Monday joined Truth Social, the platform founded by former President Trump, pushing its message on a platform largely dominated by the former president and his followers… Fox News first reported that the Biden campaign would join Truth Social, which Trump founded in 2021 and launched in 2022 after he […]
10/16/2022
ISRAEL/RELIGION: “In a post Sunday [October 16, 2022] on the website Truth Social, Trump said, ‘No President has done more for Israel than I have,’ but ‘our wonderful Evangelicals are far more appreciative of this than the people of the Jewish faith, especially those living in the U.S.’ He did laud his support in Israel […]
10/7/2022
SOCIAL MEDIA/TWITTER: “Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk knocked former President Trump’s social media platform Truth Social, calling it a ‘rightwing echo chamber.’ … During an in-depth interview with the Financial Times published Friday, the tech mogul talked about his reasoning behind making a bid to purchase Twitter… Should Musk gain control of the platform, […]
10/4/2022
ABORTION/ENDORSEMENT: “Former President Donald Trump and leaders of top GOP political organizations leapt to the defense of Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker on Tuesday, after a bombshell report accused the anti-abortion Republican of allegedly paying for a woman’s abortion years earlier. ‘Herschel has properly denied the charges against him, and I have no doubt he […]
9/25/2022
RELIGION/SOCIAL MEDIA: “Former President Donald Trump shared a post on his Truth Social account on Friday, declaring him as ‘second’ only to Jesus… The post by [the] Truth Social user… said: ‘Jesus is the Greatest. President @realDonaldTrump is the second greatest.”‘ -Joshua Zitser, “Donald Trump shares Truth Social photo proclaiming him as second only to […]
9/18/2022
QANON/RALLY/SOCIAL MEDIA: “Former President Donald J. Trump appeared to more fully embrace QAnon on Saturday [September 17, 2022], playing a song at a political rally in Ohio that prompted attendees to respond with a salute in reference to the cultlike conspiracy theory’s theme song… Aides to Mr. Trump said the song played at the rally […]
9/2/2022
2016 ELECTION/2020 ELECTION/FBI/RUSSIA/SOCIAL MEDIA: “In a 24-hour period this week, former President Donald J. Trump posted to his social media platform, Truth Social, 88 times, amplifying one conspiracy theory after another. Among his unsupported claims: A retiring F.B.I. agent was behind both the search of his Mar-a-Lago property on Aug. 8 and the investigation into his […]
8/25/2022
SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Former President Donald Trump has run into a significant setback with trademarking the name for his social media platform, Truth Social. According to a filing released this month and tweeted by Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, Trump’s social media app had its application refused by the US Patent and Trademark Office because […]
7/22/2022
INVESTIGATIONS/MITCH MCCONNELL: “Former President Trump on Thursday[July 21, 2022] vented his anger with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) during the House select Jan. 6 committee’s hearing… Trump appeared to lose his temper after the Jan. 6 committee played a clip of McConnell’s speech on the Senate floor during Trump’s second impeachment trial in which […]
7/20/2022
TRUMP FAMILY: “Former President Donald Trump was greeted by fans as he attended the funeral of his first wife Ivana in New York City on Wednesday [July 20, 2022]. Outside of Frank Campbell Funeral Home in Manhattan, Trump supporters called out to him as the former president prepared to walk out of the location following […]
7/11/2022
2020 ELECTION/VOTE BY MAIL/WISCONSIN: “On Friday [July 8, 2022], the [Wisconsin] Supreme Court ruled that the Wisconsin Elections Commission acted illegally when it told local elections clerks that they can set up drop boxes as an alternative to the in-person return of absentee ballots. The court affirmed the January decision of a Waukesha County judge […]
7/8/2022
2024 ELECTION: “On Truth Social, Trump referenced a tweet published July 2 that shows results from two separate polls of potential 2024 GOP candidates. One poll conducted on May 18 showed Trump with a 41 percent to 12 percent lead over potential GOP candidate, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in a hypothetical matchup. ‘With all the […]
12/7/2021
DEVIN NUNES/ELIZABETH WARREN/SOCIAL MEDIA: “Donald Trump’s plan to launch ‘Truth Social’, a special purpose acquisitions backed social media company, early next year may have hit a roadblock after US regulators issued a request for information on the deal on Monday. The request from the SEC and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority for information from Digital […]