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Updated · CBS New York · Jul 16

Trump Media Launches Aug. 1 Paid API for Trump's 12.9 Million-Follower Truth Social Posts

Updated

Updated · CBS New York · Jul 16

Trump Media Launches Aug. 1 Paid API for Trump's 12.9 Million-Follower Truth Social Posts

Q: Can selling access to presidential posts rescue a company whose stock has plummeted 84% since its public offering?

Probably not on its own. The new Truth API could create a real, higher-margin revenue stream because President Trump’s posts can move markets, and Wall Street firms, newsrooms and trading shops do pay for low-latency, machine-readable feeds. If TMTG can convert that demand into recurring contracts, it would be more valuable than relying mainly on advertising. But the scale of the company’s financial problems is much larger than what this product alone is likely to fix. TMTG reported only about $871,000 in revenue in the first quarter of 2026 while posting a net loss of $405.9 million. For 2025, it reported $3.7 million in annual revenue and a $712 million net loss. Its shares have fallen 84% since listing, and the stock hit a fresh low around the API announcement. Those numbers suggest the company needs a far broader turnaround than a single data product. The API does have strategic logic. It monetizes something scarce: verified, real-time access to posts from an account that investors and journalists already monitor closely. It may also reduce unauthorized scraping and open a second licensing market for AI training, though that area carries copyright and compliance risks. The bigger issue is whether demand is large and durable enough to materially change TMTG’s economics. Unless the API quickly produces meaningful recurring revenue at a scale far above the company’s current media business, it is more likely to help at the margin than to rescue the company.

3 articles · Updated · CBS New York · Jul 16

Aug. 1 is the launch date for Trump Media’s paid API, which will give institutional customers licensed, real-time access to Truth Social posts from Donald Trump and other major accounts.
12.9 million followers make Trump’s Truth Social account the platform’s biggest, and he often posts official decisions there first—on Iran, tariffs and immigration—while some of those messages never appear on X.
Wall Street firms use low-latency social-media feeds to trade on market-moving information, and Trump Media said it has already signed some institutional customers for the service.
42% of Trump Media is tied to roughly 114 million shares issued to Trump, now held in a revocable trust for Donald Trump Jr., prompting ethics critics to call the new product a conflict of interest.
$406 million was Trump Media’s first-quarter net loss, underscoring how the company is trying to monetize Truth Social as its stock remains down 84% since its 2024 Nasdaq debut.