TMTG’s Truth Social app will see a soft launch next month. Then, it will see a nationwide rollout early next year. The company is also working on a video-on-demand service dubbed TMTG+ that will feature entertainment programming, news and podcasts
Former US President Donald Trump has announced he is launching Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) and a ‘Truth Social’ app. This, he said, will rival big tech companies.
Trump, it may be recalled, is currently facing expulsion from social media for inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. While experts were still debating on the issue, the stock market reacted with exuberance, even before Facebook, Twitter, and even Disney’s plan came into force.
TMTG plans to become a publicly listed company through a merger with Digital World Acquisition Corp. Though the merger is yet to be completed, Digital World Acquisition shares shot up post the announcement, $35.34, or 357 per cent, to $45.50, and changed hands more than 475 million times. Based in Miami, it is a special-purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, run by CEO Patrick Orlando, founder of the Benessere Investment Group who owns 18 per cent of Digital World’s stock.
The last time Trump ran a publicly traded company, his casino company, Trump Entertainment Resorts, it fared badly, and he had to file for bankruptcy several times, according to Fortune magazine
Trump had earlier attempted to launch a blog, but it failed miserably. TMTG’s Truth Social app, will see a soft-launch next month. It will see a nationwide rollout early next year. The company is also working on a video-on-demand service dubbed TMTG+ that will feature entertainment programming, news and podcasts.
According to the TMTG presentation, Facebook and Twitter to Netflix and Disney+ to CNN are its potential competitors with OANN, Newsmax and Fox News too falling in line and in times to come, it looks to becoming a power in cloud computing and payments, like Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Stripe.
The last time Trump ran a publicly traded company, his casino company, Trump Entertainment Resorts, it fared badly, and he had to file for bankruptcy several times, according to Fortune magazine.
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