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[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 77 points 1 year ago (2 children)

People are starting to realize everything he says is a joke? I can't imagine actually trusting an investment to anything he touches.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (9 children)

No, people do not. Roughly 50 % would still vote him.

[–] negativeyoda@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Less than 30%. A full third of the USA can't be bothered to vote at all

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Don't forget the gerrymandering and efforts to make it unreasonably difficult for people to vote.

remember, less than 50% of people who voted voted for him. Over a million more people voted for Hillary than Trump. Largest loss in both % and people in history, I think (for a winning presidential election).

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Roughly 50 % would still vote him.

Evidence?

[–] sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The last election and current approval polls?

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[–] mojo_raisin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Trump Steaks? No?

[–] DevCat@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One more overvalued trump property. Are we surprised?

[–] Jesusaurus@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Benefit with this one is everyone can short it once the option trades become available

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

I am a bit surprised. I figured it would be an easy way for fat cats to pay off Donnie's massive debts and make him look like a big shot.

I'd love to be the fly on the wall when the top GOPs meet up with the main donors.

[–] HuddaBudda@kbin.social 46 points 1 year ago (9 children)

It feels like someone is pumping the stock up.

Not your average small business owner either, someone with weight is basically defying every metric of long term/short term investment on a stock that has done nothing but depreciate in value over the past year.

On a product, no one uses.

And said, "That's worth at least as much as Amazon."

[–] ursakhiin@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

Trump has people trying to get his base to buy the stock with the express purpose of pumping it up to give him more assets to work with to fund his legal battles.

I wouldn't be surprised if the SEC is currently investigating it because they haven't been trying to hide it at all.

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[–] Igloojoe@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trump selling truth social stock was so that foreign entities could legally give him money so he could pay the bail for the NY case.

[–] jackpot@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

he cant sell any, hes lokced to it for 6 months

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't need to, it's asset that can be used for collateral.

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

I think in this case there was a contractual timelock blocking that too unless he gets an exception approved (don't remember all the details)

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Holy shit I didn't realize it was worth that much that's crazy

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It wasn't.

Like everything trump touches, it was ridiculously overvalued

[–] TIMMAY@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

he's like king midas except instead of gold everything just gets slathered in shitty bronzer

[–] Fluke@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

The "reverse Midas touch", everything he touches turned to putrid shit.

[–] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So he has no way of cashing out?

[–] jonne 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's just another roundabout way to accept bribes. Don't be surprised if we find out later on that the Saudis or the Chinese bought a bunch of this stock. If he gets elected this stock will skyrocket.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Boy, I sure miss the Emoluments Clause.

[–] jonne 16 points 1 year ago

If only they decided to add a punishment to those presidential crime laws. Pretty naive to count on congressmen to do the honourable thing and impeach.

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] EmbeddedEntropy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Unless their board approves an earlier date.

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is a mastodon instance assigned a value?

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 6 points 1 year ago

My reaction when my instance admin "does an IPO" and basically sells my contributions and my data to the highest bidder

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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 8 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Former President Donald Trump's fledgling media business is losing its sheen among investors a week after going public, with a sharp reversal in the company's stock price lopping $4 billion off its value.

The plunge in Trump Media & Technology Group's shares, which debuted on the Nasdaq Composite Index on March 25 under the ticker "DJT" (after the former president's initials), comes as it disclosed mounting losses in a regulatory filing.

Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group, whose primary asset is the Truth Social platform, tumbled $14.50, or 23%, to $47.46 in Monday afternoon trading.

To be sure, Trump Media continues to maintain a heady market capitalization for a business that's in the red and that booked just $4.1 million in revenue last year.

Yet Truth Social has positioned itself as an alternative to more established tech giants such as Meta's Facebook, which also endured losses in its early years.

"GameStop was the meme stock of a lifetime, but Trump Media has put it to shame," Michael Pachter, an analyst at Wedbush Securities, told the Associated Press last week.


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[–] imnotfromkaliningrad@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

rip bozo, lmao. looks like you cant sustain a social media network around a personality cult around some wet old dude.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looked like it was enough to get him bail, though

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago

Not bail specifically, it's a bond. A bail keeps you out of jail until a court judgement has been made, a bond keeps the court from taking your assets away to pay off a debt (including from a previous judgement). The bond is held by the court until appeal is over, then given to the winning party when the final judgment is in.

[–] Hackerman_uwu@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What is the antonym of ‘go woke go broke’ pls?

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Go fash lose cash

Turn altright feel the plight

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Go fash lose your ass?

[–] badbrainstorm@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

MAGA brain, Capitalist pain. Or just Capital pain

[–] itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What a great businessman! Much smart! So WOW! Big brain.

[–] cricbuzz@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago
[–] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Do people actually use that?

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