Someone has finally monetized what we all suspected was priceless: early access to presidential thoughts before they hit the market. Truth Social is now selling a $100,000 subscription tier that lets you read Trump’s posts minutes before the general public, and naturally, this has triggered a lawsuit because apparently there are people who think this is insider trading dressed up in red hats.
Let’s be clear about what we are discussing here. A social media platform owned by a former president is charging six figures so that wealthy subscribers can read his posts before everyone else. The suit argues this gives paying customers an unfair advantage in trading stocks based on market-moving statements—which, if you squint hard enough at the legal theory, almost makes sense. If Trump posts “I am shorting widgets,” the people who read it first could theoretically profit before the market reacts.
The absurdity is not that someone is suing. It is that this business model exists at all. Truth Social has lost money continuously since launch. The company is apparently so desperate for revenue that it decided to weaponize the one asset it actually has: unfiltered access to a former president’s unfiltered thoughts, sold to the highest bidder.
This is what peak late-stage social media looks like. Not a platform for connection or information. A toll booth where the price of entry is six figures and the product is just slightly faster access to the same noise everyone else will hear anyway.
The real scandal is not the lawsuit. It is that this seemed like a reasonable business strategy to anyone involved.