Trump Media's Truth API gives traders early access to the president's posts. Critics say it lets insiders front-run markets at the expense of retail investors.
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Trump Media launched a data feed Saturday that gives institutional customers faster access to President Donald Trump's Truth Social posts – a service critics say lets traders front-run the market on statements that can move oil, defense stocks, and currencies.
The product, called Truth API, delivers a direct real-time feed of posts from prominent Truth Social accounts. Trump himself is the biggest draw. His tariff announcements, Iran strike threats, and policy pivots have repeatedly shifted markets before most investors can read them on the public site.
"Markets already move on Truth Social posts," interim CEO Kevin McGurn said in a press release. "Truth API delivers a direct, licensed, real-time feed of the platform's most market-moving Truths while advancing our strategy to monetize proprietary assets through a high-margin, recurring revenue stream."
Trump Media has not disclosed pricing. Reuters reported the company discussed charging up to $100,000 a month, or $60,000 a month under a three-year agreement.
The launch timing was telling. Hours after the feed went live, Trump posted on Truth Social that he was again close to a deal to end his war on Iran. On a normal trading day, that post would have hit oil futures. Anyone with early access could have traded ahead of the reaction.
Jim Bianco, president of Bianco Research, said on X that Truth API could produce "more frequent market-moving posts" on the platform. "Trump will want them to be happy with their new service," he wrote Saturday.
Finance journalist James Surowiecki said the service likely violates insider trading laws. "Trump is disclosing information (in this case, information about some of his future public statements as president, including statements about policy) that belongs to the US government in exchange for money," Surowiecki wrote on X. "That violates his duty of trust and confidence to his employer (the govt), and is illegal. And anyone who pays for the feed is knowingly paying for misappropriated information, which is illegal as well."
Joe Saluzzi, cofounder of Themis Trading, told the Associated Press that the feed lets customers bypass ordinary traders. "Somebody who buys the info and has a system built to process it will be able to act quicker than you and me," Saluzzi said. "The loser is always the retail investor."
Dean Baker, cofounder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, said the service works at the expense of everyday Americans. "Since reporters are too lazy to tell people, the money that insider traders pocket is money taken from the 401(k)s and IRAs of normal people who work for a living," Baker posted Saturday.
"All-In" podcast cohost Jason Calacanis said Truth API shows that people around Trump aren't giving him honest advice. "They're simply too scared to lose their position close to the Oval to just say 'this is a very dumb idea,'" Calacanis wrote Sunday. "The country is going to have endless, justified investigations into these 'projects.'"
Shaun Maguire, a venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital and a vocal Trump supporter, said on X he is not a fan. "Moves like this cheapen Trump's policy wins (of which there have been many)," Maguire wrote.
Zach Everson, director of Public Citizen's Trump Accountability Project, called the notion that Trump would not profit during his presidency a "farce." "But you're telling me Trump Media decided to sell Wall Street the fastest access to Trump's posts without running it by him first?" Everson said after the service was announced. Trump owns a majority stake in Trump Media.
Vuk Vuković, founding partner of hedge fund Oraclum Capital, said his team tested whether Trump's posts contain tradable signals. "Spoiler: there aren't," Vuković wrote Sunday. "The tweets are complete noise. Even when you capture a few strong moves before they happen, you will lose so much on the rest of it that it's not worth it. He simply tweets too much, and 90% of the time, the market doesn't react at all." He said anyone buying options or futures on each Trump post will see losses offset gains. "All in all, he's selling you noise."
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