Trump Posts Video as Truth Social Rolls Out $100,000 Data Feed

Trump shares a video on Truth Social days after his media company launches a paid API that gives traders early access to his market-moving posts for up to $100,000 a month.

First Published: August 4, 2026, 9:23 PM ET

WASHINGTON D.C. — Donald J. Trump shared a video on Truth Social, extending a daily posting habit that has turned his account into a market-moving instrument for his own media company.

The post landed days after Trump Media & Technology Group C orp., the parent of truthsocial and the publicly traded company in which Trump is the largest shareholder, launched a subscription data service that sells early access to his posts. Called Truth API, it offers traders a real-time feed of the platform’s most influential accounts for a fee of up to $100,000 per month, according to theguardian.com.

“This appears to be an outrageous abuse of the President’s office for his personal benefit that undermines everyday investors and the integrity of our markets, while enriching Wall Street and other wealthy insiders,” Democratic senators Adam Schiff and Elizabeth Warren wrote in a letter to Securities and Exchange Commission chair Paul Atkins, according to theguardian.com.

The episode connects an ordinary social-media clip to a larger question about whether a sitting president should profit from privileged access to his own words, and whether regulators will act before the next market-moving post.

Here is the full post on truthsocial: “truthsocial post containing one video.” on August 5, 2026 at 1:15 AM ET.

This is Trump’s 10th message released today, and the last post was 8 minutes ago, and it is not part of a thread. On average, Trump produces 18 posts per day since his inauguration on January 20, 2025. The move fits a broader pattern in Trump’s recent messaging, with 46 of his 441 posts over the last 30 days classified as image-only posts.

The stakes fall unevenly. Paying subscribers, including trading firms, gain a head start on posts that have moved oil prices, tariffs and equity indexes, according to theguardian.com. Everyday investors who cannot pay the fee receive the same information later, a gap critics call a form of market manipulation and insider trading, according to theguardian.com.

Trump’s @realDonaldTrump account held 13 million followers as of the launch and remains the platform’s largest. He frequently uses it to reveal major policy decisions before announcing them elsewhere, according to theguardian.com. Trump Media’s stock has fallen more than 70% since he took office last year, erasing roughly $6 billion in shareholder value, according to theguardian.com. Shares climbed 5.5% to $10.39 the day before the service debuted, according to forbes.com.

For a reader with no brokerage account, the design still matters, because posts that shift tariffs or oil can ripple into gas prices, mortgage rates and grocery bills. The service prices timing itself, letting well-funded firms react while the public waits.

This has happened before in the sense that paid, low-latency data feeds already exist on rival platforms, according to theguardian.com. What sets this case apart is that the platform’s most influential user is also the president and the company’s largest shareholder, a combination without a clean precedent.

The next move rests with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which the senators asked to investigate whether the company broke the law, according to theguardian.com. The agency has not announced a date for any decision.

Politicians monetizing their platforms is not new, but the mechanics here echo earlier fights over privileged financial information. The SEC’s Regulation Fair Disclosure, adopted on August 15, 2000, barred companies from selectively feeding material information to favored investors before the public. Enforcement followed, with the agency settling its first Regulation FD cases in 2002 against firms that had tipped analysts early. The rule reshaped how executives speak, forcing simultaneous disclosure and leaving selective access on far shakier legal ground than before.