Trump Posts Image on Truth Social as Truth API Fuels Stock Rally

Trump shares a media post on Truth Social days after his media company launches a $100,000-a-month data feed that critics call market manipulation.

First Published: August 3, 2026, 12:25 PM ET

WASHINGTON D.C. — Donald J. Trump posted a single image to Truth Social, the platform owned by his media company, as the stock behind it climbs back from a record low on the strength of a new paid data feed.

Here is the full post on truthsocial: image-only post with no accompanying text on August 3, 2026 at 4:13 PM ET.

This is Trump’s 10th message released today, and the last post came moments earlier, 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 47 of his 468 posts over the last 30 days classified as image-only posts.

Trump Media & Technology Group C orp., the parent of truthsocial, rolled out a subscription data service called Truth API on Aug. 1, giving paying customers faster access to posts from Trump and other high-profile accounts according to theguardian.com. Interim Chief Executive Officer Kevin McGurn described the feed as a direct, licensed stream of the platform’s most market-moving Truths according to theguardian.com. Trading firms can now receive those posts earlier than ordinary users for a fee reaching $100,000 per month.

The stakes fall heaviest on ordinary investors and the firms that pay the premium. Trump remains the largest shareholder of the publicly traded parent company, so he could personally benefit from a service built around his own posts according to theguardian.com. Wealthy trading desks gain an early window on statements that have moved markets on tariffs and the Iran war, while retail investors wait. His @realDonaldTrump account had 13 million followers as of Aug. 1 according to theguardian.com.

The backdrop is a company under financial pressure. Trump Media closed up 5.5% to $10.39 shortly before the market close on Thursday, part of a roughly 48% rally from an all-time low reached in June, when shares briefly fell below $7 according to forbes.com. The stock debuted on the Nasdaq at $70.90 per share in 2024 and has fallen 21.9% since the start of the year according to forbes.com. The company lost $712 million in full-year 2025 and generated just $3.7 million in advertising revenue according to forbes.com.

For the average American, the episode is a lesson in who gets information first. A single Trump post has repeatedly shifted stock and oil prices, and a paid feed decides which traders react before the rest of the market sees the words. Higher oil prices tied to his Iran posts could keep inflation elevated and influence Federal Reserve interest rate decisions according to theguardian.com.

Scrutiny of this kind is not new. Democratic Senators Adam Schiff and Elizabeth Warren asked the Securities and Exchange Commission in a letter dated the Tuesday before launch to investigate whether the service breaks the law according to theguardian.com. They called it an outrageous abuse of the President’s office for his personal benefit that undermines everyday investors according to theguardian.com.

The next move rests with the SEC and its chair, Paul Atkins, who received the senators’ request for a review. The agency has not announced a date for any decision on whether to open an inquiry into Truth API.

Trump has weaponized his personal broadcast channel before, as happened when markets convulsed under his posts. Last year he published more than 100 truthsocial messages in a single day while global stock markets tumbled amid fears his economic agenda could trigger a recession 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. Even so, his annual financial disclosure showed he generated more than $1 billion in revenue last year from the same companies and ventures according to theguardian.com.