Former President Donald Trump is on the cusp of scoring a major financial bonanza – at least on paper.
As long as Trump Media & Technology Group’s share price doesn’t spectacularly implode before Tuesday’s closing bell, Trump is on track to receive another 36 million shares as the owner of Truth Social.
This milestone is on track to be hit after the market closes on Tuesday.
Even though Trump Media is losing money and Truth Social is very tiny, those new shares Trump is in line to receive would be valued at about $1.3 billion at current prices.
Trump’s net worth has been on a roller coaster ride ever since his social media company finalized its deal to go public late last month. The former president is the dominant shareholder in a stock that has been called a “meme stock on steroids.”
To put in perspective how detached from reality Trump Media’s stock price is, the Truth Social platform’s total revenue is about the same as a single McDonald’s location.
Despite this, the company has a market cap of almost 5 billion. That is completely insane.