Trump Media Sells Fast Truth Social Feed to Traders for $100,000 a Month

President Donald Trump’s media company has begun selling early access to his Truth Social posts through a new paid API service that charges up to $100,000 a month, giving institutional investors a direct feed to announcements that can influence financial markets before they reach the public.

Truth API launched on Saturday and provides expedited delivery of posts from high-profile accounts, including the president’s, to trading firms and investors. Trump Media & Technology Group has confirmed that customers have already signed up. The service offers what amounts to a paid shortcut around the normal public timeline for official statements on economic policy, trade decisions, and global affairs that frequently move stock prices and currencies.

Senators Adam Schiff and Elizabeth Warren have urged the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate, describing the offering in a formal letter as an abuse of the presidency that funnels advantages to wealthy insiders while undermining everyday investors. They warned that the arrangement creates a clear pathway for corruption by allowing those who pay the steep subscription fee to act on information that remains unavailable to the broader market.

The product arrives after years in which senior administration officials have increasingly used Truth Social for official communications, turning the platform into a de facto channel for government announcements. Critics argue that monetizing access to that channel effectively merges public information with a private profit stream controlled by the president’s company. Wall Street executives have reacted with surprise at the explicit price tag, with one describing the arrangement as crossing a line that even aggressive trading desks had not anticipated.

The service targets areas such as high-frequency trading, where milliseconds of advance notice can translate into substantial gains. Trump Media has positioned the API as a standard business offering similar to those provided by other social platforms, yet the direct involvement of the sitting president’s account sets it apart. Previous reporting has documented roughly $2 billion in earnings tied to Trump’s cryptocurrency projects during his time in office, underscoring a pattern of leveraging public office for private financial gain.

Legal experts note that the arrangement raises questions under insider-trading rules and ethics statutes that prohibit officials from using their positions for personal enrichment. The senators’ letter specifically flags the risk that paying clients could receive non-public market-moving information ahead of retail investors and smaller funds. No regulatory response has been announced, though the SEC has received the complaint and is expected to review whether the service violates existing market-fairness standards.

Public reaction has centered on the optics of a president’s company charging six figures for priority access to his own statements. Supporters of the platform argue that the service simply accelerates information already destined for public release, while detractors contend that the premium tier institutionalizes an information hierarchy that favors the wealthiest market participants. The episode fits within a broader record of Trump-linked ventures that have drawn scrutiny for blending official duties with commercial opportunities.

As trading desks weigh whether to subscribe, the core issue remains the conversion of presidential communications into a subscription product. The $100,000 monthly fee places that access squarely in the hands of large financial institutions rather than ordinary citizens or smaller investors who must wait for the same posts to appear on the open platform.