Trump Media launched Truth API, selling Wall Street millisecond access to the president's market-moving posts

On July 16, 2026, Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) announced Truth API, a business-to-business data feed that sells "licensed, real-time access" to posts from the highest-ranking accounts on Truth Social. The company said the feed will deliver posts to paying customers in "milliseconds" and is built for firms "most impacted by the cost of a delay in information," including high-frequency and algorithmic trading firms that buy and sell in fractions of a second. TMTG, which is majority-owned by President Donald Trump, said the service would be available to institutional customers beginning August 1, 2026, and that it had already signed up customers ahead of the launch.

President Trump's @realDonaldTrump account is the largest on Truth Social, and he has routinely used the platform to announce tariff changes and military-strike decisions that have moved financial markets. Interim CEO Kevin McGurn said in a statement that "markets already move on Truth Social posts" and that 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," which he expected to become "a meaningful, ongoing source of revenue for the company." The company did not disclose the price of the service.

Updates

2026-08-01 — Truth API launched with roughly $100,000/month pricing for traders [4, 5]

Truth API publicly launched on August 1, 2026, giving paying subscribers millisecond-early access to Truth Social posts for a fee reported at up to $100,000 per month, marketed to Wall Street trading and high-frequency-trading firms. Trading-industry observers criticized the arrangement; Able Alpha Trading head Irene Aldridge said "if this was the CEO of a public company, this would be jail time," noting Trump has "the front seat to all the action" and "makes all the decisions" while disclosing information ahead of time to paying subscribers.

2026-08-12 — The Intercept and Freedom of the Press Foundation sued Trump over Truth API [6, 7]

The Intercept and the Freedom of the Press Foundation sued President Trump, Trump Media executive Natalie Harp, the Executive Office of the President, the White House Office, and Dan Scavino in the Southern District of New York, alleging the scheme violates the First Amendment's guarantee of equal public access to official government information and the Fifth Amendment's equal protection clause. Baseline Truth API access costs $100,000 per month, with a discounted $60,000 rate for a three-year commitment; subscribers also get faster access to posts from nine other high-ranking accounts, including Vice President Vance and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.