Old fat retiree living at Florida golf course motel is scamming people who finally are catching on
Because major advertisers are avoiding Donald Trump’s Truth Social, users are instead being exposed to a flood of ads from what the New York Times characterizes as “miracle cures, scams and fake merchandise,” as the platform is forced to take what it can in an effort to survive.
That, in turn, has led to complaints aimed at the former president in his comment sections for allowing the forum to turn into a cesspool of ads from scam artists.
As the Times is reporting, Truth Social is almost devoid of ads from large corporations for a multitude of reasons that include the toxic rhetoric on the site, its small reach due to few users and the fact that the predominant demographic is not one that advertisers are trying to reach.
As the Times’ Stuart Thompson wrote, “Ads from major brands are nonexistent on the site. Instead, the ads on Truth Social are for alternative medicine, diet pills, gun accessories and Trump-themed trinkets, according to an analysis of hundreds of ads on the social network by The New York Times,” before adding, “The ads reflect the difficulty that several far-right platforms, including Rumble and Gab, have faced in courting large brands, preventing the sites from tapping into some of the world’s largest ad budgets.”
As the report notes, Truth Social was initially financed with $37 million from GOP donors, and is currently estimated to be burning through $1.7 million per month and money is running out because of problems with the Securities and Exchange Commission
Upon its launch, Devin Nunes, the chief executive of Trump Media, announced major advertisers would flock to the site — which has not happened — and the gap has been filled by companies that are much less desirable.
Add to that, according to one advertiser, the money he has spent on Truth Social has gone nowhere when it comes to sales.
“Maxwell Finn, an online marketer, said in a YouTube video that he was one of Truth Social’s top advertisers, spending more than $150,000 on ads, including those for Trump-themed hats, shirts, coins and novelty bills. In the video, he called the ad platform ‘frustrating’ and ‘bare bones,’ adding that it lacked even basic functionality, forcing his company to manually track ad performance — a method that would prove impossible for advertisers with larger budgets,” the report states with Finn explaining, “Do I think this is a platform where you can be spending tens of thousands of dollars a day, especially if you only have a few products? No, probably. The audience is just too small.”
As for those who are still advertising on the site, fans of the former president are furious that advertisers are not being vetted.
Old fat retiree living in Florida golf course motel raves about “deranged” investigations
Former President Donald Trump on Friday posted several videos on his Truth Social platform, including one in which he angrily ranted about being investigated for his 2016 campaign’s multiple contacts with Russian agents.
In the video, Trump called out Charles McGonigal, a former special agent in charge of counterintelligence in the FBI’s New York Field Office, who was arrested last week for his work helping Kremlin-aligned oligarch Oleg Deripaska try to evade sanctions.
“The FBI after me for the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, long before my election as president, was just arrested for taking money from Russia, Russia, Russia!” Trump fumed. “May he rot in hell!”
In fact, there is no indication that McGonigal was the lead investigator into the Trump campaign’s Russian ties.
What’s more, the oligarch whom McGonigal is accused of helping is the same oligarch whose deep ties to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort created suspicions that Trump’s campaign might have been directly working with Kremlin agents to sabotage Democratic rival Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
A Senate Intelligence Committee report released in 2020 found that “Manafort’s high level access and willingness to share information with individuals closely affiliated with the Russian intelligence services, particularly Kilimnik and associates of Oleg Deripaska, represented a grave counterintelligence threat.”