{"id":357047,"date":"2025-12-19T00:46:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T00:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/357047\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T00:46:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T00:46:14","slug":"trump-media-is-merging-with-a-google-backed-fusion-energy-company-in-a-deal-worth-6-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/357047\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Media is merging with a Google-backed fusion energy company in a deal worth $6 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump media, the company behind the president’s personal social media platform Truth Social, is inexplicably merging with a Google-backed fusion energy company called TAE Technologies. The deal is worth $6 billion, according to reporting by Financial Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Why is an entity known for publishing frenzied hot takes by the president at 3AM combining with a fusion energy company? Who the heck really knows, but a statement says the two organizations will join together to build the “world’s first utility-scale fusion power plant.” This would be huge, if true, as there are currently no operational commercial nuclear fusion power plants.<\/p>\n

We know what TAE would bring to the table in that scenario. The energy company has been around since the 1990s<\/a> and has attracted interest from Google, Chevron and others. Trump Media would be a great partner when building a reactor powered by insults<\/a>, but doesn’t seem to offer much of anything else.<\/p>\n

The merger statement does mention that Trump Media would provide TAE with “access to significant capital.” The company lost $55 million last quarter<\/a>, as there’s only so much money in a social media platform primarily used by just one person.<\/p>\n

However, the president himself is likely the world’s most renowned raiser of funds when it comes to personal pet projects<\/a>. He knows how to get a roomful of billionaires to open up their wallets, provide copious compliments and even hand-deliver gold statues<\/a>. The terms of the deal state that Trump Media will provide TAE with $300 million in capital as a bonus of sorts, though we don’t know where that money is coming from as it represents over ten percent of the company’s entire valuation.<\/p>\n

This is an all-stock deal and stocks aren’t exactly immune from the manipulative whims of billionaires<\/a>. To that end, shares in Trump Media have risen dramatically since this deal was announced. President Trump shifted his stake in the company<\/a> to a revocable trust that he is the sole beneficiary of and is controlled by Donald Trump Jr.<\/p>\n

There’s also the potential notion of using access to shore up federal support for grants, low-interest loans and permit approvals. That kind of thing seems particularly thorny and, to put it mildly, legally gray.<\/p>\n

Creating a power plant for large-scale nuclear fusion would be an incredible undertaking and it’s something humanity has yet to figure out<\/a>. TAE CEO Michl Binderbauer told CNN<\/a> the newly-formed company will have it done in “five-ish years.” Most experts put that time frame<\/a> in the “30-ish years” category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump media, the company behind the president’s personal social media platform Truth Social, is inexplicably merging with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,176933,47269,26529,968,176744,46954],"class_list":["post-357047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-energy-company","tag-fusion-energy","tag-nuclear-fusion","tag-president-trump","tag-tae-technologies","tag-trump-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}