Trump Media’s stock-market debut is just the latest instance of Trump’s impossibly good luck.

Ticker Time Bomb

Donald Trump’s “media company” was a laughingstock until it debuted on the NASDAQ as an actual stock. Now Wall Street is about to learn the truth about Truth Social, the meme stock

By William D. Cohan

Photo Illustration by Chop Choppish Shop

With Donald Trump, there is no bottom, and there never has been. The writer Kurt Andersen has declared Trump to be the “greatest self-parodist of all time.” And who can argue? There’s something utterly absurd about an a-religious former president selling $60 Bibles in an infomercial-style video on Easter weekend. Over the course of his decades in the public eye, Trump has been shameless about hawking everything from steaks and wine to bogus university educations.

Now he has found a new low: on March 26, the deceptively serious-sounding Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. (T.M.T.G.), the parent company of Trump’s social-media micro-platform, Truth Social, went public on the NASDAQ under the symbol DJT.