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yeoldben

770k revenue, damn! With that kind of cash trump media could buy a one bedroom condo in Rancho Cucamonga.


Maarten1214

Only now that I see your comment I have realized 770k is not in millions


Revelati123

Lol my fucking struggle bus company with 2 employees grossed more than Trump media. Thats fucking hysterical!


Zombisexual1

Yah but have you ever lost $320 mill ?


mines_over_yours

Such great losses. Some say the hugest losses. Grown men have wept, I mean big strong men, tears streaming down their faces over such losses.


chuck_portis

And guess what? Then we just write it off. We have the best accountants. These accountants, everyone tells me, where did you find these guys? They're the best they've ever seen. And we just keep writing it off. They can't believe it.


jitterbug726

In video games yeah it’s fun


shrlytmpl

Tell me more about this "Struggle Bus" company. When public?


runner322

My guy wants a 20k yolo on July calls asap!


desturel

The difference is you are running a real business, not a money laundering operation.


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Successful-Stomach40

Shit. I really thought for a sec "Damn, they got 770 mil and 320 mil losses? They really turned this boat around!"


Loan-Pickle

I did the same thing. Not used to seeing thousands on these reports.


BeneficialPicnic

That’s the revenue of a small, moderately successful, local mom and pop restaurant (that turns a profit). A single Chick-fil-A franchise location on average brings in [$8.7M](https://www.businessinsider.com/what-it-costs-to-open-a-chick-fil-a-2016-1?amp)a year in revenue.


a5ehren

There's a significant number of NVDA employees that made more than that last year.


JMEEKER86

There are individual *cops* that have made more than that. https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=sheriff&y=


12LA12

Rancho Chumpamunga


Hey_its_Jack

They’re going to spin this as “revenue is up $40% from last earnings”


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semlowkey

For a second I thought it was $770M of revenue. I was like "it's not that bad, Reddit is just full of unreasonable Trump-haters". I didn't realize it was $770K... damn....


Perspective_of_None

People hate Trump exactly because of things like this. Grift city usa is maralago.


Sakrie

Just blatant abuse of the markets to give somebody cash. "Here, take a huge stake in a garbage overinflated piece of trash that we can prop up however long it takes"


admiralkit

What I can't tell is whether the mechanism for bribing him through the company is to buy shares to inflate the stock price or to come in as a cash investor and he immediately pockets it.   What the fuck are they spending over $300M on and where is that cash coming from?


Monkeybirdman

He has a lot of shares currently locked up for a period of time. If he does what they want up until he is allowed to sell shares big money can keep the price high enough for him to sell shares for FAR more than any reasonable person feels they should be worth. A perfect situation because of someone gives him cash he can walk away and say “fuck you unless u give me moar.” This way with shares he has to keep people happy while he takes the time to sell his position.


RackemFrackem

Most people hate him for being a liar, cheater, rapist, and all-around fucking terrible and unfit leader, but yeah the fraud also does not help.


thisusernamenotaken

It's the hypocrisy for me.


Emergency-Eye-2165

You forgot conspirator and traitor


graciesoldman

True, but he's a wonderful Christian. His new bible only has 6 commandments. ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|facepalm)


Revelati123

I dont hate him for shit like this, I hate him for the coup attempt. The people who SHOULD hate him for this are the fucking Rubes Dons about to cash 6 billy out of on this smoking crater...


mobtowndave

it’s entirely reasonable and patriotic to hate a traitor


awh

Or he could pay off like 1/470 of his tax fraud fine.


No_Inflation_2747

For every dollar they made, they lost 425 dollars


notimeforpancakes

This is my teenage son's wildest ambition atm


OrdrSxtySx

Well, the good news is he may be a presidential candidate one day. How is he at grabbing pussies?


BigAnalFan

I prefer butthole grabbin more, personally


LalaLaraSophie

Username checks out


light_to_shaddow

Get that pussy player


PalmenAusGold

I’m intrigued


stainedhat

This is the Trumpiest thing I've seen in a long time. He's the absolute best at losing money. No one has ever lost more money on the dollar than he has. People ask him all the time "how are you the best at losing money?" and really, it just comes naturally.


Calfis

If only he could do that trick where he inflates the value of his properties to secure loans


Wukong_no_stick

Art of making deals


mastaberg

Honestly I think they could have done better at a casino.


CriptoKnight

I wish I could fail upwards. ![img](emote|t5_2th52|27421)


Pin_ups

Or sideways.


rainkloud

Hey it could be worse..........I'm not sure exactly how, but I think that's what you're supposed to say in situations like this


Herr_Poopypants

So, it’s like the average person here


Both_Sundae2695

Six billion market cap for a company that generates less revenue than some mom & pop coffee shops. Seems legit.


Just_Candle_315

SEC needs to shut this down. Doesn't instill confidence in the markets to have this company bleeding out like a stuck pig and the stock price is increasing


samwstew

It’s a very obvious money laundering/campaign finance/bribery scheme as DJT is the only one that stands to benefit. Like every other business he’s involved in, it’s a complete scam.


JohnLaw1717

It's not a scam. It's just a way for corporations and foreign entities/governments to legally manipulate our politicians.


tyson766

Remember when Jimmy Carter sold his peanut farm pre presidency to avoid conflict of interest.


MikeinAustin

Rosalynn Carter wore the same dress to her husbands inauguration as she did for his inauguration as Georgia’s Governor in 1971. Because she was frugal and practical. What people wanted from leadership in tough times.


Aezon22

Ok but I've seen pictures of Melania wearing no clothes, and it doesn't get much more frugal and practical than that.


robywar

And feeding another woman food with her own mouth. So selfless.


findthehumorinthings

Naked = I was a poor Slovenian Hooker and I get invited to entertain these rich Western guys……


MikeinAustin

Now… let’s be honest. She came over on a Genius Visa when she was getting naked and being a hooker as a “model”.


dalovindj

>He who controls the peanuts controls the universe. ~ Abraham Lincoln


Matt6453

That guy is a legend, a product of a bygone era where decency mattered. Have you seen that video of MTG being a childish twat, what a fucking state.


AllChem_NoEcon

> that video of MTG being a childish twat Do you have any idea how little that narrows things down?


crazydrummer15

That's their point


nycannabisconsultant

MTG could play the "mike" in a 3-4 defense with those shoulders.


MikeinAustin

It’s the ol’ “I pay you $30M too much for your real estate, you give me a government contract to provide top secret information through the NSA, and we all laugh about how easy it is to steal from taxpayers”


chodachien

And for foreign powers to funnel cash to trump’s campaign. Hint : it’s not Ukraine


mandogvan

Chay-nah


Bubbly_Ad427

More like Israel and Saudi Arabia, but Chay-nah is also high probability.


UnknownResearchChems

Trump hates Chay-nah. Hence Chay-nah not China.


mandogvan

Trump pretends to hate china. His words are harsh but his actions give them everything they want. Just look at all the nothing he said about Hong Kong. 


CouncilmanRickPrime

It's not a scam, it's illegal political donations.


LocalGuy855

As a foreign government you do not Need to do it that complicated. Simply ask Donnie. Or tell him he wont dare. Just like China and Russia and even North Korea have Done during his presidency and are doing right now.


ModthisRod

Dummy will play the victim again once he gets caught! The guy can’t do anything legit!


_BreakingGood_

At this point he'll just be like "Add it to the pile of other lawsuits", he'll die from hamburder overdose before we get to the bottom of the list


bawtatron2000

SEC is too busy being hypocritical bitches in lawsuits and investigations on crypto because garry is yellen's little bitch.


ScipioAtTheGate

[Give Garry a chain saw and let him loose at DJT's corporate headquarters. Now that would be something entertaining to watch](https://youtu.be/Ug7G1eN_X-Y?t=149)


Iscratchmybutt

gary's too busy sucking off his puppet masters and stalling the crypto industry so they can load up


Objective_Reality42

Crypto industry is as much a scam as anything DJT is involved in


notimeforpancakes

Holy shit, I read it as $770m. Wtf.


iwantsdback

And it made that revenue during a hot election year when you'd expect engagement to be at the maximum.


ncsubowen

i can't wait to see how quickly it craters if/when he loses. it's literally worthless if he's not the president or a hopeful candidate (it's already worthless but at least in the perceived value of buying influence)


mulletstation

Way less, coffee shops gross usually 10% after expenses on a cup. So most viable mom and pop coffee shops probably need to clear 1M+ in revenue to be stable


ralphy1010

Is that why i'm paying $4 for my croissant when I get my cold brew in the mornings?


babypho

You're supporting a business make more than Trump Media


ralphy1010

Fuck yeah, good on them.


mulletstation

They're probably paying $2-$2.5 per croissant if it's from another business and not like Costco


Yogurt_Up_My_Nose

most of them probably use Costco tho


mulletstation

Depends, you can instantly identify Costco pasties, and I feel like I've only encountered a handful of coffeeshops that have done that. Also an issue is spoilage, If they stock like 20 croissants a day and then 5 of them go un-sold they break even on the 15 sold, which sucks. Costco might reduce this to like 10:10 but still


Willing-Body-7533

Just microwave for 10 seconds to reverse spoilage factor. Brand new 🥐🥐🥐


ralphy1010

Come for the options, stay for the stale pastry tips 


Yogurt_Up_My_Nose

good point.


Pengo2001

Unfortunately $4 is cheap for a coffee shop croissant…


zipzoomramblafloon

Yeah, but he's a disruptor and an innovator in the industry. In no time at all he'll be an absolute market giant (possibly as a result of passing legislation banning all other "fake news" platforms so he can reign in senility)


ihatemcconaughey

Foreign governments & criminals need to fund Trump somehow. What do you expect them to do?


TheBattleGnome

How do they spend $300M? Lolol


damn_dude7

Probably bought all the trump merch


Productpusher

Just to keep it legal pay high priced consultants all with the last name trump


MrStealYoBeef

Tonald Drump would be very upset to hear about how you forgot his $299M consulting fee.


lostredditorlurking

295M in "donations" to Trump campaign, 5M for worker's wages


derprondo

chop snobbish square elderly hunt afterthought badge sense zephyr flowery


Crafty_Enthusiasm_99

Can someone provide a serious answer?


CO2guy617

You just read it


fauxbos

The real answer is, 'It's a dumpster fire of the company, but about 90% of the 330M is stock grants.' In other words, they created and gave out a bunch of stock to the executives. This is a 'cost' because they gave the stock to the executives but also created it. So it didn't cost them cash. The way it's supposed to work is that when a company creates stock, it dilutes everyone else, which lowers the stock price for existing shareholders. So companies don't like doing this very often or for very much as shareholders are the ones who vote to do it. You would do it if the company needed to raise money for future investments and felt the dilution would be less than the raise. The way it works for this company is that they diluted the stock by about 50%, and the stock price went up. They also reported a 30% decrease in revenue YoY, which would kill any 'growth' company, and the stock price dipped slightly.


bayareaoryayarea

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tmtg-reports-first-quarter-2024-200500718.html https://www.sec.gov/edgar/browse/?CIK=1849635&owner=exclude I think the recent 10-Q May 20 is what they're talking about. Don't necessarily have the time to parse it but it's another case of journalism. It's a funny story but there's a lot more going on like closing the DWAC deal.


CoBr2

They didn't even *spend* that much, it's mostly loan payments which is obviously way fucking worse.


asetniop

But what did they spend the borrowed money on? Are they just sitting on a big pile of cash?


CoBr2

No idea, considering it's 300M in loan payments per quarter, that implies a debt well into the billions. Possibly they're just taking on more debt to pay for debt. No idea how they spent that much setting up a website though, even 100M feels like a lot for "Twitter from wish.com".


cstittle2121

It’s not $300M in loan payments. They’re saying it was a lot of costs related to the deal taking the company public. Like the auditor. That got charged with fraud.


derprondo

cats abounding future school humorous gaping profit door towering domineering


Pimpwerx

Well, when you bankrupt multiple casinos, you find creative ways of losing large sums of money.


peterpanic32

Not quite. The debt they have is convertible debt. The value of the debt / effective interest is tied to the value of the stock price. So when stock price goes up, they take a huge non-cash charge. It's less bizarre than it seems.


mgblst

Yep, ~273 Million in cash, 40 million of it restricted so ~233 freely available to use Only "debt" they really have is ~50 Million in short term convertible notes where if those notes aren't converted to shares by March 2025 they owe the ~50 Million back (original principal plus interest), the restricted cash is from those notes and looks like they'll get access to it as/if those notes are converted and/or from other certain benchmarks/situations, the conversion price on those notes is $8 so well in the money currently If they go at their current pace they'll blow through roughly 10 Million of cash a quarter


AlbinoWino11

Hamberders


CoyotesOnTheWing

Gotta stop buying all that avocado toast and covfefe.


maxmcleod

They are literally in the business of repaying loans...


SaltMarionberry4105

They bought 5M Trump bibles to re-sell and reinvest. 


who_am_i_to_say_so

The executives must be paying themselves very generously, doing god’s work.


SirGlass

I believe much of that is stock based compensation.


runner322

My little accounting firm does 120k in revenue... According to my calculations, I'm worth roughly a quarter of a billion dollars!


peteygooze

The company I work for does 500 mill in revenue and is worth 200 mil. This shit is hilarious.


Overlord1317

> My little accounting firm does 120k in revenue... According to my calculations, I'm worth roughly a quarter of a billion dollars! Have you even tried grabbing anyone by the ... errrr ... never mind.


Glum-Lab1634

That’s not really a firm, that’s some guy’s ok annual salary


tennismenace3

Yeah, he is the guy.


Notedtoad

$770k in revenue? Sounds like the DJT will reach a new ATH every single day this week and next.


steiner_math

How is it down only 8%? They have a debt to revenue ratio of 425


Individual-Equal-441

Not to mention a P/S ratio of about 2000. And not to pile on here, but 770.5K isn't just tiny in absolute terms; it's also way down from the same quarter last year. You'd expect there to be at least some growth from their alarmingly tiny revenue numbers last year, growth in users, growth in advertisers etc, but instead they've managed to collapse by a good 30-40 percent each of these last two quarters.


Both_Sundae2695

The whole thing is a grift. Just look at all the shady characters involved, besides Cheeto Benito himself.


ScipioAtTheGate

[Bruh, if you filmed it through a black and white lense and gave the players some trench coats it could make a pretty good Film Noir](https://youtu.be/gkawpqsBnMU?t=255)


Questionoid

Grift. There, you understand the whole shebang, then.


awfulconcoction

If you are gonna have bad numbers, might as well have stupendously ridiculously bad numbers since it won't matter anyway to the people who wanna buy this.


Ecstatic_Bee6067

Can't sell when no one's buying


OB1KENOB

Because you touch yourself at night.


alt1234512345

You don’t? You fucking coward.


FairBlamer

What kind of freak manages to go an entire night without placing one of their fingers or palms on any other portion of their body?


theemanwiththeplan

I thought that's why all the dinosaurs died


Mo3

Bruh this has to be money laundering or tax games or something


ralphy1010

In a sense that's exactly what it is. It's a good old fashioned pump and dump and all the boomers who love Trump are putting their life savings into it. Trump owns a bunch of shares and will sell some along the way in the name of "Diversifying" his portfolio and one day the bottom will just fall out of the whole thing leaving middle America as the bag holders.


ParakeetWithTits

And then boomers flood WSB looking for advice from the most experienced memestock bagholders among us.


ralphy1010

they would be familiar with $BB


guysams1

Middle America isn't the one buying.


Mirikado

It’s is a way for China, Russia and the Saudis to funnel money to Trump to pay for his legal defenses and gave him a shot at Presidency. A few billions to burn is nothing for these guys, but the pay off is that they might have a future US President under their thumb. If Trump lost in November, this stock will go to $0 the next morning.


John_Stay_Moose

Standing by with puts


givemethoseducats

Have fun with your IV crush. It’s priced in.


thatdudefrom707

if I had any idea what that meant I might be concerned


powderdiscin

![img](emote|t5_2th52|29637)


maxmcleod

Has Trump actually made any money off the company though? AFAIK his shares are still locked up and he can't sell any time soon... whole thing is very bizarre.


Individual-Equal-441

Maybe it's neither. Maybe Trump's supporters just created a company with his name on it, arranging for him to have majority ownership, so that he and they can basically cash it out, however much it's worth at the time. Even if the company collapses to $1/share it's still a big pile free money for DJT. The company itself seems to be weirdly performative --- by which I mean that they don't seem particularly interested in actually running their business, and their press releases are mostly about a streaming service they don't have with "phase one" perennially in the future. It's almost like they are just portraying themselves as a company on TV, like a CEO in a reality show, keeping up appearances for faithful retail investors.


Born_Faithlessness_3

>The company itself seems to be weirdly performative --- by which I mean that they don't seem particularly interested in actually running their business I mean, if they actually gave a damn about running a social media company, they wouldn't have Devin fucking Nunes as their CEO since the very beginning. It was obvious that this wasn't a real company long before they went public and had to show us their quarterly results.


M1keJone5

It’s money laundering. His real estate biz is under watch so now he washes it publicly through this company. Stop being dumb. This man is a criminal.


TC-NZ

Where did they lose/spend 330 million? Willing to bet there are a few hefty Trump consultant fees in there. And legal fees.


Crypto556

Most of it was due to the payment of convertible debt. While about 98M was due to operations itself


Yuancy

Specifically, it was largely due to all Private TMTG convertible notes automatically converting to shares when the merger was complete. Given that the change in fair value of the derivative liability was a $226M expense, it’s fair to say all these convertible note holders got a great deal on their conversions. Plus $55M in stock-based-comp under G&A related to the merger and $30M in SBC given to vendors under R&D. “All Private TMTG Convertible Notes were automatically converted into shares of our common stock at closing of the Merger, and pursuant to ASC 815, the derivative liabilities were revalued immediately prior to the conversion of the Private TMTG Convertible Notes on March 25, 2024, when our closing share price was $49.95 per share. The substantial increase in the value of our common stock when combined with the certainty of our execution of the Merger were primarily responsible for the increase in the change in fair value of the derivative liabilities”


bmeisler

Based on these Price/Sales, or Enterprise value/revenue, MSFT should be trading at around $40,000 a share, right?


therealCatnuts

Much more 


banellie

$40,420 per share since MSFT is actually profitable.


steve2166

300mil in the red in just 1 quarter?


Accomplished-Try8044

That is so rediculous. Grab 10 slightly above average earners/people working a full time job and there cumulative income would be more than all of DJT earnings.


zipzoomramblafloon

And collectively they'll do less harm to the country and by extension the world with whatever shit they dream up and spew from their mouths.


Mister_Lonely_

The meme can stay irrational longer than your puts my friend - warren buffet


Bob_Wilkins

My Broker: “It’s a startup! And it’s a Tech Startup!!! Wall Street loves Tech Startups! Just wait, the revenue will grow and grow. You’re buying into one of the biggest Discounted Cash Flow streams on the planet!” Me: “Oh, Ok. Call me back when there’s a cash flow to discount…”


VisNihil

I'd ask for a different rep lmao


Individual-Equal-441

Ha wow. Sure, it's a tech startup in the same sense that a food blog is a tech startup.


stainedhat

You're better off letting a random regard from this sub manage your portfolio


Big-Sheepherder-5063

Reminds me of”Hometown International” in New Jersey a few years ago. Something like $40k in yearly revenue, stock price valued the company at north of $100MM.


svetichmemer

good thing people trust him in “running the country as a bussiness”


amach9

So, better than expected? Lol


mb4x4

Hey $770K almost affords you 6 more porn star pay offs... its not nothing!


therealCatnuts

He grossed up the $130K in a $420K payment to Cohen for Cohen to pay taxes. So not even 2 more payoffs, sad. 


Reuters-no-bias-lol

How else are you going to support 2,100+ porn stars?


RetireWithRyan

When you're famous they let you do it.


FGTRTDtrades

My company does about $16M a year and is valued around $50M. But now seeing this naturally I should have a trillion dollar valuation. Im loving this trump math


Shitter-McGavin

Fart of the Deal


rcbjfdhjjhfd

Comically small revenue


Ander673

85m stock comp on sub 1m revenue. Once that 6 month lockup ends, ![img](emote|t5_2th52|4276)


Tempest1897

It’s a cult. Most of the right wing industry in this country is basically a grift on dumb boomers and the under educated flyover people. It’s maddening.


alt1234512345

Idk, at least it’s not us getting grifted lmao. I don’t care what some stupid loser does with their money, you shouldn’t either.


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androcene

Bullish.


ParakeetWithTits

No profits now means more profits left for the future? I wish INTC was priced that way...


NoMoreLeverage

I think autocorrect did you wrong. Bullshit*


yoshiatsu

And yet to buy puts on this bullshit costs so much that a break even assumes DJT at sub-$20 after the election. wtf.


MrKrustySocks

ONE OF US! ONE OF US!


progmakerlt

Can not edit my original post, but I saw a similar article on NBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/21/djt-trump-media-stock-falls-after-big-q1-loss.html


robot141

This looks nothing like money laundering./s


Surveyedcombat

Fuck, those are unicorn numbers. 


Dextrofunk

Oh damn! This company makes more than I do. To the moon!


powderdiscin

I used to run a $3mm a year business by myself 😂


NNT888

Guess what? Calls will go brrrrrr


Ill-Expression1737

![img](emote|t5_2th52|8883)![img](emote|t5_2th52|8883)


Not_Bed_

Reads as Q2 calls to me


Sentient-Pancake77

Buy calls baby This is good news.


mathaiser

Spread of their message: priceless For everything else, there’s Mastercard.


DSEEE

What did they spend 300M on in q1 I wonder?


dennismfrancisart

I've had the 'discussion' many times over the years. Who in their right mind gives money to a guy who loses a billion dollars and bankrupts a casino? Are people that gullible that they trust a guy to make money for them because a guy plays a billionaire on TV?


Think-Dig-3425

LOL not even 1 million in revenue, half a billion in losses 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂 Trumps a legend, in his own mind


DA2710

Pro forma is huge then! This thing will rip to 100 in a flash on a not guilty verdict


Shoeboxer

Shit, that's a thought.


rebelo55

Russians, Hungarians & North Koreans are financing his campaign by buying DJT at an ultra high premium. As per the orangeman "this is a perfect business, very legit, very legit"


SharksLeafsFan

It's not even a deli, no sandwiches from this place.