Trump announced a new vaporware deal announced today. It ties fusion to Trump media.
$6 Billion Vaporware Deal
Please note Trump Media to Merge With Nuclear Fusion Firm in $6 Billion Deal
Trump Media & Technology DJT agreed to merge with an Alphabet-backed fusion energy company in a merger valued at $6 billion, seeking to capitalize on the artificial-intelligence boom’s growing power requirements.
The all-stock transaction for TAE Technologies values each share of TAE stock at $53.89, but TAE is a privately held company, making the total value of its portion of the deal unclear. Trump Media, which has a market capitalization of around $2.9 billion, would provide $200 million in cash to TAE at the deal’s closing, expected in mid-2026, the company said.
The deal combines Trump Media’s “access to significant capital” and TAE’s “leading fusion technology” to supply power for AI technology, the companies said in a statement Thursday.
The combined Trump-TAE company says it will begin construction next year on a 50-megawatt utility-scale fusion power plant and hopes to build additional fusion plants that could generate 350 to 500 megawatts each. The company aims to generate its first power in 2031.
But fusion, a process that uses controlled fusion reactions to generate energy, isn’t considered commercially viable yet. It has long been a clean-energy dream that would harness the process that powers the sun to deliver almost limitless energy. The technology faces daunting science and engineering hurdles, and some experts consider it a mirage that will remain out of reach. Scientists around the world are trying to figure out how to sustain fusion reactions and convert that energy into net power.
Trump Media Chief Executive Devin Nunes said the deal would allow the company to take “a big step forward toward a revolutionary technology that will cement America’s global energy dominance for generations.”
Details about the deal are sparse. Nunes and Binderbauer will serve as co-CEOs of the combined company.
Trump Family Business Empire Is Growing
Also note The Trump Family Business Empire Is Growing. We Mapped Out 268 Pieces of It.
When President Trump ran for re-election in 2024, he and his family already had vast business interests stretching from Manhattan office towers to a golf course in Ireland to hotel deals as far away as Vietnam.
The president’s second term has brought a major expansion of that empire, with forays into cryptocurrency, communications, financial products and now, a fusion-power deal. Ventures launched since Trump’s re-election generated at least $4 billion in proceeds and paper wealth for the family as of December, according to company statements and securities filings.
It’s unprecedented for a president to have such far-reaching business interests while in office, including in areas his administration regulates.
Trump Mobile
Hey, let’s check in on more vaporware.
NBC News reports The Trump Mobile phone is nowhere to be found after months of delay
In June, President Donald Trump’s two older sons held an event at Trump Tower where they touted a new made-in-the-USA mobile phone with an American flag on its back, plus a new wireless service called Trump Mobile.
The phone was announced on the 10th anniversary of Trump’s presidential campaign launch and was the Trump brand’s first foray into mobile products and services. According to the initial announcement, the phone was supposed to be released in August.
NBC News placed an order for a T1 phone in August, paying the $100 deposit for the purposes of tracking the $499 phone’s development.
After confirming with the credit card company that the transaction was not fraudulent, NBC News received a confirmation email verifying the order.
But the company provided no proactive updates after the order. NBC News made five separate phone calls to the Trump Mobile customer support line between September and November. At one point in October, the call operator promised a specific ship date: Nov. 13.
That date passed without an update, and when NBC News followed up with the call center, an operator said the delivery would now be in the “beginning of December,” with no specific date.
The operator cited the government shutdown as a reason for the delay, without further explanation.
The Verge reported that the phone appeared to be a render of a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra. When phone case company Spigen noticed that the photo appeared to be a doctored image of a Samsung in one of its cases, the company suggested it would sue.
Todd Weaver, the founder and CEO of Purism, a Carlsbad, California-based company that manufactures the only U.S.-made smartphone on the market, said that when his company started, there was “no skilled labor” in the U.S. capable of manufacturing a phone, and “nobody [had] done it before.”He said that creating a chain of production that would allow for a made-in-the-USA label was time and labor-intensive.
“We actually had to go over to China with our designs, to learn the process, the manufacturing process, to see what are all the steps,” Weaver said.
While Trump Mobile customers wait for the T1, the company is offering other phones for sale, including refurbished iPhones (which are primarily produced in China) and devices from Samsung, a Korean company. Trump Mobile says that both devices are “brought to life right here in the USA.”
Trump Mobile is offering phones for $500 —they are just refurbished, and three years old
On December 6, The Independent reported Trump Mobile is offering phones for $500 —they are just refurbished, and three years old
True Donald Trump devotees who put down their $100 deposits are still awaiting the chance to receive one of his family’s $499 golden smartphones for “real Americans”.
But in the meantime, perhaps you’d like to buy a refurbished Apple or Samsung phone from several years ago, for up to $225 more than you could get on Amazon?
That’s the astonishing deal now on offer from Trump Mobile, the patriotic phone vendor launched this June by the President’s family business, the Trump Organization (currently run by his eldest sons Don Jr and Eric Trump).
There’s still no update on the company’s forthcoming T1, a “proudly American” Android handset retailing for $499 that was forced to remove its “MADE IN THE USA” branding after experts argued that the facilities to manufacture such devices wholly within the States simply do not exist.
No Conflicts
In case you are struggling with rent, food, homeowners’ insurance, or medical care bills, please make a note:
“Neither the President nor his family have ever engaged, or will ever engage, in conflicts of interest,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement, adding that Trump is committed to making the U.S. the “crypto capital of the world.”
A Few Thoughts
Can We Stop Pretending?
Thermonuclear Bullshit has been achieved!
I’d really like a comparison between the Trump dynasty business “deals,” and the Marty Nesbitt-Obama business “deals” researched exhaustively in the book, “Secret Empires.” My understanding was Nesbitt used lawfare threats and DoJ to crater stock prices so that his investors could scoop up quality companies and whole sectors unscrupulously for Pennies on the dollar.
Like ive said before pretty much everyone who comes into trumps orbit leaves broken. He demands loyalty to him but does not give it back.
Got some time you should google (accusation mirror). See how it apply to trump and the republican party. Think the biden crime family. Of coarse and good republican politician will say all of trumps dealings are in public so does not matter if they are illegal.
DARVO is another trump tactic you will recognize after you know the definition.
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Does anyone think that when Dems are back in the Oval Office, that any GOPers will take the same permissive approach to letting a President do whatever he wants, regardless of applicable laws and Constitutional requirements? Does anyone think the Dems will even try to do something like Trump has done? For decades they’ve assured everyone it’s the left that is wont to rule via authoritarianism, but look at the USA now.
They shrieked like tree monkeys over a tan suit. The angry tears will be constant, and there will be inept redneck terrorism. They will call themselves freedom fighters at war with the deep state. Only soft targets will be attacked.
OKC bombing II, coming to an unprotected building near you!
Democrats impeached Trump over a totally legal phone call with Zelensky. They ran a coup against Trump for 4 years and tried to obstruct him from running in 2024. You don’t even need to ask if the Democrats will do something. They have already done it.
PedoPig and his piglet descendants are enjoying this economy. Other piglets, not so much.
Don’t blame me, I voted Green. Only for their foreign policy and to annoy tge democrats who own my state.
Let’s see where voting to annoy others gets our nation
Sorry, but in the U.S. what you did is unserious. I get it, it is a democracy, and everyone should vote for whoever they wish. Still, we are a two-party system, and a candidate from one of those two parties will take responsibility for the most powerful nation in the world, having through the office of the President enormous power over the lives of billions of people. Voting for a candidate that you know cannot win in what is usually a very close election increases the chances that, when a dangerous, unfit candidate is one of the two main parties’ nominations, an unsuitable and dangerous person will win. Thus, such a third-party vote is unserious and irresponsible.
The only irresponsible vote was a vote for trump. Trump voters and those that didn’t vote at all have no reason to complain they own this crap.
it’s true the Venzuela issue is getting less push back than expected. it’s almost like it’s taken for granted that yes, our POTUS is insane and so what’s the poont of arguing with him? why is he obsessed w Venezuela? obviusly not about drugs since a tiny fraction of Venezuela drugs come to teh US and he pardoned an actual convicted drug trafficker.
Again, where is the MAGA outrage? he’s engaging in foreign war (bombing boats=war) supposedly for war on drugs and he also pardons a convicted drug traficker who was leading a nation?
i mean how does even MAGA rationalize this. or do they just say they put this in the “bad” bucket but the “good bucket” for Trump is bigger?
And his corruption is literally unprecedented in modern times. it’s bilions in profits from things where his administration is picking winners and losers.
his brilliance is doing it in the open. most politicians hide corruption, and hiding something is taken as an admission that it’s wrong. So by not hiding it (stupid) people think it’s not wrong or not as bad.
He’s obsessed with Venezuela because Israel complains it’s a safe haven for its enemies and because it’s a small country Trump thinks we can beat and retain the bubba vote.
Another reason is that Venezuela produces a lot of beauty contest winners and Trump wants more arm candy. Doesn’t Trump own the Miss America contest?
THIS: “MAGA was the greatest PSYOP ever perpetrated on the American people.” The Patriotic Blonde
Donald Trump has spent his entire life SELLING and not selling genuinely, selling in a whatever-it-takes way. He did not earn the nickname Don-the-Con in the late 80s through the 90s because it rhymed; he earned that nickname because, in the business world, he was a joke, and his brilliance and success existed only in his mind.
The fact that he conned voters twice into voting for him is evidence that he is the modern-day Charles Ponzi, mentored by two of the most unethical figures of the latter half of the 20th century, Roy Cohn and Roger Stone (self-described as a dirty trickster).
Using his masterful, unscrupulous skills in manipulation, Donald Trump’s political success owes a lot to applying his well-honed con artist skills to social media to “hack” a large swath of the electorate with his lies and abilities to brand through insults his critics and opponents.
The history books in the future will chronicle the Trump era as a time when 10s of millions of voters were victims of the most massive fraud and con job ever perpetrated on a democratic population.
very true. his casinos went bankrupt but he did fine, selling stock before and otherwise extracting oney from them. in one of the cases that cae ot of that, a construction guy testified that Trump asked them to move dirt from one side of the yard to the other when investors came to check out the site.
The Trump era was when I learned how deeply stupid a third of our population is.
– The president’s second term has brought a major expansion of that empire, with forays into cryptocurrency, communications, financial products and now, a fusion-power deal. Ventures launched since Trump’s re-election generated at least $4 billion in proceeds and paper wealth for the family as of December, according to company statements and securities filings.
> This was ALL legally done, and legally done before Trumps Family, by those before Him. Heck right from the start, George Washington had a “Whisky Distillery”, George Bush was in the “Oil Industry”, and Owned a Baseball Team, and of course we have had Real Estate Presidents Etc.
>> I must point out that these are and we’re all legal companies, ventures etc. And Very, Very UNLIKE “Insider Trading” which is a far, Far, FAR MORE Egregious and in some cases extremely illegal. At least Trump and others before Him, had Legal Businesses that they Invested There Money into. They played by the rules, and not making deals based upon “Insider Information” then used to “Profit” Directly from those (cough),Pelosi, (Cough), and Many, Many Others, (cough)… Did I say that?
>> We All Know Those Parties We’re Properly Arrested, Charged, Homes Raided, News Headlines Everywhere, and… Wait One Fuc#($&# Minute Now… No That Didn’t Happen? How Come? Nobody Is Above The Law? America Treats ALL Presidents and Politicians and their workers Equally right? No? Sometimes? Never? What is it? Senators, House Members, Staff that works for ALL Of Them? We have looked into Each and Every One of them Right? No? How Come? Are there not Many, Many, Millionaires amongst them now? Were they 10, 20, 30 years ago? ALL Looked Into RIGHT? Yeah, I didn’t think so…
>>> Venezuela nationalized its oil industry in the 1970s, which led to the seizure of assets from U.S. oil companies, a move that some U.S. officials, including President Trump, have described as theft.
What happened to the US oil companies may have been due to failure to follow contract terms.
You may want to check.
Maybe MAGA really means Make America Gross Again?
Make America Grovel to Ashkenazis.
There’s invariably a hambeast und the maga hat… Make America Gigantic again!
Interlocking corporate directorships are downright incestuous. Have been for decades. These people make the Hapsburg’s look good.
Let’s not forget that Trump oversaw the exemption of ALL mRNA lawsuits. PRE-PARDONED for killing people. THAT DID IT FOR ME!
Trump will cause a balance of power shift. Damn this guy is a fuck-up when we COULD have had ACTUAL REAL CHANGE to the MAGA goals.
NOPE, as he is cashing in on the loot.
If he fails to become dictator for life, the republicans will be set back 50 years… presumably to when America was great.
That would be more like 70 years by then, late 2020’s minus 70 years is 1950s when we were undoubtedly great according to anyone with objective reasoning.
1950’s we were militarily and economically very strong, but great? You must live in a white christian national mind set to believe America was ever a “great” country.
Trump’s post is rambling and barely coherent. However, it’s not completely untrue about stealing land and oil. The history of U.S. involvement in the Venezuela’s oil industry is extremely complex. Chevron and ExxonMobil invested considerable expertise and money in joint ventures to develop the oil fields in return for revenue sharing agreements, and then Venezuela nationalized (some would stay stole) the oil industry back in 1976 creating state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela, SA, and then under Chavez seized some additional assets in 2007. There still remains some US joint ventures with Chevron that are active because the U.S. resources are key to managing these oil fields. The oil is subject to export restrictions, which Venezuela has been in violation of. Primarily Venezuela has been illegally shipping oil to countries like Russia and Iran, going back to the Biden administration. The Maduro administration legitimacy is very questionable, and the oil revenues are being used to prop up the administration. Please note, I’m not justifying Trump’s war mongering by any means, just trying to interpret what he was saying about the theft.
But it’s not stealing U.S. land or oil. Trump is equating private U.S.-based companies and the united states itself.
If you’re a private company and you’re doing business in a banana republic, in a region with a history of nationalization, then you assume that risk.
For Trump to 1976 and 2007 seizures as an excuse it totally bonkers and unacceptable. The U.S. should not be entering into wars because oil companies lost money decades ago.
Corporate ghouls are people too!
Ah yes, nuance! Something the right wants to murder whenever they see it
Exactly correct, but it’s not surprising Trump equates the two. Furthermore, private companies typically can’t negotiate with foreign state-owned enterprises, without U.S. government regulatory approval. The U.S. actually issued licenses for these joint ventures.
Very little shocks me anymore. Trump used his first presidency to enrich himself and fleece his own cult supporters. He got away with it of course. And his cult following even voted for him again. So it only emboldened him to take it to the next level this time. And he will get away with it again.
For those of you who would like to see him go to jail; forget it. Perhaps you can take some consolation in that he won’t be able to enjoy his ill-gotten gains when he is in hell.
This reinforces my belief that it is a waste of time to become a political junkie. No politician is going to make your life better. That is up to you. Use your time wisely to improve your life. Forget politics.
Hence true conservatism, not populism. A relatively weak central government whose role is to support an expanding economy lead by elected officials and bureaucrats held to the highest ethical standards. Trump and MAGA are the antithesis of this, 100 times worse than even the Democrats.
– No politician is going to make your life better. > So very true! Unfortunately Many believe it’s there actual role, and hence there Job to do so…
– That is up to you. > 100%
– Use your time wisely to improve your life. Forget politics. > Vote for whom will allow you to keep the most of Our Taxpayers Dollars, as they would at least be fair to a point…
I am not wasting my time wishing someone goes to Hell. What a concept
Lol! Not a wish. Just a fact. And it took me no time at all.
As AI keeps reshaping work and society, it’s worth asking what governance should look like in a world where many traditional jobs may disappear. Do we still need political parties and career politicians in the same way—or can we move toward more direct, community-driven self-governance, strictly within the Constitution?
Maybe this “utopia” isn’t as far-fetched as it sounds: if even 30% of people start to believe in it and participate, real change could follow.
AI is no different from what has been happening over the history of mankind.
It has been a steady development of labor saving tools and techniques that have made us more productive and raised our standards of living for thousands of years.
Which has been a tremendous net benefit to humanity as a whole.
The problem, as always, is in how those benefits are distributed throughout all of humanity.
Compare the standard of living in the US to the rest of the countries in the world. US GDP per capita is $88,000. Whereas the world median is $13,500.The distribution of wealth is not very even throughout the world.
Within the US itself, the top 1% earn 20% of the income and the bottom 20% earn only 5% of the income.
The benefits of all man’s advances are never evenly distributed.
My personal philosophy has been to learn how to take advantage of what is available to make a better life for myself and those I care about. Others prefer to wait for government to find ways to even out the distributions. I prefer not to wait for government to determine how to “share the wealth”. Because governments have a poor track record of success when it comes to distributing the wealth.
In many countries throughout the world, governments are corrupt and end up taking most of the countries wealth for themselves.
In countries like the US, this happens as well, but to a lesser extent.
I have no idea how to distribute a countries wealth better. Let alone how to better distribute wealth amongst all humanity. I will leave that to others to figure out. And I will continue to focus on using the available tools to keep growing my own wealth.
Controlling AI will be impossible if AGI followed by ASI is actually developed. ASI will control humans until it decides they are no longer needed.
The good news is that I have never been more right in my predictions as when this transparent “as bad as you can imagine” America killer became dictator — the parallels to Adolph (both with camera-hungry ambitious maniacs around them), the denial of “conflict of interest” the minute he named the buttlicker AG, the same hold he has over several of my friends who will never believe he was out only for himself … just assume the worst and he fills the void everytime.
Hitler actually reduced unemployment and rebuilt infrastructure.
Are you saying Hitler was BETTER than trump. lol
Unbelievable!.
The whole government is full of Paedo, corruption, bribery, war mongers, psychopath.
Don’t forget to pardon the whole family, billionaires and AIPAC at the end of the term.
WTF!
Leave them to the ones that follow Luigi.
I believe the pertinent part is this – does he really believe the Navy has surrounded Venezuela? Inquiring minds want to know – lol….
They are canvassing all points of departure areas and have military active and in the area of each as they move along. Northern U.S. is not kidding around on this topic…
How can you surround a non-island country with naval forces is what he’s getting at.
Morbid obesity finds a way
He drew a circle in sharpie around it, so it must be true.
The election of the king of grifters is a fitting in to what was once the United States of America. It’s like when Moses went up the mountain and the people down below starting building a golden calf as a replacement god while real leadership was gone.
The toxic boomers and other trump supporters shall reap what they have sown.
Got exit strategy?
Mish I hope you can explain how this works. My understanding is that Israel’s leader has been charged with war crimes by an international body. He has already visited the US once and will be coming again to Mara Lago. Why doesn’t the US have an obligation to arrest him and turn him over to the authorities so that he can be put on trial to determine his innocence or guilt? Is the US now guilty of harbouring a fugitive?
I think the same thing happened with Putin when he came to Alaska.
There are laws from them and there are law for us……
You mean like in the Talmud?
CJW, You’re too naive
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US deeply involved in this GAZA genocide.
US deeply involved in this proxy war in Ukraine.
“Gaza genocide”…
…When you finally find a way to provoke the war you begged for for years – you unsurprisingly get your ass handed to you – you then turn on the crocodile tears and cry, “genocide”….
What do you care, if the paradise-seekers get what they asked for? It’s all about the martyrdom, and the 72 virgins….
If it’s the kids that you care about, you should celebrate every Hamas fighters’ demise….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cohIwaf7EQc
I don’t believe we are legally obligated since we did not ratify it in the Senate. It seems to me that we informally applaud or attack the ICC depending on the whims of the current Emperor.
The U.S. is not a signatory to the ICC (International Criminal Court).
It’s happened before. Clinton welcomed Gerry Adams to the WH.
The price of $Trump meme coin has been steadily falling in the last month along with Trump’s poll numbers. Currently at $5.02. Down from almost $9 a month ago.
$Melania meme coin has followed the same path. Down to about 10 cents now, a big drop from last month’s lofty 16 cents level.
One way or another!
This businessman has magic.
Ignorant will miss.
He rugged those coins months ago… I would be very surprised if he owns any z
No, America please stop I can’t take anymore of this.
#dielaughing
“We’re going to win so much, you’re going to get tired of winning.
You’re going to say, ‘Please, please, it’s too much winning. We can’t take it anymore.’”
I’m not sure you’re winning or not but surely he is.
Wow, President, President. What a good job!
They knew exactly what they were voting for.
they’re happy so long as brown people are suffering.
Stupid people demand stupid representation.
Are you saying some in the Cult are finally recognising the Cult Leader for who and what he is? Next, they’ll make a Netflix documentary about how the Cult came to be and how it came to an end. How the offended members discovered the Cult Leader had not only embezzled their money but also stolen their wives/husbands and daughters/sons for the consumption of a certain select elite. It will win wild acclaim as the greatest, biggest, bestest documentary ever produced, and thousands will try to emulate the Cult Leader. Welcome to 2028!
PS: Textbook corruption spiral that Democracy was/is trying to palliate. Maybe Democracy has value after all. But it will only work if the law is applied equally to all, independently of gender, origin, or legal status. The law is the law! And also that we recast corporations as pure business entities with money as their goal, and forget social values. There is nothing moral or human about them. As we say, it’s business.
The Maduro regime never stole any assets from the United States. If they had, Trump would name at least one. The Maduro regime is not involved in terrorism, drug smuggling, or human trafficking. If they had been, he would have named an identifiable instance. The Maduro regime never sent any illegal aliens or criminals to the United States. If they had, he would have named at least one. Just because Trump and the MSM keep saying it doesn’t make it true. Listen to them. They keep repeating it, but never give a single detail. BECAUSE THEY DON’T EXIST. Trump just wants to own and control the vast oil reserves in Venezuela, and he is willing to murder anyone who gets in his way. Including sending your children to their deaths to get it. Votes have consequences.
I thought that was he nuttiest thing Trump said yesterday.
Is he suggesting he’ll grab back those Exxon assets that were nationalized by Vz?
Hmmmmmm, Yankee stole the land from Red Indians.
Taco is now officially the most corrupt president in the history of the US. Wonder why he doesn’t tout this fact? I guess because it is true and he seldom lets an ounce of truth pass through his lips.
Where’s Kushner, Mish?
He’s with the architects planning the new Gaza seafront vacation homes in Gaza. There’s a lot of work to do!
Children to murder! Bones to gather and grind into concrete! Jared is indeed busy man.
one has to wonder what the hell is really going on,
corruption is gone totally insane
A shameless, greedy and very corrupt man was given a lot of power. It’s quite simple.
Elected by the most corrupt and evil group of people who ever existed: American Christian Nationalists.
The are not American nationalists but Israeli nationalists.
Given power by people that call themselves Christians, but hate everything that Jesus taught them.