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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: albaby1 ✶❂🐝 GOLD
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Subject: Re: DJT, trump and the IPO, what comes next?
Date: 03/28/24 12:34 PM
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Can he spend, estimates, of his net worth ? Does he benefit if he doesn't increase the float and the stock drops from 80 to 20 ?

It doesn't matter. Trump knows that his share of DJT isn't really worth $4 billion. He can't actually sell it for that amount. DJT is a meme stock right now, and it only has value because Trump owns a majority share - and is therefore presumably 100% committed to it.

The question for Trump is how to maximize the benefit for himself. Increasing the float doesn't have any benefit to him - the stock's got plenty of volume, and generally increasing the float doesn't increase the share price. Selling shares would convert the "estimate" benefit to actual dollars, but there's a limit on how much he could actually liquidate without tanking the stock now. Meanwhile, though, he benefits politically by being provably a multi-billionaire - at least on paper.

What Trump should do is have DJT engage in the most profitable thing a meme stock can do. Sell more shares. People want to buy shares in a company that has less than $20 million per year in average revenue (and nothing but losses) at a valuation of close to $10 billion. The smart thing would be to have a secondary offering in a few months. Sell another 20-30 million in shares - small enough so that Trump still has majority control, but enough to make a ton of money off of gullible Trump fans and/or people seeking to curry favor with the candidate. That guarantees Trump a several hundred million dollar payout at the end of wherever this goes, without tanking the price any more than would happen 'organically.'
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