Over the past few years, Donald Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social, has been dismissed as a money-losing boondoggle.
This week, that all changed. Matthew Goldstein, a New York Times business reporter, explains how its parent venture, Truth Media, became a publicly traded company worth billions of dollars.
Guest: Matthew Goldstein, a New York Times business reporter.
Background reading:
For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.
Broadway’s Longest-Running Musical Turns Out the Lights
What We’re Learning From the Leaked Military Documents
How Strong (or Not) Is New York’s Case Against Trump?
Inside Russia’s Crackdown on Dissent
An Extraordinary Act of Political Retribution in Tennessee
‘The Run-Up’: The Republican Party Sorts Through Its Mess
The Outsourcing of America’s Border Problem
America Has a Problem in Africa: China
What It Was Like at Donald Trump’s Arraignment
The Election That Could Reshape Wisconsin, and the Country
Fear and Bravado: Inside Trump’s Reaction to the Indictment
The Sunday Read: ‘A Sandwich Shop, a Tent City and an American Crisis'
The Indictment of Donald Trump
The Plan to Save Baseball From Boredom
Israel’s Far Right Government Backs Down
The Fight Over ‘Cop City’
A Sweeping Plan to Protect Kids From Social Media
The Sunday Read: ‘How Danhausen Became Professional Wrestling’s Strangest Star’
Should The Government Pay for Your Bad Climate Decisions?
Our Film Critic on Why He’s Done With the Movies
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