Hi everyone, I'm curious about how much traffic and ad revenue a naming stunt like this generates for Truth Social. Trump and Co owns Truth Social. So I imagine they get 100% of the ad profit from something like this.
I found myself visiting Truth Social about ten times—first thinking I was hallucinating, then checking if the account was legitimate, and finally scrolling through other similarily bonkers posts. While my visits likely only generated a nano-cent in ad revenue, it made me wonder about the broader financial impact. I would like to think this ad revenue is negligible for them and not a primary motivation, but I don't have any data. Does anyone have insight into how much traffic or revenue these posts actually drive? Best, cody dooderson On Mon, Sep 7, 2026 at 2:56 PM Santafe <[email protected]> wrote: > Yep. > > Tribal bonding too. > > Early on in the first debacle (2016–2020), some commentator from one of > the African countries (I think it was Nigeria) said it perfectly: trump is > a troll. He is trolling the world. > > This is all about reveling in stupidity, to prove the point that the ones > who are upset by it can’t make you stop. It’s just abuse for the sake of > abuse, by people for whom that is what is left to want in life. What we > can do about that whole make-up seems to me to be the core of the problem. > > In New Mexico, various small rodents will gather up whole bunches and > clusters of cholla balls (little detachable thorn-balls that are how cholla > carries its spines) and pack them in around the entries to their burrows. > So that anything that tries to dig them out will decide to go try something > else instead. (Until you have had these in your fingers, and transferred > them from one hand to another several times, it’s hard to appreciate what a > good strategy that is. Reflect for a while on trying to get one of these > out of the tongue of a dog….) We need some kind of a rake. > > Eric > > > > On Sep 8, 2026, at 5:24, Eric Charles <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Counterpoint: All evidence is that it is working 100% perfectly. It is > *not* an exercise in branding, it is an exercise in distraction, and > you are distracted, The Atlantic is distracted, and CNN is distracted. It > is an effort to get us to be talking less about how bad it is on the ground > in our economy, how we are not-winning a war we never had to get into in > the first place, etc. > > Best, > Eric > > <[email protected]> > > > On Mon, Sep 7, 2026 at 3:25 PM Jochen Fromm <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It is a form of rebranding, isn't it? Marketing is the only thing Donald >> Trump used to be good at. But in this case it alienates and confuses >> everybody. >> >> The Atlantic writes "American students are now the best at geography >> because there is only one possible answer to every question" >> >> https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/08/everything-called-america-now/688443/ >> >> What is the name of the lake? Lake America. What is the name of the gulf? >> Gulf of America. What is the name of the state? 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