Watching too much of the news has been making the wife anxious. Just when some “good news” made her feel just a bit better again, I had to ruin it.

As our slow unsteady descent into a potential dictatorship plays out across each day’s “headlines,” finally there was some justice for Trump. A $450 million judgement for decades long fraud in real estate on top of the $88 million judgement for rape (and defamation after — how fucking low can you go — rape a woman and then tell the world she is an ugly liar).

Maybe our hopes for a broke Trump were finally coming true… The news said:

  • “He may have to sell his buildings.”
  • “He may not have any cash.”
  • “He cannot get a loan.”

But one political reporter let it slip on air. “There’s an underreported good news for Trump… Truth Social will go public.”

What the fuck.

Hit the Google. God damn it. The demented Putin puppet just falls ass backward into money — again. Just like he did with licensing his name instead of building things himself. Just like he did to get “The Apprentice” on TV. Just like he did with his endless fundraising from his fleeced flock to pay $50 million to his lawyers.

Truth Social has never made money. It has one-tenth the users of Twitter. (If you can believe any of those user numbers). But while Twitter’s value goes in the shitter — thanks to Elon making it X and driving it down from $44 billion to $18 billion — Truth Social’s value just keeps climbing and climbing.

The US Government just said Truth Social is allowed to merge with a public company currently trading at $48 a share. That value has more than doubled since mid January (before the merger was announced). Wall Street and Trump’s followers are pumping up the value like a Meme Stock.

Partly due to the election and all the attention Trump will get from now to November. Partly due to the economics of any social media company with millions of users. Partly due to Trump’s cult that will pour cash into anything associated with him ($399 gold sneakers anyone?).

Trump will have nearly 80 million shares of the new company. 80 million times $50 a share is roughly $4 billion.

Fuck.

Screenshot of DWAC stock value from Reuters. DWAC is a blank check company — it is public and has a stock price, but it doesn’t produce or do anything. It’s just a vehicle to merge with private companies so they can generate revenue. Truth Social got the feds OK to merge with this blank check bullshit on Feb. 16.

I could have just kept this “news” to myself. Let the wife feel a little satisfaction. Just a little feeling that there is justice in this world full of unfairness and avarice.

Nope.

“I hate to tell you this honey…”

Why did I say it?

Ego. I have to feel like the smartest kid in class. I have to feel like I know something you don’t know. I can’t let any “good feelings” continue without bringing “balance” to the force.

It’s a self-inflicted curse. A personality flaw. A weakness. It will probably never be resolved. It’s what drives me to publish this bullshit drivel every week.

Just another log to add to the piles of shit that have disappointed my wife for nearly 40 years. Any man who says he is not a disappointment to his wife is a liar.

Speaking of balance… The $4 billion is “paper money.” Trump can’t sell his stock for at least 6 months. If he tried to sell his stock all at once, the value would crash. It’s not likely anyone would give him a loan for the full amount, since this blank check company could implode if Trump died, or was convicted and imprisoned or even went down in the polls, or eventually lost the election…

But he will be able to claim he is a billionaire (for a while) and unfortunately all of these judgements are unlikely to bankrupt him for “long”. For what little time remains in his sorry life, he can switch from being a fake “real estate tycoon” to a bullshit meme stock “tech bro” gouging money from the gullible.

Disappointing: Now you know how my wife feels. Part of me is sorry I made you read this. But I just can’t help myself.