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When It Comes to Media, Trump Has Everyone Beat.

Mike Weisser
3 min readNov 21, 2023

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Ahhhhh…shit! Just when I thought I had finally made it into the Top 10 of the bloggers, I get slapped down again.

Last week I posted a story about how Trump’s Truth Social website is following Trump Air and the United States Football League into oblivion. I got the story from Forbes, which was based on a filing that the company which owns Truth Social sent to the SEC.

The Forbes story stated that Truth Social had lost $73 million since it began operations, largely due to minimal revenue from advertisers. The only ad I see over the past three days is a company which pushes investing in gold because precious metals are a better bet than money issued by the Deep State.

Every right-wing media program carries this advertising because it allegedly appeals to people who believe in conspiracy theories which are the stock-in-trade of Donald Trump and the alt-right. This is the same mentality which doesn’t want to get vaccinated because we know ‘for a fact’ that vaccinations cause cerebral palsy or worse.

Rush Limbaugh used to do an ad for a company — this was really great — which was selling a non-prescription remedy for swollen prostate conditions and made the point in the ad of specifically saying that their product would reduce swollen prostates because it had been ‘tested’ in the general…

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Mike Weisser
Mike Weisser

Written by Mike Weisser

Former college professor, IT Vice-President, bone fide gun nut, https://www.teeteepress.net/

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