Trump Media jumps aboard the speculative nuclear fusion bandwagon

Just when you thought 2025 couldn't get any weirder, Trump Media and Technology Group - best known for Truth Social - is jumping into the still-nascent but heavily funded nuclear fusion industry via a planned merger with TAE Technologies.

TMTG on Thursday announced a merger agreement with fusion power firm TAE Technologies that will see the pair combine under the Trump banner with an arguably impossibly ambitious goal of breaking ground on a utility-scale fusion power plant in 2026. The deal, which the pair said is an all-stock transaction valued at $6 billion, isn't even supposed to close until the middle of next year. 

"Trump Media & Technology Group built uncancelable infrastructure to secure free expression online for Americans, and now we're taking a big step forward toward a revolutionary technology that will cement America's global energy dominance for generations," former congressman and TMTG chairman and CEO Devin ...