Trump Media Posts $712 Million Loss as Bitcoin Bet Backfires
In mid-2025, TMTG deployed roughly $2 billion to build what it called a "Bitcoin Treasury," acquiring approximately 11,500 BTC at an average price somewhere between $115,000 and $118,000 per coin.
- TMTG posted a $712.3M net loss in 2025, largely tied to unrealized Bitcoin declines
- The company spent ~$2B on Bitcoin at peak prices; holdings have since lost roughly 40% in value
- Truth Social generated just $3.68M in revenue for the full year – against a $5.3B market cap
- TMTG is exploring spinning off Truth Social as it pivots toward crypto and nuclear energy
By early 2026, Bitcoin had slid to the $70,000–$74,000 range. The math isn’t kind. Those unrealized losses now anchor the company’s otherwise headline-grabbing balance sheet, which still shows around $2.5 billion in total liquid assets – more than triple the prior year’s figure, though context matters here.
In February 2026, the company pledged 2,000 BTC as collateral for hedging transactions, trimming its reported holdings from 11,542 to 9,542 BTC.
Truth Social: Big Brand, Thin Revenue
While TMTG has been busy accumulating digital assets, its flagship platform Truth Social has quietly continued to struggle. The platform brought in just $3.68 million in full-year 2025 revenue – a figure that would be unremarkable for a mid-sized local business, let alone a company carrying a $5.3 billion market capitalization. Advertising traction has been minimal at best.
DJT IS DOWN $400M ON BTC
Trump Media (ticker: $DJT) disclosed a purchase of $1.37B of Bitcoin in September 2025. Since then, their investment has drawn down over $400 MILLION.
DJT’s on-chain wallets are down $416M over the past 6 months. Will DJT make it back? https://t.co/V7QHYSalvm pic.twitter.com/xv28qEcmmc
— Arkham (@arkham) March 5, 2026
Against that backdrop, TMTG is now reportedly exploring a spinoff of Truth Social into its own publicly traded entity. The logic, as the company frames it, is to separate the social media business – which continues to bleed money – from its newer ventures in cryptocurrency and nuclear fusion. The latter comes following a $6 billion merger deal with TAE Technologies.
Whether institutional investors buy into that framing remains to be seen.
A Wider Web of Losses
TMTG’s financial turbulence doesn’t exist in isolation. American Bitcoin Corp, a mining venture co-founded by Eric Trump, reported a $TRUMP), a meme coin that launched with considerable fanfare in early 2025 at an all-time high of $73.43, was trading around $3.23 by early March 2026 – a decline of roughly 95%.
TMTG has attempted to maintain shareholder engagement through a non-transferable digital token airdrop, setting a February 2026 record date for DJT shareholders as part of a broader push to animate its “Truth” platform ecosystem.
Analysts Aren’t Buying the Story
Market observers have been blunt. Analysts have characterized TMTG’s financial disclosures as “awful,” citing a stark disconnect between the company’s market valuation and its revenue fundamentals. The company has, to date, failed to demonstrate any meaningful path toward profitability through its core media operations.
Some speculators, however, are betting on politics over fundamentals. The 2026 Midterm elections are being floated in certain circles as a potential “cyclical bottom” that could breathe new life into Trump-branded assets. President Trump, for his part, continues to use Truth Social as a platform to push his “Crypto Agenda,” recently taking aim at banks he accused of obstructing cryptocurrency legislation.
For now, the numbers tell a more sobering story. A company sitting on a multi-billion dollar crypto position purchased near all-time highs, a social media platform generating revenue in the single millions, and annual losses in the hundreds of millions – the gap between narrative and financial reality at TMTG remains wide.
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Alex is Editor-in-Chief of Coindoo and co-founder of Millennial Media Group, with nearly a decade of experience covering financial markets - crypto first, then everything else. It started in 2016 with Bitcoin. Like most people at the time, he didn't fully understand it - so he kept digging. Blockchain, tokenomics, the projects, the cycles. That curiosity never stopped, and eventually pulled him into traditional markets too: equities, commodities, macro. Not because he left crypto behind, but because you can't properly understand one without the other. What drives him is straightforward: he wants to know why something is happening, not just that it's happening. Most market coverage stops at the headline - price up, price down, here's a chart. Alex finds that kind of reporting actively unhelpful. If you walk away from an article without understanding the mechanism behind the move, what did you actually learn? He holds a degree in Tourism from New Bulgarian University - not the most obvious path into financial markets, but markets have a way of pulling in people who are simply too curious to stay out. He has authored over 200 in-depth analyses and more than 10,000 articles across crypto and traditional finance. He still thinks every day in markets teaches him something new. That's probably why he hasn't stopped.
