US EditionTrump’s Truth Social Just Inked a $6 Billion Merger in Perhaps the Most Bizarre M&A Deal of 2025
The merger creates the first publicly traded fusion company valued at $6 billion, aiming to accelerate fusion power commercialization and attract retail investors.
- On Thursday, Trump Media & Technology Group announced an all‑stock merger with TAE Technologies valuing the combined firm at about $6 billion, with shareholders owning 50% each and Binderbauer and Nunes as co‑CEOs.
- The merger aims to diversify Trump Media & Technology Group's business and raise financing as it reported a $54.8 million quarterly loss, while TAE Technologies seeks a public listing to tap retail and public‑market capital.
- TAE's technical record shows it has built five reactors and raised more than $1.3 billion from Google and Chevron, while Trump Media & Technology Group pledged $200 million up front plus $100 million before close.
- Shares jumped nearly 35% on Thursday after the announcement, with Trump Media & Technology Group's market cap surpassing $4 billion as Donald Trump Jr. would take one of nine board seats.
- The Department of Energy opened a new Office of Fusion last month as federal support grows, yet industry analysts warn fusion remains years from reshaping the grid and faces supply-chain bottlenecks.
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Trump Media Company Announces Merger with Nuclear Fusion Firm Amid AI Data Center Boom
The media company run by Donald Trump Jr. and former Republican Congressmember Devin Nunes has announced a $6 billion merger with a firm that hopes to build the world’s first viable nuclear fusion power plant. The merger between the Trump Media & Technology Group and TAE Technologies comes after President Trump signed an executive order seeking to bar states from regulating artificial intelligence and the energy-intensive data centers needed to …
Trump Media to merge with Fusion power company
Trump Media, which operates his Twitter clone Truth Social, is to merge with TAE, a company developing nuclear fusion technology. The all-stock deal values the pair at $6bn and, for obvious reasons, requires some explanation. CBS News, now under Trump-friendly management, has the fluff: For Trump Media, the merger represents another strategic shift, given its 2021 launch as a business focusing on the conservative-leaning social media space. Mor…
Don’t expect Trump Media’s nuclear fusion power plant to generate electricity soon
TAE Technologies’ fusion research reactor ‘Norm.’ | Photo: TAE Technologies Trump Media - yup, the parent company of Truth Social - is the latest entrant in the near century-long race to develop a nuclear fusion power plant. It announced a merger agreement with fusion company TAE Technologies on Thursday and a bold plan to break ground on the first utility-scale fusion plant some time in 2026. TAE doesn't plan to start generating power from its…
CEO of nuclear fusion firm Trump Media is merging with: High-velocity capital is critical to build quickly and efficiently. The concerns are secondary
The financially struggling Trump Media & Technology Group’s shocking, $6 billion merger with a nuclear fusion developer represents either a bet on more taxpayer dollars being invested in the first fusion player to go public—soon owned in part by the Trump family—or a belief that an influx of capital will speed up the launch of clean, limitless electricity that eventually will transform the global grid. Trump Media’s struggling stock had plummete…
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