Trump Media to merge with fusion power company TAE Technologies in $6 billion deal

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https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/18/trump-media-djt-tae-fusion-merger.html

Trump Media and Technology Group on Thursday announced a merger agreement with TAE Technologies, a fusion power company, valued at more than $6 billion.

The all-stock deal, expected to close in mid-2026, will result in shareholders of each firm owning approximately half of the combined company.


The merger would create “one of the world’s first publicly traded fusion companies,” according to a press release.

Trump Media stock rocketed more than 19% higher in premarket trading.

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1. Combining two money-losing companies

is supposed to create a different result?

No wonder Trump’s had so many bankruptcies.

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2. TAE's wiki page tells you all you need to know

Main financing has come from Goldman Sachs and venture capitalists such as Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Vulcan Inc., Rockefeller's Venrock, and Richard Kramlich's New Enterprise Associates. The Government of Russia, through the joint-stock company Rusnano, invested in Tri Alpha Energy in October 2012, and Anatoly Chubais, Rusnano CEO, became a board member.[16][19][29][30][31] Other investors include the Wellcome Trust and the Kuwait Investment Authority.[32] As of July 2017 the company reported that it had raised more than $500 million in backing.[7] As of 2020, it had raised over $600 million,[33] which rose to around $880 million in 2021[32] and $1.2 billion as of 2022.[34]

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3. Fusion power is fifty years away and always will be

Although, technically, the Earth is fusion-powered by that giant fusion reactor at the center of the solar system.

Maybe Trump would stop his war on wind and solar power if we start calling them fusion converters.

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4. Announced a day after the Director of MIT's Fusion Center was.murdered

Things that make you go; "hmmmm"