His social media company, Trump Media & Technology Group, will start trading on the Nasdaq on Tuesday, under the ticker DJT.
Trump Media — the parent of Truth Social, the online platform that is Mr. Trump’s main megaphone for reaching supporters and going after critics — closed its merger with a cash-rich public shell company on Monday.
The shell company’s stock surged ahead of the deal, in a frenzied trade that has fueled the company since it proposed the merger with Mr. Trump’s firm in 2021.
The biggest beneficiary of the market action is Mr. Trump, who owns about 60 percent of Trump Media’s shares.
At the close of trading on Monday, his stake was worth nearly $4 billion.
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