{"id":11065,"date":"2025-07-08T10:23:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T10:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trumps-media-company-announces-an-eyebrow-raising-deal-with-newsmax\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T10:23:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T10:23:36","slug":"trumps-media-company-announces-an-eyebrow-raising-deal-with-newsmax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trumps-media-company-announces-an-eyebrow-raising-deal-with-newsmax\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s media company announces an eyebrow-raising deal with Newsmax"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Monday, President Donald Trump’s media company unveiled a television streaming platform called Truth+ and announced that Newsmax — a propaganda outlet known for its pro-Trump content<\/a> — will be a flagship channel.<\/p>\n

As The Wrap reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Trump Media, which operates the social media platform Truth Social used heavily by Donald Trump, launched Truth+ globally on Monday, with the flagship Newsmax channel available to stream on the platform. Trump Media describes the platform’s focus as “family-friendly live TV channels and on-demand content.”<\/p>\n

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Trump Media’s CEO is former Rep. Devin Nunes of California, a MAGA loyalist.<\/p>\n

“There is clearly a need globally for fresh perspectives on the great issues of our day, and we’re laying the groundwork to challenge the woke news monolith with hard-hitting, non-woke reporting and commentary,” Nunes said in a statement.<\/p>\n

That appears to be MAGA-speak for “we’re going to be peddling far-right propaganda worldwide.”<\/p>\n

That appears to be MAGA-speak for “we’re going to be peddling far-right propaganda worldwide.”<\/p>\n

This means the president is now financially intertwined with a propaganda platform he frequently welcomes into the White House briefing room — an outlet embroiled in a legal fight over falsehoods it aired regarding the 2020 election<\/a>. And earlier this year, Newsmax and MAGA-friendly outlet The Blaze were granted entry to the White House press pool<\/a>in place of HuffPost and Reuters, as part of what appeared to be an effort to add more Trump-aligned outlets.<\/p>\n

It’s the type of seemingly corrupt setup one imagines Hungary’s illiberal leader, Viktor Orbán, dreaming of back in 2022, when he advised Republicans<\/a> that having their “own media” was essential for combating liberals and constructing a society like his, which Orbán has called an “illiberal democracy.”<\/p>\n

It’s possible that Truth+ goes the way of Truth Social and boasts only a meager base of users<\/a>. But the effectiveness of the streaming platform (or lack thereof) is arguably less disturbing than the fundamental intent, which appears to be to build up the president’s propagandistic media empire.<\/p>\n

Trump’s continued ownership of a private media company he relies on to help spread propaganda<\/a> should arguably be a scandal in and of itself. And his official, for-profit partnership with a news outlet that reports on him only adds another layer of controversy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ja’han Jones is an BLN opinion blogger. He previously wrote The ReidOut Blog. He is a futurist and multimedia producer focused on culture and politics. His previous projects include “Black Hair Defined” and the “Black Obituary Project.”<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On Monday, President Donald Trump’s media company unveiled a television streaming platform called Truth+ and announced that Newsmax — a propaganda outlet known for its pro-Trump content — will be a flagship channel. As The Wrap reports: Trump Media, which operates the social media platform Truth Social used heavily by Donald Trump, launched Truth+ globally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trump"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}