There is literally nothing else of value on Truth Social except the president's posts. And those are considered official government communications. There's a legal ruling about that from the time of the first Trump administration.

So the US president has created a wrapper corporation that sells early access to official government communications. It doesn't matter if it's only milliseconds, that's enough for trading systems to make money.

How can any of this be legal in a democracy?

The people voted for a really corrupt guy, so they get tonnes of corruption. That's how.

I agree. I think the first part is the surprising part.

The second makes sense for an arms-length news service.