Hi everyone,
I'm curious about how much traffic and ad revenue a naming stunt like
this generates for Truth Social. Trump and Co owns Truth Social. So I
imagine they get 100% of the ad profit from something like this.
I found myself visiting Truth Social about ten times—first thinking I
was hallucinating, then checking if the account was legitimate, and
finally scrolling through other similarily bonkers posts. While my
visits likely only generated a nano-cent in ad revenue, it made me
wonder about the broader financial impact.
I would like to think this ad revenue is negligible for them and not a
primary motivation, but I don't have any data. Does anyone have
insight into how much traffic or revenue these posts actually drive?
Best,
cody dooderson
On Mon, Sep 7, 2026 at 2:56 PM Santafe <[email protected]> wrote:
Yep.
Tribal bonding too.
Early on in the first debacle (2016–2020), some commentator from
one of the African countries (I think it was Nigeria) said it
perfectly: trump is a troll. He is trolling the world.
This is all about reveling in stupidity, to prove the point that
the ones who are upset by it can’t make you stop. It’s just abuse
for the sake of abuse, by people for whom that is what is left to
want in life. What we can do about that whole make-up seems to me
to be the core of the problem.
In New Mexico, various small rodents will gather up whole bunches
and clusters of cholla balls (little detachable thorn-balls that
are how cholla carries its spines) and pack them in around the
entries to their burrows. So that anything that tries to dig them
out will decide to go try something else instead. (Until you
have had these in your fingers, and transferred them from one hand
to another several times, it’s hard to appreciate what a good
strategy that is. Reflect for a while on trying to get one of
these out of the tongue of a dog….) We need some kind of a rake.
Eric
On Sep 8, 2026, at 5:24, Eric Charles
<[email protected]> wrote:
Counterpoint: All evidence is that it is working 100% perfectly.
It is *not* an exercise in branding, it is an exercise in
distraction, and you are distracted, The Atlantic is distracted,
and CNN is distracted. It is an effort to get us to be talking
less about how bad it is on the ground in our economy, how we are
not-winning a war we never had to get into in the first place, etc.
Best,
Eric
On Mon, Sep 7, 2026 at 3:25 PM Jochen Fromm <[email protected]>
wrote:
It is a form of rebranding, isn't it? Marketing is the only
thing Donald Trump used to be good at. But in this case it
alienates and confuses everybody.
The Atlantic writes "American students are now the best at
geography because there is only one possible answer to every
question"
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/08/everything-called-america-now/688443/
What is the name of the lake? Lake America. What is the name
of the gulf? Gulf of America. What is the name of the state?
New America.
-J.
-------- Original message --------
From: Roger Frye <[email protected]>
Date: 9/7/26 8:47 PM (GMT+01:00)
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Rename all the things
Leave Jersey, York and Amsterdam, Hampshire, England,
Brunswick, Orleans, Haven, Bedford, Rochelle, … alone!
> On Sep 7, 2026, at 12:34 PM, Jochen Fromm
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Do you find this urge to rename everything to America
("Gulf of America" and "Lake America" and now "New America")
embarassing? Will it help to make America great again? I have
doubts.
>
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/06/politics/trump-map-renames-new-mexico-as-new-america
>
> -J.
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