Matthew A. Winkler, Columnist

Trump Media Is a Loser in a Year Full of Winners

The truth about Truth Social. 

Photographer: Leon Neal/Getty Images 

Investors who put their faith in Donald Trump's publicly traded media and technology company are among the biggest losers in a stock market that rallied from Amsterdam to Sydney this year, proving the peril of riding the coattails of a huckster with a history of running businesses that go bust.

Thirty-five years after his debt-laden Taj Mahal casino was placed in bankruptcy - the first of six such failures by the current President of the United States that included other Atlantic City properties, New York’s Plaza Hotel and Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc. - Trump's latest washout is something called Trump Media & Technology Group Corp.