Trump Administration Backs Nuclear Fusion – As Company Tied To Trump Invests In It
May 18th, 2026Pump and dump shitcoin scams played out?
Golden Trump phones?
How about fusion energy???
Via: MarketWatch:
In October, the Trump administration released a “Fusion Science and Technology Roadmap” to support the construction of commercial fusion power plants as soon as the 2030s. It may not exactly resemble a Manhattan Project for nuclear fusion, but the road map indicated the federal government would support a constellation of American fusion companies and no longer treat them like an academic project.
Among several approaches, the road map pointed to a unique reactor concept — field-reversed configurations, “which could significantly reduce the cost of fusion power.” It also referenced aneutronic fuels as being a potential source of “perhaps the greatest cost savings.”
Two months later, in December, Trump Media & Technology Group – the publicly traded company behind President Donald Trump’s Truth Social online platform – announced a merger agreement with TAE Technologies, an American fusion company that has helped pioneer field-reserved configurations and been a leader in the commercial development of aneutronic fuels.
The deal, which has not yet closed, represented an abrupt change of course for TMTG. Its stock soared two years ago as it became a popular way to bet on Trump’s 2024 election win, but it has seen its shares drop by around 80% since that victory. The Florida-based company’s moves to diversify by holding bitcoin and launching exchange-traded funds haven’t come close to lifting its stock back to its prior heights.
Now, TMTG is pivoting toward nuclear fusion, a corner of the energy industry that has the Trump administration’s support as it aims to start providing actual commercial power to the country’s grid in a matter of years, after decades of experimentation. Nuclear fusion, which joins atoms, is the reaction that powers the sun; the technology remains unproven. Existing U.S. nuclear plants, which provide an estimated 18% of the country’s electricity, rely on fission, which splits atoms.
