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Americans woke up to a bold move on Thursday as Trump Media & Technology Group announced an all‑stock merger with TAE Technologies, a private nuclear fusion company, in a deal the firms say values the combined group at more than $6 billion. The transaction would make Trump Media the holding company for TAE and its subsidiaries and marks one of the first times a fusion developer is set to become publicly traded.
Markets responded fast, with Trump Media shares popping sharply in premarket trading — gains as high as the mid‑30s were reported before a modest pullback — showing that investors smell opportunity when bold American enterprise meets breakthrough technology. Short‑term traders and long‑term patriots alike are clearly attracted to a narrative of energy independence and technological leadership built by private capital.
Leadership of the combined company will pair Trump Media CEO Devin Nunes with TAE chief Michl Binderbauer as co‑CEOs, while Donald Trump remains the largest shareholder in Trump Media with a roughly 41 percent stake. That kind of continuity matters — experienced, politically savvy ownership alongside fusion expertise is exactly the mix that can cut through red tape and get things built.
The companies say they plan to site and begin construction on the first utility‑scale fusion plant in 2026, targeting an initial 50 megawatt output and ambitions for much larger plants thereafter — a serious timeline that, if met, would be a historic leap for American energy. Fusion is not fantasy when private firms backed by real investors are putting milestones and engineering plans on the table; this is about unleashing near‑limitless, clean power to fuel factories, data centers, and our economy.
This is the kind of pro‑growth, pro‑America initiative conservatives should champion — the Department of Energy itself has pushed a roadmap encouraging a thriving fusion sector, and voters weary of foreign energy dependence want leadership, not handwringing. We should applaud an administration‑aligned private effort that could lock in American energy dominance while powering the AI boom and high‑paying manufacturing jobs at home.
Of course, the usual suspects are already howling about conflicts of interest and ethics, trotting out partisan lawyers and predictably negative headlines instead of offering practical alternatives. Those attacks are predictable and political — they ignore the bigger picture that America needs innovation and scale to compete with China, and that private investment, not Washington lecture tours, will get fusion to the grid.
TAE’s backers and history of private fundraising, which include major industrial and tech investors, show this isn’t a pipe dream but a serious, capital‑intensive engineering program that needs a public market to accelerate deployment and scale. If conservatives want to protect jobs, national security, and the American standard of living, we should back deals that marry savvy capital, patriotic leadership, and transformative technology — not kneecap them with reflexive skepticism.
