Donald Trump files frivolous $1.5 billion suit against 20 media outlets

Ordinary people get mad and move on. Billionaire narcissists file another lawsuit. When he ran for the White House for the first time, USA Today reported that Donald Trump had been involved in 4,095 lawsuits over just three decades. That’s more than two-and-a-half lawsuits a week. Since the data goes only until 2016, it doesn’t even count the 62 lawsuits Trump and his allies filed in their attempts to overturn the 2020 election.

With Elon Musk filing a frivolous attack on Media Matters for America, it seems Trump couldn’t resist filing suit against 20 media outlets for erroneously reporting that his Truth Social media platform had lost $73 million. As Bloomberg reports, that number came from a regulatory filing by Digital World Acquisition Corporation, the special-purpose acquisition company (and allegedly a massive scam) behind Truth Social.

However, news outlets including Reuters and The Guardian, which were among the first to report the number, made a mistake in tabulating the numbers. Other media outlets then cited those erroneous figures. Rather than demanding a retraction, Trump is claiming that the whole thing constitutes a “coordinated media campaign, by no less than 20 major media outlets, to attack Trump Media & Technology Group.” He’s seeking $1.5 billion in damages.