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New Listing - Truth Social Enters the ETF Arena: Making Portfolios Great Again

Just when you thought 2025 couldn't get any weirder, Trump Media has dropped four equity ETFs onto the market right before New Year's Eve, because nothing says “strategic launch timing” like debuting investment products when half of Wall Street is skiing in Aspen and the other half is desperately harvesting tax losses.
 

The Truth Social Funds lineup includes TSES (American Energy Security), TSIC (American Icons), TSNF (American Next Frontiers), and TSRS (American Red State REITs). Yes, you read that last one correctly. We now have a REIT ETF that screens for properties based on which states voted the right way. Finally, someone has solved the age-old problem of “I want real estate exposure, but only from places that went red in the last election.”

The products are screened by the 1792 Exchange, an organisation dedicated to fighting “woke capitalism” by rating companies on their likelihood to “cancel” conservative customers. The screening methodology ensures alignment with “America First principles and the Truth Social brand.” One imagines the index committee meetings are considerably more entertaining than your typical MSCI reconstitution call.

For those keeping score at home, this brings the Truth Social Funds family to a growing collection that already includes crypto ETF filings covering Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP, and Cronos. The company appears committed to building a full-service financial ecosystem where investors can express their political identity through asset allocation. Your portfolio as a bumper sticker, if you will.

The ETFs are sponsored by Yorkville America Equities, a Florida-based firm specialising in “America First themed businesses.” The expense ratios weren't disclosed in the initial filings, though one suspects the fees will be tremendous. Just tremendous.

What remains to be seen is whether there's genuine demand for politically curated equity exposure, or whether this is simply another chapter in the increasingly baroque story of ETF product development. In a market that has given us everything from inverse Cramer funds to literal meme coin ETFs, perhaps a Red State REIT was simply inevitable.

At minimum, the ticker symbols could have been more creative. MAGA was right there, people.


Bernie Thurston

Bernie Thurston is the founder and CEO of Ultumus, a leading provider of ETF and index data, calculation, and workflow solutions. With over 20 years of experience in financial technology, Bernie has been at the forefront of index and ETF innovation since 2003. His finance career began at Markit, where as Managing Director for Equities he designed and developed products for index and ETF composition and dividend forecasting from 2003 to 2011. He then founded and led DeltaOne Solutions as Managing Director, building it into a global provider of index and ETF trading data and technology services. The company managed over 100,000 multi-asset class products before being acquired by Markit in 2015. Following the acquisition, while working for an ETF issuer, Bernie identified fundamental issues in how index and ETF data was represented across the industry. This led him to found Ultumus in 2016, building solutions for ETF primary market operations. Under his leadership, Ultumus has grown into a market leader serving major financial institutions globally, with its ETF Order Management System (OMS) supporting create and redeem workflows worldwide and its PCF platform calculating and distributing portfolio composition files for ETF issuers across every major market. Bernie sold Ultumus to SIX Group in 2021, where it continues to expand across Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific. Known for building lasting teams and leveraging cutting-edge technology, Bernie is focused on establishing Ultumus as the backbone of the global index and ETF industry through standardisation and automation.

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