As the former president and Republican front-runner for the 2024 election, Donald Trump has quite a pull on social media.
He has also been facing significant financial hurdles. After several criminal trials and funding a second presidential campaign, Trump is seeing hundreds of millions of dollars in liability.
An Intelligencer report from earlier this year revealed Trump was forced to pay $91 million for his defamation of writer E. Jean Carroll and would be responsible for at least $300 million over the next few months.
While Trump acquired $3.3 billion in stock from his social media platform Truth Social this year, much of his funds have been locked away until later this year.
However, with roughly 90 million followers on X alone and a strong base of followers and supporters, Trump’s money problems could likely disappear if he became a full-force influencer.
Influencers are social media users who profit from their content and product endorsements. While the amount of money …