Trump Media stock ticker DJT debuts decades after ex-president's failed casino company used it

• Trump Media & Technology Group is set to begin trading on the NASDAQ stock market with the stock DJT.
• That's the same ticker former President Donald Trump debuted nearly three decades ago with great fanfare for his hotel and casino company only to see it delisted from the New York Stock Exchange nine years later.
• Trump Media's merger with the shell company Digital World Acquisition Corp. was completed Monday, allowing it to become publicly traded and almost $4 billion in paper profits to Donald Trump's net worth.
• The company's shares soared more than 35% Monday after a New York appeals court decreased from $454 million to $175 million the amount of a bond Trump would have to post to avoid the state attorney general collecting on a business fraud judgment while he appeals the case.

This old stock ticker DJT is new again for Donald Trump's social media company.

Trump Media & Technology Group is set to begin trading Tuesday on the NASDAQ stock market with a stock ticker the former president debuted nearly three decades ago.

Trump launched his publicly traded hotel and casino company to great fanfare in 1995, only to see it ignominiously delisted from the New York Stock Exchange nine years later.

Trump Media's merger with the shell company Digital World Acquisition Corp. was completed Monday, allowing it to become publicly traded, it added almost $4 billion in paper profits to Donald Trump's net worth.

Trump Media's market valuation could be $6 billion at Tuesday's opening bell, despite the company reporting less than $3.5 million — that's million, not billion — in revenue over the first three quarters of 2023.

On its last day of trading Monday under the DWAC ticker, the company's shares soared more than 35% after a New