Trump asked Musk if he wanted to buy Truth Social, Washington Post reports

Former president Donald Trump asked Elon Musk last summer if the latter would be interested in buying Trump’s social network Truth Social and although the idea “went nowhere,” the former president and the billionaire owner X, formerly known as Twitter, have continued to communicate more than was previously known, two people with knowledge of the matter told The Washington Post’s Josh Dawsey, Drew Harwell and Jonathan O’Connell. Trump Media & Technology Group did not address any of the facts reported in the story when invited to do so by The Post, but in an emailed statement, Trump Media spokeswoman Shannon Devine said: “We heard Trump and Musk were actually discussing buying the Washington Post but they decided it had no value.” In the past month, the SEC greenlit Digital World Acquisition Corp.’s merger registration, setting the stage for Trump Media to become a public company, the report noted.