The president’s paper wealth soared on news that the company behind Truth Social has agreed to merge with a fusion start-up. But China is way ahead in the funding race to commercialize the technology.

Let’s start with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility (NIF)—arguably the largest, most established fusion research facility in the world. This year, NIF continued firing its reactor, tweaking even the most minute details of its setup in hopes of the slightest improvement in energy yield efficiency.

Trump Media, the company that runs social network Truth Social, is pivoting to nuclear fusion. It has announced a merger with California-based fusion power company TAE Technologies, and plans to start construction on a fusion power plant in 2026.

TAE advances hydrogen boron fusion by removing a 100 GW starter, cutting costs and giving readers a simple look at cleaner energy.

Developed by researchers from the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU), and Emmi AI, the system—called GyroSwin—can simulate complex fusion plasma behavior in seconds rather than days. The official press release highlighted this development as “modelling a star in a jar.”