Trump claims to be 'number one' on TikTok. What does that mean?

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President Donald Trump touted that he's "number one" on TikTok multiple times this week. "The new numbers just came out," Trump told reporters at the White House Monday. "You know who the number one person on TikTok is by far? Trump. Me," he said. The president added that he surpassed Taylor Swift, who he said was "number 11" on the social media app. As of July 9, Trump has 16.7 million followers on TikTok. Taylor Swift has a little over double Trump's TikTok following, sitting at 33.5 million followers as of July 9. The most followed person on the app is Khabane Lame, a Senegalese influencer known for his comedic skits. Lame has 162.3 million followers on the video-sharing platform. That's nearly 10 times Trump's following. After Lame, the second most followed person on TikTok is 22-year-old Charli D'Amelio who rose to fame in late 2019 after her dance videos started going viral. She has 159.2 million followers. "I was ...

Rivian Learns the Power of the Hot Stock Force: Selling It

Rivian Learns the Power of the Hot Stock Force: Selling It Thornton McEnery Tue, July 7, 2026 at 10:02 AM PDT 2 min read RIVN NVDA TSLA UBER Rivian Learns the Power of the Hot Stock Force: Selling It - Moby BREAKING NEWS Our analysts just identified a stock with the potential to be the next Nvidia. Tell us how you invest and we'll show you why it's our #1 pick. Tap here. Congratulations to Rivian, which on Tuesday experienced its first genuine public Tesla moment, and we don't mean full self-driving. The EV maker's shares plunged more than 10% in early trading after it announced a public offering of 75 million Class A shares, worth roughly $1.51 billion at Monday's close of $20.14. The timing was, let's say, seasoned. Rivian stock had climbed 19% last week, then tacked on another 8.1% Monday, at which point management looked at the rally, looked at the checkbook, and decided the shareholders wouldn't mind chipping in. This is a rite of passage. Rivian has passed the hat before via convertibles (basically a quiet private sale to Uber), but never like this. Tesla spent the better part of a decade doing exactly this dance: let the stock rip, announce a massive share sale into the euphoria, watch the faithful grumble and then buy the dip anyway. Elon turned dilution into performance art. Rivian selling $1.5 billion of stock the morning after an 8% pop isn't chicanery so much as an announcement that it has graduated to the big leagues, where the reward for a hot stock is immediately using it as an ATM. One stock. Nvidia-level potential. 30M+ investors trust Moby to find it first. Get the pick. Tap here. To be fair, the money has a respectable destination: the proceeds fund Rivian's equity contributions under its Department of Energy loan agreement. And the numbers underneath aren't bad. Rivian pre-released second-quarter revenue of $1.55 billion to $1.65 billion, beating the $1.45 billion analysts expected, and its cash pile grew to $5.3 billion from $4.8 billion. The catch: Rivian recently shelved its 2027 profitability target, citing a coming spike in R&D spending on autonomy and next-gen tech, and is now betting the new R2 midsize SUV gets it to profitability by decade's end. Promising the good stuff is always a few years out while raising billions in the meantime? That's the Tesla playbook, chapter one. Terms and Privacy Policy Your Privacy Choices CA Privacy Notice More Info

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