The NFL announced late Friday that effective the start of the 2026 season, injury reports will be released early to anyone willing to pay a season-long fee of $300,000. People not ready to pay for the full season can pay month-to-month for $100,000.
The injury reports to paying customers will be made available anywhere from five seconds to hours before they are released to the general public.
It’s widely expected that major sportsbooks, such as DraftKings and FanDuel, as well as market makers in the prediction market space, such as Susquehanna, will buy the service, as it will give them a leg up in line making, prop betting, and virtually all manner of decisions related to the sportsbook or prediction market.
And … scene.
Can you imagine the outrage if the above scenario played out? There would be rioting in the streets. The average bettor could — and would — get steamrolled. It would probably result in congressional hearings, and I’m not kidding.
Of course, the above is quaint compared to what’s happening with Truth API, the devilishly brilliant plan hatched at Trump HQ, where, for a fee — rumored to be $100K a month — Wall Street firms can buy access to President Donald Trump’s (and others’) posts on Truth Social before the rest of the world sees them.
If you thought knowing Puka Nacua was going to be listed as questionable gave you an edge, how about knowing if the president was going to strike a peace deal with Iran minutes before everyone else?
The service launched Aug. 1, already has paying customers, and pretty much has everyone’s knickers in a twist. (Pretty Much Everyone: Knickers in a twist, questionable.)
Breakdown
Here’s why it’s kinda-sorta objectively gross: Trump Media and Technology Group owns Truth Social. About 52% of Trump Media and Technology is owned by the Trump family, most of it owned by the president himself, held in a trust managed by his son, Donald Trump Jr.
So Trump owns the company, he’s selling access to his posts early, he pockets that money, and Wall Street firms then trade on the early news before us schmucks know there’s even anything going on.
“It’s insane,” an anonymous Wall Street executive told NPR. “I can say for myself and 200 of my friends in finance, we’re not getting anywhere near this. In another administration, this would be considered criminal.”
I mean, without getting too political here, can you imagine if Obama — you know, the guy born in Kenya, married to a man, drinker of child blood — hatched this plan?
Why it matters
Seriously: Can you imagine if this was happening in sports? If a league started selling early injury news?
Regulators in a dozen states would open a case before lunch. There is basically an entire industry — you know, Sportradar, Genius Sports, state gambling commissions — that exist to make sure this stuff could never happen.
Really: We built this for sports betting. We make sure no one — no one — gets access to market-moving news before anyone else. Reporters dig, they report. But the idea of a league selling this info? Stop it.
And yet, here’s the president of the free world selling front-running access to his own mouth, pocketing the cash, and the best we can do is … twist some knickers (and threaten maybe a future hearing).
I’ll tell you this much, though: This scheme really puts the “house” in White House, ya feel me?
