President Donald Trump was sued in federal court Wednesday to stop him from making money off a new, paid service at his Truth Social company offering early, exclusive access to his posts on U.S. policy.

The lawsuit alleges the service offering paying customers sneak peeks of his posts about U.S. policy on war, tariffs and other issues violates the Constitution and that official announcements should be made available to everyone at the same time. The new subscription service rolled out earlier this month is charging Wall Street firms as much as $100,000 a month to trade off the market-moving posts before others.

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“A president selling priority access to news he himself generates for the benefit of a private company he controls is so blatantly corrupt and unconstitutional that it would have been hard to even fathom just a few years ago,” said Seth Stern, chief of advocacy at the Freedom of the Press Foundation, a plaintiff in the case along with news outlet The Intercept.

Truth Social’s parent company, Trump Media & Technology, said selling fast access to traders is common in its industry, and that the plaintiffs are just trying to silence the president.

“Information from President Trump is disseminated by countless platforms and news outlets, many of which offer subscription APIs,” it said in a statement, using the acronym for the fast access service. “Now, left wing activists are trying to wrongfully weaponize the courts to censor him again and harm our shareholders.”

The early access service comes as the publicly traded Trump Media loses hundreds of millions of dollars each quarter and its stock has dropped below $10 from $62 shortly after going public two years ago.

The plaintiffs allege the service violates two parts of the Constitution — the First Amendment right to access a president’s comments on equal terms with other members of the press and public and the Fifth Amendment prohibitions on charging unreasonable conditions for government benefits.

The lawsuit asks that Trump Media be forced to end the new paid service, called Truth API, which offers access milliseconds faster.

Trump Media also benefits separately from a deal with Trump that gives its Truth Social six hours of exclusive access to his posts before he can distribute them elsewhere. The plaintiffs appeared to take aim at that, too, asking the court to stop him from “posting official government information exclusively” on his own site.

Trump is the largest shareholder of Trump Media, owning more than 40% of its shares through a trust.

Even before the new API service was started earlier this month, ethics watchdogs criticized Trump’s posting on Truth Social as a brash attempt to profit off the presidency, similar to other money-making ventures, including ones related to cryptocurrencies. Earlier this year, the president filed a required annual financial disclosure report that showed he took in more than a $1 billion last year from new crypto businesses that his administration regulates.

Among other moves since he was reelected, Trump’s digital finance company, World Liberty Financial, got a $500 million investment from a company tied to the government of the United Arab Emirates and sold hundreds of millions of dollars worth of special souvenir Trump meme coins to his fans and possible federal favor seekers, including a billionaire fighting a federal lawsuit that was later paused, then settled.

In addition to the president, the lawsuit filed in the Southern District of New York names his deputy chief of staff Daniel Scavino and his executive assistant Natalie J. Harp as defendants.

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Hello Kitty and Godzilla are coming to McDonald’s Happy Meals this August in one of the most highly-anticipated collaborations to ever hit the fast food franchise.

Starting August 18, eight toys combining Sanrio’s most popular mascots and a few of the most iconic monsters from the Godzilla films will be available in Happy Meals at participating locations within the United States.

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McDonald’s confirmed the full list of toys on August 12, sharing a graphic that showed each figure and the special Godzilla-themed box they’ll come in. (Along with your nuggets and fries, of course.)

cosplaying right into our hearts. Hello Kitty and Friends x Godzilla Happy Meal out 8.18. pic.twitter.com/toTfyzcQ3k

— McDonald's (@McDonalds) August 12, 2026

The full list of toys is as follows:

• Hello Kitty x Godzilla
• My Melody x Mothra
• Kuromi x Mechagodzilla
• Keroppi x King Ghidora
• Badz-Maru x Rodan
• Cinnamoroll x Destoroyah
• Chococat x Spacegodzilla
• Pompompurin x Gigan

It’s nice to see such a wide variety of characters represented in this collaboration; real Sanrio fans will know that Chococat rarely makes an appearance in big collabs like this, not to mention Badz-Maru. The same is true on the Kaijus’ end of things — how many of us can say that we’ve seen Destoroyah or Gigan included in a mainstream Godzilla toy line?

Responses to this upcoming collab have been nothing short of ecstatic. McDonald’s’ tweet revealing the toys has sparked no end of excitement among Kaiju fans and Sanrio enthusiasts alike, though some are expressing concerns over the possibility that scalpers might ruin things for everyone.

These fears aren’t unwarranted; scalpers have been known to target exclusive Happy Meal items in the past, infamously causing chaos during the chain’s partnerships with Pokemon over the years. In 2021, scalpers bought up the Pokemon 25th anniversary Happy Meals, reselling the trading card packs inside for hundreds of dollars online.

And in 2025, McDonald’s Japan ended its Pokemon card promotion after scalpers showed up in droves to buy Happy Meals just to get at the packs inside, leaving food waste and packaging strewn outside.

Scalpers don’t limit themselves to cards, either; the 2026 Pokemon merch collaboration with Target suffered a similar fate, as did the resurgence of limited-edition Pokemon poptarts, which were spotted on eBay listings for upwards of $25 - $50 earlier this year.

This is far from the first time McDonald's and Hello Kitty have teamed up with another franchise for Happy Meal toys. In 2024, McDonald's Belgium released a line of Hello Kitty x Yu-Gi-Oh! toys in one of the strangest collaborations we've seen thus far.

Virginia (she/her) is IGN’s News Editor. With ten years of experience reporting on games and entertainment, she’s got a storied background in the fighting game community, influencer news, and viral online trends. Find her on Twitter at @TheeMissGlaze.

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