TO: PETER WALKER and BILL ANTONIO ROJAS (Disinformation Spreaders):
GROK 4 STUDY - Does POTUS have a presence on Telegram and is there a "MAGA Academy"?
Answer: No official presence for DJT (Donald J. Trump) on Telegram; no evidence he and his sons are starting a “MAGA Academy.”
Telegram presence:
There is a popular Telegram channel
@real_DonaldJTrump (roughly 610k–611k subscribers as of recent crawls). Its description reads “Uncensored posts from the Office of Donald J. Trump / Reserved for the 45th President of the United States” and links to donaldjtrump.com.
However:
It is not verified by Telegram as official.
Independent trackers and older reporting have treated similar or this channel as unofficial (one tracker explicitly labels related content “[unofficial]”).
Reliable 2021 reporting (and the pattern since) stated that Trump did not have an official Telegram channel; many accounts using his name were impersonators or archives.
Trump’s official website (donaldjtrump.com) does not list or promote any Telegram channel among social links.
Trump’s primary platforms remain Truth Social, X (
@realDonaldTrump), and others; no official confirmation of a personal or office-run Telegram presence appears in recent coverage.
Donald Trump Jr. has used Telegram (e.g., a 2024 channel tied to a family-linked crypto project called “The Defiant Ones”), but that is separate from any DJT channel.
In short: fan/supporter or office-claiming channels exist and can be large, but there is no confirmed official DJT presence on Telegram.
“MAGA Academy”:
No credible evidence shows Donald Trump or his sons (Donald Jr., Eric, etc.) starting, founding, or officially backing a “MAGA Academy.”
What does exist under similar names:
A small Facebook page / associated site (maga-academy.com) and older X account describing itself as training for “populist political candidates” / “SEAL Team 6 of Politics.” It has low engagement and no demonstrated Trump-family connection.
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