Truth Social is slow and clunky. Its audience participation remains low. Two top executives have left. And the merger that could bring $1.3 billion in desperately needed cash to former U.S. President Donald Trump¡¯s social media project seems far from completion.

And now Truth Social¡¯s very reason for being appears under threat.

Elon Musk¡¯s plan for a potential hostile takeover of Twitter is the latest challenge for Trump Media & Technology Group¡¯s flagship Truth Social app, which Trump has positioned as Twitter¡¯s freewheeling conservative counterpart.