Spare a thought for poor Trump – he lost $1.3bn after his social media stock crashed

The Mirror's US editor Christopher Bucktin reports on the best of the most bizarre it-could-only-happen-in-the-USA stories in his The Buck Stops Here column. This week, Christopher worries that after Trump's social media venture nosedived on the stockmarket, we'll have to get the begging bowl out for him

Spare a thought for Donald Trump – although maybe not too much. Away from the campaign trail, the crooked businessman needs every dime he can get right now.

But after a bizarre five-week surge in stock value, Trump’s social media venture, Truth Social, just hit a pretty big pothole.

This week, shares of Trump Media & Technology Group nosedived by 22.3% in one day – the worst day the company’s had since it went public in March, narrowly beating its last record – set on April Fool’s Day, of all dates.

Old Donnie’s stake in the company had been riding high, valued at a cool $5.9 billion but by the end of trading on Wednesday, it had shrunk to $4.6 billion – a $1.3 billion loss.

But hey, what’s money when you’re changing the world with truth… or whatever it is the app’s supposed to do?

North of the border, police in Nova Scotia have charged a 43-year-old man with child pornography offences after border agents seized a child sex doll from Japan.

Canada Border Services Agency officers in Hamilton said they seized the item addressed to a man living in Digby after they examined international courier shipments arriving into Canada by air.

New York’s quirkiest pop-up aquarium has officially gone belly-up.

The makeshift Bed-Stuy goldfish “oasis” – a puddle-turned-pisces-palace thanks to a leaky fire hydrant – has been paved over, leaving local fish fans feeling a little… koi.

It all started when a rogue hydrant leak created a puddle deep enough to house some goldfish. Naturally, New Yorkers took it upon themselves to transform the murky puddle into the city’s latest “wildlife habitat”.

But, like any good art installation in NYC, it was temporary.

Days after fire officials fixed the hydrant leak, city workers rolled up with concrete and paved over the impromptu aquarium, sending the little swimmers packing.

A rare dime whose whereabouts had remained a mystery since the late 1970s has sold for just over $500,000.

The coin was struck by the U.S. Mint in San Francisco in 1975, is one of just two known to exist without its distinctive “S” mint mark.

North Carolina’s Jerry Hicks hit the jackpot twice in one day, and he didn’t even see the first one coming.

Hicks, of Banner Elk, was strolling outside a local convenience store when he stumbled upon a crisp $20 bill lying on the ground.

Some might have saved it, but not Jerry who decided to let fate ride and bought an Extreme Cash scratch-off, mostly because his usual lottery ticket wasn’t in stock.

The result? A cool $1 million win.

A woman in Kansas died after backing into a moving plane propeller while taking photos.

Sedgwick County Sheriff Jeff Easter said 37-year-old Amanda Gallagher was taking pictures at the Air Capital Drop Zone of people getting on and off of planes when she backed into an active propeller.