Did you check your "junk" or "spam" folder?
Depending on which email client or host you use, those folders may not be clearly "front-and-center" and you'll need to dig a bit. With Yahoo! or GMail you need to hunt for them...
Verification email took almost 7 or 8 minutes to reach me.
I’m fortunate in that my spam folder doesn’t catch anything unless I determine it to be spam and mark it as such. Unfortunately my host is not one of the common ones, plus the address is at a domain I own, so some sites balk at it. Evidently Truth Social is one of them, and FR another...
However, I followed TC’s advice and used gmail to get on TS. Worked like a charm, and now I’m in and looking for accounts to follow. People I don’t know are already following me, I suppose to try and get their followers numbers up, but I’m not gonna play that....