Damn he’s milking every penny. Did he just discover late stage capitalism?
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Thank God the swamp is gone.
o look, more illegal shit. great.
A president is allowed to found companies?
Either way, he sure has time on his hands.
Get cha them Chyna phones MAGA folks.
This is just todays stupid idea, just to take peoples attention away from yesterdays shitty "perade"(sic).
The only reason it will compete with those brands is cause if some kind of agreement.
It's going to be a cheap low-priority MVNO with deceptive wording to make it sound like its own independent network. Absolutely zero chance it'll be competitive in any way.
Came to say this - either its going to use existing infrastructure owned by those companies, or it's going to completely suck. In neither case that's competition
Oh it's 100% gonna be an MVNO, it's expensive as fuck to roll out new infrastructure, and something like that certainly wouldn't go unnoticed anyway.
It's just gonna be the worst shit-tier kind of MVNO. Like Cricket back in the 2000s. Service = maybe.
Won’t stop the red hats from buying it out of loyalty to the Emperor.
True. Then it'll get absorbed by one of the bigger MVNOs, or one of the main networks' prepaid services, and become a cheap subsidiary or just get dissolved completely. But by that point they'll already be onto the next grift.
It's gonna be labeled as some private cell service but it actually logs everything you do in their servers and use it for some nefarious purpose.
We've had former presidents sell their family peanut farms to avoid conflicts of interest
The carters felt that relinquishing the business to someone else’s care would separate them from these affairs and avoid the possibility of their financial holdings resembling any conflict of interest while President Carter was in office.
But Carter had honor.
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At this point anyone who buys Trump-branded shit get what's coming to them. Dude is the most notorious grifter in history.
are you saying all my Trumpcoins, Trump NFTs, degrees from Trump university and deep frozen Trump steaks are worthless
With American-made phones and American call centres, right? Right?
“Good morning and thanks for calling MAGA Mobile. Please listen to the options and make your selection for the best possible service. For Spanish, press 423 and wait for a knock on the door. For English, god bless Trump…”
Why did I read this in an Indian accent?
Because you have a fetish for that very very hot Indian accent? (Indian accent)
... "For English, say 'God bless Trump' …”
Fixed that for you /s (... I really want off this apocalyptic ride)
Compete with but will lease their service because there is no actual competition with a barrier to entry like national cell towers.
Unless you run the country through executive orders.
Competitors severely penalized in 3...2...
The great wireless firewall of America.
I guess it's OK as long as it's not a peanut farm brand.
It turns out that maybe having a gentlemen's agreement for how things should work was a bad idea.
The picture I saw of it looks 100% like the standard practice of rebranding a terrible iPhone-like android device that could only be manufactured in China. Just take a look at “luxury” phones of the early 2020s. Absolutely 100% a scam by idiots for idiots.
Mkbhd: Escobar Phone https://youtu.be/O8FJSjy3bXA
Another article tracked down the phone and it's just a Tmobile REVVL in a different case. They pointed out that you can buy one for $169 while Trump is selling his for $500-$600.
They already tried that with the 'Freedom phone' and it was a massive scam, so this is quite on brand for him.
more illegal shit
He's just dangling it out there so one of the competitors buys his "business". He doesn't actually want to make anything. It's another grift in disguise.
I'm sure it will 'compete' in the same way as all his other failed businesses.
See, here's the thing when you're the President. You can just have your FCC chair shut them down. You can actively quash literally any boundaries to being a monopoly, and nobody can do anything about it (from a legal or regulatory standpoint).
If he actually launches a Trump phone service, it’s going to be a MVNO that just piggy backs off the main operators’ infrastructure. It’s not like he or his idiot sons are going to buy spectrum and build towers.
He wouldn’t really be competing with T-Mobile, Verizon, or AT&T. He’d be competing with Boost Mobile and companies like that.
Maybe they are planning to take back that spectrum they gave to Boost/Dish on a pinky-promise that they'd actually become a competitive network, during the Sprint and T-Mobile antitrust case.
Which would fit with the FCC's increasingly mob-like behaviour under Trump.
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All parts will be manufactured and assembled in the US? Right?
Lol, yeah this doesn't scream android phone full of spyware at all! It's definitely not going to just be a rebranded Chinese made phone that we assemble in like Louisiana and can say is "American made"
Nah. He'll just have the sticker that says "American made" made in America.
Worse he's promising that they'll eventually be made in America. Just like he promised a new health care plan
Could compete how? He gonna buy infrastructure? He gonna be an MVNO? (None of whom are really competitive with the big players because a lot of them are either regional, have to buy batches of data and minutes from the big three, or have pretty bad service). And who's going to buy it? His supporters? I doubt that. This is just another grift.
I would bet A LOT of money that all of your messages would be viewable by him
I just imagine he has a giant carnival wheel that's marked with all sorts of reprehensible things to do and he just spins it whenever he's bored and proceeds to executive order whatever he lands on
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