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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.
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…”
... "For English, say 'God bless Trump' …”
Fixed that for you /s (... I really want off this apocalyptic ride)
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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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
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.
Wasn't Starlink experimenting with phone calls? Could be a deal with Elon.
Yeah, but I doubt they're close to having the capacity to offer full 5G service like a traditional carrier. I have T-Mobile (Deutsche Telekom‘s US subsidiary) and they have a deal with Starlink but it’s (a) in beta and (b) limited in what you can do. Unless things have changed, even when it launches, it’ll be just LTE text and voice and you need a pretty modern phone.
So, it’s not like a drop in replacement for a land-based plan where you get internet and stuff. Plus, Trump and his kids aren’t going to do any of the hard work. Even before his presidency, “Trump” was just a licensing brand and now it’s a pretty shitty brand. It’s not like the family was running Trump Steaks and packing boxes for shipment or whatever.
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All parts will be manufactured and assembled in the US? Right?
Thank God the swamp is gone.
Damn he’s milking every penny. Did he just discover late stage capitalism?
He already sold beans in the oval office, golden shoes and shitcoins. I think he's way past discovering it.
o look, more illegal shit. great.
Don’t forget the great Dish Wireless Network!
A president is allowed to found companies?
Either way, he sure has time on his hands.
It's crazy how taxing that job must be.
Compete with them will using their networks, sure.
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.
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
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
Sounds like a great way to surveil everyone.
If by "everyone" you mean the people stupid enough to buy a made-in-China Trump phone.
Oh no a made in china phone. What a horrible thought.
The point is not that there's anything inherently wrong with a Chinese phone, but that they're lying by saying it's designed and manufactured in the USA. It is neither.
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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
And by american made it means designed by a guy in america usin A.I, droppshipping it from china.
I wonder if he'll use Starlink...
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 bathes of data and minutes from the big three, or have pretty bad service). And who's going to o buy it? His supporters? I doubt that. This is just another 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.
Register his own root Certificate Authority as well and this man is well on his way towards global surveillance.
I would bet A LOT of money that all of your messages would be viewable by him
It's literally a political franchise.
Despite the stupidity of looks, to be honest - this looks from outside very US-American. Not like cowboy movies, not even like 30s, but like something written by Baum.
Lol please let every Trump supporter buy his service. Suddenly, Trump ass kissers will have less reliable access to the internet and phone service?! Sounds like a good idea to me.
Get cha them Chyna phones MAGA folks.
The only reason it will compete with those brands is cause if some kind of agreement.
Why do Americans feel the need to name state run shit with their own name?
It's not even state run he's just filling his pockets god damn
This is just todays stupid idea, just to take peoples attention away from yesterdays shitty "perade"(sic).
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