Profiteering is the wrong word.

Instead, crony capitalism, abuse of power, or something else is more appropriate

It comes pre-installed with "Your Palantir Pal" AI assistant.

Without proper consequences their behaviour will continue.

Y'all, the last thing the suckers who will buy this want is some Nanny State telling them they can't buy this.

It's a stupid fake phone. Let them buy it. Who cares? If not this, the grifters already have 700 other things lined up behind it. Let them pay for our schadenfreude, as they have done so many times before.

The problem is not with the buyers.

this is just them making money off people who will willingly give them money

its not some blatant overreach of power, at worst their using their fame as advertising for it

how exactly are they abusing their power with this one?

Using their position of political power to advertise a business which directly benefits them. It is plainly not part of the duties of the office. Same reason good presidents put their financial affairs in a blind trust for the duration of of their term.

The goal is to not let them take their fucking money and run. Because then it would be real... So you come up with a new idea, a better idea, a NEW STOCK.

IYKYK

Yes, but at this point it looks like the red sharpie is running dry.

Besides the naked corruption?

The FCC, which licenses radio spectrum and makes the rules for device certification is part of the Executive branch. So are the CFPB and the SEC, or what's left of them. He's literally, corruptly leveraging his office to benefit his cons and preventing regulations from applying to himself and his cronies.

Let's break down who's actually going to buy this piece of shit.

Anyone with any experience with buying a modern Android phone?... Nope. Metro, Tello, US Cellular, etc are all cheaper than Trump Mobile by almost half the price and the phone itself is a REVVL variant selling for $500, and Apple fans aren't watching anyway.

So that just leaves extremely uninformed people who don't know any better. You'll be able to identify how little they know by the fact that they'll pay double the going-rate of an MVNO for an overpriced, gold slab of feces.

A lot of Apple fans are tied into their ecosystem, either by profession or just history with the brand. Any Android phone means upending their lives if they depend on their phones for business or pleasure, and a lot of them are Apple fans because Tim Cook keeps Trump 39.5ft away, so they're off the books.

TL/DR: Get ready to see a bunch of boomers walk out of church with gold phones.

For giggles, I'd like you to explain how the President of the United States launching his old overpriced phone on his own overpriced network with every possible element named, adorned and even priced after himself could be considered anything other than abusing their power?

But Trump just said he hates talking on phones….wtf?

Instead, crony capitalism, abuse of power, or something else is more appropriate

So, standard capitalism stuff?

I think that Trump feels that this will finally impress Ivana enough.