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.

Ho is his coin doing? Didn't hear much about that...

the phone itself is a REVVL variant selling for $500

I don't think the phone actually exists, it's just a digital mockup.

They're using the office of President to advertise products for personal gain. Not just any products but overpriced Chinese garbage. They're also lying about them being made in the US, which is illegal.

It's the latest in a long red line of red lines.

But, but, they're been blasted. Didn't you see in the article? Surely, they'll stop this behaviour this time.

....that's even worse somehow

Kind of, except the person doing it is the sitting president. Call it an aggravating factor.

How is this a real question? We're fucking cooked.

bc of a phone

I'm not even disagreeing with you, but listen to yourself.

he's just selling something that his followers will buy. no one else really cares to.

your logic could be even more effectively applied to him selling merchandise about him and that isn't an overreach of power in any way

is a president selling merchandise while in office corruption? because if you think that isn't, then this isn't

I've got a really good feeling that if sanders were president, and he was selling merchandise, using his position as POTUS to advertise for it, and said it was made in the us while its raw materials were made elsewhere, you'd be fine with that

I'm no fan of trump, but this isn't an overreach of power nearly as bad as you say it is. its not the job of there potus, but its also not harmful

Your "feelings" are deeply flawed. You know nothing about me.