Trump Mobile launches $47 service and a gold phone
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They don't need to issue an exception, they can just turn a blind eye. And considering Trump appointed the chair of the FTC with one of his loyalists (like every other branch) that seems likely.
Thing is, there's going to be a lot of public attention on that "Made in the USA" claim, given how central it is to Trump's domestic and foreign policy.
Sure, the FCC can turn a blind eye, but all it takes is for one worker at the assembly plant to call up a journalist. And let's face, and journalist worth their salt is going to be hanging around every bar near that place. Even trying to screen specifically for MAGA friendly workers won't help them much when one of those workers feels betrayed by how much of Trump's product is actually coming from China.
My point is, there's no good way to keep this under wraps. If they don't actually build this thing in the US, word is going to get around, and it's going to be seen as a total repudiation of Trump's entire tariff strategy.
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There's no way this isn't an attempt to wiretap people
The 'smart' phones in everybody's pockets already are. Kind of, more or less.
Well perhaps the intention wasn't to wiretap everybody, but it has ended up that way.
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Looking at the webpage, it's obviously a 100% Chinese product licensing the Trump name.
There are numerous errors on the page, from a processor section that doesn’t list a processor, RAM that’s described as storage, and the boast of a “5000mAh long life camera,” when it presumably means the battery.
If you ever thought the Trumps weren't grifters, this should clear it up:
“Trump Mobile is going to revolutionize cellphones, mobile calling,” Eric Trump told Fox News
There's absolutely nothing revolutionary here. It's a cheap Chinese phone in a tacky case and an overpriced very-not-new MVNO phone service.
That's all he's ever done. License his name. Trump steaks. Trump water. Trump University. List goes on
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There are numerous errors on the page, from a processor section that doesn’t list a processor
Shit-tier Mediatek. Calling it now.
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Thing is, there's going to be a lot of public attention on that "Made in the USA" claim, given how central it is to Trump's domestic and foreign policy.
Sure, the FCC can turn a blind eye, but all it takes is for one worker at the assembly plant to call up a journalist. And let's face, and journalist worth their salt is going to be hanging around every bar near that place. Even trying to screen specifically for MAGA friendly workers won't help them much when one of those workers feels betrayed by how much of Trump's product is actually coming from China.
My point is, there's no good way to keep this under wraps. If they don't actually build this thing in the US, word is going to get around, and it's going to be seen as a total repudiation of Trump's entire tariff strategy.
Trump team is already walking it back after they started taking preorders and a journalist found the model. They're now claiming they meant to say it could eventually be made in America. It's a $170 Chinese phone they're marking up to $500
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Yeah, if they're not lying it will be the worse phone ever made. The US-made Purism Liberty is $2000 and has similar specs to the Asia-made, $800 Librem 5, which is already overpriced compared to Android devices.
You are not joking. Comparing a $2000 Purism Liberty with eg. a $200 HMD Fusion. The Fusion has somewhat better screen and battery; much better processor and camera. More RAM, the option of more storage, has NFC. It's also designed to be easy-to-maintain, but is somewhat thinner and lighter despite having a larger screen area. Are 'made in USA' and 'open-source drivers' worth paying 10x as much for a noticeably worse phone? (It's not really 'made in USA' either - it's a mix of US, Chinese and Indian parts assembled in the USA.)
I think that the people who believe a US-made iPhone will also cost $2k are kidding themselves - economy of scale and all that, but it must be substantially more.
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You're fucking shitting me. I refuse to believe that's reality and you can't convince me otherwise.
* ring ring *
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I think this is a great idea. Will make it easy to identify which people I should never speak to again.
Trump really is trying to be hitler. He even invented his own “star of David” in the form of a phone.
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Is this
Phone service under the direct control of the President of the United States of America
Small government?
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Insert parody of Raffi’s banana phone here
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eventually it will be illegal to use anything but Trump products
and at some point Trump to want to be the calendar, too.
edit: and that phone will prolly turn off if you record the police; and I can't imagine the amount of spying on users that that phone must do.
He was pissed to find out Ceaser has his own entire month.
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Thing is, there's going to be a lot of public attention on that "Made in the USA" claim, given how central it is to Trump's domestic and foreign policy.
Sure, the FCC can turn a blind eye, but all it takes is for one worker at the assembly plant to call up a journalist. And let's face, and journalist worth their salt is going to be hanging around every bar near that place. Even trying to screen specifically for MAGA friendly workers won't help them much when one of those workers feels betrayed by how much of Trump's product is actually coming from China.
My point is, there's no good way to keep this under wraps. If they don't actually build this thing in the US, word is going to get around, and it's going to be seen as a total repudiation of Trump's entire tariff strategy.
He has done and said much worse things. No one cares. The people buying these phones will never hear about it.
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He has done and said much worse things. No one cares. The people buying these phones will never hear about it.
The difference, you have to remember, is that the worse stuff is all hurting the people they want him to hurt. But betraying his made in America promises hurts the people who voted for him. That's when they suddenly start to care.
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The difference, you have to remember, is that the worse stuff is all hurting the people they want him to hurt. But betraying his made in America promises hurts the people who voted for him. That's when they suddenly start to care.
Virtually everything he does hurts the people who voted for him (and all other Americans, and even non-Americans). His supporters are just too stupid to understand.
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You're fucking shitting me. I refuse to believe that's reality and you can't convince me otherwise.
Let me sell you a Trump steak.
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I can't wait for a month or two from now and the flood of socials screenshots of morons not understanding why their shit doesn't work
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So people who have this phone can be ordered by an AI for an organized attack if he is not declared a king?
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Huawei? I think you're giving them too much credit, haha. I'd guess it's likely to be some unknown, no-name garbage, like you'd get from Wish or Ali-Express (or similar) for dirt cheap.
Yeah, good point.
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Looking forward to a map produced next year by some thinly veiled US-supported NGO that shows corruption in the world and America will still be not corrupt but America's enemies will be very corrupt.
Americas enemy
So... Greenland?
