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.

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"

All parts will be manufactured and assembled in the US? 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…”

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

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.

If by "everyone" you mean the people stupid enough to buy a made-in-China Trump phone.

I would bet A LOT of money that all of your messages would be viewable by him

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.

It's not even state run he's just filling his pockets god damn

Wasn't Starlink experimenting with phone calls? Could be a deal with Elon.

At this point anyone who buys Trump-branded shit get what's coming to them. Dude is the most notorious grifter in history.

Why did I read this in an Indian accent?

Competitors severely penalized in 3...2...

The great wireless firewall of America.

But Carter had honor.

are you saying all my Trumpcoins, Trump NFTs, degrees from Trump university and deep frozen Trump steaks are worthless

You're missing the point. The admin has full control over spectrum licensing. This means Trump could easily have the FCC just revoke all other spectrum licenses for cellphone comms, and just forcibly seize those towers. Don't look at it like it's going to operate like a corporation, because I promise you it won't.

I've got bad news about your phone.

Who could forget the op-ed Carter wrote for The Onion.