Trump Launches Self-Branded Mobile Phone Service in the US
Source: Bloomberg
June 16, 2025 at 8:35 AM EDT
President Donald Trump is launching a Trump-branded mobile phone service, that will rely on wireless networks and hardware that is made in America.
Trumps sons, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., unveiled the service Monday at Trump Tower in New York on the 10-year anniversary of their fathers announcement that he would run in the 2016 presidential election.
Weve partnered with some of the greatest people in the industry to make sure that real Americans get true value from their mobile carriers, Trump Jr. said.
Businesses that purchase network capacity from one of the big three US wireless networksknown as Mobile Virtual Network Operators, or MVNOsare an increasingly hot category for reaching niche markets. The trio of actors who host of the popular Smartless podcast, Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes, recently announced they are starting their own phone company on T-Mobiles network aimed at low-data-usage customers whod like to save money on their bills each month.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-16/trump-launches-self-branded-mobile-phone-service-in-the-us
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marble falls
(66,099 posts)
melm00se
(5,102 posts)Trump will push this phone at $2K, made in America (and at least a couple fo generations behind the rest of the world) with a $500 addon on for Trump's mug engraved on the case.
bucolic_frolic
(50,863 posts)Raven123
(6,765 posts)Captain Zero
(7,970 posts)And three free chats with the SecDef.
Hugin
(36,230 posts)Truth Social is bound to be pre-loaded too.
tanyev
(46,781 posts)
dweller
(26,696 posts)Pisswigs mugshot screensaver that can never ever be replaced
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C_U_L8R
(47,513 posts)See a need, fill a need.
Bayard
(25,469 posts)liberalgunwilltravel
(841 posts)of their Brownshirts easier.
ananda
(32,180 posts)Will these phones be safe to use?
Well, me, I wouldn't touch one with a thousand-foot pole.
Hugin
(36,230 posts)In the past. Which was literally a pyramid scheme. It was advertised users could cut their rates or even supposedly earn money by selling the plan to family and friends.
It failed.
So, the Trumps being Trumps are going to try it again.
NBachers
(18,624 posts)Bengus81
(8,891 posts)Denvermosaic
(139 posts)Still holding my breath.
pansypoo53219
(22,309 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(19,700 posts)No thank you. I will stick to what I have.
So much CORRUPTION!
Katinfl
(376 posts)Does he have to have his dirty little hands into everything? Never misses an opportunity to make a fast buck.
hibbing
(10,431 posts)Martin68
(25,950 posts)uppityperson
(115,941 posts)Vinca
(52,216 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(124,530 posts)Meaning they just bought access to an existing network.
That said I wouldn't put any personal data, especially financial, on said phone.
Paladin
(30,733 posts)Can you even imagine how much shit would have hit the fan, if Joe Biden and his family had indulged in this sort of repeated, obvious money-whoring? The NY Time opinion goons would be having convulsions of outrage, and Republican leadership would be pushing for martial law. And yet the trump clan gets away with it, once more. The double standard is enough to make you puke...
Irish_Dem
(71,089 posts)C_U_L8R
(47,513 posts)in the market for burner phones.
sakabatou
(44,903 posts)Marthe48
(20,862 posts)That don't work, and laugh all the way to the bank
Wicked Blue
(8,024 posts)Sh*tterbug
HarryM
(377 posts)I can guarantee you that the machines that make these chips are not. They are made in Taiwan or the Netherlands. These are the only countries, as far as I know, that are making sophisticated IC making machines. The Netherlands making the most sophisticated.
rogue emissary
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BettyBlueDot
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slightlv
(5,827 posts)Sure can! And every word is being recorded!!!