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BumRushDaShow

(154,538 posts)
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 09:15 AM 12 hrs ago

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.”

Trump’s sons, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., unveiled the service Monday at Trump Tower in New York on the 10-year anniversary of their father’s announcement that he would run in the 2016 presidential election.

“We’ve 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 networks—known as Mobile Virtual Network Operators, or MVNOs—are 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-Mobile’s network aimed at low-data-usage customers who’d 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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Trump Launches Self-Branded Mobile Phone Service in the US (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 12 hrs ago OP
Their technology will jusify the high price, I'm sure ... marble falls 12 hrs ago #1
Liberty Phone melm00se 8 hrs ago #24
I'm sure hackers won't target them. /nt bucolic_frolic 12 hrs ago #2
Complete with daily screeds and advertising for the latest Trump grift I'm sure Raven123 12 hrs ago #3
It will come with the Signal App preloaded Captain Zero 12 hrs ago #4
The software will be stolen and rebranded as "Farce Time"... Hugin 11 hrs ago #11
Can you fear me now? tanyev 12 hrs ago #5
Comes preloaded with dweller 12 hrs ago #6
All those burner accounts were adding up. C_U_L8R 12 hrs ago #7
E-MOL-U-MENTS Bayard 12 hrs ago #8
It will make surveilance liberalgunwilltravel 11 hrs ago #9
I was thinking exactly along those lines. ananda 7 hrs ago #26
I seem to recall phoney TACO having or being involved in a pyramid scheme cell venture... Hugin 11 hrs ago #10
I'm sure all the hardware in the entire system is all made in the good ol' USA! Trust me . . . NBachers 11 hrs ago #12
Don't even spend a second hiding the corruption anymore. Bengus81 11 hrs ago #13
Cant wait for the moment the fox propagandists make fun of the trump phones like they did for President Obama. Denvermosaic 11 hrs ago #14
oh for fucks sake. another fucking grift? where is TRUMP-GATE. pansypoo53219 10 hrs ago #15
More money to snatch away from his followers. ProudMNDemocrat 10 hrs ago #16
Dear God.......what next?????? Katinfl 10 hrs ago #17
"real Americans" nt hibbing 10 hrs ago #18
Just another scam from the con. Martin68 9 hrs ago #19
Lol, eye roll uppityperson 9 hrs ago #20
Geez, if I wanted Russia to have all my information, I'd just send it to them. Vinca 9 hrs ago #21
Partnered? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 9 hrs ago #22
The Monetized Presidency, Chapter 10,789. Paladin 8 hrs ago #23
He wants to control the entire communication system. Irish_Dem 8 hrs ago #25
They saw an opportunity C_U_L8R 7 hrs ago #27
Who wants to bet they're made in China, or parts are? sakabatou 7 hrs ago #28
Will sell phones Marthe48 7 hrs ago #29
I hereby nickname this phone service Wicked Blue 7 hrs ago #30
Even if the CPU and other major chips are made in the US HarryM 7 hrs ago #31
How long will it take to find out Russia has direct access to those phones? rogue emissary 6 hrs ago #32
What's next? Cat Litter? BettyBlueDot 6 hrs ago #33
Can you hear me now? slightlv 4 hrs ago #34

melm00se

(5,102 posts)
24. Liberty Phone
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 01:14 PM
8 hrs ago

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.

Hugin

(36,230 posts)
11. The software will be stolen and rebranded as "Farce Time"...
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 10:23 AM
11 hrs ago

Truth Social is bound to be pre-loaded too.

dweller

(26,696 posts)
6. Comes preloaded with
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 09:39 AM
12 hrs ago

Pisswig’s mugshot screensaver that can never ever be replaced



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ananda

(32,180 posts)
26. I was thinking exactly along those lines.
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 02:15 PM
7 hrs ago

Will these phones be safe to use?

Well, me, I wouldn't touch one with a thousand-foot pole.

Hugin

(36,230 posts)
10. I seem to recall phoney TACO having or being involved in a pyramid scheme cell venture...
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 10:16 AM
11 hrs ago

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)
12. I'm sure all the hardware in the entire system is all made in the good ol' USA! Trust me . . .
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 10:35 AM
11 hrs ago

Denvermosaic

(139 posts)
14. Cant wait for the moment the fox propagandists make fun of the trump phones like they did for President Obama.
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 10:43 AM
11 hrs ago

Still holding my breath.

ProudMNDemocrat

(19,700 posts)
16. More money to snatch away from his followers.
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 11:13 AM
10 hrs ago

No thank you. I will stick to what I have.

So much CORRUPTION!

Katinfl

(376 posts)
17. Dear God.......what next??????
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 11:18 AM
10 hrs ago

Does he have to have his dirty little hands into everything? Never misses an opportunity to make a fast buck.

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(124,530 posts)
22. Partnered?
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 12:33 PM
9 hrs ago

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)
23. The Monetized Presidency, Chapter 10,789.
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 01:10 PM
8 hrs ago

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...

HarryM

(377 posts)
31. Even if the CPU and other major chips are made in the US
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 02:59 PM
7 hrs ago

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.

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