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    Six months later, President Mobile still hasn’t delivered preordered phones | Lawmakers seek FTC investigation, but President has taken control of the agency.
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    Six months later, President Mobile still hasn’t delivered preordered phones | Lawmakers seek FTC investigation, but President has taken control of the agency.


    Six months later, President Mobile still hasn’t delivered preordered phones | Lawmakers seek FTC investigation, but President has taken control of the agency.

    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/democrats-ask-trumps-ftc-to-investigate-trump-mobiles-broken-promises/

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    1. Beavers4beer on

      His rubes got taken for (again) and they’ll fall for the same shit next time. I don’t know what there is left to investigate if he has control over the agencies that would look into this and they clearly don’t plan on shipping these any time soon. My guess is these will never, ever be shipped to buyers.

    2. asraniel on

      im still confused how americans got conned so hard. did they want to be conned? i’m really confused about all that is happening. its horrible, but clearly announced before the election

    3. BlackberryPi7 on

      Neither the $2000 tariff checks

      Neither the DOGE checks

      Neither lower grocery prices

      Neither Healthcare

      Neither lower housing prices

      Neither the **entire fucking Epstein files**, even after a law was put in to ensure that

    7. Actual__Wizard on

      Hey everybody: At this point in time, if you didn’t know that the US president is actively operating a bunch of scams and rip offs, here you go. Does anybody think these people are actually going to get their phones? Of course not, they got robbed…

    8. archboy1971 on

      This is called a Trump Scam and is a common example of how he earns “income”.
      See: Steaks,
      University,
      Vodka,
      Shuttle,
      Casinos,
      Game,
      Network,
      Fragrances,
      Ice,
      Mortgage,
      Homes,
      Communications,
      and Magazine.

    10. smarttrashbrain on

      Imagine how stupid you must be to pre-order one of those phones.

      Like, seriously, imagine putting your hard earned money down for this shit.

    15. Landmine_Tosser on

      It’s hilarious that people actually purchased that and expected to get something.

      Next grift.

    16. AlexanderTGrimm on

      Charlie called their customer support to check on his “pre-order”, a thing he did not place and gave them fake info about, and they were still able to find his order and told him it was delayed because of the shut down https://youtu.be/d77Ho5YvECE

    17. drewc717 on

      I think they realized it was easier to do meme coin fraud and raid countries than import and ship consumer goods.

    18. thatcrackasscracka on

      I fuckin love it! Anyone stupid enough to buy his bullshit products probably had it coming.

    20. mabus42 on

      If you haven’t seen the Penguin0 video about this… go check it out, the phone call that Charlie had with the Trump Mobile CSR is hilarious and sad or just hilariously sad.

      For those of us non-cultists, we saw the grift coming.

    22. CryptoMemesLOL on

      At this point it’s almost funny, on one side the audacity to pull such a small scam as president, and on the other side, those fools getting played once again lollll

      Scammer in Chief

    23. Boomhauersbrother on

      Did people ever get the trump sneakers they preordered? I remember that was a grift before the phone scam.

    24. cyberd0rk on

      If you think that’s funny, go look at the price of his bible. Anyone paying that price deserves to be ripped off.

    25. Time-Industry-1364 on

      Every last person who was scammed out of their money by the Trump family deserves it.

      To be so unbelievably dense as to not see that this was a complete scam in big bold letters, is just incredible.

      In the world of Trump scams, this one was one of the most egregious.

    26. notthatguypal6900 on

      Who cares. Thats what you get for being dumb enough to think any of this was ever going to be real.

    28. maximusftw1 on

      This strikes at the core of Trumpism. Everybody who thought they could get a phone made in the U.S for $499 deserves to get scammed. These people also vote for protectionist policies on the delusion that we’d have American-made stuff for the same price if we just do this one thing.