Trump scam EXPLODES into the open | Another Day

Trump gets people off their screens by. cheating them out of the phones they. paid for. This is just another day. >> [music]. >> It's no secret that Donald Trump likes. to put his name on things. Buildings, steak, water, his FBI director's face. right before an important congressional. hearing. Sorry, Cash, but you shouldn't have. blacked out in the Oval Office. You know. what a prankster the president can be. All to say, it came as no surprise when. a year ago Trump enlisted his two. failiest fail sons to slap the family.

name on another piece of merch. >> Today we're here to introduce Trump. Mobile, making phones in America. It's. about time we bring products back to. our great country. We're going to be. having call centers for Trump Mobile. in St. Louis, so we're keeping our data. onshore. We plan to build phones in. America. All of our customer support is in. America. A lot of people are getting. ripped off, to say the least, because. they don't pay attention to their cell. phone plans. So, I think we can do it better. >> To be clear, when this naked mole rat. says we can do it better, he means the.

ripping off part, not the mobile plan. Because yesterday we found out this. >> It's been nearly a year since the. announcement of this new wireless. service called Trump Mobile. But so far, it seems like customers have been left. on hold. This this venture, if you will, spearheaded by the president's two older. sons, Don Jr. and Eric initially. They. touted the roll out of this gold colored. phone. It's set to be sold for just. under 500 bucks. So, it rolled out. People were asked to put down a $100. deposit if they wanted one. But since. then, the release date has been delayed.

The phones still have not shipped. It is. not clear when or if, in fact, they ever. will. >> What? What the hell did you say? Are you. trying to tell me that the same. Trump has been openly pulling for. decades of extracting people's money and. or labor, then refusing to compensate. them? Are you saying that in this case. Trump is again behaving in the manner to. which we have become accustomed? Are. you? Because if you're saying that a. person's past behavior should be a. predictor of future behavior. If that's. what you're saying, then.

yeah, no, that makes total sense. But. look, this was such an obvious grift, there's no way that any substantial. number of people could have possibly. fallen for it. Right? >> Well over 500,000. people each paid a $100 deposit. to get in on the planned and promised. Trump phone. >> 500,000. people, meaning Trump's family just made. 59 million bucks without delivering a. single product. At this point, buying. stuff from the Trumps is like getting a.

lap dance. It feels promising in the. moment, but you're going to wind up. painfully unsatisfied with only yourself. to blame. Still, there has to be some. legal recourse for customers who get. screwed, right? >> There's some interesting new language on. the website in their terms and. conditions that was updated in April as. part of a broad redesign of the website, and it says, "A quote, a pre-order. deposit does not guarantee that a device. will be produced or made available for. purchase." So, it seems like the terms. and conditions themselves seem to.

acknowledge that this phone might not. exist now, and it might not even exist. ever. >> Oh, I see. So, this was less of an. exchange of goods for money and more of. a straw poll. Like, if we were going to. create a mobile service, would you be. interested? And instead of answering the. hypothetical question with words or a. show of hands or corn kernels in a mason. jar, you answer with $100 that you'll. never get back. Here's what I don't get. If Trump is. going to go to the trouble of building a. whole business, why not just make the.

phones? There had to have been. some unforeseen obstacle that was out of. Trump's control, right? Maybe onerous. tariffs are to blame. Oh, Okay, maybe a totally unnecessary war. disrupted the supply. Okay. Maybe delivery was all but impossible. because someone defunded the post You. know what? Fine. Uh I give up. What are. the obstacles? >> The company's selling point was that. this somewhat gilded device would be. made in America. You heard that in some.

of those clips. Now they say it will be. proudly American. It will be designed. with American values in mind. >> Ah, I see. American values in mind. So, Chinese people will be making the. phones, but they'll be wearing American. flag bikinis while they do it. Cool. For Trump, politics is something that he. does with the time left over when he's. not reposting QAnon or tending to the. much more lucrative occupation of. licensing his name. And he's not the. only one treating the executive branch.

like a minor side hustle. Take. Transportation Secretary and. not-so-former reality star Sean Duffy, whose true vocation was on full display. this week. >> This morning, Transportation Secretary. Sean Duffy defending his 7-month side. project. >> Put your seatbelts on. >> The one-time The Real World star is. returning to reality TV in a five-part. series called The Great American Road. Trip, following Duffy, his wife, Fox. News anchor Rachel Campos-Duffy, and. their children traveling to iconic. American places. President Trump.

featured in the first moments of the. newly released trailer. >> So, the motto [music] is to love America. is to see America. >> You know, it's funny. A lot of reality. TV stars use the exposure on reality TV. as a springboard to a better life. But I. guess Sean Duffy prefers to use it as a. springboard to. more reality TV. You know, Sean, if your. true passion is making reality shows, you're working a lot harder than you. need to. What's next? You go to medical. school just so you can make The Great. American Colonoscopy? But what bugs me.

about Sean Duffy's extracurriculars. isn't just that they take time away from. the Transportation Department at a. critical moment when it kind of seems. like we could use it. What bugs me is. stuff like this. >> The show's nonprofit production company, Great American Road Trip Inc., lists 17. sponsors on its website, including. Boeing and United Airlines, which are. companies regulated by the Department of. Transportation. >> Companies he regulates are paying for. his show. I don't want to be cynical. I don't want. to assume that he compelled them to foot.

the bill for him, his wife, and his nine. children to travel cross country, but. honestly, do you know how much it cost. to take a family vacation with nine. children? I'm not sure it's possible. without corporate sponsorships. Look, I. know the majority of Trump. administration officials have spent most. of their career in the private sector, but they seem to think that public. service jobs are jobs where the public. serves them. And it would be one thing. to watch them raid the federal. government's coffers to get their nut if. the American people were also getting.

ours, but that's not what's going on. >> The April inflation report shows. inflation at its highest level in 3. years. >> 3.8%. Inflation is now higher than when Joe. Biden left office. It's the reason. Americans voted Biden out of office. That and the fact that he said this on. stage. >> Look, if. we finally beat Medicare. >> Needless to say, we did not beat. Medicare. And here's what Trump had to say back. then, a month before he was reelected.

>> of it, within 1 year you're going to. have. electric bills and energy bills and your. gasoline for your car is going to be. 50 50% cheaper than it is right now. That's a big thing. >> Trump was elected on the promise that. things would get better, and they have, for him and his family and the people. who work for him. He's used the power of. his office not to improve our lives, but. to double his own net worth and play. designer with Washington D.C. like it. was his own personal dollhouse. The. ballroom, the reflecting pool, the.

victory arch, and he does all that. because not even money is enough. He. needs to make sure that we won't forget. him when he's gone, like a dog peeing on. every tree. But jokes on him because his. corruption and greed, not his shitty. aesthetic, will be his legacy. And you. know what that is? >> That's a big thing. >> It is, but not in the way that you want. it to be. >> [music]. >> Before you go, if you enjoyed this. content and you want to see more and. support independent media, please. subscribe to this channel. The subscribe.

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