Isaac Saul
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Trump has talked about this on the record.
I mean, he gave an interview to the New York times where he just said straight up, we tried to separate the businesses during the first term and nobody cared that we did.
So I'm not even trying now.
I mean, he's, it's not like they're denied.
I mean, this was, it was like some of his supporters have sort of denied that the facts of the article I put forward are true.
And I'm like, Trump is not denying this.
Just to be clear, the president saying that they tried, nobody cared.
So now they're not
They're not trying.
They're just doing whatever they want.
So it's not even a reasonable ground to stand on and say like, oh, these are all concocted scandals.
It's like the president is saying overtly that they're just guardrails off because they tried the first term and nobody gave them any credit for it.
Yeah.
The thing I didn't mention in the piece actually about the Trump mobile stuff, and actually I wish I had mentioned it to Sagar when I was on Breaking Points, is that the phone launched in June of 2025.
This custom gold T1 phone that was supposed to ship in August, but the people who placed a hundred dollar preorder, they haven't, they never got their phone.
And yeah, this USA Today article was from April.
So it was a month ago, but the company's last social media post was on August 27th.
So on April 6th, you know, months after they had sold all these plans and sold all these phones, the Trump organization filed this trademark application for a mobile phone plan service, the 47 plan.
And it's, you know, after the Verge reported that the FCC certified this smartphone under the trade name T1 in January.
So it's like