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  "path": "/2026/04/15/trump-phone-sees-price-hike-but-still-no-release-date-or-actual-phone/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-15T12:25:45.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.techdirt.com",
  "tags": [
    "1",
    "trump mobile",
    "branding",
    "con",
    "donald trump",
    "mvno",
    "smartphone",
    "trump phone",
    "wireless"
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  "textContent": "Last year the fraud-prone Trump organization announced a half-assed wireless phone company. As we noted at the time, calling this a “phone company” was generous; it was a lazy marketing rebrand of another, half-assed, “MAGA-focused” mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) named Patriot Mobile, which itself just resold T-Mobile service. So basically just another lazy Trump brand […]",
  "title": "‘Trump Phone’ Sees Price Hike, But Still No Release Date (Or Actual Phone)"
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