The Trump phone grift
6/23/202626 min
President Trump's ongoing efforts to become a mobile mogul and to run a bank suggest Trump grift is alive and well.
This episode was produced by Dustin DeSoto, edited by Amina Al-Sadi and Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Gabriel Dunatov, engineered by David Tatasciore and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
Trump Mobile offers both a cellular plan and a smartphone that will provide the same coverage as the three nationwide phone service carriers. Photo illustration by Joe Raedle/Getty Images.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
[water splashing] Today Explained from Vox, Sean Rameswaram here in Washington, DC, where all the attention is on the Reflecting Pool. [upbeat music] Back in May, it was gonna be indestructible.
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If you had a knife, I don't wanna give anybody ideas. If you had a knife, you can't even cut it.
Speaker 10:17
Yesterday, it's been vandalized.
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Who would think that somebody would go into a pool and take a knife and start cutting it?
Speaker 10:23
People are big mad because it sure looks a lot like the President of the United States gave a buddy of his and another company, like, $15 million or so of our taxpayer money to completely bungle a renovation of our National Mall just weeks before our nation's 250th birthday. What a waste, what a scam. We're gonna get to that one later in the week, but on the show today, we're gonna talk about two Trumpy scams that are directly enriching the Trump family, all while Daddy Trump is running the country. The Trump phone, which maybe you've heard about, and a Trump bank, which maybe you haven't.
Speaker 30:58
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