Remember when Trumps family announced a new wireless phone service and cell phone that would carry his name?
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/still-no-signal-from-trump-mobile-phones-more-than-five-months-after-launch
So no one was especially surprised in June when the Trump Organization announced the launch of a wireless phone service that would carry the presidents name marketed to those Donald Trump Jr. described as real Americans and sell a gold-colored $499 phone, dubbed the T1.
At the rollout, the public was told to expect everything to be in place by the end of the year. As November nears its end, what happened? NBC News reported:
NBC News placed an order for a T1 phone in August, paying the $100 deposit for the purposes of tracking the $499 phones development. After confirming with the credit card company that the transaction was not fraudulent, NBC News received a confirmation email verifying the order. But the company provided no proactive updates after the order. NBC News made five separate phone calls to the Trump Mobile customer support line between September and November.
In October, NBC News was told to expect a Nov. 13 ship date.
When that date came and went, an operator at the call center said to expect delivery in the beginning of December. (The same operator blamed delays on the government shutdown, which didnt appear to make any sense.)
Making matters worse, the Trump Mobile website has gone through a series of edits, including the elimination of release dates and Made in the USA assurances.