Comment on Gold Phone and Mobile Service Blasted as Latest 'Trump Family Profiteering'

• toiletobserver@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Using their position of political power to advertise a business which directly benefits them. It is plainly not part of the duties of the office. Same reason good presidents put their financial affairs in a blind trust for the duration of of their term.

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• rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  For giggles, I’d like you to explain how the President of the United States launching his old overpriced phone on his own overpriced network with every possible element named, adorned and even priced after himself could be considered anything other than abusing their power?

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  • untakenusername@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    he’s just selling something that his followers will buy. no one else really cares to.

    your logic could be even more effectively applied to him selling merchandise about him and that isn’t an overreach of power in any way

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• nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Besides the naked corruption?

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  • untakenusername@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    is a president selling merchandise while in office corruption? because if you think that isn’t, then this isn’t

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    • nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Leveraging his office for profit? Yes. By definition it absolutely is

      He’s already been violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution.

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How is this a real question? We’re fucking cooked.

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  • untakenusername@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    bc of a phone 🤦

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Jimmy Carter gave up his tiny peanut farm.

      Yet people nowadays are just incapable of understanding the concept of conflict of interest?

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