“… in line with President Trump's National Security Strategy”

The Tango Twat couldn’t formulate a strategy for making toast, never mind anything complicated like National Security anything

The commenter that is quoted is correct though. All that will happen is that business will wait for Mr T to eventually leave office and then get back to normal (except it’s never going to be “normal” again, of course) - nobody is going to invest millions to make routers in the US on the whim of the Orange moron

The Trump "True Blue Patriot" Router

Rough as boar scat handbashed metal cases spray painted gold containing badly hand soldered bread board PCBs , produced by good old fashioned American prison labour and all running "firmware" produced during a 47 hour no sleep DOGE Hackathon or perhaps written by Grok, which uploads all internet activity to ICE (for "national security" reasons) and all for ONLY $1500 (+ sales tax) or more likely ONLY $15 a week for 200 weeks

That reminds me. What happened to the Trump mobile phone? The last I read, he was being sued over its non-existence

I guess that would have been "I had a chat with my security specialist Kristie Noem" then ...

Hi there, do you think President Trump wants some toast? Nice hot buttered toast?

Probably they'll keep current approved models for US customers until FCC Carr-Carr Binks is replaced.

In the end US customers will have for a while outdated, more vulnerable routers to choose from.

Anyway, it will also help US telcos to deliver slower, crappier connections blaming those foreign entities....

"wait for Mr T to eventually leave office"

Ha ha ha ha ha

Apparently "You know when you've been Tango'd" is the code phrase used by "Leaky" Pete Hegseth for a missile launch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqm-s6h8l1I

It's almost as if the Trump admin had absolutely no idea it's the firmware that matters.

But anyway, all Trump wants is his cut. Next week it'll be shopping trollies.

> it'll take years to spool up the production capacity alone.

It'll cost a packet too

Will it, I’ll byte then…

mumble mumble

Trump's twisted pair

mumble mumble

Nah, that guy is all TX, no RX...

I'm already seeing ISPs and such rerouting the equipment flow to a country that managed to stay inther the $FLAG just to put a TAG on them "Made in" so that they can expedite the equipment PACKETS to the 'Murican households that need them...

After all, even telco grade Ciisco Routers are made in China nowadays. And I don't see them moving the production anywhere any time soon.

Will Trump get the Mexicans to pay for a Firewall too

It'll be as effective as well.

Who do you believe assemble Musk's routers in Texas?

I'm sure it won't be too difficult to set up a small factory to insert imported boards into imported cases and put them into locally made packaging.

>I'm sure it won't be too difficult to set up a small factory to insert imported boards into imported cases and put them into locally made packaging.

Importers worldwide love this one simple trick to avoid tariffs...

That's probably what the Trump and Witkoff families will do. Of course, fake gold plastic cases with the motto "In Trumpo we trust".

That's probably what the Trump and Witkoff families will do.

Nah, it's probably a result of lobbying by John Kerry. Introducing the new Heinz router. 57 varieties, string not included. But it's a bit weird seeing the TDS from a supposedly tech-savvy website. Trump isn't exactly tech-savvy, so I think it's unlikely this is his decision. But then both Cisco & Juniper have been bleeding cash lately, so might have lobbied for this. Neither really play in the consumer space, but since HPE bought Juniper, perhaps they're looking to get into it. Not that either really manufacture their tin in the US anyway. Juniper used to have their 'Olive' JunOS emulator that ran on pretty low spec systems, but killed that off, probably after realising folks were creating 'Juniper' routers that ran on servers that outperformed their own tin at a fraction of the cost.

Oh look. Mr TDS is here

Trump Devotion Syndrome

Both Cisco and Juniper (HPE) build their equipment... outside of MAGAstan.

It's too expensive to build them there, it's way cheaper to do that in... say... China. (Mexico, Vietnam, Taiwan or Brazil will work too... it doesn't matter it's outside of MAGAstan)

no need to go that far, just add a TAG on the router and the PACKET that contains the router.

"Router makers can apply to the FCC to get on the approved list."

So it's a shakedown.

When is it not?

Comey even said dealing with Trump was like dealing with a mafia don....

... and you will instantly appear in the "exceptions list"....

More discreet: buy a shit-ton of $Trump crypto coin. That’s what it’s there for.

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/inside-trump-familys-global-crypto-cash-machine-2025-10-28/

Oh, look, what a surprise; [1]BBC: Oil traders bet millions ahead of Trump's Iran talks post

>Traders bet hundreds of millions of dollars on oil contracts just minutes before US President Donald Trump announced on Monday that the US would postpone strikes against Iranian energy infrastructure.

> Market data reviewed by the BBC shows the volume of trade spiked around fifteen minutes before a social media post by the president announcing the move

Sure, there are the obvious commission fees, or mysterious go-aheads for Trump family development deals. But there are just so many more ways Trump n pals are profiteering...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg547ljepvzo

Stupidity?

Not if the social networks are anything to go by.

I'm sure that it's coincidental that the only US-made routers come from Musk's Starlink company, and not a massive grift in any way.

America is in for a real shock when it finally realises that stopping companies trading in the US unless they're manufacturing in the US isn't going to work. Companies will just walk away from the market - especially one so volatile as it currently is. No-one is going to be willing to spend the money to build a factory in the US - to just serve the US - when they don't know what it's going to cost from one day to the next due to King Donald's ever changing tariffs and taxies.

As they say, follow the money.

Am surprised companies like MikroTik (which also has manufacturing in europe) isn't whitelisted.

According to the BBC, the router companies will also have to submit a plan to bring manufacturing to the US to be whitelisted.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74787w149zo

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Any new router made outside the US will now need to be approved by the FCC before it can be imported, marketed, or sold in the country.

In order to get that approval, companies manufacturing routers outside the US must apply for conditional approval in a process that will require the disclosure of the firm's foreign investors or influence, as well as a plan to bring the manufacturing of the routers to the US.

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I guess that means there is a very good chance that many brands will just "disappear" from sale, if they need to spend a bunch of money to at least act like they are setting up a factory for the next 2.5 years.

Bringing manufacturing back to the US is good for the US, and I fully support this.

Until you have to pay double the price for something. Those Unions aren't gonna fund themselves....

All those Mexican illegals could do cheap assembly line in US.

Oh, wait...

If you bring low-wage assembly jobs back to the US and as a result push up prices for US customers, US exports become less competitive and that you end up with fewer better-paid, higher-skilled jobs.

Of course, you could potentially set up a highly-automated production process that would employ very few people and result in a lower unit cost, but even the US domestic market is probably not large enough to justify the investment required. Manufacturing operates at a global scale these days.

The US is not the self-sufficient, independent economy of sepia-tinted memory - as evidenced by the ability of a distant "obliterated" country to rapidly increase its inflation rate.

"Bringing manufacturing back to the US is good for the US, and I fully support this."

Surely the biggest MAGA loons aren't that delusional.

The manufacturing sectors that left the USA 30-40+ years ago won't be coming back. Ever. Their blue collar jobs have gone for good. There's no business case for setting up new factories in Trumpistan. Even if there was a stable government implementing predictable, consistent macroeconomic and trade policies to underpin those investments. Which of course there isn't.

There is a way to get manufacturing back to the US. The first step is to use LLMs to identify democrats from social media posts, DNS lookups, email contents, and so forth. Put them in prison then offer them as cheap labour. This fixes the government stability problem at the same time.

I wouldn't trust anything manufactured by them.

US bans overseas routers, but gets pissy when the rest of the world refuses to buy American shit.

Yes, makes complete sense...

No mention of banning use of non-US firmware or components.

So they can still be riddled with holes, but at a higher price.

We've heard this before in 2023 from Biden about the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program:

“when we do these projects, we’re going to buy American…Tonight, I’m also announcing new standards to require all construction materials used in federal infrastructure projects to be made in America.”

How does your brain form human speech? There's a difference between mandating purchasing from American suppliers for government projects and banning the sale of foreign-made equipment to the American public.

Surely they should have those ICE types knocking down doors and retrieving any routers not 100% American.

They'd still have newspapers, radio and TV.

.....to MALAGA.......

M - MORONS

A - AND

L - LIARS

A - ARE

G - GOVERNING

A - AMERICA

......but a bit too long for a baseball cap!

......laptops, workstations, TVs, smartphones, earbuds, spectacles (see Meta), cameras, cars, ...........

......all of which might be "snooping" for the manufacturer and the manufacturer's sponsor!

Maybe Trump doesn't want ANY IMPORTS AT ALL!

Of course the point about hypocrisy (i.e. Cisco and NIST and the NSA) is par for the course!

(Hypocrisy is OK FOR US GOOD GUYS........................)

Might be??? Who are you trying to kid. they most certainly are.

last year while I was looking for a consumer wifi router that was fully supported by OpenWRT I noticed that for some vendors a particular model number could refer to a variety of chipsets - some supported, some not … at least not fully.

So I can imagine some of those non-US vendors retaining the 2026 "approved" model numbers while upgrading the models' chipsets.

Unless any skulduggery is burnt into the silicon I could imagine foreign vendors ought to be able to market routers shipped without firmware that could be programmed with "approved" firmware within the US.

As there doesn't appear to be anything much remaining within the US that is tainted with even the barest whiff of sanity, I don't imagine this will be any less of a cockup than the rest of the continual shitshow to which the planet is being treated.