It's also trivial to place an object into orbit at a speed such that it stays in the same place relative to Earth. So a given satellite in orbit does not necessarily need to pass over the United States. This is why you have to get on your roof and point the dish at some magical place in the sky. You're pointing it at the satellite
Given the cost of sending missions to GEO, the time involved to put anything into orbit, how tedious and pesky rockets are, you have a funny definition of 'trivial'.
I'm referring to the difference in difficulty among putting a satellite into non-geosynchronous orbit and putting a satellite into geosynchronous orbit.
