Don’t miss the fine print.
*phones not made in the USA
this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2025
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I'm calling it, it won't come out. I just doubt it will happen.
If it does, it's a rebranded phone wrapped in fake gold leaf, like the Pablo Escobar phone. https://www.pcmag.com/news/the-phone-from-pablo-escobars-brother-is-just-a-galaxy-fold-covered-in
New day, new grift.
Eeeewww! I have never seen anything tackier in my entire life, and I'm Balkan!
This would be REALLY Corrupt if he was President who ALSO Ran every and ALL Agencies that REGULATED this thing! FORTUNATELY Trump is ONLY the President who has Lackeys who Run ALL the Agencies that Regulate this and do LITERALLY WHATEVER he says! So it's NOT Corrupt!
Looking forward to a map produced next year by some thinly veiled US-supported NGO that shows corruption in the world and America will still be not corrupt but America's enemies will be very corrupt.
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Looking at the webpage, it's obviously a 100% Chinese product licensing the Trump name.
There are numerous errors on the page, from a processor section that doesn’t list a processor, RAM that’s described as storage, and the boast of a “5000mAh long life camera,” when it presumably means the battery.
If you ever thought the Trumps weren't grifters, this should clear it up:
“Trump Mobile is going to revolutionize cellphones, mobile calling,” Eric Trump told Fox News
There's absolutely nothing revolutionary here. It's a cheap Chinese phone in a tacky case and an overpriced very-not-new MVNO phone service.
That's all he's ever done. License his name. Trump steaks. Trump water. Trump University. List goes on
It’s stunning how these people can say this stupid shit with a straight face. 😂
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Next: Watch the Trump administration try to force the big national carriers to give preferential treatment to Trump Mobile on their radio hardware
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But it has "5000mAh long life camera". Seems good to me.
I mean, my phone doesn't have that.
Hearing you can download as much RAM as you need on this phone too. CHECKMATE LIBS
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Is this
Phone service under the direct control of the President of the United States of America 🦋
Small government?
And is this "small government" in the room with us right now?
[Glances nervously at devices]
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Can't wait to read from which part of China this "American built" phone is made
Hey, the "building" of a phone is the part where Mercans put in those tiny screws, as suggested by Administration staff. The low-tech stuff, like fabricating doublesided circuit boards and the microcircuit and mucrowave filter parts mounted on them, all that easy cheap stuff can be done by other people to support the screwers.
Yeah, if they're not lying it will be the worse phone ever made. The US-made Purism Liberty is $2000 and has similar specs to the Asia-made, $800 Librem 5, which is already overpriced compared to Android devices.
You are not joking. Comparing a $2000 Purism Liberty with eg. a $200 HMD Fusion. The Fusion has somewhat better screen and battery; much better processor and camera. More RAM, the option of more storage, has NFC. It's also designed to be easy-to-maintain, but is somewhat thinner and lighter despite having a larger screen area. Are 'made in USA' and 'open-source drivers' worth paying 10x as much for a noticeably worse phone? (It's not really 'made in USA' either - it's a mix of US, Chinese and Indian parts assembled in the USA.)
I think that the people who believe a US-made iPhone will also cost $2k are kidding themselves - economy of scale and all that, but it must be substantially more.
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That’s going to have a wider back door than an onlyfans model.
Who is still buying all these crappy products? Is it all just bribes from foreign countries?
There are at least 70 million weapons-grade mentally-ill people in the USA, radicalized and stupified with decades of psychological warfare.
trump could sell bowls of diarrhea with his name on it for $1000, and his sucker cultist followers would take out loans to buy it
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eventually it will be illegal to use anything but Trump products
and at some point Trump to want to be the calendar, too.
edit: and that phone will prolly turn off if you record the police; and I can't imagine the amount of spying on users that that phone must do.
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It’s available to preorder now with a $100 deposit
and might actually not even be real because he's a con man
Dude I hope it's popular. Imagine the selling point other networks could have:
New feature: Fash Block.
We guarantee our mobile network cannot send or recieve calls to any users on Trump Mobile.
You're fucking shitting me. I refuse to believe that's reality and you can't convince me otherwise.
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“a sleek, gold smartphone engineered for performance and proudly designed and built in the United States.”
Alright, so clearly this is a bald-face lie? How the hell can they claim this? What kind of made in america SOC are they using?
It depends on how they define "built."
The Moto X was touted as being built in the US, it was assembled in Texas with parts made in Asia.
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I can't wait to see those people buy them and then complain about them.
The first 100 customers will be added to the next war plans group chat.
Grifters gonna grift
Anyone who pays for this deserves to get scammed
Feels like the Escobar phone
It's definitely going to be the Escobar Phone all over again. Anyone who accidentally receives one will get a foil-wrapped $150 Huawei handset with a preinstalled background image.
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This a is the funniest shit I’ve seen all year. Holy hell, how is this not the onion?!
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