Trump's latest grift swindled 100 dollar deposits from an estimated 600,000 people. Fortunately, they were all Trump supporters and deserve to be ripped off and stolen from, so nothing of value has been lost.https://time.com/article/2026/05/11/trump-phone-late-not-made-in-u-s/At a glitzy event at Trump Tower on June 16, 2025, Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump announced the launch of a new “all-American” cell phone service called Trump Mobile, with a flagship golden phone soon to follow.An estimated 600,000 people paid $100 deposits for the T1 Phone, which is priced at $499 and slated to launch in August 2025. Yet, nearly nine months later, the phone hasn't been released, there is no release date listed on the Trump Mobile website, and it may not actually be made in the U.S.The Trump Mobile website pushed the phone’s release date back from summer 2025 to November, to December and to mid-March of this year, to now removing a release date altogether. Trump Mobile also updated its “Preorder Deposit Terms and Conditions” on April 6, 2026, which now makes clear that a preorder deposit “provides only a conditional opportunity if Trump Mobile later elects, in its sole discretion, to offer the Device for sale.”The terms continue, “A deposit is not a purchase, does not constitute acceptance of an order, does not create a contract for sale, does not transfer ownership or title interest, does not allocate or reserve specific inventory, and does not guarantee that a Device will be produced or made available for purchase."And while the terms do say that Trump Mobile will issue a refund of the deposit if it cancels a product outright, they also state that the company is not liable for delays caused by “parts shortages or hold-ups with regulators.”
“Hey, Trump supporter here. This one goes out to Don Jr. and Eric,” one scorned customer and professed Trump supporter said in a now-viral TikTok video posted in January. “Where the f–k’s my phone? I ordered three—no, four—gold Trump phones in the summer.” TIME has reached out to Trump Mobile for comment.The two Trump brothers emphasized in their announcement that Trump Mobile products would be “all-American”—with the phones manufactured in the United States and the Trump Mobile customer service headquarters based in St. Louis.“We don’t want to do that overseas. We don’t want to do that in India,” Eric Trump, who serves as executive vice president of the Trump Organization, told Fox Business in June.Trump Mobile did not specify where or how these phones would be made, confusing experts and consumers since the only phone made in America at the time, the Liberty Phone, cost $2,000.Since then, Trump Mobile has dropped the made in America claim, adopting a more subdued description of being "designed with American values in mind," an "American-proud design," and "shaped by American innovation."Trump’s family venture announcement came as his Administration implemented a massive tariff regime, which he said at the time was to fight back against “unfair” trading practices with our allies abroad, and to restore U.S. manufacturing.“Remember the army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones?” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on “Face the Nation” in April 2025. “That kind of thing is going to come to America.”The T1 Phone design advertised on the website is a gold phone running Android, adorned with an American flag and the Trump Mobile logo.It is still advertised as a phone with a “fingerprint sensor and AI Face Unlock,” a 6.78-inch touchscreen display, quick charging, and a 50 megapixel main camera.
While the current design looks slightly different from previous iterations of the gold phone, the website still directs customers to the same waitlist to pay a deposit.
>And while the terms do say that Trump Mobile will issue a refund of the deposit if it cancels a product outright, they also state that the company is not liable for delays caused by “parts shortages or hold-ups with regulators.”They'll issue refunds when they officially cancel it. No way that every happens. They went from "100% American made" to "designed and assembled in America" to now this:>"designed with American values in mind," an "American-proud design," and "shaped by American innovation."The fact that they are outsourcing the design overseas and don't want to lie about it and get sued makes me think someone still thinks this is coming. Otherwise why not just lie?I think the play is to find the cheapest phone manufacturer to partner with and sell at a price where the whales who eat Trump's shit will pay for all the people who end up cancelling.
>>1514599The play is to just take the money, ignore the customers, call anything negative about it 'fake news', and tell any reporter asking about it they are a horrible person and "we'll look into it".
>>1514600Like the tax returns, infrastructure week, and epstein justice? I guess. But then why not keep pretending it'll be made in America and be awesome? Is it like the email scams that purposely misspell things so only dumb and probably gullible people take the bait?
It's ok, I mean, they're used to falling for it again. What's another $500 scam?
>>1514589Damn you mean rightoids won’t get their Fell For it Again Phones?
>>1514600>>1514602This is the reason, assuming we have a president after trump, they should invoke the emoluments cause and seize all of trump's assists and money
Last year, my sister pre-ordered from Apple an iPhone 17 Pro Max: their top of the line 2Tb model. She received it on the day of release.I'd say 'What's your excuse Trump?' or 'Your call, Trump, but the cultists only receiving 'Fell For It Again' awards is sufficient in further proving what an inferior subhuman you are, as are your retarded glazers, shills etc.Curious how those who aren't MAGAtards have yet to pay you one single cent, amirite Trumpy?
People are so fucking stupid. This man is a grifter and a scam artist. He has been this way his whole life. Even when he first got known outside of NY/NJ with his stupid book in '85, everyone knew that if you did business with him you would lose.
>>1514622What's better is Mac kicked out their CEO that was sucking off trump's toad head dick,
>>1514614holy ESL!
>>1514600Of 590k phones, I orders 550k of these phones to wet beaks of U asS A 1st family.I get richer cause oil $200+ barrel.$55M chicken feeds to me. I feed chickens better than capitalist feed poor dirty Americans N'YUCKs N'YUCKs
>>1514769Say, bin Salman, did you feed that chopped up journalist to the chickens?
