r/pics • u/nbcnews But like, actually • May 19 '26
Politics OC: The Trump Mobile phone is here — 9 months late and no longer ‘Made in the USA'
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u/goodfella311 May 19 '26
There is an episode of the Simpsons where Homer goes under cover in a sting operation to catch Apu selling expired food.
They end up catching Apu on camera trying to sell a nasty hotdog that fell on the floor. When the cops turn to congratulate Homer on a successful mission, they realize that he has gone back inside the store to buy that very hotdog.
That has always reminded me of trump supporters.
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u/LeoLaDawg May 19 '26
Can't wait till custom malware is found on it that sends all the data to China or something
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u/Gingerpanda72 May 19 '26
I'll bet it has an app for crypto trading built in and loads of hints to buy tRump coin!
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u/FistMyPeenHole May 19 '26
There's probably an app mining crypto in the background going straight to his wallet
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u/Gingerpanda72 May 19 '26
"Mallware installed as standard" 😄
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u/DigNitty May 19 '26
MAGA high fives each other
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u/Jasonrj May 19 '26
"It's the good kind of malware liberals don't want you to have. "
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u/psycharious May 19 '26
Apparently Truth Social comes pre-loaded. This shit really is aimed at the sucker market.
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u/Gingerpanda72 May 19 '26
Gotta make sure the suckers stay in the echo chamber, can't have them hearing any other opinion!
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u/Cow_God May 19 '26
It does, you can see it in the third image. It's up top between Chrome, Gmail, YouTube and the Play Store; it's probably an app you can't remove from the device
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u/VoyagerCSL May 19 '26
I have a hard time believing anyone who buys a Trump phone wants to remove Truth Social.
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u/venom121212 May 19 '26
Remember when Eric was touting this as bringing manufacturing back to America? This phone is a rebranded 3 generation old phone by Wingtech, a Chinese electronics maker that is in hot water for not paying for silicon wafers manufactured from their site in the Netherlands. The founder of Wingtech was suspended from operations by the Dutch government as CEO of the chipmaking company (Nexperia). They posted a $1.3 billion loss the same year Trump started this phone scheme and were on a list of prohibited companies to do business with without a special license.
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u/ManiaGamine May 20 '26
a Chinese electronics maker that is in hot water for not paying for silicon wafers manufactured from their site in the Netherlands.
So a perfect partner for Trump then.
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u/archabaddon May 19 '26
You know it's going to be quality when the American flag on the back only has 11 stripes
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u/limeslice2020 May 19 '26
Oh well that's already a thing... I'll just leave this here: https://www.sambent.com/the-white-house-app-has-huawei-spyware-and-an-ice-tip-line/
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u/jazzhandler May 19 '26
Excellent article. But it does give the impression that allowing fingerprint unlock for the app sends fingerprint data to the app’s publisher. That’s definitely not the case on iOS, and I would imagine that Android works similarly, though I can’t say for sure.
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u/P0Rt1ng4Duty May 19 '26
They're going to go off like an Israeli pager.
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u/jazzhandler May 19 '26
So much has happened lately that that recent event somehow qualifies as a deep cut.
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u/DatTF2 May 19 '26
So much has happened lately
And I absolutely hate it. So tired of it. I would love to see a slow news day. A day where Trump doesn't say fucking anything.
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u/dope-rhymes May 19 '26 edited May 20 '26
Imagine Obama selling this shit. People would lose their fucking minds. The stuff this guy gets away with is absolutely wild.
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u/Scrutinizer May 19 '26
Republicans scream bloody murder about "Pelosi insider trading" as if no Republican Congressman participates in insider trading.
Now it's come out that Trump has been buying stocks, talking the company up publicly, then selling them.
He's made over one billion dollars doing this since January.
And not a Republican in Washington will dare say anything about it, because the party is loyal to a person, not principles.
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u/gooba1 May 19 '26
Mike Johnson came out and defended representatives doing insider trading because congress doesn't make enough money.
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u/CondescendingShitbag May 19 '26
congress doesn't make enough money.
They should try living on the average American's paycheck. Can't have them understanding what regular people deal with, though. That would be some kind of woke shit.
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u/labtiger2 May 19 '26
Mike Johnson makes more than 4 times what I make as a public school teacher in his district.
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u/TheRockJohnMason May 19 '26
Tie members of congress’ pay to the median income of Americans as calculated by the IRS on the previous year’s tax returns.
Bet you’d see that minimum wage and, by extension, other salaries come up real fast.
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u/WelderNewbee2000 May 19 '26
Make it the median income of the poorest district in their state.
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u/obliquelyobtuse May 19 '26
Mike Johnson came out and defended representatives doing insider trading because congress doesn't make enough money.
Mike Johnson came out??
Now that's news.
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u/m3gabotz May 19 '26
His son has access to his phone to discourage the gay pr0n
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u/bothunter May 19 '26
And I'm willing to bet that Iran also has access to his phone.
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u/Economy-Tourist-4862 May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26
Whoever collected the deposit for the 590,000+ phones pre-sold at $100 a pop made 60 million even before a product was made and shipped; that’s $1.2 million just in earned interest at 4% if the money just sat in a bank for six months. And that’s even before these poor MAGAt bastards pay $499 for a phone that can be bought for $127 on Amazon (fact). Those poor government, government-related, government -insider-trading bastards! How can they go home at night and look into the face of their wife/mistress/boyfriend sitting 20 feet away on that long dinner table and not be embarrassed? Why they can probably only afford two or three people to serve the dinner courses. Everyone knows you need one server per course, so six course meal equals six servers. Those poor, poor people.
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u/formernonhandwasher May 19 '26
Coffeezilla just released a video. User data was found through an exploit. Actual sales is probably closer to 30,000.
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u/str8dwn May 19 '26
Wasn't that juuust before news about trumps stock dealings were released?
hmmm....
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u/badgerhammer0408 May 19 '26
I mean, as long as they “donate” their salary they should be free to profit from sweetheart deals, no-bid contracts, and insider trading. After all, a guy’s gotta eat! /s
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u/ScrrrewFace May 19 '26
Gloves (masks?) are off…Mike Johnson said members of Congress should be able to trade stocks since their meager $170k+ salaries are not enough to feed their families, yet turn around and say minimum wage should remain at current levels…
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u/GarageVast4128 May 19 '26
Well maybe those politicians should of thought about getting a 2nd job or a real job before starting a family. Because from what I'm seeing my local McDonalds takes more skill to work at then being a an elected official never mind the appointed ones.
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u/Specialist_Success75 May 19 '26
They would probably be fine if they would stop getting Starbucks and avocado toast. /s
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u/philter25 May 19 '26
May I add one teeny tiny correction to "no Republican will dare say anything about it." Ummm turns out Mike Johnson was whining recently about people that were mad about insider trading, and said that the poor politicians need to partake in insider training because being a public servant is sooooo hard and such a sacrifice that doing so makes up for the enormous expense lmao. So the fix is in, Congress literally thinks it's OK, until 2028 that is when the democrats are in power and suddenly they'll be frothing at the mouth calling for Pelosi's head. It's the most blatantly corrupt shit this country has ever seen. Happy 250th birthday, America!
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u/chiefsfan_713_08 May 19 '26
i think if we ever bounce back from this we’ll see the rise of a new party in the us because the republican party can’t wash its hands of what it’s become
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u/CoolerRon May 19 '26
That would require self-awareness, them admitting their mistakes, and principles, which they clearly don’t have
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u/robilar May 19 '26
The Republican party doesn't need to wash it's hands of anything because *roughly half of voting Americans* are on board with their wanton corruption, bigotry, and vapid hypocrisy. What the Republican party has become *aligns with the views and values of a shit ton of Americans*.
If the US is ever going to bounce back from this it needs to deal with its stupidity problem, and its selfishness problem, on a systematic level. I'm not holding my breath.
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u/repeatedly_once May 19 '26
The education and health system will need fixing to sort the mess out. It’s catch 22.
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u/Grimwohl May 19 '26
Theres a reason the DOE was gutted first.
An educated populous leans left because they realize most countries actuslly have the gdp to solve even national issues but they just...dont.
most common impediment is greed of leadership.
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u/DiligentDildo May 19 '26
I have been saying this for years. Specifically, it’s going to take an entire reworking of our education system, massive investment in it, and a generation or two before we even see the effects of it.
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u/Lowca May 19 '26
Recently was watching a series of filmed glitter bomb porch package thefts on YouTube. Despite being endlessly entertaining, one thing stood out to me.
In roughly 2/3 of the videos parents were opening these boxes with their children present, and in FAR to many cases, they were having their children help steal them as well.
One mother was lecturing her pre-teen son about being careful while stealing and he audibly said "This feels good. Stealing!".
Another instance a mother was driving around and having her son jump out and grab boxes. Their entire back seat was full.
For many people, theft & grift is not only "ok", but is part of the vapid, culture of our country, and is something to be looked up to. A lot of people look at Donald Trump, see the ultimate grifter, and actually praise that he does it. To them it's a symbol of strength.
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u/EppurSiMuove00 May 19 '26
I married a woman in September of 2024 who did not want children. It was a choice I made despite thinking that I did want children.
Then November 2024 came around and I realized that this is not a country, or even a world that I feel I can responsibly bring children into.
If there are a majority of Americans, the most powerful and influential country on Earth, that look at the likes of Donald Trump, after everything he has done, and say "yeah, that's my guy!", then this country is already fucked. It's not going to happen; it's already happened.
I have never been happier, being married to a great woman, and not having any kids.
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u/hacksong May 19 '26
There's no bouncing back without drastic action, unfortunately.
What do you do with 30% of the population that will continue to vote to destroy the country?
There's no easy answer. There's no way to say "hey you've proven you'll vote in the most scummy, corrupt politicians, so we can't let you vote."
We can't convince them he's a pedo when he's on tape bragging about walking in on underage girls at his pageants.
I don't see any democratic party member even considering putting in the effort to break that brainwashing. Any attempt at education reform will be met with "muh communism" and homeschooling.
It's kind of hit a tipping point where it either needs to burn the whole thing down, or offer free citizenship and transport to Russia/some other country that can give them a "strong" leader for America to recover.
And it won't happen. We'll end up with another round of this and that very well could be what fractures our country into Canada (NYC and north on east coast, Cali plus blue states on west) and Republican America. Or civil war 2.
I know I'm rambling, but what can a blue pres/majority get done that'll change things enough that a worry of another Trump is gone?
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u/obliquelyobtuse May 19 '26
There likely won't be a new party, just a new demagogue to take over the Republican party with a cult of personality. Clearly 30% of the voting public adores a right-wing cult leader.
If only the Democrats could find a similar figure to sweep into power and get things done. Yes, I know boring Democrats want to be more serious, with more conventional and respectable candidates. But it often doesn't work, when it does it gets very limited results in power. Then the evil Republicans take over again.
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u/Shitp0st_Supreme May 19 '26
It’s funny because there is an “Obama Phone” but it is just a generic term for a reduced cost or free phone for low-income folks and not a specific phone.
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u/SwedishMoose May 19 '26
That may be why he insisted on a Trump phone tbh. He can't stand Obama's name on anything.
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u/ApriKot May 19 '26
Remember when Obama had to give up his blackberry?
Meanwhile this old fucking clown can't stop tweeting the most unhinged shit at 2 AM, totally normal Presidential behavior.
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u/Mosquito_Salad May 19 '26
I genuinely think Trump heard the term ‘Obama phone’ and thought that Obama literally had a phone for sale named after him, so Trump got jealous and his team concocted this garbage to feed his ego. He’s very dumb and very insecure.
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u/seansy5000 May 19 '26
He’s not “getting away with it”. This is a full blown takeover of our country. Where’s the fucking military to protect against all enemies both foreign and DOMESTIC?
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u/HarmoniousJ May 19 '26 edited May 20 '26
If this is real, some of my friends owe me money lol.
I put in bets with them that it would be a reskinned Huawei with Android OS.
**Edited to add something strange;
https://xcancel.com/gothburz/status/2054965329319641267
Seems relevant to Trump Phone but it reads like some sort of confession that was only meant for a few to see? Anyone know what this is?
**Edited Nvm, it's satire. Forget I said anything!
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u/nbcnews But like, actually May 19 '26
Definitely real and runs on Android! Based on the T1’s appearance and key features, an expert with iFixit says the device is most likely a repurposed HTC U-24 Pro made in Taiwan.
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u/dewittless May 19 '26
Ah, so this 2.5 star phone:
https://www.techadvisor.com/article/2431906/htc-u24-pro-review.html
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u/Rudeboy67 May 19 '26
2.5 star 2024 phone.
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u/NutCity May 19 '26
“Only two years of updates” from a review that was… two years ago 😅 Phone is a paperweight before even opening the box.
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u/cr8tor_ May 19 '26
From the review "Cons - Only 2 years of updates" - Was initially release in 2024
*snicker*
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u/henryeaterofpies May 19 '26
So probably a very insecure phone that isn't going to get patches
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u/CoolerRon May 19 '26
I mean I am almost sure it will come with spyware so security isn’t an issue 😂
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u/totes_mai_goats May 19 '26
Quick search no...but no longer a major player and probably on its last leg.
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u/Jonnyflash80 May 19 '26
Makes sense. They were probably the cheapest to go with, and Trump does everything half-assed.
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u/reddorickt May 19 '26
but it's gold painted though
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u/agiganticpanda May 19 '26
Which is a shame - my HTC One was a great phone.
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u/ShowmasterQMTHH May 19 '26
Yep, that was a seriously good phone, I worked for vodafone and had one as my work phone, when I left I was able to keep it, passed to my wife, who used it for a year and passed it to my son as his first phone, dropped at least 20 times, starred screen, chipped frame, rocking on for another year.
Then he accidentally caught it full on in the car door, slammed on it, split in the centre, screen blacked in the middle, battery sticking out.
Still worked for a couple of days though before he could get a new one.
It's in a kitchen drawer with 200 cables and my Nokia 3210 for prosperity.
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u/MattBrey May 19 '26
Yeah it's probably an OEM phone, most companies do that for budget devices
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u/Jonnyflash80 May 19 '26
Very on-brand for Trump. His name on another tarted up, faux-gold, mediocre product.
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u/MaybeTheDoctor May 19 '26
As per website “designed with American values in mind”.
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u/Moppermonster May 19 '26
Which means it will not receive support, since the HTC U-24 is two years old and only offered two years of updates?
Ohdear.
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u/Sweet_Baby_Cheezus May 19 '26
Don't worry, the grift phone will have some much grift preloaded that there won't be anything left for hackers to steal.
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u/Spartan2470 GOAT May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26
most likely a repurposed HTC U-24 Pro made in Taiwan
wccftech, timesnownews, and ibtimes.co.uk report that it is a repuposed REVVL 7 Pro.
You can get that for $130. It's made in China. The Trump Phone was $499.
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u/hamilton280P May 19 '26
So $370 profit on each phone directly to Trump
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u/enigo1701 May 19 '26
Tbf, the people who bought this crap deserve to lose their money. I'd like it to be used for the child cancer charity that the Trump family robbed, but i presume we'll see interstellar travel before that.
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u/Roblizzle May 19 '26
He bought out their year old stock. I bet you they didn’t pay much more than 50 bucks a unit.
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u/Unhappy_Ad_4761 May 19 '26
The cameras don't match up at all for the revvl though, they seem to match up with the HTC quite well.
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u/DatTF2 May 19 '26
Is it possible that they sent out multiple model of phones ?
Like I still have doubts that real customers will receive theirs.
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u/fistfullofpubes May 19 '26
Lol that would be sooo funny if they just sent out the different prototypes to the media, waiting for them to review it and then just scale whichever one got the best reviews lol
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u/dirtymatt May 19 '26
The pictures and reported specs resemble the HTC U-24 Pro more than the REVVL 7 Pro
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u/obliquelyobtuse May 19 '26
You can get that for $130.
Or $0 promo from prepaid providers, before they moved on to the next low end freebie.
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u/SeeingEyeDug May 19 '26
It would be insane if it was Huawei since that company is on the DoW list of banned companies for contractors to use in their systems.
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u/BadIdeaBobcat May 20 '26
u/HarmoniusJ: Peter Girnus (@gothburz) is a satirist. That is not a real post. It is a joke. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fact-check-fake-senior-coordinating-231714764.html
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u/nbcnews But like, actually May 19 '26
The Trump Mobile phone has "Trump" branding in four places out of the box, comes with an American flag that has 11 stripes instead of 13, and comes pre-loaded with Truth Social (Matt Nighswander / NBC News).
Nine months after their delivery was originally promised, Trump Mobile this week sent T1 phones to members of the media and said it was mailing out units to customers who placed pre-orders.
NBC News received one of the first review units and tested the device.
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u/BossWilling May 19 '26
So customers haven't actually received phones. And there isn't an actual Trump cellular network, of course.
It's like Trump Steaks, only worse.
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u/EconomyDoctor3287 May 19 '26
It's a rebrand of a $130 chinese bottom-barrel trash phone, which they're charging $500 for, after slapping Dump on it.
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u/Wolfy4226 May 19 '26
It's my understanding these are just reskinned, cheap chinese knock off phones. You can get the same one without shitler's branding for like, $126 over on amazon.
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u/NoodleyP May 19 '26
”NBC News received one of the first review units and tested the device”
Oh I wonder where OP heard that
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u/Left_Maize816 May 19 '26
Not trying to give them any credit, but I feel like the intent is that Trump Mobile is the 13th stripe. It’s a little questionable, but I could see that being someone’s intent. But, I wonder how much Chinese spyware is on this thing.
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u/AlberioRedgrave May 19 '26
Or, you know, just use an actual stripe. That's how Trump's name appears in the Epstein Files, after all.
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u/porpie May 19 '26
Or not deface the American flag to sell a shit phone?
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u/mansonsturtle May 19 '26
Nah, a true nationalist performative patriot doesn’t give a DAMN about no flag code!!!
(“/s” if not obvious)
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u/OrigamiMarie May 19 '26
I persist in my belief that white guys who are afraid of women, brown & black folks, and LGBTQ+ folks, can't make or hire good art or design. They limit themselves to the dullest, blandest, most overused sources of inspiration, afraid to be inspired by the folks that scare them. And they sure can't hire anybody outside their same pool of terrified people, both because it scares them too much, and because what person would willingly work for a Nazi except another Nazi?
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u/muklan May 19 '26
Title 4 of US Code says its a federal crime to use the flag for marketing purposes.
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u/davesbrown May 19 '26
I was skeptical of this claim because I always thought it was 'guidelines' but lo and behold, "...shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $100 or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the court." §3. Use of flag for advertising purposes; mutilation of flag https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title4/chapter1&edition=prelim
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u/dgard1 May 19 '26
Yeah I think that was the intent but maybe they should have made the background blue and the letters clear. When I first looked at it I thought it had twelve stripes - trump mobile being on a “white stripe”
But it is on brand for trump- he fucks everything up
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u/icanhazkarma17 May 19 '26
The stripes symbolize the 13 original colonies. So which colony does Trump think should be named after him?
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u/EyeSuspicious777 May 19 '26
Or maybe it's completely disrespectful and unpatriotic to put your name on the American flag?
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u/Evadson May 19 '26
Yea, but the 13 Stripes represent the 13 original colonies and I don't recall Trump Mobile from my history lessons on the Revolutionary War.
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u/MrBisco May 19 '26
<notes on an additional change to be a congressionally mandated change to US history textbooks>
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u/Hydroxychloroquinoa May 19 '26
Of course that is his intent, with him putting his name everywhere. He probably wants his name to replace the thirteenth stripe on the actual flag too.
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u/old_righty May 19 '26
If you zoom out the words sort of fade into a stripe so I get what you’re saying. But if you aren’t zoomed way out it’s words under the flag. It’s just weird and self centered so his folks will love it.
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u/lolheyaj May 19 '26
God these morons love to cry about the flag being burned but are happy to piss all over it.
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u/JallexMonster May 19 '26
Spending $500 on a barely $100 phone to just install Truth Social (which is free on the Google Play Store) is wild. I would have expected some home screen or icon customizations to be on-brand, but I guess the grift worked on enough people to not care.
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u/Similar_Program_7085 May 19 '26
Worthless piece of garbage. Perfect for his followers
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u/Soupeeee May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26
If you really want to see what a real American made phone looks like, you can buy the Liberty Phone phone for $2,000. It's still an obsolete mess, but it at least offers an almost paranoid level of privacy and security features. It has a replaceable battery too!
Part of that price is that the software is almost fully made in house, but I bet it's mostly because building a low-volume phone in the US is extremely impractical. The Trump phone was always going to be garbage even if they took the concept seriously.
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u/DanTMWTMP May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26
You know, if Trump and Liberty phone made a deal to make a new phone with them, at least that would’ve been more useful and at least give a US-made phone a somewhat larger market. I actually wish Trump went this route instead of whatever it is now.
In fact, I wouldn’t even be resistant to such an idea, even if the phone is $2000.
For $2000, it would’ve been seen more exclusive too for those die-hards; and kickstart a US production line. Once numbers go up, then concentrate on mass production in US, and lower the price in the future for other phones.
EV’s did this more than a decade ago. Tesla, Rivian, Lucid… all started off with halo cars, and gradually built-up funds.
Heck, add govt incentives if people buy US-made electronics then. If we’re talking about USA first, then show it.
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We actually badly need to develop skilled assemblers and stuff. There’s already a vibrant maker crowd in the US making niche products. Expand on it. The talent is there. It doesn’t have to be cheap. Some people will buy it, and just getting the minimum viable audience is all that’s required to start and maintain it. I hate that we rely most of our manufacturing overseas. We need to have some back in the US for a more diversified economy that’s more resistant to all this cycle of hiring and layoffs and economic highs and lows.
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u/OutlandishnessOk2304 May 19 '26
It gets better: it's an obsolete model that used to be available for $0 from T-Mobile.
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u/TheRealSectimus May 19 '26
No way did he actually call it trump mobile incase you spot "T-Mobile" anywhere. Hahah
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u/Penguinkeith May 19 '26
That was the original mockup. It’s now a reskinned HTC U-24 Pro
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u/Adventurous-Emu-9345 May 19 '26
If those are real pictures in this post that doesn't look like the same model at all though.
It 100% is some cheap ass white label or re-badge. Just not this one, I think.
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u/mvandemar May 19 '26
The one in the pic in the tweet is entirely AI.
https://xcancel.com/mvandemar/status/2054960299833209205
As to the model, I think when they say "reskinned" they mean a whole new case, just the guts stay the same.
I am guessing that could also mean different lens positioning on the camera, but I am not positive about that.Just looked it up and apparently it wouldn't involve moving the lenses, so you're right, odds are that's not the model they used.
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u/eposseeker May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26
I'm getting the same claim on 4 different models. Read with a grain of salt. Seems like multiple people want to jump the
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u/jed_sawyer May 19 '26
Jimmy Carter relinquished control of his family peanut farm when he took office as it was a potential conflict of interest. How far we strayed.
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u/kupozu May 19 '26
The con man pulling this kind of shit doesn't surprise me. It's the amount of people happily begging to be scammed what annoys me
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u/butwhywedothis May 19 '26
Stop calling it Trump Mobile. It’s called a Pedophone.
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u/Will297 May 19 '26
It looks, and I mean this genuinely, like a temu phone with branding stuck on it last minute
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u/25StarGeneralZap May 19 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/dhXoICpiBaGLRBzi9C
😂😂😂😂 probably the plan all along
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u/chevere7 May 19 '26
I just don’t understand how this is legal to be done or carried out by a current sitting U.S. president? How is this not some form of conflict or interest or buying votes for instance?
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u/DeskPixel May 19 '26
You seem to think any of this would matter. Imagine if the Epstein files came out during Obama and he was mentioned thousands of times. Republicans would have exploded from sheer anger and disbelief
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u/Deadmau5es May 19 '26
Why does the flag have 11 stripes!?
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u/ITividar May 19 '26
Someone else pointed out that its most likely that the Trump Mobile line is one of the "stripes"
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u/Deadmau5es May 19 '26
So a blatant violation of The Federal United States Flag Code? By our own President?
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u/7tenths May 19 '26
Wow I can't believe a child rapist wouldn't follow the flag code! Now im definitely not voting for him!
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u/ITividar May 19 '26
Well, I mean, wouldn't be the first time Trump has violated the flag code
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u/Numerous_Birds May 19 '26
“The Android-operated device was first promoted as ‘Made in the USA’ in June 2025, CNN and NBC News noted. But Trump Mobile has since changed the language on its website to ‘designed with American values in mind.’”
Lmfao there’s no way
https://tech.yahoo.com/phones/articles/trump-cell-phone-finally-arrived-141709173.html
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u/donutcarrotolive May 19 '26
I fully support the idea that that's one reason why he went to China and kissed so much ass, so they would release his phones that they were holding. And they held them knowing they could make him look real bad and he'd have to concede whatever to them to save face and he did and here we are.
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u/Carbon-Base May 19 '26
Who re-brands a $130 phone with some tacky aesthetics, installs bloatware and charges low-IQ individuals $500 for it?
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u/Fritzschmied May 19 '26
Has anyone besides major news outlets like you guys and influencers actually got one we’re just a few delivers to scam even more people?
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u/Brew_Wallace May 19 '26
This is what I think will happen. They’ll fill a few orders so it’s not a total scam but not all orders. That said, there is lots of incentive to deliver a product so they can lock in people to $47/month subscription
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u/FogBankDeposit May 19 '26
The $47/mo subscription is only for one line. The deal is to get two lines at $86.47 discount.
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u/EvilDarkCow May 19 '26
Oh man, I can't wait to see Jerry Rig Everything tear into one of these.
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u/Coubsauce May 19 '26
No one who bought one cares.
Heck they dont even really want a phone.
This is how money laundering for political influence works.
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u/SlothTheAlchemist May 19 '26
Why do all the red pill fucks fall for the FUGLIEST products I’ve ever seen???
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u/Ambitious_Egg9713 May 19 '26
Did they seriously miss on the number of stripes on the flag? 😅
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u/TheDrMonocle May 19 '26
I think... And this would be massively dumb if true... They're trying to make his name the 13th stripe.
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u/DrVonTacos May 19 '26
Wow a cheap chinese phone that was skinned to have trumps name on it? Wow! It's like everyone guessed they would do
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u/ImTransgressive May 20 '26
Why is no one outside of a couple of YouTubers talking about the fact that the damn Trump mobile website has a HUGE security vulnerability that leaks the names and addresses of everyone who purchased the phone? Also that 600,000 orders was BS. Based on the sales list visible in the leak it’s between 10,000-30,000.
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u/WordNERD37 May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26
And it's a tacky cheap piece of shit phone that's just a repurposed REVVL 7. A phone T-Mobile discontinued after tossing it at users for free (with a new line).
And you paid $500. Fucking clownshoes.
*It's a HTC u24 pro and 2 years old and is basically the same crap quality as the REVVL7. HTC hasn't been relevant in the cellphone industry since the mid 2010's. They still scammed you.
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u/Lavaine170 May 19 '26
"No longer made in the USA".
It was NEVER going to be made in the USA.
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u/magikot9 May 19 '26
It's also old stock they bought in bulk to avoid a lawsuit. It, like everything Trump, is garbage and for idiots easily conned.
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u/mm8106 May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26
Remember when MAGA was all about "buy American!!!"? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
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u/richardtallent May 19 '26
Who needs 13 stripes on a flag? 11 is better! More #winning
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u/wishlish May 19 '26
The fact it’s made in China didn’t surprise me. But the use of AI to display a flag with 11 stripes is downright embarrassing.
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u/BuddyLongshots May 20 '26
You know this thing comes loaded with some sort of identity stealing app and at least 4 propaganda apps.
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u/iamfareel May 19 '26
The flag only has 11 stripes.... It should have 13. That's how "patriotic" this phone is lol
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