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Trump Organization enters phone market with $499 Trump Mobile device

by jayknight on 6/16/25, 1:05 PM with 13 comments

  • by amai on 6/16/25, 5:01 PM

    During enlightment humanity separated the church from the state. I guess we need a second enlightment to separate business/economy from the state, too. Why is this not illegal, yet?
  • by tencentshill on 6/16/25, 5:49 PM

    Phone warranty is provided by a company that was sued for telemarketing abuse. Also could be related to the "car warranty" scam calls. Registered in Florida, of course.
  • by LorenDB on 6/16/25, 2:09 PM

    Who was in charge of listing the specs for this phone? https://trumpmobile.com/t1-phone says the phone has, among other things:

    - 5000mAh long life camera - 12GB RAM of storage - 256 GB of internal storage for "memory"

    Weird spec descriptions aside, this phone looks entirely reasonable spec-wise for a $500 Android.

  • by zippyman55 on 6/17/25, 5:04 PM

    Its like the Wall Phone, Mexico was going to pay for it? Promise one thing and never deliver. This is to be made in China? I suspect that it is never made in the USA.
  • by taylodl on 6/16/25, 1:17 PM

    How much time and attention has Trump devoted to this rather than doing his actual job?
  • by sccxy on 6/16/25, 6:34 PM

    "Trump threatens tariffs on Apple iPhones" (23. May)

    Makes sense now why iPhones were specifically targeted.

  • by roshin on 6/16/25, 1:30 PM

    > A website that went live after the announcement included details of the new Trump-branded smartphone that will be available from September,

    here would be a great place to include a link to that site