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Nearly 600,000 Trump supporters paid -u74 ($100) each towards a gold smartphone that, nearly a year on, does not exist.

The Trump Mobile T1 phone was announced in June 2025 by Donald Trump Jr.
and Eric Trump as a patriotic alternative to Apple and Samsung,
retailing at -u370 ($499) and promising a 'Made in the USA' build.

An estimated 590,000 buyers paid a -u74 ($100) deposit to secure one, collectively handing the venture roughly -u43.7 million ($59 million). As
of May 2026, not a single confirmed customer has received the device.
Now, a fresh wave of anger is spreading across MAGA forums after buyers received communication making clear that their money is, for all
practical purposes, gone.

Trump Mobile launched on 16 June 2025 at an announcement at Trump Tower, headlined by the president's two eldest sons and timed to coincide with
the 10th anniversary of Donald Trump's 2016 campaign launch. The T1 was marketed as a gold-coloured Android handset bearing an American flag on
its back and bundled with a monthly service plan at -u37.50 ($47.45) per month. Initial delivery was promised for late summer 2025.

That deadline slipped to November 2025, then December, then the first
quarter of 2026. A mid-March 2026 T-Mobile carrier certification
deadline also passed without resolution. By April 2026, Trump Mobile
quietly redesigned its website, removing the release date entirely
rather than replacing it with a new one.

NBC News, which placed its own -u74 ($100) deposit in August 2025 to
track the story, called Trump Mobile's support line five times between September and November 2025 and received inconsistent answers each time.
A representative said in October that the phone would ship on 13
November, but it did not.

In January 2026, a call centre operator said the T1 was 'in the final
stages of certification and field testing,' with a ship date 'sometime
in Q1 2026.' That quarter has now passed. At one point, customer service representatives blamed a 43-day federal government shutdown for the
delay, an explanation analysts quickly dismissed as irrelevant to a private-sector hardware company.

The clearest signal yet that buyers may never see either a phone or
their money came with a revised terms of service published on 6 April
2026. The updated document states explicitly that paying a deposit 'does
not constitute a completed purchase and does not create a binding legal contract.' The payment is described as 'a conditional opportunity to buy
the device if Trump Mobile eventually chooses to sell it,' with the
company retaining all control over whether a phone is produced at all.

Investigative journalist Joseph Cox of 404 Media, who attempted to place
a deposit when pre-orders opened, found the process immediately chaotic.
His card was charged the wrong amount, no shipping address was ever
collected, and a confirmation email arrived promising delivery
notifications that never came. Cox called it 'the worst experience I've
ever faced buying a consumer electronic product.' He subsequently
reported unauthorised recurring charges being levied against customers'
cards.

Android Authority, which placed its own deposit in 2025 and has tracked
the story since, wrote in January 2026 that it fully expected to 'never
get a phone' and 'never see the $100 deposit again.'

The T1 was sold from day one on the strength of a single, politically
loaded promise: it would be built in America. Within days of the June
2025 launch, that language vanished from the Trump Mobile website. 'MADE
IN THE USA' became 'American-proud design,' then 'Brought to life right
here in the USA,' language that supply chain experts noted was legally
and commercially meaningless.

By February 2026, company executives confirmed to reporters that the T1
would not be manufactured in the United States. Final assembly of
roughly the last ten components would take place in Miami, while bulk production would happen overseas.

For nearly 600,000 Americans who trusted a brand built on the Trump
name, the gold phone has become the latest entry in a long record of
ventures that took their money and delivered nothing.

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-mobile-t1-phone-scandal-1795914

Lol.

I'm betting a PerSu or two are among the 600k phone dolts.
--
"Cough cough"
-- Suzanne Lenglen

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may never see either a phone or their money came with a revised terms of s= ervice published on 6 April 2026. The updated document states explicitly th=
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h placed its own deposit in 2025 and has tracked the story since, wrote in = January 2026 that it fully expected to 'never get a phone' and 'never see t=
he $100 deposit again.'The T1 was sold from day one on the strength of a si= ngle, politically loaded promise: it would be built in America. Within days=
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On 11.5.2026 9.56, *skriptis wrote:

Who cares?

Who cares.
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The bear, the bear, and the maiden fair"
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