cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/26246287
A grift? From Trump? How could we possibly have gotten here?
Nearly 600,000 Trump supporters paid £74 ($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 £370 ($499) and promising a ‘Made in the USA’ build.
An estimated 590,000 buyers paid a £74 ($100) deposit to secure one, collectively handing the venture roughly £43.7 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.
I’ve been scrolling all day, and this is the first good news I’ve seen.
I do wonder, though, how many of those 590,000 still support Trump? It’s like they enjoy getting fucked in the ass by a fat, incontinent, demented, old pedo.
The psychos willing to buy this shit with nothing but a vague promise? 589,950 likely still support Trump. The other 50 are journalists like the ones mentioned from ABC & 404.