'Eventually': Eric Trump admits new mobile phone isn't being made in the USA
'Eventually': Eric Trump admits new mobile phone isn't being made in the USA
Eric Trump announced Monday that the Trump Organization would be launching its own gold "made in the USA" phone. However, when speaking about it to a right-wing host, he confessed it actually wasn't being made in the country.He told Ben Shapiro that it was the company's ambition to have them made do...
It’s a Wingtech REVVL 7 Pro 5G
Chinese company + Chinese manufacturing.
This guy is such a fucking crook.
I think paying a little too a billionaire for no necessary reason makes this American though
Funnel the wealth to billionaires
That phone looks very different, especially the cameras.
Yeah it's the Wingtech Revvl 7 5g, not the pro. The pro has 4 cameras, the non pro has the distinctive 3 cams.
Edit: in typical Chinese fashion it seems there are a lot of variants of this phone. It's probably the kind of company that if you order 1000 or so, they can create the exact combination of parts you want.
But the Trump phone is definitely one of these variants.
Steve Hou of Bloomberg LP, found the same phone on Amazon. Trump is selling his phone for $499, but it can be purchased on Amazon for $169. It can also be purchased in gold
Everything is a fucking grift
You can't even make a freaking grill scrubber without importing parts from China, even if you were trying NOT to import from China. Apple couldn't even make their phone in the US because the most trivial thing was insanely expensive compared to overseas. Yes, the tiny little screws. I've got beach front property in Arizona to sell to these jackasses that believe this moron solved US manufacturing problems in just 6 months.
Reference to Grill Scrubber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZTGwcHQfLY
To be fair, there is a nonzero chance that there will be beachfront property in AZ in the next century now so...
Given the price and description, I was always assuming they were going to import a cheap Chinese android phone from a no-name manufacturer and then do the gold paint here and call it Made in the USA, like how other companies do one final assembly step here in order to make that claim.
What an asshole
A real gaper.
It's a scam.
Well yeah, the Trump family is involved.
And even is it wasn't, it's still in breach of the Emoluments Clause.
The Trump business' press release about the phone purports that the device, The T1, is "designed and built in the United States." The report noted that Apple has a similarly ambiguous claim, "Designed by Apple in California." In Apple's case, however, it has a disclaimer saying that the phones are assembled in India or China.
How is that "similarly ambiguous"? Neither phone was built in the US; only the Trump phone creators lied and said it was.
Two clear claims are similar levels of ambiguous; not very.
I can't wait to accuse trump supporters of being antifa for not having a trump phone.
Can't wait for Dbrand to drop a dupe skin for the iPhone, that would be diabolical.
So, full of bullshit just like the rest of the Trump dynasty. Got it.
After all immigrants have been forced out, all social safety nets removed, and child labour laws repealed; after the resulting widespread poverty and famine. When Americans have no choice but to work in sweatshops for a dollar a day, then US manufacturing will finally be competitive enough for trump merch to be made in the US.
Then China can say: "We told you so."
Saw that coming a mile away.
of course not
GUYS! HELP! MY EYES! I ROLLED THEM TOO HARD! I'M BLIND!
Oh no! The best antidote is remembering he’s demented and close to death!
And that he probably cried over the low parade turn out. I had to change my underwear after that joyful thought.
If only false advertising laws had any teeth.
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So, no more tariffs?
Tariff is included in the price, you pay the phone 200$ + 300$ that goes to gov/trump pockets
They'll add an exception for gold phones or something.
Mind blown.
These shit stains can’t even sell hats that are made in the USA let alone a phone.
Because of course it fucking isn't. What a clown show.
I saw this a while ago and wonder if it's related at all
Not really, them setting up World Liberty Financial is more about their ability to control deeper tiers of the financial system so they can run scams nested within scams and push it all through crypto to hide any trails that might lead to corruption charges one he's "out of office."
I mean when I first came across it (which was linked from a mass text advertisement from Truth Social in January), this is the quote that stood out to me:
Developing American First investment vehicles is another step toward our goal of creating a robust ecosystem through which American patriots can protect themselves from the ever-present threat of cancellation, censorship, debanking, and privacy violations committed by Big Tech and woke corporations.”
Notably the word "ecosystem".
If they ieep grifting their own people this hard, surely there will come a time when their own voters are penniless and thus (in American democracy) powerless, right?
They'll still vote for him.
Stolen info from trump supporters in 3…2…1
An American made smart phone would be garish, run hot and flake out in record time.
Orange would have been the better color
Ahhh, so it will have manufacturers and orange rumps surveillance code in it.
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