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.
American population: about 400 million. Cost of the war in Iran: about 20 billion per day. 20 billion divided by 400 million: about 50 dollars a day.
Every single person in America spent the equivalent of this Trump phone in ten days of this war that has lasted more than six times as long. How the man is still America’s President, I don’t know. But the saga of the $500 cult vaporphone sure explains a lot.
Damn that is fucking hilarious.
What’ll be hilarious, is when they file a class action suit to get their money back. That’ll be gloriously delicious
So, $5 per litigant after legal fees, assuming the DOJ doesn’t step in and claim to be the defendant.
My impression is that Trump mostly just licenses his name to these ventures for a payment and isn’t affiliated with them otherwise. I don’t think that he likely cares much what happens to the phone buyers or sellers. He’s made his money either way.
But will they?
They might file a suit. They’ll never see that money again though. Not until we have a functioning government again, but by then we’ll have much bigger problems to solve than a bunch of idiots getting their money back.
But it’ll be a great show to watch
eh… 60-70% chance I’d guess.
So maybe probably?
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.
, but what I’d love to see is a copy of the email they’ve been getting.
How is this legal
The social contract is broken, everything is legal now, for the right people
Because both parties agreed to the contract, both the grifter and the grifted.
I mean sure. Does that mean anyone can do it? Scam old people with fine print, etc?
Hahaha fucking cults and their morons, i love it.
Frankly, being taken for $100 on a phone is probably a lot better than putting your life savings into one of Trump’s memecoins or Truth Social, which some people did.
True.
Where are these MAGA forums?
Most likely telegram, gab, and some FB groups. I wouldn’t count twitter because those are all bots.
It is left as an exercise for the reader.
Gas station restroom stall.
Truth Social?
I’m shocked ! … well I’m not
