Trump family business delays launch of $499 gold smartphone

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/31/trump-family-business-delays-launch-of-gold-smartphone

34 Comments

  1. AlabamaHotcakes on

    “Etched with an American flag, the T1 was initially promised in August and the website still states it will be released “later this year”. Customers are required to pay a $100 payment to pre-order the device.”

    Yeah they’re never gonna get that phone or the $100 back lol

  2. deliciousKittie on

    Has the non gold Trump phone that people preordered years ago been delivered? If yes, who has taken delivery? And if not, why hasn’t the scam been investigated? Must Trump get away with every scam he thinks up?

  3. Assuming this trinket actually reaches production for a moment, at 500 bucks who’s going to buy one other than rural MAGA wood cutters? No serious minded person would be seen with such a gaudy political low spec machine (?).

  4. I point this out every time I see the Trump phone. The only reason Trump is doing this is because he doesn’t understand that the term, “Obama-phone,” was a nickname for the Life Line Program to supply low income Americans with a cell phone and service.

    Trump thinks Obama sold an actual “Obama cell phone” while in office and made a fortune by doing so.

    Same with “Obamacare,” which MAGA hates, but they love the Affordable Care Act. Trump and MAGA cannot differentiate between **one** thing having *two names*, a formal name and a nick-name.

    It’s the same reason they will call you a communist and a socialist in the same sentence, because they understand neither.

  5. MAGAts will gleefully wait for the opportunity to spend their $499 for a phone that’ll be bested by the $0 – $100 prepaid tier at Walmart…

  6. because the phone doesn’t actually exist, and this is all just another trump family scam?

  7. It’s just a rebadge of a cheap chinese phone. My guess is that they’re trying to sort the software out and trying to keep the costs at the same promised pre-order price due to tariffs.

  8. FutureRevolutionary- on

    Who gives a shit. Trump is a pedophile who is sucking our country dry like a fucking vampire while everyone who has the power to do anything about it are slow walking a response that relies exclusively on laws that trump and his cronies have already demonstrated they won’t follow anyway.

    Say it slowly, and digest every word. The president of the United States was best friends with the most prolific pedophile and sex trafficker on earth (that we know of).

    All this other bullshit is a distraction so our puny little brains won’t linger too long on the thought of the President abusing little girls. I feel like the entire world is genuinely unconscious

  9. I really hope it happens just to see if “Sent from my Trump phone” is attached to messages etc.
    Fingers crossed!

  10. Za_Lords_Guard on

    I love these and the red hats. I hope every MAGA gets both. Not that I want Trump to profit, but I love that they self accept the scarlet A so the rest of us know to stay away from them.

    If I see a gold Trump phone or hat I can safely assume it’s a grifter, fascist or rube. Don’t need any of that sort in my life.

  11. Please let the delay be due to the ram shortage.

    Please let trump get big mad about the ram shortage.

    Please let my enemies get super pissed at each other.

  12. How many more times are people going to be taken out on a financial ride till they just figure out this whole thing is just one big damn Ponzi scheme

  13. But how many paid the deposit for $100 dollar?..that’s money they will never see again..dumb and dumber MAGA-hats

  14. Isn’t this the second time that people have fallen for a phone scam that has done by the MAGA lot?

  15. Remember that every former president got rid of every small insignificant part of any business that they owned because they thought it was unethical to be the president of the United States and be able to profit from that position by also owning and operating a business. Meanwhile this man is literally trying to sell gold cell phones out of the oval office and conservative Christians can’t see a false idol when it’s grifting right in front of them. Wtf is wrong with the world?

  16. There goes your phone you never had and the money you paid, atleast he keeps asking every week for new donations you have to make or democrats will take that money.
    And remember guys, green energy is a scam!

  17. Level_Investigator_1 on

    Everyone thinks he is grifting by selling garbage. I expect it’s worse. These are all money laundering products where they fake the paper trail of products and services never sold as if the business were more successful to take in bribes or just launder international money obtained through illegal means.

    We’ll eventually learn a certain drug cartel president who was recently pardoned was the #1 buyer of this garbage.

  18. They collect the preorders then will sight difficulties in production then declare bankruptcy. Not before siphoning off all cash to an offshore account. It’s a trump scam as old as time.

  19. Mictlancayocoatl on

    So imagine the guy you voted for to become President then sells gold smartphones and other junk while in office. Would you not think “are we the baddies?” immediately? Like what the fuck is wrong with MAGA? Are they just so fucking dumb?