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'Eventually': Eric Trump admits new mobile phone isn't being made in the USA (www.rawstory.com)

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Can't wait for Dbrand to drop a dupe skin for the iPhone, that would be diabolical.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 10 hours ago

What an asshole

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

A real gaper.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 13 hours ago

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago

To be fair, there is a nonzero chance that there will be beachfront property in AZ in the next century now so...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

I got beach front before it was beach front! I love it!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago

Hilarious!

[-] [email protected] 201 points 21 hours ago

It’s a Wingtech REVVL 7 Pro 5G

Chinese company + Chinese manufacturing.

This guy is such a fucking crook.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 14 hours ago

He’s not a crook. And you will realize that as soon as his tax audit is over so he can release his taxes.

[-] [email protected] 79 points 19 hours ago

It’s a Wingtech REVVL 7 Pro 5G

So a $130 budget phone that they are selling for 500? Seems about right.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago

You do understand that it's gold colored? That's $300 in added value right there

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

If you combine it with the sneakers and watch it buys you an extra 3 months before being taken to the gulags. Unless you’re brown, then it’s only an extra 3 minutes.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 17 hours ago

Well, with the tariffs and all, it adds up...

[-] [email protected] 19 points 20 hours ago

I think paying a little too a billionaire for no necessary reason makes this American though

[-] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago

Funnel the wealth to billionaires

[-] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

That phone looks very different, especially the cameras.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 121 points 20 hours ago

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

[-] [email protected] 37 points 20 hours ago

Which means you can buy the $169 phone spray paint it with gold paint and sell it to a MAGA fan for $1,000 when the demand goes up.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 19 hours ago

It can also be purchased in gold

Fuck the spray paint you just need to write "trump" on the back with a crayon and they'll throw money at you.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago

Just RUMP is good enough. Save 20% of production costs.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

brb...doing this...

[-] [email protected] 37 points 17 hours ago

I can't wait to accuse trump supporters of being antifa for not having a trump phone.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 16 hours ago

of course not

[-] [email protected] 59 points 20 hours ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago

Two clear claims are similar levels of ambiguous; not very.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 17 hours ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago

Then China can say: "We told you so."

[-] [email protected] 64 points 21 hours ago

It's a scam.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

And even is it wasn't, it's still in breach of the Emoluments Clause.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 20 hours ago

Well yeah, the Trump family is involved.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

So, full of bullshit just like the rest of the Trump dynasty. Got it.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 21 hours ago

Saw that coming a mile away.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 20 hours ago

GUYS! HELP! MY EYES! I ROLLED THEM TOO HARD! I'M BLIND!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 21 hours ago

If only false advertising laws had any teeth.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 21 hours ago

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

Stolen info from trump supporters in 3…2…1

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

I saw this a while ago and wonder if it's related at all

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

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."

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

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".

[-] [email protected] 11 points 20 hours ago

So, no more tariffs?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

Tariff is included in the price, you pay the phone 200$ + 300$ that goes to gov/trump pockets

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

These shit stains can’t even sell hats that are made in the USA let alone a phone.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

Because of course it fucking isn't. What a clown show.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago

Mind blown.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

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?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

They'll still vote for him.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

An American made smart phone would be garish, run hot and flake out in record time.

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