600,000 people sent in $100 deposits for this thing—!😧 (Dumbass is laughing all the way to the bank. )
Now this is a sticker I want. Gonna start slapping this puppy on gas pumps over the stupid “I did that!” Biden stickers.
Pro tip: there are now Trump “i did that” stickers on Amazon for CHEAP.
Bonus: it’s the picture of him looking into the eclipse with no eye protection and pointing
…and by buying them on Amazon, you’re filling the coffers if fascist supporter Bezos. How ironic.
They cost much more on other sites, but you can get them.
It is deeply ironic the fascists are making money with this. And realy sad.
In addition, buying there of Amazon might bring along a visit from some rather unfriendly people in the not to distant future.
Is there a version that also says “Iran from Epstein files” I think it is also important to remember why we have this.
I don’t want to buy anything with his face on it because I’m tired of seeing him everywhere. But thanks for the heads up.
Hell yeah. Remind me again how many stickers it took to stop the Nazis? History’s fuzzy.
Remember folks. If your resistance doesn’t immediately stop all of fascism and isn’t exactly what WizardofFrobozz thinks you should be doing, then acts if resistance aren’t worth doing at all!
“Immediately,” as if you haven’t watched this happen in slow motion for 30 years.
Tell me you don’t understand anything about propaganda and it’s role in war without telling me.
Great, so what else are you bringing to “the war”?
Are you asking for tips?
No, we’re watching Americans sleepwalk into fascism, it seems.
I take it you have a list of things we could be doing that you’d like to share with the class?
At this rate, we’ll be running out of awards quickly… and free space to tack them on to.
They will just have to start preordering the ribbons.
Honestly, at this point I think MAGA are just fin-subs and like it that way. Keep sending Daddy Don your social security checks you little fin-cucks.
I would grant them a modicum of grace if they hadn’t had 40 fucking years to see what he was about. But they had it. And they chose this.
But The Apprentice!
(Apparently all the real business guys were too busy, that’s how the producers picked Trump.)
He was the perfect pick for a show like the apprentice. Tacky showy idea of an 80s businessman. It was clear on thw show that he wasnt really involved with his own business nkr the show tasks or planning.
Sitting in meetings or analysing data on a screen doesnt make good tv. Neither did trump, but the producers did.
Had to look up what a finsub was. The more you know.
It’s a submarine sandwich from Finland, right?
😳😬
Believe it or not the thing on a submarine that is where a fin would be on a marine animal is also called a conning tower
Did you see the poll where 40% of maga said Trump could beat them up in a fight. These people have a humiliation fetish.
that last one is <chef’s kiss>
The clearest signal yet that buyers may never see either a phone or their money came with 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.
That is absolutely fucking hilarious.
I also don’t think contracts work that way, otherwise that shit would be WAY more common. heh. But I’m also pretty sure nobody will see a penny back anyway.
I’d feel bad for them if they weren’t fucking in the middle of turning our nation into a fascist hellhole.
that’s how terms of service work on the internet. companies alter the terms whenever and however they like, and often to the detriment of the end user. it’s technically not legal, but they do it anyway.
If a tech company changes the agreement, you are able to stop using the service if you don’t like the new terms. With this phone people have already put money down for it. As long as they didn’t agree to these new terms, they should be eligible for a refund if the product never ships.
Yeah sure, but how long will it take until they see any money?
“We can offer you a discount on the new model?”
Things like Google and Facebook that don’t charge any money can get away with this, but I highly doubt these people will be able to weasel out of this when actual money changes hands. Otherwise we’d have seen lots of companies doing this by now.
it’s technically not legal, but they do it anyway
That sounds like a Trump enterprise.
Let me know how the class action goes.
His kids will have bankrupted whatever shell company they spun up for this whole grift.
I don’t agree. The clearest signaal that the buyers would be screwed was the Trump brand name. He’s grift incarnate.
Normally I feel sorry for people who get scammed but in this case shitty people getting scammed by the scammer they inflicted on the rest of us don’t get my sympathy.
I only feel sorry about the money that is now gathered up into the hands of an empowered monster instead of safely dispersed amongst brainless lickspittles.
yeah, I don’t know how to feel about this. On the one hand, fuckin magas got conned by a conman. On the other hand, the bloated turd got a bunch of money for… literally nothing.
He has infinite money anyway. I am just happy MAGAts are finding out.
Doubt they will learn anything, sadly.
they made a golden statue of him, doubtful, apparently the recent statue is paid by the cryptobros.
If I get my hands on him…
They got scammed the first time around too. Remember “Finish The Wall”? Trump didn’t build an inch of wall with that money, it just vanished into thin air and appeared as a few extra digits in his bank accoount.
The same people who forked over money for that and then admitted regretting it afterwards were the same ones gleefully preordering this phone. They’ll be mad about it for a bit and then they’ll fall for it again in due time. Easy marks.
We are legit dealing with some undiagnosed dementia patients, only way to explain this.
plus they got scammed more than once, not once, not twice, not even thrice, its more than that, at this point its on the scamee.
If you willingly gave money to a two-bit con-artist who is widely known for robbing or defrauding nearly everyone he has ever done business with, then you got what you had coming.
He didn’t rob everyone… stormy Daniels however might be the only one he publicly actually ever paid (even if he tried to get a refund).
I’m willing to bet there are a lot of underage women and other women who he paid though who haven’t come forward
Looks like you have at least one such person down voting you. That person must be such a lonely loser.
The fact that Trump or any of his family will never see the inside of a cell is the single largest thing that destroyed my faith in humanity.
At the very least, they’ll see the inside of a coffin.
That’s an easy out for people like this
Not if they are still alive… [insert evil laugh here]
ivanka, kushner, don jr, Melania and Barron will likely stuff him under a golf cart/court at mar-algo once TRUMPS kicks the bucket, and then fight each other over his ESTATE.
Nah, they’re all super abused and will continue to defend his legacy so that they don’t have to confront what really happened.
Confront?? You think there are any consciences in that group?
That’s not exactly inspiring or fulfilling to me, because we’ll all do that. (metaphorically… I don’t actually want to be buried myself)
with stolen scotus seats, and the 2 almost 3 presidencies by the gop, and complicity of the old guard DNC.
Dude, even Ea Nasir delivered something to his customers.
That was the bronze age. This is the new golden age. Totally different things.
Anyone else find it hard to believe that there were 600,00 orders for this. That feels like another money laundering situation.
Well, there over 200 million adult US citizens, assume 1/3 are trump supporters that’s 60 million potential customers, it’s not unrealistic for 1% of them to have placed a $100 deposit on a trump branded phone.
I’m just more surprised they decided to not ship anything. They could’ve simply gone to any ODM ordered a generic design but in gold color and called it a day. Heck they could run an actual MVMO sell some overpriced android phones as carrier branded devices, sell some overprice cell service, then sell the brand off to wash their hands of it and probably would’ve made far more than the paltry $6 million that they did make in pre-order deposits
It took Google a year to sell over a million pixels when they released, they didn’t even hit 600,000 sold in their first 3 quarters (looking at all of North America) - https://coolest-gadgets.com/google-smartphone-statistics/
So 600,000 people putting down a $100 deposit for a terrible phone is definitely suspicious.
Google doesnt have the cult following trump has.
I mean they could have jumped on Alibaba, had a customized firmware, had the “gold” color, had a logo or something screen printed on the outside, and probably spent less than $100/phone, at least if current listings are correct. Sell the things for like $299 and they clear $200 profit on each with nearly no effort.
That’s exactly who an ODM is, and Original Design Manufacturer. In the mobile space it’s generally some tech giant like Foxconn which makes tons of devices for tons of brands, and they generally have their own generic designs that they’ll happily white label for any brand
Alot of these sellers on Alibaba aren’t nearly up to what an ODM is. They’re sorta more like middlemen that do stuff like take generic phones from ODMs and customize them or just grab parts off the local market and slap them together. To work with somebody like Foxconn, you’d better have some significant volumes - they just won’t talk to you otherwise. Now, maybe Trump is an exception there, but they’re still not going to want to do business unless there’s decent volume in it for them. The volumes I’ve seen for this phone is the sort of thing that wouldn’t even register for them. They’d only even think about it as a way to buy favor.
600’000 times hundred would be 60 million dollars, you’re off by a decimal. But still, agreed on your point
I also imaging a fair number are YouTube types getting it for the curiosity clicks.
Would have been funny if they did that and it turned out to be the crappiest phone ever
But that would have required actual work on their part, and maybe, just maybe they have enough self-awareness to realize they would probably have screwed this up and made no profit.
You look at the sales numbers for the dumbest crap and it isn’t hard to believe.
77 million people voted for this moron to run the country. For a second time.
So yes, i fully believe less than 1% of them bought trump phones.
… Third.
its well known its a money laundering scheme from the billionaires/putin/ISRAELI backers, nothing more. much like his CASINOS were the vehicle for laundering russian money. Maga is unable to connect the dots together. “if its too good to be true, it must be true” for them.
Not really. For a paltry $6 million gross, this wouldn’t be worth the risk from lawsuits. Regardless of what people signed from the preorders. Plus, have you meet any of his diehard supporters? They’re certainly on board with this. They already buy watches and other crap.
While I appreciate the money laundering suggestion, there’s much easier ways to do that at a larger scale. The crypto scam, for example.
Check out the video from penguinz0 on this topic, who ordered one for the lolz. The terms and conditions on the website pretty much state that there is no guarantee that the phone will ever be delivered, or how it looks, or what features it will have. Every section reads like it’s for a product that’s only on sale to scam people, and that there might never be a phone, and no obligation to get the deposit back.
60 million, right? That’s not pocket change for anyone!
Yep, my bad math. Good catch. Far more worth it.
Wouldn’t it be 60 million if it’s 600k people x $100 deposit though?
Risks are only for those who play fair. I’m not sure if there is anything Trump and his family could do that would make them actually face consequences, besides maybe loosing the midterms.
Don’t forget the betting via polymarket and so on
Sorry but are those 60000 as in 60k with a unusual (non western (EU)) decimal?
No, just a typo the article says 600,000 or 600K
I’m shocked, shocked I tell you that the preorder page is still up and
takingstealing magat’s money.Really? That’s even funnier than the fact that anyone fell for the shit!
If anyone ever asks what your strengths are, don’t say identifying sarcasm.
Is it not still up, then?
It is. I don’t understand how they thought any of that was sarcasm…
Oooh, I interpreted your reply as in you thought it was funny that the OC was shocked. Ha. Jokes on me eh.
Oh the irony.
Well, I’ll be able to put sarcasm identification, just not reading comprehension.
Really?
Ha. And might I add, “Ha”.
For nearly 600,000 Americans who trusted a brand built on the Trump name, the gold phone has become the latest entry in a long record of ventures that took their money and delivered nothing.
They wanted a Trump experience and they got one. Could argue they got what they paid for.
There’s also no evidence that they sold 600k phones. They couldn’t just made that number up.
Source: https://www.theverge.com/tech/863381/trump-mobile-viral-preorder-figures-600000
You’re right. They didn’t sell 600k phones. They took money from 600k people, but there was no phone sold.
Fr, I’d be shocked if they sold 600
I can believe the 600k number. If i was a maga chump I could be led to believe that’s a premium phone, and getting a “premium” phone for 500 bucks in this day and age is unheard of. Almost like it would be too good to be true.
I wonder if I could buy Nokia, and start selling the N-Gage again.
Hey, Taco-Talkin’ has a whole new relevant meaning these days! Plus it launched at $299.
His base is like trader NPCs in video games.
They buy everything he’s selling to them. Then they un-ironically call everyone else NPC for being slightly skeptical.
Bro are these journalists high? Read the terms and conditions…
If you cancel your deposit before completing a purchase, you may request a full refund. Refund requests must be submitted through Trump Mobile customer support prior to completion of a final sale. If Trump Mobile cancels or discontinues the Device offering prior to sale, Trump Mobile will issue a full refund of the deposit amount paid.
Apparently the terms and conditions were changed quite recently to make it clear paying a deposit didnt guarantee anything.
Changing the terms and conditions to say you are now allowed to steal from your customers doesn’t seem like it would be legal. Which of course is why trump’s doing it.
Everyone’s changing ToS on the fly nowadays. This isn’t even special Trump fuckery. Having to agree to new ToS after a sale needs to be punished.
Yeah, it’s illegal, but the premises where a bit murky too, so it cancels out.
Unfortunately, the onus would be on you to prove it in court if the company doesn’t follow through. Nobody just shows up to call out a company for doing something that isn’t enforceable.
Word to the wise, this is an “easy” way around most HOA rules: you just gotta have lawyer money and time.
Refund request must have be made by the Trump mobile, apparently.
The article clearly mentions the T&C were changed in April. Did you racually read it before getting mad at these journalists?
Did YOU read it? The excerpt you replied to is talked about in the article right in the section about the April change. And if you click the link in that article for revised terms of service you can read it for yourself as well.
The writer is aware of the T&C, they know it was modified. It’s in the article.
They report customers have received an email telling them they won’t get their phones nor their deposit back.
You’re all riled up agaings the journalist because the T&C stipulates refunds will be honored.
So, to summarize: you’re mad at the journalist because the email customers received contradicts the T&C on the website?
But see (from the article):
The clearest signal yet that buyers may never see either a phone or their money came with 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.
