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.
Why would you do that? Put down a deposit on something you could just buy (in a different version)? Why would you even put down a deposit on something you couldn’t currently buy because it’s not finished yet? Why wouldn’t you just wait until it was finished? Why put a deposit on some future piece of manufactured crap? On a house, yes, since there’s only one of it and there may be rival buyers, but on a small consumer item, no, because wtf.
And then of course that times a thousand when the source is a Trump. Of course they’re going to take your money and then shrug. That’s who they are. How dumb do you have to be to send them 100 bucks for a future piece of junk they will end up not making anyway?
Oh well, we know the answer to that.
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