The website failed, went to an error page, and then charged my credit card the wrong amount of $64.70. I received a confirmation email saying I’ll receive a confirmation when my order has been shipped, but I haven’t provided a shipping address or paid the full $499 price tag. It is the worst experience I’ve ever faced buying a consumer electronic product and I have no idea whether or how I’ll receive the phone.

I look forward to learning more about how terrible these phones turn out.

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[–] 352 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Daily reminder, Jimmy Carter willingly sold his peanut farm because his morality told him of his own viewpoints that it may be seen as unfair for a President to own business interests while serving the most important role of government. Which in his mind may come off as corrupt.

We now have a president who see's his name as a brand. That's where we've gone.

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  • [–] 139 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    People are forgetting too that this is just a job that he can be fired from. The SCOTUS and Republicans can fire him at any moment, but they aren't. These middle managers suck.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago*

    Daily reminder, Jimmy Carter willingly sold his peanut farm because his morality told him of his own viewpoints that it may be seen as unfair for a President to own business interests while serving the most important role of government. Which in his mind may come off as corrupt.

    Well, that and he was complying with the Emoluments Clause. You know, that thing that should've seen Trump impeached on Inauguration Day -- 2017, not even just 2025!

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  • [–] 83 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    Let me guess. It's a rebranded Chinese phone that typically goes for like 50 bucks?

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  • [–] 102 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

    Yep, apparently it's a cosmetically tweaked Wingtech REVVL 7 Pro 5G, which goes for $170 under the T-Mobile brand on Amazon.

    Eric Trump admitted it was going to be made in China, so the press release's description, "designed and built in the United States," is just a lie, or actually two lies.

    'Eventually': Eric Trump admits new mobile phone isn't being made in the USA

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    But it's golden and has a convicted felon's name on it. That should make up for the rest of the value right?

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    He saw the Escobar phone and thought it was a good plan.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    cosmetically tweaked

    It would have to be super tweaked considering the phone you referenced has four cameras, and a notch style front camera.

    My bet is that this is a 10 second photoshop job and the actual phone will look nothing like that.

    I mean if you do a difference blend of two of the cameras, you get a perfectly black circle (minus some blending at the edges):

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    This means that the cameras are exact pixel-perfect copies of each other arranged in that order by photoshop. They don't exist on any phone.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago*

    The Revvl is the cheapest phone T-Mobile offers last time I was in need of a replacement; they basically give it away free if you do 2 year contracts instead of normal month-to-month, contractless services. It's what my dad uses. 🤣

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    And they'll ironically lose the lawsuit about the lies and deception of this, the defense of which will be funded by donations from the idiots that buy this phone and receive messages every hour asking for more money for the legal defense fund.

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  • [–] 112 points 1 year ago (21 children)

    Even as a 'lets see what this grift is all about'...why the hell would anyone order this horseshit..beyond stupid.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    To rip it apart on a software and hardware level to find the backdoors and spyware. We need to know how hardcore we are being spied on when the guy near us has one.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Most low cost phone resellers have no idea what software is even running on their phones. They just compile some samples from the manufacturers SDK, slap their own logo on top and ship it.

    I'm positively surprised it's supposed to come out with android 15. Barely one major version behind.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    ...because the author is an investigative journalist?

    We all know it's a scam, but it's their job is to prove it. To prove it you have to (attempt to) buy it.

    I agree any actual people trying to buy it are morons.

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  • [–] 55 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Youtubers going for content.

    Conceptually, it'll make one f of a collectors item one day there's no way enough will sell to make them common.

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  • [–] 63 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

    In much the same way that Confederate memorabilia is collectable.

    As in, "You should avoid anyone who collects this shit. They're probably a white nationalist."

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Or you can spray paint your old iPhone with gold coloring, slap a Trump logo on it and sell it on ebay to some unsuspecting MAGA fan for $2,000.

    It's not hard to copy Trump's signature ... you could throw that on the phone and charge $5,000 and tell everyone that you bought it at a MAGA rally where Trump signed it in 2024.

    If they can grift .... we can all grift harder

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    He did gut any dept of gov that would go after grifters or hold them accountable.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Something tells me that won't stop someone from getting in trouble for misusing his name. Straight to deportation with you!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    In that case, someone should come out with a quality phone and just slap Trump logos all over the damned thing and charge $2,000 for a $500 phone. Run the business until someone tells you to stop.

    Sell Trump crap ... it's all crap anyway ... make money on it if people are dumb enough to pay for this shit.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Not where I was going for that, more like museum pieces. He's really done a bunch of shit we absolutely should NOT have allowed. A president, releasing a phone, while in office for a grift. Our great grandkids (hopefully) will be walking through the Smithsonian going what the FUCK was going on in the 20's, and one of these e-waste POS will be sitting there staring back at them.

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  • [–] 84 points 1 year ago

    extremely non-zero chance the entire site and payment system was coded by morons with chatgpt

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  • [–] 75 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Clearly the wrong price; should be going for $86.47.

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  • [–] 69 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    well i'm definitely shocked that the guy banned from operating a charity in new york because he scammed children with cancer would operate a shoddy business.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    Usually he's not even involved in running the business, they're licensing deals where some scammer pays a few million up front to use the Trump name, which is then used to scam his followers.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    There's a very high probability that the company will shut down before they even get a working product. All the pre-order money will have been spent on "research" and "salaries", with 80% going directly into Trump's pockets. And there will be fuck all anyone can do to get their money back. Scammers gonna scam.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 1 year ago

    I sometimes wish I had no moral code. This demographic is super easy to scam. Like the guy who listed the non-woke beer or the people who listed the freedumb phone, etc. Just attach some bullshit marketing to a thing and stupid people eat it up.

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    [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    It's like that Trump watch with the T missing. "I was expecting something with the integrity of the President". Yeah, you got that.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    Never ceases to embarrass this nation

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Plot twist: there are no phones, the whole thing is a scheme to rip off people for $64.70. Enough money to make the scam worth it, not enough for people to put in the time and effort to reclaim their money unless their credit card will compensate them.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Imagine if earlier fascists were as corrupt with conflicts of interests. Maybe we could call via the Adolfone.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    well, hope this spreads quickly as a lesson to everyone avoid that crap!

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  • [–] 58 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The US is a failed state. There's no other way to put it.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    These are gonna be worse than the DethKlok phone, and that thing has spikes that stab your face when you use it.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Of course the phone is gold. Does it come with a stylus shaped like a golf club and diaper as well? Or are those extra?

    Edit: Looked the specs. It has a headphone jack and expandable memory. How can Trump get that right and most phone manufacturers can't?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Lol, did whoever set to the shop configure it in Australian dollars? 100 AUD are just about 65 USD. Given the currency fluctuation, that could just about work out.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    There is hidden significance and symbolism throughout the device for those dedicated trumpies to uncover. For example, one easter egg is that the length of the screen is exactly 4x the length of trump’s dick.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Is this one of the ways that Palantir plans to do mass surveillance? I would not be surprised.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    On the upside, its good to see the Fam wasting grift money on business that are doomed to fail.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Can't say I feel bad for you buddy. Count yourself lucky if your cc info isn't abused.

    You are literally dealing with known felons.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    This is what a software developer would call a con-action error.

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