Trump Launches Self-Branded Mobile Phone Service in the US
Source: Bloomberg
June 16, 2025 at 8:35 AM EDT
President Donald Trump is launching a Trump-branded mobile phone service, that will rely on wireless networks and hardware that is “made in America.”
Trump’s sons, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., unveiled the service Monday at Trump Tower in New York on the 10-year anniversary of their father’s announcement that he would run in the 2016 presidential election.
“We’ve partnered with some of the greatest people in the industry to make sure that real Americans get true value from their mobile carriers,” Trump Jr. said.
Businesses that purchase network capacity from one of the big three US wireless networks—known as Mobile Virtual Network Operators, or MVNOs—are an increasingly hot category for reaching niche markets. The trio of actors who host of the popular Smartless podcast, Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes, recently announced they are starting their own phone company on T-Mobile’s network aimed at low-data-usage customers who’d like to save money on their bills each month.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-16/trump-launches-self-branded-mobile-phone-service-in-the-us
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marble falls
(67,002 posts)
melm00se
(5,109 posts)Trump will push this phone at $2K, made in America (and at least a couple fo generations behind the rest of the world) with a $500 addon on for Trump's mug engraved on the case.
bucolic_frolic
(51,398 posts)Captain Zero
(8,122 posts)Hackers will probably buy some of them since they will be such high-tech and American made.
Has he ever brought the maga hat and tshirt manufacturing back to America??
Raven123
(6,847 posts)Captain Zero
(8,122 posts)And three free chats with the SecDef.
Hugin
(36,564 posts)Truth Social is bound to be pre-loaded too.
tanyev
(47,117 posts)
dweller
(26,836 posts)Pisswig’s mugshot screensaver that can never ever be replaced
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C_U_L8R
(47,669 posts)See a need, fill a need.
Bayard
(25,978 posts)liberalgunwilltravel
(865 posts)of their Brownshirts easier.
ananda
(32,573 posts)Will these phones be safe to use?
Well, me, I wouldn't touch one with a thousand-foot pole.
Hugin
(36,564 posts)In the past. Which was literally a pyramid scheme. It was advertised users could cut their rates or even supposedly earn money by selling the plan to family and friends.
It failed.
So, the Trumps being Trumps are going to try it again.
NBachers
(18,728 posts)Bengus81
(9,006 posts)Denvermosaic
(144 posts)Still holding my breath.
pansypoo53219
(22,389 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(19,854 posts)No thank you. I will stick to what I have.
So much CORRUPTION!
Katinfl
(413 posts)Does he have to have his dirty little hands into everything? Never misses an opportunity to make a fast buck.
hibbing
(10,441 posts)Martin68
(26,146 posts)uppityperson
(115,955 posts)Vinca
(52,366 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(125,919 posts)Meaning they just bought access to an existing network.
That said I wouldn't put any personal data, especially financial, on said phone.
Captain Zero
(8,122 posts)Because we can cause a lot of people to switch off it once that is known.
I almost hope it is Cricket since I am looking for another reason to leave.
(Cricket does ride on AT&T)
Paladin
(31,015 posts)Can you even imagine how much shit would have hit the fan, if Joe Biden and his family had indulged in this sort of repeated, obvious money-whoring? The NY Time opinion goons would be having convulsions of outrage, and Republican leadership would be pushing for martial law. And yet the trump clan gets away with it, once more. The double standard is enough to make you puke...
Irish_Dem
(72,251 posts)C_U_L8R
(47,669 posts)in the market for burner phones.
sakabatou
(45,075 posts)Eugene
(65,708 posts)
That smartphone is made by Wingtech, owned by the Chinese-owned manufacturer Luxshare. The T-Mobile version is believed to be built in Kiaxing, Wuxi, or Kunming, in China.
The T1 appears to be a reskinned version of the REVVL 7 Pro 5G, in a new enclosure and with slightly moved around cameras. This smartphone normally costs $250 at full retail, and even goes down to $169 on sale like it is on Amazon right now.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/06/16/trump-mobile-will-take-on-iphone-17-in-september-with-a-made-in-us-gold-smartphone
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Also: Trump’s New ‘All-American’ Smartphone Is Made in China (The Daily Beast)
Captain Zero
(8,122 posts)Post above says it retails for $169-250.
But I think TACO says his will be $499 ??
So yeah, it's a grift on the back of any fool who buys it.
And not really made in AMERICA.
Marthe48
(21,227 posts)That don't work, and laugh all the way to the bank
Wicked Blue
(8,118 posts)Sh*tterbug
HarryM
(403 posts)I can guarantee you that the machines that make these chips are not. They are made in Taiwan or the Netherlands. These are the only countries, as far as I know, that are making sophisticated IC making machines. The Netherlands making the most sophisticated.
rogue emissary
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BettyBlueDot
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slightlv
(6,094 posts)Sure can! And every word is being recorded!!!