Trump Launches Self-Branded Mobile Phone Service in the US

[BumRushDaShow]

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]

1. Their technology will jusify the high price, I'm sure ...

[melm00se]

24. Liberty Phone

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]

2. I'm sure hackers won't target them. /nt

[Captain Zero]

37. Nope. not at all.

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]

3. Complete with daily screeds and advertising for the latest Trump grift I'm sure

[Captain Zero]

4. It will come with the Signal App preloaded

And three free chats with the SecDef.

[Hugin]

11. The software will be stolen and rebranded as "Farce Time"...

Truth Social is bound to be pre-loaded too.

[tanyev]

5. Can you fear me now?

[dweller]

6. Comes preloaded with

Pisswig’s mugshot screensaver that can never ever be replaced



✌🏻

[C_U_L8R]

7. All those burner accounts were adding up.

See a need, fill a need.

[Bayard]

8. E-MOL-U-MENTS

[liberalgunwilltravel]

9. It will make surveilance

of their Brownshirts easier.

[ananda]

26. I was thinking exactly along those lines.

Will these phones be safe to use?

Well, me, I wouldn't touch one with a thousand-foot pole.

[Hugin]

10. I seem to recall phoney TACO having or being involved in a pyramid scheme cell venture...

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]

12. I'm sure all the hardware in the entire system is all made in the good ol' USA! Trust me . . .

[Bengus81]

13. Don't even spend a second hiding the corruption anymore.

[Denvermosaic]

14. Cant wait for the moment the fox propagandists make fun of the trump phones like they did for President Obama.

Still holding my breath.

[pansypoo53219]

15. oh for fucks sake. another fucking grift? where is TRUMP-GATE.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

16. More money to snatch away from his followers.

No thank you. I will stick to what I have.

So much CORRUPTION!

[Katinfl]

17. Dear God.......what next??????

Does he have to have his dirty little hands into everything? Never misses an opportunity to make a fast buck.

[hibbing]

18. "real Americans" nt

[Martin68]

19. Just another scam from the con.

[uppityperson]

20. Lol, eye roll

[Vinca]

21. Geez, if I wanted Russia to have all my information, I'd just send it to them.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

22. Partnered?

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]

38. Yes we need to find out who that carrier/network is ASAP

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]

23. The Monetized Presidency, Chapter 10,789.

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]

25. He wants to control the entire communication system.

[C_U_L8R]

27. They saw an opportunity

in the market for burner phones.

[sakabatou]

28. Who wants to bet they're made in China, or parts are?

[Eugene]

36. Apple Insider says that it's a reskinned version of a Chinese-made phone available at Amazon.

Trump Mobile's made-in-US iPhone 17 competitor is really made in China (Apple Insider)

In a post to X by analyst Max Weinbach, it seems that the T1 closely resembles the T-Mobile REVVL 7 Pro 5G. The specifications of the display and the odd camera resolutions match up with the T-Mobile device, along with other details.



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]

39. So most likely it will run on TMobile Network??

If it's a re-skinned TMobile phone.

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]

29. Will sell phones

That don't work, and laugh all the way to the bank

[Wicked Blue]

30. I hereby nickname this phone service

Sh*tterbug

[HarryM]

31. Even if the CPU and other major chips are made in the US

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]

32. How long will it take to find out Russia has direct access to those phones?

[BettyBlueDot]

33. What's next? Cat Litter?

[slightlv]

34. Can you hear me now?

Sure can! And every word is being recorded!!!

[SouthBayDem]

35. Who voted to bring back the Warren G. Harding administration? nt