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BumRushDaShow

(156,529 posts)
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 09:15 AM Jun 16

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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Trump Launches Self-Branded Mobile Phone Service in the US (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Jun 16 OP
Their technology will jusify the high price, I'm sure ... marble falls Jun 16 #1
Liberty Phone melm00se Jun 16 #24
I'm sure hackers won't target them. /nt bucolic_frolic Jun 16 #2
Nope. not at all. Captain Zero Jun 17 #37
Complete with daily screeds and advertising for the latest Trump grift I'm sure Raven123 Jun 16 #3
It will come with the Signal App preloaded Captain Zero Jun 16 #4
The software will be stolen and rebranded as "Farce Time"... Hugin Jun 16 #11
Can you fear me now? tanyev Jun 16 #5
Comes preloaded with dweller Jun 16 #6
All those burner accounts were adding up. C_U_L8R Jun 16 #7
E-MOL-U-MENTS Bayard Jun 16 #8
It will make surveilance liberalgunwilltravel Jun 16 #9
I was thinking exactly along those lines. ananda Jun 16 #26
I seem to recall phoney TACO having or being involved in a pyramid scheme cell venture... Hugin Jun 16 #10
I'm sure all the hardware in the entire system is all made in the good ol' USA! Trust me . . . NBachers Jun 16 #12
Don't even spend a second hiding the corruption anymore. Bengus81 Jun 16 #13
Cant wait for the moment the fox propagandists make fun of the trump phones like they did for President Obama. Denvermosaic Jun 16 #14
oh for fucks sake. another fucking grift? where is TRUMP-GATE. pansypoo53219 Jun 16 #15
More money to snatch away from his followers. ProudMNDemocrat Jun 16 #16
Dear God.......what next?????? Katinfl Jun 16 #17
"real Americans" nt hibbing Jun 16 #18
Just another scam from the con. Martin68 Jun 16 #19
Lol, eye roll uppityperson Jun 16 #20
Geez, if I wanted Russia to have all my information, I'd just send it to them. Vinca Jun 16 #21
Partnered? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 16 #22
Yes we need to find out who that carrier/network is ASAP Captain Zero Jun 17 #38
The Monetized Presidency, Chapter 10,789. Paladin Jun 16 #23
He wants to control the entire communication system. Irish_Dem Jun 16 #25
They saw an opportunity C_U_L8R Jun 16 #27
Who wants to bet they're made in China, or parts are? sakabatou Jun 16 #28
Apple Insider says that it's a reskinned version of a Chinese-made phone available at Amazon. Eugene Jun 17 #36
So most likely it will run on TMobile Network?? Captain Zero Jun 17 #39
Will sell phones Marthe48 Jun 16 #29
I hereby nickname this phone service Wicked Blue Jun 16 #30
Even if the CPU and other major chips are made in the US HarryM Jun 16 #31
How long will it take to find out Russia has direct access to those phones? rogue emissary Jun 16 #32
What's next? Cat Litter? BettyBlueDot Jun 16 #33
Can you hear me now? slightlv Jun 16 #34
Who voted to bring back the Warren G. Harding administration? nt SouthBayDem Jun 16 #35

melm00se

(5,109 posts)
24. Liberty Phone
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 01:14 PM
Jun 16

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.

Captain Zero

(8,122 posts)
37. Nope. not at all.
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 10:50 AM
Jun 17

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??

Hugin

(36,564 posts)
11. The software will be stolen and rebranded as "Farce Time"...
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 10:23 AM
Jun 16

Truth Social is bound to be pre-loaded too.

ananda

(32,573 posts)
26. I was thinking exactly along those lines.
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 02:15 PM
Jun 16

Will these phones be safe to use?

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

Hugin

(36,564 posts)
10. I seem to recall phoney TACO having or being involved in a pyramid scheme cell venture...
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 10:16 AM
Jun 16

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)
12. I'm sure all the hardware in the entire system is all made in the good ol' USA! Trust me . . .
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 10:35 AM
Jun 16

Denvermosaic

(144 posts)
14. Cant wait for the moment the fox propagandists make fun of the trump phones like they did for President Obama.
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 10:43 AM
Jun 16

Still holding my breath.

ProudMNDemocrat

(19,854 posts)
16. More money to snatch away from his followers.
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 11:13 AM
Jun 16

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

So much CORRUPTION!

Katinfl

(413 posts)
17. Dear God.......what next??????
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 11:18 AM
Jun 16

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

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(125,919 posts)
22. Partnered?
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 12:33 PM
Jun 16

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)
38. Yes we need to find out who that carrier/network is ASAP
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 10:55 AM
Jun 17

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)
23. The Monetized Presidency, Chapter 10,789.
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 01:10 PM
Jun 16

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...

Eugene

(65,708 posts)
36. Apple Insider says that it's a reskinned version of a Chinese-made phone available at Amazon.
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 04:58 AM
Jun 17
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

(8,122 posts)
39. So most likely it will run on TMobile Network??
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 10:58 AM
Jun 17
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.

HarryM

(403 posts)
31. Even if the CPU and other major chips are made in the US
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 02:59 PM
Jun 16

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.

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