The Trump Organization has launched Trump Mobile and plans to release the T1, a smartphone that it says is “made in USA” at the same time that the iPhone 17 will launch. The problem is, the phone was made in China.

Marking ten years after the launch of Donald Trump’s original presidential campaign, the Trump Organization has decided to launch its own mobile phone network. Dubbed Trump Mobile, it is a network that is being promoted as an All-American service," and heavily leaning on the Trump brand.

While the launch of a new mobile phone network will certainly draw an audience of Trump followers, it feels more like a cash-in on the Trump brand rather than a real attempt to take on the U.S. mobile market.

  • RedEye FlightControl@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    This isn’t a mobile phone service provider. This is a carefully constructed data collection and tracking system that bills the user.

    The main difference is here is who has your data, and why they want it. T-Mobile isn’t deporting people.

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        23 hours ago

        I mean we’ve seen it over and over again. Just ask Héctor Luis Valdés Cocho one of the leaders of latino’s for trump… Oh right he’s currently detained by ice, possibly to be deported.

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          He must be very happy to be deported. Personally I would probably just drive or fly home, but I guess that’s not possible for everyone in this economy.

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      24 hours ago

      Odds are that the MAGA sycophants in the White House and Congress are all expected to get this and that all their data goes straight to China.