'Eventually': Eric Trump admits new mobile phone isn't being made in the USA
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It’s a Wingtech REVVL 7 Pro 5G
Chinese company + Chinese manufacturing.
This guy is such a fucking crook.
So a $130 budget phone that they are selling for 500? Seems about right.
Well, with the tariffs and all, it adds up...
You do understand that it's gold colored? That's $300 in added value right there
If you combine it with the sneakers and watch it buys you an extra 3 months before being taken to the gulags. Unless you’re brown, then it’s only an extra 3 minutes.
I think paying a little too a billionaire for no necessary reason makes this American though
Funnel the wealth to billionaires
He’s not a crook. And you will realize that as soon as his tax audit is over so he can release his taxes.
That phone looks very different, especially the cameras.
Yeah it's the Wingtech Revvl 7 5g, not the pro. The pro has 4 cameras, the non pro has the distinctive 3 cams.
Edit: in typical Chinese fashion it seems there are a lot of variants of this phone. It's probably the kind of company that if you order 1000 or so, they can create the exact combination of parts you want.
But the Trump phone is definitely one of these variants.
Everything is a fucking grift
Which means you can buy the $169 phone spray paint it with gold paint and sell it to a MAGA fan for $1,000 when the demand goes up.
Fuck the spray paint you just need to write "trump" on the back with a crayon and they'll throw money at you.
Just RUMP is good enough. Save 20% of production costs.
brb...doing this...
It's a scam.
Well yeah, the Trump family is involved.
And even is it wasn't, it's still in breach of the Emoluments Clause.
How is that "similarly ambiguous"? Neither phone was built in the US; only the Trump phone creators lied and said it was.
Two clear claims are similar levels of ambiguous; not very.
I can't wait to accuse trump supporters of being antifa for not having a trump phone.
To be fair, there is a nonzero chance that there will be beachfront property in AZ in the next century now so...
I got beach front before it was beach front! I love it!
Saw that coming a mile away.
GUYS! HELP! MY EYES! I ROLLED THEM TOO HARD! I'M BLIND!
Oh no! The best antidote is remembering he’s demented and close to death!
And that he probably cried over the low parade turn out. I had to change my underwear after that joyful thought.
If only false advertising laws had any teeth.
After all immigrants have been forced out, all social safety nets removed, and child labour laws repealed; after the resulting widespread poverty and famine. When Americans have no choice but to work in sweatshops for a dollar a day, then US manufacturing will finally be competitive enough for trump merch to be made in the US.
Then China can say: "We told you so."
What an asshole
A real gaper.
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Tariff is included in the price, you pay the phone 200$ + 300$ that goes to gov/trump pockets
They'll add an exception for gold phones or something.
Mind blown.
Given the price and description, I was always assuming they were going to import a cheap Chinese android phone from a no-name manufacturer and then do the gold paint here and call it Made in the USA, like how other companies do one final assembly step here in order to make that claim.
Hilarious!
Can't wait for Dbrand to drop a dupe skin for the iPhone, that would be diabolical.
Because of course it fucking isn't. What a clown show.
These shit stains can’t even sell hats that are made in the USA let alone a phone.
If they ieep grifting their own people this hard, surely there will come a time when their own voters are penniless and thus (in American democracy) powerless, right?
They'll still vote for him.
Stolen info from trump supporters in 3…2…1
I saw this a while ago and wonder if it's related at all
Not really, them setting up World Liberty Financial is more about their ability to control deeper tiers of the financial system so they can run scams nested within scams and push it all through crypto to hide any trails that might lead to corruption charges one he's "out of office."
I mean when I first came across it (which was linked from a mass text advertisement from Truth Social in January), this is the quote that stood out to me:
Notably the word "ecosystem".
Yeah, this is a big part of how all the broligarchy tech guys got involved with the campaign. Once the schism over social media and who controlled where you can say what started 2017-2020, there was push for and investment in full tech stacks down to full data centers controlled by Trump Media. For them, they see this as already appealing to the same captive audience they already extort daily for "donations." Gab, MeWe, Rumble, TruthSocial, Parler, and a dozen other smaller platforms formed to try and pick at a market they hoped would be big enough to leech from for decades and not let just Zuck have all the access.
These same people on the tech side had been pushing for crypto since its inception as a new economic system. Its part of why Peter Thiel added a whole crypto wallet to Brave browser. Which is why the Trump meme coin is on the Solana blockchain, it's the same kind of guy they got wrapped up with, that also wants to have Network States where the wealthy can be super-citizens. So their solution to everything, being ultra-wealthy people detached from reality, is to just build compete infrastructure from the ground up to suit themselves and be maximally insulated from criminal prosecution, including financial platforms, while enjoying all the amenities of living in a country built by millions of hardworking Americans.
Ahhh, so it will have manufacturers and orange rumps surveillance code in it.
2 for 1
Orange would have been the better color