600,000 people sent in $100 deposits for this thing—!😧 (Dumbass is laughing all the way to the bank. )

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    For nearly 600,000 Americans who trusted a brand built on the Trump name, the gold phone has become the latest entry in a long record of ventures that took their money and delivered nothing.

    They wanted a Trump experience and they got one. Could argue they got what they paid for.

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      I know that you meant this as 100% sarcasm, but this is going to be the real answer.

      It’s going to be Biden, possibly Clinton, Samsung, and possibly whoever else has slighted or failed to bribe him who are at fault. And these dumb, hateful mother fuckers are going to accept it and keep worshiping Trump.

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        What I really love about this scam is that it was NOT going to just be a 3rd party phone with Trump branding. They were going to actually make a new, 100% American designed and made phone by the Trump brand. And this was going to happen for a mere $500.

        At that pricepoint for a startup they wouldn’t be paying anyone anything. That is a pipedream of a kickstarter pricepoint for a phone. Them blaming Samsung for this would be laughable

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        Cultists live in a world that is sufficiently disjoint from the world others live in to make it make sense for them.

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    The clearest signal yet that buyers may never see either a phone or their money came with a revised terms of service published on 6 April 2026. The updated document states explicitly that paying a deposit ‘does not constitute a completed purchase and does not create a binding legal contract.’ The payment is described as ‘a conditional opportunity to buy the device if Trump Mobile eventually chooses to sell it,’ with the company retaining all control over whether a phone is produced at all.

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      That is absolutely fucking hilarious.

      I also don’t think contracts work that way, otherwise that shit would be WAY more common. heh. But I’m also pretty sure nobody will see a penny back anyway.

      I’d feel bad for them if they weren’t fucking in the middle of turning our nation into a fascist hellhole.

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        that’s how terms of service work on the internet. companies alter the terms whenever and however they like, and often to the detriment of the end user. it’s technically not legal, but they do it anyway.

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          If a tech company changes the agreement, you are able to stop using the service if you don’t like the new terms. With this phone people have already put money down for it. As long as they didn’t agree to these new terms, they should be eligible for a refund if the product never ships.

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          Things like Google and Facebook that don’t charge any money can get away with this, but I highly doubt these people will be able to weasel out of this when actual money changes hands. Otherwise we’d have seen lots of companies doing this by now.

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          I don’t think they’re allowed to take past money like that, though. They can increase monthly fees, sure.

          but of course as we all know, laws don’t matter in this instance.

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      I don’t agree. The clearest signaal that the buyers would be screwed was the Trump brand name. He’s grift incarnate.

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    Normally I feel sorry for people who get scammed but in this case shitty people getting scammed by the scammer they inflicted on the rest of us don’t get my sympathy.

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      I only feel sorry about the money that is now gathered up into the hands of an empowered monster instead of safely dispersed amongst brainless lickspittles.

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        yeah, I don’t know how to feel about this. On the one hand, fuckin magas got conned by a conman. On the other hand, the bloated turd got a bunch of money for… literally nothing.

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            They got scammed the first time around too. Remember “Finish The Wall”? Trump didn’t build an inch of wall with that money, it just vanished into thin air and appeared as a few extra digits in his bank accoount.

            The same people who forked over money for that and then admitted regretting it afterwards were the same ones gleefully preordering this phone. They’ll be mad about it for a bit and then they’ll fall for it again in due time. Easy marks.

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      plus they got scammed more than once, not once, not twice, not even thrice, its more than that, at this point its on the scamee.

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    Can’t feel bad for people who got conned by a con man and now are suckers and losers for getting scammed.

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    You mean to tell me the con man scammed them out of their money? Shocking. /s

    Seriously it would be more surprising if they did come out.

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    LMAO. I LOVE IT. Such an American thing for a president to scam his own voters. Literally scam them out of money.

    They will moan a bit and then say “I would vote for him again” 🤣🤣🤣

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      I can’t help but laugh when one of them gives a 5 minute interview about how disappointed they are in getting scammed, but ends it by saying it was the only voting option and they would never vote Democrat even now.

      This is what society looks like when your vote can be expected and doesn’t need to be earned.

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      Is it a scam when you know it’ll happen along based on patterns? Masochism is the term I think

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    And people are now getting emails saying that their phone will never arrive, with no mention of them getting their deposits back.

    Anyone have the text of the actual email?

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    Some days I wish I could just put my morals/ethics aside. One good grift and I could be rolling in MAGA money till the day I die.

    It’s unfortunate I’m unwilling to compromise myself and forgo peaceful sleep for the rest of my life.

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    The fact that Trump or any of his family will never see the inside of a cell is the single largest thing that destroyed my faith in humanity.

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        That’s not exactly inspiring or fulfilling to me, because we’ll all do that. (metaphorically… I don’t actually want to be buried myself)

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        ivanka, kushner, don jr, Melania and Barron will likely stuff him under a golf cart/court at mar-algo once TRUMPS kicks the bucket, and then fight each other over his ESTATE.

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          Nah, they’re all super abused and will continue to defend his legacy so that they don’t have to confront what really happened.

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      with stolen scotus seats, and the 2 almost 3 presidencies by the gop, and complicity of the old guard DNC.