The Trump Mobile Wireless Phone "Looks Both Bad And Impossible"

 

David Pierce, editor-at-large of The Verge, has some thoughts on the latest scam coming out of the Trump Crime Family (h/t Mock Paper Scissors):

Here is a roughly complete list of all the things we know for sure about the first phone made for the new Trump Mobile wireless provider: it’s called the T1 Phone 8002 (gold version). It costs $499, and you can reserve one now with a $100 down payment. It is, according to the website, coming in September.

That’s about all I feel confident saying. Beyond that, all we have is a website that was clearly put together quickly and somewhat sloppily, a promise that the phone is “designed and built in the USA” that I absolutely do not believe, a picture that appears to be nearly 100 percent Photoshopped, and a list of specs that don’t make a lot of sense together. The existence of a “gold version” of the phone implies a not-gold version, but the Trump Mobile website doesn’t say anything more about that.  (our emphasis)

Pierce then discusses the incongruous (if not impossible) features of the phone, concluding:

All that aside, though, there are still a thousand things we don’t know about the T1. Starting with, what does it actually look like? Will it be waterproof or durable in any way? Why are the corners of the case so off-color? Why are the three rear cameras so weirdly spaced apart? Why does the top of the phone in the render look more like an iPhone than an Android device? Is it actually going to come with a Trump Mobile background, and will people be able to change it? What kind of heinous bloatware / spyware / crypto scams are going to come built into this thing? If this is the T1 model 8002, what happened to the first 8,001 tries? If it’s coming in September, does that mean Trump is going to try and upstage this year’s iPhone announcement in some way? Why would anyone pay for this thing, just for the privilege of spending too much money on repackaged T-Mobile service?

It seems utterly unfathomable that you could build a phone with this set of specs, at this price, to be delivered in September. Either Trump Mobile has done something truly remarkable here (and I’d bet you a T1 Phone 8002 that it hasn’t), or the phone it ends up shipping will not be the one buyers are expecting. Like we always say here at The Verge, it’s vaporware until it ships. And the Trump Mobile T1 Phone 8002 is as vapor-y as it gets.  (our emphasis)

This is probably one of the more run-of-the-mill scams put together by the Trump Crime Family.  Certainly, the tens of millions of dollars (that we know of) coming in from the utterly corrupt Malignant Fascist's various crypto deals, foreign government pay-to-play bribes, various corporate shakedowns, etc., dwarf the latest scam, at least in monetary value, for now.   But the fact that this has now become the norm, as has incendiary political speech and violence, is what happens when you lose the guardrails, checks and balances, and institutions that are the last bulwarks of democracy. 

(Image:  Bad and Impossible / Trump Mobile)