Daily reminder, Jimmy Carter willingly sold his peanut farm because his morality told him of his own viewpoints that it may be seen as unfair for a President to own business interests while serving the most important role of government. Which in his mind may come off as corrupt.
We now have a president who see's his name as a brand. That's where we've gone.
People are forgetting too that this is just a job that he can be fired from. The SCOTUS and Republicans can fire him at any moment, but they aren't. These middle managers suck.
They're complicit. You don't fire a boss because some people don't like them, you fire a boss when you don't like them.
What a state of affairs we're in...
Daily reminder, Jimmy Carter willingly sold his peanut farm because his morality told him of his own viewpoints that it may be seen as unfair for a President to own business interests while serving the most important role of government. Which in his mind may come off as corrupt.
Well, that and he was complying with the Emoluments Clause. You know, that thing that should've seen Trump impeached on Inauguration Day -- 2017, not even just 2025!
It's much worse than that, he's actively exploiting his position in government for personal gain. They have a gold Trump credit card that advertises that it's "an official website of the US government".
Worse than that, he's hosting $1M a plate dinners for "access" and attendees get things like pardons for their family members or government approval of business deals after paying these bribes.
and that's why president carter was the last great and decent president the us has had.
I look forward to learning more about how terrible these phones turn out.
It will be a bog standard white label china phone with android, a custom wallpaper and maybe some cover/protector like you can get on temu. It's not like they develop their own hardware configuration, apps or phone os.
But the world's best professional bullshitter wrote on Truth that it's built in the USA, it's not a China phone
Which American companies actually manufacture displays, ram, CPUs, batteries etc. for cellphones in America?
well i'm definitely shocked that the guy banned from operating a charity in new york because he scammed children with cancer would operate a shoddy business.
Usually he's not even involved in running the business, they're licensing deals where some scammer pays a few million up front to use the Trump name, which is then used to scam his followers.
extremely non-zero chance the entire site and payment system was coded by morons with chatgpt
The preferred term is "vibe coding" nowadays!
At this point, his sons are just vibe scamming. Kind of surprised that they haven't started a gun company yet. Truth rifles that literally blow up in his followers' faces.
vibe coding sound way too cool for what it is
Clearly the wrong price; should be going for $86.47.
For those OOTL (like I was):
https://time.com/7285796/james-comey-86-47-trump-threat-investigation-instagram-post-fbi/
Even as a 'lets see what this grift is all about'...why the hell would anyone order this horseshit..beyond stupid.
...because the author is an investigative journalist?
We all know it's a scam, but it's their job is to prove it. To prove it you have to (attempt to) buy it.
I agree any actual people trying to buy it are morons.
It seems a lot of people have forgotten that proper journalism is more than repeating what someone tweets
Youtubers going for content.
Conceptually, it'll make one f of a collectors item one day there's no way enough will sell to make them common.
In much the same way that Confederate memorabilia is collectable.
As in, "You should avoid anyone who collects this shit. They're probably a white nationalist."
Or you can spray paint your old iPhone with gold coloring, slap a Trump logo on it and sell it on ebay to some unsuspecting MAGA fan for $2,000.
It's not hard to copy Trump's signature ... you could throw that on the phone and charge $5,000 and tell everyone that you bought it at a MAGA rally where Trump signed it in 2024.
If they can grift .... we can all grift harder
He did gut any dept of gov that would go after grifters or hold them accountable.
Not where I was going for that, more like museum pieces. He's really done a bunch of shit we absolutely should NOT have allowed. A president, releasing a phone, while in office for a grift. Our great grandkids (hopefully) will be walking through the Smithsonian going what the FUCK was going on in the 20's, and one of these e-waste POS will be sitting there staring back at them.
To rip it apart on a software and hardware level to find the backdoors and spyware. We need to know how hardcore we are being spied on when the guy near us has one.
Most low cost phone resellers have no idea what software is even running on their phones. They just compile some samples from the manufacturers SDK, slap their own logo on top and ship it.
I'm positively surprised it's supposed to come out with android 15. Barely one major version behind.
Journalism doing things the right way would try this out. You investigate one thing, learn about another, and inform.
well, hope this spreads quickly as a lesson to everyone avoid that crap!
Those who buy this deserve it.
Let me guess. It's a rebranded Chinese phone that typically goes for like 50 bucks?
Yep, apparently it's a cosmetically tweaked Wingtech REVVL 7 Pro 5G, which goes for $170 under the T-Mobile brand on Amazon.
Eric Trump admitted it was going to be made in China, so the press release's description, "designed and built in the United States," is just a lie, or actually two lies.
'Eventually': Eric Trump admits new mobile phone isn't being made in the USA
But it's golden and has a convicted felon's name on it. That should make up for the rest of the value right?
cosmetically tweaked
It would have to be super tweaked considering the phone you referenced has four cameras, and a notch style front camera.
My bet is that this is a 10 second photoshop job and the actual phone will look nothing like that.
I mean if you do a difference blend of two of the cameras, you get a perfectly black circle (minus some blending at the edges):
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This means that the cameras are exact pixel-perfect copies of each other arranged in that order by photoshop. They don't exist on any phone.
The first thing that stood out to me is that the T from the phone logo in the thumbnail looks suspiciously similar to the T from T-Mobile. Like, almost identical to my untrained eye.
There's a very high probability that the company will shut down before they even get a working product. All the pre-order money will have been spent on "research" and "salaries", with 80% going directly into Trump's pockets. And there will be fuck all anyone can do to get their money back. Scammers gonna scam.
Can't say I feel bad for you buddy. Count yourself lucky if your cc info isn't abused.
You are literally dealing with known felons.
It's a 404 Media journalist, he did it on purpose to point out how stupid it is.
The US is a failed state. There's no other way to put it.
Failing, not failed. Don’t give up! Things could get a lot worse, we’re nowhere near the bottom. They could also get better.
Is this one of the ways that Palantir plans to do mass surveillance? I would not be surprised.
On the upside, its good to see the Fam wasting grift money on business that are doomed to fail.
It's like that Trump watch with the T missing. "I was expecting something with the integrity of the President". Yeah, you got that.
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