Not sure if it belongs in this thread, but regarding the Trump Phone, they’ve updated their TOS to say that the deposit people put down on them isn’t a deposit but rather gives the person the opportunity to buy the phone if it’s ever released. Furthermore, if it is ever released, it may not be up to the specs originally promised and may not work with your carrier.
https://trumpmobile.com/device-preorder-deposit
A preorder deposit provides only a conditional opportunity if Trump Mobile later elects, in its sole discretion, to offer the Device for sale.
Trump Mobile does not guarantee that: the Device will be commercially released;
Device specifications, features, software, hardware components, storage capacities, bundled accessories, colors, and configurations are subject to change prior to final sale.
Colors? So are they saying it’s not going to be gold? Sounds like they’re setting things up so that if they have to put phones in people’s hands, they can just send them any cheap off-the-shelf phone and call it a day.
And from that IBT article:
The T1 was sold from day one on the strength of a single, politically loaded promise: it would be built in America. Within days of the June 2025 launch, that language vanished from the Trump Mobile website. ‘MADE IN THE USA’ became ‘American-proud design,’ then ‘Brought to life right here in the USA,’ language that supply chain experts noted was legally and commercially meaningless.
By February 2026, company executives confirmed to reporters that the T1 would not be manufactured in the United States. Final assembly of roughly the last ten components would take place in Miami, while bulk production would happen overseas. In the meantime, Trump Mobile began selling refurbished iPhones, made in China, and Samsung devices, made by a South Korean company, under the same ‘American’ branding umbrella.
In a recent BigCliveDotCom video he mentioned in a throwaway comment that sometimes these “final assembly in the USA” or “Majority of components made in the USA” or some other weasel words just mean the packaging was made in the US or it was put into the package in the US, or something else along those lines. I don’t remember his exact wording. But when I saw “Final assembly of roughly the last ten components”, based on what Big Clive had mentioned, my assumption was that those “last ten components” are things like the box, the box’s lid, the sleeve it slides into and/or shrinkwrap, the plastic tray, the phone itself, a USB cord, sim card tray/remover (if there is one) a handful of literature packets and other odds and ends, being put into the box and getting ready to be shipped is what they’re talking about.