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RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.world · 6 months ago

'Eventually': Eric Trump admits new mobile phone isn't being made in the USA

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'Eventually': Eric Trump admits new mobile phone isn't being made in the USA

www.rawstory.com

RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.world · 6 months ago
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Eric Trump announced Monday that the Trump Organization would be launching its own gold "made in the USA" phone. However, when speaking about it to a right-wing host, he confessed it actually wasn't being made in the country.He told Ben Shapiro that it was the company's ambition to have them made do...
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    It’s a scam.

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      Well yeah, the Trump family is involved.

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      And even is it wasn’t, it’s still in breach of the Emoluments Clause.

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    Because of course it fucking isn’t. What a clown show.

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    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.

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    Stolen info from trump supporters in 3…2…1

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    GUYS! HELP! MY EYES! I ROLLED THEM TOO HARD! I’M BLIND!

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      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.

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    Steve Hou of Bloomberg LP, found the same phone on Amazon. Trump is selling his phone for $499, but it can be purchased on Amazon for $169. It can also be purchased in gold

    Everything is a fucking grift

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      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.

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        It can also be purchased in gold

        Fuck the spray paint you just need to write “trump” on the back with a crayon and they’ll throw money at you.

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          Just RUMP is good enough. Save 20% of production costs.

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        brb…doing this…

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    shocked_pikachu.gif

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    It’s a Wingtech REVVL 7 Pro 5G

    Chinese company + Chinese manufacturing.

    This guy is such a fucking crook.

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      He’s not a crook. And you will realize that as soon as his tax audit is over so he can release his taxes.

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      That phone looks very different, especially the cameras.

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        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.

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      I think paying a little too a billionaire for no necessary reason makes this American though

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        Funnel the wealth to billionaires

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    Orange would have been the better color

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    What an asshole

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      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

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      They’ll add an exception for gold phones or something.

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    Saw that coming a mile away.

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      To be fair, there is a nonzero chance that there will be beachfront property in AZ in the next century now so…

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        I got beach front before it was beach front! I love it!

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    Can’t wait for Dbrand to drop a dupe skin for the iPhone, that would be diabolical.

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