Nearly 600,000 Trump supporters paid deposits for a gold smartphone that remains undelivered, sparking outrage and calls for investigation into Trump Mobile's practices.
  • odama626@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6 hours

    I mean, I have a feeling that a lot of these pre-orders or $100 deposits were probably bulk purchased by CEOs as bribes.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
      5 hours

      you mean magats fall for these, everyone see this is a scam a mile away. he did this with bibles, CRYPTO, passports,etc.

    • Spaceballstheusername@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10 hours

      There are cult followers that have had cult leaders predict the rapture on multiple events and their followers still think it’s gonna happen one of these times. Sometimes it’s easier to believe insanity than they could be wrong.

    • 7101334@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15 hours

      Idk man, my neighborhood (in SoCal) had no shortage of Trump flags. Every single one is down since the Epstein saga. I dont think the phone is the thing that did it, and without a doubt, some cultists will be trying to dig Trump’s corpse up after he’s 6 feet under so they can shove their head up his ass and see enlightenment. But I think MAGA is dead unless they can shift the cult of personality onto a different personality, which is unlikely imo.

      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        10 hours

        As a someone who is also from SoCal (Redneck side of the IE) I’ve noticed it as well, though most of them have been replaced by signs for that pissrag Bianco or however you spell it.

  • entwine@programming.devEnglish
    20 hours

    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?

    • Syrc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13 hours

      Being looking around for a while, no outlet seems to have any screenshot or transcript of it. Starting to think it’s just something Twitter randos hallucinated and a couple outlets fell for it, sadly.

  • johnofrobotz@news.girolab.fooEnglish
    23 hours

    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.

    • Test_Tickles@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22 hours

      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.

      • ferrule@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        18 hours

        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

  • Eddbopkins@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22 hours

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

  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22 hours

    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.

    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12 hours

      I could imagine it if they were filled with spyware and rf sniffers. Not the regular spyware that google and apple have, but shit that spies on everyone around you. They just aren’t that competent.

    • Tiral@lemmy.zipEnglish
      20 hours

      For real. It tell you the people voting for this dip shit. He already scammed millions after he lost to Biden with “Stop the steal” or whatever it was called.