An estimated 590,000 buyers paid a £74 ($100) deposit to secure one, collectively handing the venture roughly £43.7 million ($59 million). As of May 2026, not a single confirmed customer has received the device. Now, a fresh wave of anger is spreading across MAGA forums after buyers received communication making clear that their money is, for all practical purposes, gone.
What a surprise - the phone that was a photoshopped Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra in a Spigen case isn’t real.
There is absolutely no way a phone that’s made in the USA could be sold for only $499.
The Trump phone plan is a grift too. $47.45/month and you only get 20GB high speed data, when you can get 70GB (or actual unlimited, depending on network) from US Mobile for less than half the price.
Wait was it pitched at “47.45” because…of his presidential terms?! THAT’S SO STUPID!
Lol it also illustrates the mentality so well, that the numbers are out of sequence but this would hypothetically squeeze people for 2 more bucks, so of course that’s what they’re gonna do.
Those gigabytes were going to be gold-plated and oxygen-free, to be fair
TBF - no wait, fairness is wrong here -
playing devil’s advocate, they did dial back on that claim somewhat, it was known that this will be some off-brand device, most likely made in China.
They originally said it was going to be 100% American made for that price, and only toned it down later on. Now they just say “Designed with American values in mind”, whatever that means.
America - founded by grifters, always ready to milk the rubes for every cent.
Nothing. Non-commital verbiage aka hot air.
This means the phone will rape and traffic children and you won’t care.
“Everyone involved in the design and supply chain was promised they’d be paid in exposure after the work was completed.”
It means “we’ll make sure to use exploitive underpaid overseas labor in its production and make this product at the lowest price possible” because what could be more American than that?
Turbo capitalism?
As a Canadian I’m very jealous of your mobile plan prices.
I pay around $50 with Bell. It does everything I need. Granted, I think I only get 15-20 GB download, but my phone is almost always connected to external wifi. Some months I barely use more than 5 GB.
Canadian here - I pay less than $30 taxes in for a grandfathered plan that started with 2GB of data and they kept giving me retention bonuses in the last few years. So now I have about 25GB of data.