Gavin Newsom issues blunt three-word response after Trump's gold cell phone scheme hits another snag

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has reacted with scorn to news that President Donald Trump’s latest venture, Trump Mobile, has been forced to delay shipments of its gold cell phones by another month.

“You don’t say,” the Democrat wrote in mock surprise on X on New Year’s Eve, responding to a CBS News report about the holdup.

The Trump Organization first announced the T1 Mobile smartphone and cellular service last June, promising it would deliver “top-tier connectivity, unbeatable value and all-American service for our nation’s hardest-working people.”

However, a customer service representative has told CBS that the phones, which were initially slated for release in August, will not now be delivered until late January, a development they blamed on last fall’s record-breaking government shutdown.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/gavin-newsom-issues-blunt-three-165342105.html

Oh give me a break. Unless the government is manufacturing the phone he's full of shit.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Newsom is right: TFG IS FULL OF SHIT. ...n/t

[ProfessorGAC]

2. Well, That's A Lame Excuse

These phones are a business venture. Absolutely nothing to do with the government.
Nothing.

[Ms. Toad]

3. Not to mention - since the Shutdown happened in October/November

How on earth would that delay an August roll-out?

[OldBaldy1701E]

4. "...a development they blamed on last fall's record-breaking government shutdown."

[ToxMarz]

6. Are the repukes in Congress assembling them in the basement.

[Starbeach]

5. The phone

will be more mobile than he is.

[Ol Janx Spirit]

7. I'm I wrong for laughing my backside off thinking about these 2A-loving, gubberment-hating...

...rubes putting one of these "patriot phones" in their pocket thinking that every last bit of their data isn't going straight to Ka$h and B0ndi?



The shutdown probably delayed the installation of all the monitoring software the Administration is installing.

Sure, sign up you complete [REDACTED].

[dickthegrouch]

8. They aren't creating a network

Just the phone.
That means they're buying time from AT&T, Verizon, or Cricket (who buys from Verizon IIRC).
All the data goes straight to to the government no matter whose phone you choose.
But the trumpies MIGHT have a slightly better claim to said data if they "own" it first.
It will be interesting to see what their user terms and conditions, privacy statement, and confidentiality agreements contain.
I wouldn't advocate buying any phone without reading all three of those.

[Ol Janx Spirit]

10. The phone, not the network, is where all of the power lies.

The ecosystem of the phone is what determines everything you can do and everything they can capture.

Speculation is that it will be an Android-based device running Android 15. That will give them a lot of latitude to develop their own required apps that do whatever they please in the background.

And one thing we do know: everything they do is a grift. User data is valuable, and you can bet they will be selling it to the government for way more than it would ordinarily be worth until that all ends with a new administration when they will sell it to corporations.

[Aussie105]

9. What's the holdup?

Just do a bulk order from a little known Asian phone maker, specify it says 'T1: Made in the USA', and is gold painted, import at around $100 each, add $100 tariff, sell for $500, and profit.

Fairly standard process, happens all the time.

Think your lawn mower, refrigerator, washing machine with a familiar brand on it is actually locally made?

Oh, you gullible fool!

[Ol Janx Spirit]

11. Is it incompetence; or is it Griftmachine?