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https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-mobile-t1-phone-scandal-1795914MAGAs Are Fuming After Email Confirms They Will Never Get Their $500 Trump Phones or Deposits Back
The T1 'Trump phone' promised a 'Made in the USA' build but left buyers without devices or refunds.
Nearly 600,000 Trump supporters paid £74 ($100) each towards a gold smartphone that, nearly a year on, does not exist.
The Trump Mobile T1 phone was announced in June 2025 by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump as a patriotic alternative to Apple and Samsung, retailing at £370 ($499) and promising a 'Made in the USA' build.
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.
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Updated Terms Strip Buyers of Guarantees
The clearest signal yet that buyers may never see either a phone or their money came with a revised terms of service published on 6 April 2026. The updated document states explicitly that paying a deposit 'does not constitute a completed purchase and does not create a binding legal contract.' The payment is described as 'a conditional opportunity to buy the device if Trump Mobile eventually chooses to sell it,' with the company retaining all control over whether a phone is produced at all.
B.See
(8,764 posts)shame on Trump. Fool em time and time again, they deserve to be fkd.
KelleyKramer
(11,561 posts)Oh my, they must be sooo surprised.
tanyev
(49,600 posts)
AZLD4Candidate
(6,916 posts)Aristus
(72,476 posts)And now theyre upset that they were conned and lied to?
Such colossal morons
dweller
(28,631 posts)I cant breathe
dumbasses
✌🏻
dalton99a
(95,137 posts)Deuxcents
(27,582 posts)a kennedy
(36,279 posts)Jacson6
(2,163 posts)Skittles
(172,649 posts)oh wait - we already know
sheshe2
(98,293 posts)

GoodRaisin
(11,023 posts)RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(2,203 posts)timms139
(562 posts)charged with fraud .
Justice matters.
(10,023 posts)Pedo's been charged with a lot of frauds, and many other crimes.
But never really punished for any (yet), and probably never will.
Only perhaps post-mortem... well, hopefully.
C Moon
(13,719 posts)flvegan
(66,486 posts)"The clearest signal yet that buyers may never see either a phone or their money came with a revised terms of service published on 6 April 2026. The updated document states explicitly that paying a deposit 'does not constitute a completed purchase and does not create a binding legal contract.' The payment is described as 'a conditional opportunity to buy the device if Trump Mobile eventually chooses to sell it,' with the company retaining all control over whether a phone is produced at all."
"may never see" does not equal "confirms they will never get" BUT, reality doesn't get clicks or smashing of any like buttons or subscribes or reposts or whatever passes for discussion these days.
Are these folks getting ripped off? No doubt. Are they fucking idiots for believing the rapist in chief? Certainly. I'm not sure that headline is what is actually happening. Matter of fact, this same website just as recently posted another article about the Trump phone thing that didn't mention the "never gonna get" the phone/money.
Seems clickbaity. YMMV.
AZLD4Candidate
(6,916 posts)Do you have a copy of the actual email? Are you actually claiming fake news on DU?
flvegan
(66,486 posts)Especially when you do accuse me of "giving cover to Trump" whatever the fuck that means in context.
I've decided not to alert, because I think this will be more fun. For me.
AZLD4Candidate
(6,916 posts)and not give it back upon failure to produce.
Your post sounds like something someone in that odious family would say to give cover for their stealing of money.
Alert all you want if it makes you happy. I stand by my statement. I'm tired of hearing "fake news" and "clickbait" anywhere when it involves this asshole family of goniffs.
sir pball
(5,349 posts)AZLD4Candidate
(6,916 posts)durablend
(9,349 posts)Voila.
"You'll get that phone eventually"
edhopper
(37,501 posts)And see it says exactly that they won't get the phones and Trump is keeping their money.
You can't take a deposit and a year later tell the person that you decided it wasn't a deposit.
sir pball
(5,349 posts)If you cancel your deposit before completing a purchase, you may request a full refund.[ ]If Trump Mobile cancels or discontinues the Device offering prior to sale, Trump Mobile will issue a full refund of the deposit amount paid.
https://trumpmobile.com/device-preorder-deposit
Of course, that's if it's cancelled. They can just keep saying "it's coming out in 6 months" forever
edhopper
(37,501 posts)They are stealing the money.
doublethink
(7,350 posts)Only response I could think of. Sorry.
AZ8theist
(7,590 posts)But I have empathy, so I'm sending them a TRUCKLOAD of thoughts and prayers:

EdmondDantes_
(2,022 posts)LilElf70
(1,629 posts)Gee. I'm surprised there weren't more. Trump has grifted, stolen money and not paid people for services ever since he started his first fake presidency. Did these people not realize how toopid they really were? If I remember, Trump still owes El Paso for a rally in 2017? Many towns are still waiting.
The con? The grifting? The purposeful theft? Now he's after ALL the taxpayers. It's like a game to him.
At this point, I really don't give a shit, and am glad the MAGATS got stuck with the bill again. I'm sure trump pocketed all that money. I wonder what the next con this family is going to come up with. I'm sure they're all laughing on their way to the bank.
misanthrope
(9,608 posts)"Trump has grifted, stolen money and not paid people for services ever since he started his first fake presidency for most of his adult life."
LilElf70
(1,629 posts)I have no idea how that got by me. I was focused on his presidential administrative period.
misanthrope
(9,608 posts)Saps.
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I'm seeing a pattern.
ColoringFool
(1,002 posts)FadedMullet
(1,007 posts)"The payment is described as 'a conditional opportunity to buy the device if Trump Mobile eventually chooses to sell it,' with the company retaining all control over whether a phone is produced at all".
Hey MAGA !! Boy, I bet you feel dumb.
SamKnause
(14,942 posts)edhopper
(37,501 posts)$59 million with no repercussions.
Nice gig.
struggle4progress
(126,644 posts)sinkingfeeling
(57,979 posts)travelingthrulife
(5,521 posts)Ye Gods these people are suckers.
Talitha
(8,132 posts)republianmushroom
(22,628 posts)purr-rat beauty
(1,392 posts)Idiots get they want....nothing
But
I am a wee little concerned about the POTUS purposefully defrauding citizens...feels illegal.